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1Well, mother was upstairs with father and I was laying the breakfast-table against the captain's return when the parlour
2door opened and a man stepped in on whom I had never set my eyes before. He was a pale, tallowy creature, wanting two
3fingers of the left hand, and though he wore a cutlass, he did not look much like a fighter. I had always my eye open
4for seafaring men, with one leg or two, and I remember this one puzzled me. He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack
5of the sea about him too. I asked him what was for his service, and he said he would take rum; but as I was going out of
6the room to fetch it, he sat down upon a table and motioned me to draw near. I paused where I was, with my napkin in my
7hand. "Come here, sonny," says he. "Come nearer here." I took a step nearer. "Is this here table for my mate Bill?" he
8asked with a kind of leer. I told him I did not know his mate Bill, and this was for a person who stayed in our house
9whom we called the captain. "Well," said he, "my mate Bill would be called the captain, as like as not. He has a cut on
10one cheek and a mighty pleasant way with him, particularly in drink, has my mate Bill. We'll put it, for argument like,
11that your captain has a cut on one cheek--and we'll put it, if you like, that that cheek's the right one. Ah, well! I
12told you. Now, is my mate Bill in this here house?" I told him he was out walking. "Which way, sonny? Which way is he
13gone?" And when I had pointed out the rock and told him how the captain was likely to return, and how soon, and answered
14a few other questions, "Ah," said he, "this'll be as good as drink to my mate Bill." The expression of his face as he
15said these words was not at all pleasant, and I had my own reasons for thinking that the stranger was mistaken, even
16supposing he meant what he said. But it was no affair of mine, I thought; and besides, it was difficult to know what to
17do. The stranger kept hanging about just inside the inn door, peering round the corner like a cat waiting for a mouse.
18Once I stepped out myself into the road, but he immediately called me back, and as I did not obey quick enough for his
19fancy, a most horrible change came over his tallowy face, and he ordered me in with an oath that made me jump. As soon
20as I was back again he returned to his former manner, half fawning, half sneering, patted me on the shoulder, told me I
21was a good boy and he had taken quite a fancy to me. "I have a son of my own," said he, "as like you as two blocks, and
22he's all the pride of my 'art. But the great thing for boys is discipline, sonny--discipline. Now, if you had sailed
23along of Bill, you wouldn't have stood there to be spoke to twice--not you. That was never Bill's way, nor the way of
24sich as sailed with him. And here, sure enough, is my mate Bill, with a spy-glass under his arm, bless his old 'art, to
25be sure. You and me'll just go back into the parlour, sonny, and get behind the door, and we'll give Bill a little
26surprise--bless his 'art, I say again." So saying, the stranger backed along with me into the parlour and put me behind
27him in the corner so that we were both hidden by the open door. I was very uneasy and alarmed, as you may fancy, and it
28rather added to my fears to observe that the stranger was certainly frightened himself. He cleared the hilt of his
29cutlass and loosened the blade in the sheath; and all the time we were waiting there he kept swallowing as if he felt
30what we used to call a lump in the throat. At last in strode the captain, slammed the door behind him, without looking
31to the right or left, and marched straight across the room to where his breakfast awaited him. "Bill," said the stranger
32in a voice that I thought he had tried to make bold and big. The captain spun round on his heel and fronted us; all the
33brown had gone out of his face, and even his nose was blue; he had the look of a man who sees a ghost, or the evil one,
34or something worse, if anything can be; and upon my word, I felt sorry to see him all in a moment turn so old and sick.
35"Come, Bill, you know me; you know an old shipmate, Bill, surely," said the stranger. The captain made a sort of gasp.
36"Black Dog!" said he. "And who else?" returned the other, getting more at his ease. "Black Dog as ever was, come for to
37see his old shipmate Billy, at the Admiral Benbow inn. Ah, Bill, Bill, we have seen a sight of times, us two, since I
38lost them two talons," holding up his mutilated hand. "Now, look here," said the captain; "you've run me down; here I
39am; well, then, speak up; what is it?" "That's you, Bill," returned Black Dog, "you're in the right of it, Billy. I'll
40have a glass of rum from this dear child here, as I've took such a liking to; and we'll sit down, if you please, and
41talk square, like old shipmates." When I returned with the rum, they were already seated on either side of the captain's
42breakfast-table--Black Dog next to the door and sitting sideways so as to have one eye on his old shipmate and one, as I
43thought, on his retreat. He bade me go and leave the door wide open. "None of your keyholes for me, sonny," he said; and
44I left them together and retired into the bar. For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen, I could hear
45nothing but a low gattling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two, mostly
46oaths, from the captain. "No, no, no, no; and an end of it!" he cried once. And again, "If it comes to swinging, swing
47all, say I." Then all of a sudden there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and other noises--the chair and table went
48over in a lump, a clash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain, and the next instant I saw Black Dog in full flight,
49and the captain hotly pursuing, both with drawn cutlasses, and the former streaming blood from the left shoulder. Just
50at the door the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine
51had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow. You may see the notch on the lower side of the frame
52to this day. That blow was the last of the battle. Once out upon the road, Black Dog, in spite of his wound, showed a
53wonderful clean pair of heels and disappeared over the edge of the hill in half a minute. The captain, for his part,
54stood staring at the signboard like a bewildered man. Then he passed his hand over his eyes several times and at last
55turned back into the house. "Jim," says he, "rum"; and as he spoke, he reeled a little, and caught himself with one hand
56against the wall. "Are you hurt?" cried I. "Rum," he repeated. "I must get away from here. Rum! Rum!" I ran to fetch it,
57but I was quite unsteadied by all that had fallen out, and I broke one glass and fouled the tap, and while I was still
58getting in my own way, I heard a loud fall in the parlour, and running in, beheld the captain lying full length upon the
59floor. At the same instant my mother, alarmed by the cries and fighting, came running downstairs to help me. Between us
60we raised his head. He was breathing very loud and hard, but his eyes were closed and his face a horrible colour. "Dear,
61deary me," cried my mother, "what a disgrace upon the house! And your poor father sick!"
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