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1The moon was climbing higher and higher, its light began to fall here and there in masses through the more open
2districts of the wood, and right in front of me a glow of a different colour appeared among the trees. It was red and
3hot, and now and again it was a little darkened--as it were, the embers of a bonfire smouldering. For the life of me I
4could not think what it might be. At last I came right down upon the borders of the clearing. The western end was
5already steeped in moonshine; the rest, and the block house itself, still lay in a black shadow chequered with long
6silvery streaks of light. On the other side of the house an immense fire had burned itself into clear embers and shed a
7steady, red reverberation, contrasted strongly with the mellow paleness of the moon. There was not a soul stirring nor a
8sound beside the noises of the breeze. I stopped, with much wonder in my heart, and perhaps a little terror also. It had
9not been our way to build great fires; we were, indeed, by the captain's orders, somewhat niggardly of firewood, and I
10began to fear that something had gone wrong while I was absent. I stole round by the eastern end, keeping close in
11shadow, and at a convenient place, where the darkness was thickest, crossed the palisade. To make assurance surer, I got
12upon my hands and knees and crawled, without a sound, towards the corner of the house. As I drew nearer, my heart was
13suddenly and greatly lightened. It is not a pleasant noise in itself, and I have often complained of it at other times,
14but just then it was like music to hear my friends snoring together so loud and peaceful in their sleep. The sea-cry of
15the watch, that beautiful "All's well," never fell more reassuringly on my ear. In the meantime, there was no doubt of
16one thing; they kept an infamous bad watch. If it had been Silver and his lads that were now creeping in on them, not a
17soul would have seen daybreak. That was what it was, thought I, to have the captain wounded; and again I blamed myself
18sharply for leaving them in that danger with so few to mount guard. By this time I had got to the door and stood up. All
19was dark within, so that I could distinguish nothing by the eye. As for sounds, there was the steady drone of the
20snorers and a small occasional noise, a flickering or pecking that I could in no way account for. With my arms before me
21I walked steadily in. I should lie down in my own place (I thought with a silent chuckle) and enjoy their faces when
22they found me in the morning. My foot struck something yielding--it was a sleeper's leg; and he turned and groaned, but
23without awaking. And then, all of a sudden, a shrill voice broke forth out of the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of
24eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" and so forth, without pause or change, like the clacking of a
25tiny mill. Silver's green parrot, Captain Flint! It was she whom I had heard pecking at a piece of bark; it was she,
26keeping better watch than any human being, who thus announced my arrival with her wearisome refrain. I had no time left
27me to recover. At the sharp, clipping tone of the parrot, the sleepers awoke and sprang up; and with a mighty oath, the
28voice of Silver cried, "Who goes?" I turned to run, struck violently against one person, recoiled, and ran full into the
29arms of a second, who for his part closed upon and held me tight. "Bring a torch, Dick," said Silver when my capture was
30thus assured. And one of the men left the log-house and presently returned with a lighted brand. PART SIX--Captain
31Silver XXVIII In the Enemy's Camp The red glare of the torch, lighting up the interior of the block house, showed me the
32worst of my apprehensions realized. The pirates were in possession of the house and stores: there was the cask of
33cognac, there were the pork and bread, as before, and what tenfold increased my horror, not a sign of any prisoner. I
34could only judge that all had perished, and my heart smote me sorely that I had not been there to perish with them.
35There were six of the buccaneers, all told; not another man was left alive. Five of them were on their feet, flushed and
36swollen, suddenly called out of the first sleep of drunkenness. The sixth had only risen upon his elbow; he was deadly
37pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently
38dressed. I remembered the man who had been shot and had run back among the woods in the great attack, and doubted not
39that this was he. The parrot sat, preening her plumage, on Long John's shoulder. He himself, I thought, looked somewhat
40paler and more stern than I was used to. He still wore the fine broadcloth suit in which he had fulfilled his mission,
41but it was bitterly the worse for wear, daubed with clay and torn with the sharp briers of the wood. "So," said he,
42"here's Jim Hawkins, shiver my timbers! Dropped in, like, eh? Well, come, I take that friendly." And thereupon he sat
43down across the brandy cask and began to fill a pipe. "Give me a loan of the link, Dick," said he; and then, when he had
44a good light, "That'll do, lad," he added; "stick the glim in the wood heap; and you, gentlemen, bring yourselves to!
45You needn't stand up for Mr. Hawkins; HE'LL excuse you, you may lay to that. And so, Jim"--stopping the tobacco--"here
46you were, and quite a pleasant surprise for poor old John. I see you were smart when first I set my eyes on you, but
47this here gets away from me clean, it do." To all this, as may be well supposed, I made no answer. They had set me with
48my back against the wall, and I stood there, looking Silver in the face, pluckily enough, I hope, to all outward
49appearance, but with black despair in my heart. Silver took a whiff or two of his pipe with great composure and then ran
50on again. "Now, you see, Jim, so be as you ARE here," says he, "I'll give you a piece of my mind. I've always liked you,
51I have, for a lad of spirit, and the picter of my own self when I was young and handsome. I always wanted you to jine
52and take your share, and die a gentleman, and now, my cock, you've got to. Cap'n Smollett's a fine seaman, as I'll own
53up to any day, but stiff on discipline. 'Dooty is dooty,' says he, and right he is. Just you keep clear of the cap'n.
54The doctor himself is gone dead again' you--'ungrateful scamp' was what he said; and the short and the long of the whole
55story is about here: you can't go back to your own lot, for they won't have you; and without you start a third ship's
56company all by yourself, which might be lonely, you'll have to jine with Cap'n Silver." So far so good. My friends,
57then, were still alive, and though I partly believed the truth of Silver's statement, that the cabin party were incensed
58at me for my desertion, I was more relieved than distressed by what I heard. "I don't say nothing as to your being in
59our hands," continued Silver, "though there you are, and you may lay to it. I'm all for argyment; I never seen good come
60out o' threatening. If you like the service, well, you'll jine; and if you don't, Jim, why, you're free to answer
61no--free and welcome, shipmate; and if fairer can be said by mortal seaman, shiver my sides!" "Am I to answer, then?" I
62asked with a very tremulous voice. Through all this sneering talk, I was made to feel the threat of death that overhung
63me, and my cheeks burned and my heart beat painfully in my breast. "Lad," said Silver, "no one's a-pressing of you. Take
64your bearings. None of us won't hurry you, mate; time goes so pleasant in your company, you see." "Well," says I,
65growing a bit bolder, "if I'm to choose, I declare I have a right to know what's what, and why you're here, and where my
66friends are." "Wot's wot?" repeated one of the buccaneers in a deep growl. "Ah, he'd be a lucky one as knowed that!"
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