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1They had been flying apart, but they huddled close to Peter now. His careless manner had gone at last, his eyes were
2sparkling, and a tingle went through them every time they touched his body. They were now over the fearsome island,
3flying so low that sometimes a tree grazed their feet. Nothing horrid was visible in the air, yet their progress had
4become slow and laboured, exactly as if they were pushing their way through hostile forces. Sometimes they hung in the
5air until Peter had beaten on it with his fists. "They don't want us to land," he explained. "Who are they?" Wendy
6whispered, shuddering. But he could not or would not say. Tinker Bell had been asleep on his shoulder, but now he
7wakened her and sent her on in front. Sometimes he poised himself in the air, listening intently, with his hand to his
8ear, and again he would stare down with eyes so bright that they seemed to bore two holes to earth. Having done these
9things, he went on again. His courage was almost appalling. "Would you like an adventure now," he said casually to John,
10"or would you like to have your tea first?" Wendy said "tea first" quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude,
11but the braver John hesitated. "What kind of adventure?" he asked cautiously. "There's a pirate asleep in the pampas
12just beneath us," Peter told him. "If you like, we'll go down and kill him." "I don't see him," John said after a long
13pause. "I do." "Suppose," John said, a little huskily, "he were to wake up." Peter spoke indignantly. "You don't think I
14would kill him while he was sleeping! I would wake him first, and then kill him. That's the way I always do." "I say! Do
15you kill many?" "Tons." John said "How ripping," but decided to have tea first. He asked if there were many pirates on
16the island just now, and Peter said he had never known so many. "Who is captain now?" "Hook," answered Peter, and his
17face became very stern as he said that hated word. "Jas. Hook?" "Ay." Then indeed Michael began to cry, and even John
18could speak in gulps only, for they knew Hook's reputation. "He was Blackbeard's bo'sun," John whispered huskily. "He is
19the worst of them all. He is the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid." "That's him," said Peter. "What is he like? Is
20he big?" "He is not so big as he was." "How do you mean?" "I cut off a bit of him." "You!" "Yes, me," said Peter
21sharply. "I wasn't meaning to be disrespectful." "Oh, all right." "But, I say, what bit?" "His right hand." "Then he
22can't fight now?" "Oh, can't he just!" "Left-hander?" "He has an iron hook instead of a right hand, and he claws with
23it." "Claws!" "I say, John," said Peter. "Yes." "Say, 'Ay, ay, sir.'" "Ay, ay, sir." "There is one thing," Peter
24continued, "that every boy who serves under me has to promise, and so must you." John paled. "It is this, if we meet
25Hook in open fight, you must leave him to me." "I promise," John said loyally. For the moment they were feeling less
26eerie, because Tink was flying with them, and in her light they could distinguish each other. Unfortunately she could
27not fly so slowly as they, and so she had to go round and round them in a circle in which they moved as in a halo. Wendy
28quite liked it, until Peter pointed out the drawbacks. "She tells me," he said, "that the pirates sighted us before the
29darkness came, and got Long Tom out." "The big gun?" "Yes. And of course they must see her light, and if they guess we
30are near it they are sure to let fly." "Wendy!" "John!" "Michael!" "Tell her to go away at once, Peter," the three cried
31simultaneously, but he refused. "She thinks we have lost the way," he replied stiffly, "and she is rather frightened.
32You don't think I would send her away all by herself when she is frightened!" For a moment the circle of light was
33broken, and something gave Peter a loving little pinch. "Then tell her," Wendy begged, "to put out her light." "She
34can't put it out. That is about the only thing fairies can't do. It just goes out of itself when she falls asleep, same
35as the stars." "Then tell her to sleep at once," John almost ordered. "She can't sleep except when she's sleepy. It is
36the only other thing fairies can't do." "Seems to me," growled John, "these are the only two things worth doing." Here
37he got a pinch, but not a loving one. "If only one of us had a pocket," Peter said, "we could carry her in it." However,
38they had set off in such a hurry that there was not a pocket between the four of them. He had a happy idea. John's hat!
39Tink agreed to travel by hat if it was carried in the hand. John carried it, though she had hoped to be carried by
40Peter. Presently Wendy took the hat, because John said it struck against his knee as he flew; and this, as we shall see,
41led to mischief, for Tinker Bell hated to be under an obligation to Wendy. In the black topper the light was completely
42hidden, and they flew on in silence. It was the stillest silence they had ever known, broken once by a distant lapping,
43which Peter explained was the wild beasts drinking at the ford, and again by a rasping sound that might have been the
44branches of trees rubbing together, but he said it was the redskins sharpening their knives. Even these noises ceased.
45To Michael the loneliness was dreadful. "If only something would make a sound!" he cried. As if in answer to his
46request, the air was rent by the most tremendous crash he had ever heard. The pirates had fired Long Tom at them. The
47roar of it echoed through the mountains, and the echoes seemed to cry savagely, "Where are they, where are they, where
48are they?" Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same
49island come true. When at last the heavens were steady again, John and Michael found themselves alone in the darkness.
50John was treading the air mechanically, and Michael without knowing how to float was floating. "Are you shot?" John
51whispered tremulously. "I haven't tried yet," Michael whispered back. We know now that no one had been hit. Peter,
52however, had been carried by the wind of the shot far out to sea, while Wendy was blown upwards with no companion but
53Tinker Bell. It would have been well for Wendy if at that moment she had dropped the hat. I don't know whether the idea
54came suddenly to Tink, or whether she had planned it on the way, but she at once popped out of the hat and began to lure
55Wendy to her destruction. Tink was not all bad; or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes
56she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one
57feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change. At present she was full
58of jealousy of Wendy. What she said in her lovely tinkle Wendy could not of course understand, and I believe some of it
59was bad words, but it sounded kind, and she flew back and forward, plainly meaning "Follow me, and all will be well."
60What else could poor Wendy do? She called to Peter and John and Michael, and got only mocking echoes in reply. She did
61not yet know that Tink hated her with the fierce hatred of a very woman. And so, bewildered, and now staggering in her
62flight, she followed Tink to her doom. Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the
63Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always
64used by Peter. In his absence things are usually quiet on the island. The fairies take an hour longer in the morning,
65the beasts attend to their young, the redskins feed heavily for six days and nights, and when pirates and lost boys meet
66they merely bite their thumbs at each other. But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are under way again:
67if you put your ear to the ground now, you would hear the whole island seething with life.
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