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1"No, not I," said Silver. "Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along of my timber leg. The same broadside I lost my
2leg, old Pew lost his deadlights. It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me--out of college and all--Latin by the
3bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle. That was Roberts' men,
4that was, and comed of changing names to their ships--ROYAL FORTUNE and so on. Now, what a ship was christened, so let
5her stay, I says. So it was with the CASSANDRA, as brought us all safe home from Malabar, after England took the Viceroy
6of the Indies; so it was with the old WALRUS, Flint's old ship, as I've seen amuck with the red blood and fit to sink
7with gold." "Ah!" cried another voice, that of the youngest hand on board, and evidently full of admiration. "He was the
8flower of the flock, was Flint!" "Davis was a man too, by all accounts," said Silver. "I never sailed along of him;
9first with England, then with Flint, that's my story; and now here on my own account, in a manner of speaking. I laid by
10nine hundred safe, from England, and two thousand after Flint. That ain't bad for a man before the mast--all safe in
11bank. 'Tain't earning now, it's saving does it, you may lay to that. Where's all England's men now? I dunno. Where's
12Flint's? Why, most on 'em aboard here, and glad to get the duff--been begging before that, some on 'em. Old Pew, as had
13lost his sight, and might have thought shame, spends twelve hundred pound in a year, like a lord in Parliament. Where is
14he now? Well, he's dead now and under hatches; but for two year before that, shiver my timbers, the man was starving! He
15begged, and he stole, and he cut throats, and starved at that, by the powers!" "Well, it ain't much use, after all,"
16said the young seaman. "'Tain't much use for fools, you may lay to it--that, nor nothing," cried Silver. "But now, you
17look here: you're young, you are, but you're as smart as paint. I see that when I set my eyes on you, and I'll talk to
18you like a man." You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same
19words of flattery as he had used to myself. I think, if I had been able, that I would have killed him through the
20barrel. Meantime, he ran on, little supposing he was overheard. "Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives
21rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds
22of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets. Now, the most goes for rum and a good fling, and to sea
23again in their shirts. But that's not the course I lay. I puts it all away, some here, some there, and none too much
24anywheres, by reason of suspicion. I'm fifty, mark you; once back from this cruise, I set up gentleman in earnest. Time
25enough too, says you. Ah, but I've lived easy in the meantime, never denied myself o' nothing heart desires, and slep'
26soft and ate dainty all my days but when at sea. And how did I begin? Before the mast, like you!" "Well," said the
27other, "but all the other money's gone now, ain't it? You daren't show face in Bristol after this." "Why, where might
28you suppose it was?" asked Silver derisively. "At Bristol, in banks and places," answered his companion. "It were," said
29the cook; "it were when we weighed anchor. But my old missis has it all by now. And the Spy-glass is sold, lease and
30goodwill and rigging; and the old girl's off to meet me. I would tell you where, for I trust you, but it'd make jealousy
31among the mates." "And can you trust your missis?" asked the other. "Gentlemen of fortune," returned the cook, "usually
32trusts little among themselves, and right they are, you may lay to it. But I have a way with me, I have. When a mate
33brings a slip on his cable--one as knows me, I mean--it won't be in the same world with old John. There was some that
34was feared of Pew, and some that was feared of Flint; but Flint his own self was feared of me. Feared he was, and proud.
35They was the roughest crew afloat, was Flint's; the devil himself would have been feared to go to sea with them. Well
36now, I tell you, I'm not a boasting man, and you seen yourself how easy I keep company, but when I was quartermaster,
37LAMBS wasn't the word for Flint's old buccaneers. Ah, you may be sure of yourself in old John's ship." "Well, I tell you
38now," replied the lad, "I didn't half a quarter like the job till I had this talk with you, John; but there's my hand on
39it now." "And a brave lad you were, and smart too," answered Silver, shaking hands so heartily that all the barrel
40shook, "and a finer figurehead for a gentleman of fortune I never clapped my eyes on." By this time I had begun to
41understand the meaning of their terms. By a "gentleman of fortune" they plainly meant neither more nor less than a
42common pirate, and the little scene that I had overheard was the last act in the corruption of one of the honest
43hands--perhaps of the last one left aboard. But on this point I was soon to be relieved, for Silver giving a little
44whistle, a third man strolled up and sat down by the party. "Dick's square," said Silver. "Oh, I know'd Dick was
45square," returned the voice of the coxswain, Israel Hands. "He's no fool, is Dick." And he turned his quid and spat.
46"But look here," he went on, "here's what I want to know, Barbecue: how long are we a-going to stand off and on like a
47blessed bumboat? I've had a'most enough o' Cap'n Smollett; he's hazed me long enough, by thunder! I want to go into that
48cabin, I do. I want their pickles and wines, and that." "Israel," said Silver, "your head ain't much account, nor ever
49was. But you're able to hear, I reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough. Now, here's what I say: you'll berth
50forward, and you'll live hard, and you'll speak soft, and you'll keep sober till I give the word; and you may lay to
51that, my son." "Well, I don't say no, do I?" growled the coxswain. "What I say is, when? That's what I say." "When! By
52the powers!" cried Silver. "Well now, if you want to know, I'll tell you when. The last moment I can manage, and that's
53when. Here's a first-rate seaman, Cap'n Smollett, sails the blessed ship for us. Here's this squire and doctor with a
54map and such--I don't know where it is, do I? No more do you, says you. Well then, I mean this squire and doctor shall
55find the stuff, and help us to get it aboard, by the powers. Then we'll see. If I was sure of you all, sons of double
56Dutchmen, I'd have Cap'n Smollett navigate us half-way back again before I struck." "Why, we're all seamen aboard here,
57I should think," said the lad Dick. "We're all forecastle hands, you mean," snapped Silver. "We can steer a course, but
58who's to set one? That's what all you gentlemen split on, first and last. If I had my way, I'd have Cap'n Smollett work
59us back into the trades at least; then we'd have no blessed miscalculations and a spoonful of water a day. But I know
60the sort you are. I'll finish with 'em at the island, as soon's the blunt's on board, and a pity it is. But you're never
61happy till you're drunk. Split my sides, I've a sick heart to sail with the likes of you!" "Easy all, Long John," cried
62Israel. "Who's a-crossin' of you?" "Why, how many tall ships, think ye, now, have I seen laid aboard? And how many brisk
63lads drying in the sun at Execution Dock?" cried Silver. "And all for this same hurry and hurry and hurry. You hear me?
64I seen a thing or two at sea, I have. If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in
65carriages, you would. But not you! I know you. You'll have your mouthful of rum tomorrow, and go hang."
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