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1He wandered a little longer, his voice growing weaker; but soon after I had given him his medicine, which he took like a
2child, with the remark, "If ever a seaman wanted drugs, it's me," he fell at last into a heavy, swoon-like sleep, in
3which I left him. What I should have done had all gone well I do not know. Probably I should have told the whole story
4to the doctor, for I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me. But as
5things fell out, my poor father died quite suddenly that evening, which put all other matters on one side. Our natural
6distress, the visits of the neighbours, the arranging of the funeral, and all the work of the inn to be carried on in
7the meanwhile kept me so busy that I had scarcely time to think of the captain, far less to be afraid of him. He got
8downstairs next morning, to be sure, and had his meals as usual, though he ate little and had more, I am afraid, than
9his usual supply of rum, for he helped himself out of the bar, scowling and blowing through his nose, and no one dared
10to cross him. On the night before the funeral he was as drunk as ever; and it was shocking, in that house of mourning,
11to hear him singing away at his ugly old sea-song; but weak as he was, we were all in the fear of death for him, and the
12doctor was suddenly taken up with a case many miles away and was never near the house after my father's death. I have
13said the captain was weak, and indeed he seemed rather to grow weaker than regain his strength. He clambered up and down
14stairs, and went from the parlour to the bar and back again, and sometimes put his nose out of doors to smell the sea,
15holding on to the walls as he went for support and breathing hard and fast like a man on a steep mountain. He never
16particularly addressed me, and it is my belief he had as good as forgotten his confidences; but his temper was more
17flighty, and allowing for his bodily weakness, more violent than ever. He had an alarming way now when he was drunk of
18drawing his cutlass and laying it bare before him on the table. But with all that, he minded people less and seemed shut
19up in his own thoughts and rather wandering. Once, for instance, to our extreme wonder, he piped up to a different air,
20a kind of country love-song that he must have learned in his youth before he had begun to follow the sea. So things
21passed until, the day after the funeral, and about three o'clock of a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon, I was standing at
22the door for a moment, full of sad thoughts about my father, when I saw someone drawing slowly near along the road. He
23was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was
24hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood that made him appear positively
25deformed. I never saw in my life a more dreadful-looking figure. He stopped a little from the inn, and raising his voice
26in an odd sing-song, addressed the air in front of him, "Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man, who has lost the
27precious sight of his eyes in the gracious defence of his native country, England--and God bless King George!--where or
28in what part of this country he may now be?" "You are at the Admiral Benbow, Black Hill Cove, my good man," said I. "I
29hear a voice," said he, "a young voice. Will you give me your hand, my kind young friend, and lead me in?" I held out my
30hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise. I was so much startled that I
31struggled to withdraw, but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm. "Now, boy," he said,
32"take me in to the captain." "Sir," said I, "upon my word I dare not." "Oh," he sneered, "that's it! Take me in straight
33or I'll break your arm." And he gave it, as he spoke, a wrench that made me cry out. "Sir," said I, "it is for yourself
34I mean. The captain is not what he used to be. He sits with a drawn cutlass. Another gentleman--" "Come, now, march,"
35interrupted he; and I never heard a voice so cruel, and cold, and ugly as that blind man's. It cowed me more than the
36pain, and I began to obey him at once, walking straight in at the door and towards the parlour, where our sick old
37buccaneer was sitting, dazed with rum. The blind man clung close to me, holding me in one iron fist and leaning almost
38more of his weight on me than I could carry. "Lead me straight up to him, and when I'm in view, cry out, 'Here's a
39friend for you, Bill.' If you don't, I'll do this," and with that he gave me a twitch that I thought would have made me
40faint. Between this and that, I was so utterly terrified of the blind beggar that I forgot my terror of the captain, and
41as I opened the parlour door, cried out the words he had ordered in a trembling voice. The poor captain raised his eyes,
42and at one look the rum went out of him and left him staring sober. The expression of his face was not so much of terror
43as of mortal sickness. He made a movement to rise, but I do not believe he had enough force left in his body. "Now,
44Bill, sit where you are," said the beggar. "If I can't see, I can hear a finger stirring. Business is business. Hold out
45your left hand. Boy, take his left hand by the wrist and bring it near to my right." We both obeyed him to the letter,
46and I saw him pass something from the hollow of the hand that held his stick into the palm of the captain's, which
47closed upon it instantly. "And now that's done," said the blind man; and at the words he suddenly left hold of me, and
48with incredible accuracy and nimbleness, skipped out of the parlour and into the road, where, as I still stood
49motionless, I could hear his stick go tap-tap-tapping into the distance. It was some time before either I or the captain
50seemed to gather our senses, but at length, and about at the same moment, I released his wrist, which I was still
51holding, and he drew in his hand and looked sharply into the palm. "Ten o'clock!" he cried. "Six hours. We'll do them
52yet," and he sprang to his feet. Even as he did so, he reeled, put his hand to his throat, stood swaying for a moment,
53and then, with a peculiar sound, fell from his whole height face foremost to the floor. I ran to him at once, calling to
54my mother. But haste was all in vain. The captain had been struck dead by thundering apoplexy. It is a curious thing to
55understand, for I had certainly never liked the man, though of late I had begun to pity him, but as soon as I saw that
56he was dead, I burst into a flood of tears. It was the second death I had known, and the sorrow of the first was still
57fresh in my heart. IV The Sea-chest
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