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1"You'll perhaps batten down your hatches till you're spoke to, my friend," cried Silver truculently to this speaker. And
2then, in his first gracious tones, he replied to me, "Yesterday morning, Mr. Hawkins," said he, "in the dog-watch, down
3came Doctor Livesey with a flag of truce. Says he, 'Cap'n Silver, you're sold out. Ship's gone.' Well, maybe we'd been
4taking a glass, and a song to help it round. I won't say no. Leastways, none of us had looked out. We looked out, and by
5thunder, the old ship was gone! I never seen a pack o' fools look fishier; and you may lay to that, if I tells you that
6looked the fishiest. 'Well,' says the doctor, 'let's bargain.' We bargained, him and I, and here we are: stores, brandy,
7block house, the firewood you was thoughtful enough to cut, and in a manner of speaking, the whole blessed boat, from
8cross-trees to kelson. As for them, they've tramped; I don't know where's they are." He drew again quietly at his pipe.
9"And lest you should take it into that head of yours," he went on, "that you was included in the treaty, here's the last
10word that was said: 'How many are you,' says I, 'to leave?' 'Four,' says he; 'four, and one of us wounded. As for that
11boy, I don't know where he is, confound him,' says he, 'nor I don't much care. We're about sick of him.' These was his
12words." "Is that all?" I asked. "Well, it's all that you're to hear, my son," returned Silver. "And now I am to choose?"
13"And now you are to choose, and you may lay to that," said Silver. "Well," said I, "I am not such a fool but I know
14pretty well what I have to look for. Let the worst come to the worst, it's little I care. I've seen too many die since I
15fell in with you. But there's a thing or two I have to tell you," I said, and by this time I was quite excited; "and the
16first is this: here you are, in a bad way--ship lost, treasure lost, men lost, your whole business gone to wreck; and if
17you want to know who did it--it was I! I was in the apple barrel the night we sighted land, and I heard you, John, and
18you, Dick Johnson, and Hands, who is now at the bottom of the sea, and told every word you said before the hour was out.
19And as for the schooner, it was I who cut her cable, and it was I that killed the men you had aboard of her, and it was
20I who brought her where you'll never see her more, not one of you. The laugh's on my side; I've had the top of this
21business from the first; I no more fear you than I fear a fly. Kill me, if you please, or spare me. But one thing I'll
22say, and no more; if you spare me, bygones are bygones, and when you fellows are in court for piracy, I'll save you all
23I can. It is for you to choose. Kill another and do yourselves no good, or spare me and keep a witness to save you from
24the gallows." I stopped, for, I tell you, I was out of breath, and to my wonder, not a man of them moved, but all sat
25staring at me like as many sheep. And while they were still staring, I broke out again, "And now, Mr. Silver," I said,
26"I believe you're the best man here, and if things go to the worst, I'll take it kind of you to let the doctor know the
27way I took it." "I'll bear it in mind," said Silver with an accent so curious that I could not, for the life of me,
28decide whether he were laughing at my request or had been favourably affected by my courage. "I'll put one to that,"
29cried the old mahogany-faced seaman--Morgan by name--whom I had seen in Long John's public-house upon the quays of
30Bristol. "It was him that knowed Black Dog." "Well, and see here," added the sea-cook. "I'll put another again to that,
31by thunder! For it was this same boy that faked the chart from Billy Bones. First and last, we've split upon Jim
32Hawkins!" "Then here goes!" said Morgan with an oath. And he sprang up, drawing his knife as if he had been twenty.
33"Avast, there!" cried Silver. "Who are you, Tom Morgan? Maybe you thought you was cap'n here, perhaps. By the powers,
34but I'll teach you better! Cross me, and you'll go where many a good man's gone before you, first and last, these thirty
35year back--some to the yard-arm, shiver my timbers, and some by the board, and all to feed the fishes. There's never a
36man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terwards, Tom Morgan, you may lay to that." Morgan paused, but a
37hoarse murmur rose from the others. "Tom's right," said one. "I stood hazing long enough from one," added another. "I'll
38be hanged if I'll be hazed by you, John Silver." "Did any of you gentlemen want to have it out with ME?" roared Silver,
39bending far forward from his position on the keg, with his pipe still glowing in his right hand. "Put a name on what
40you're at; you ain't dumb, I reckon. Him that wants shall get it. Have I lived this many years, and a son of a rum
41puncheon cock his hat athwart my hawse at the latter end of it? You know the way; you're all gentlemen o' fortune, by
42your account. Well, I'm ready. Take a cutlass, him that dares, and I'll see the colour of his inside, crutch and all,
43before that pipe's empty." Not a man stirred; not a man answered. "That's your sort, is it?" he added, returning his
44pipe to his mouth. "Well, you're a gay lot to look at, anyway. Not much worth to fight, you ain't. P'r'aps you can
45understand King George's English. I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long
46sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen o' fortune should; then, by thunder, you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like
47that boy, now; I never seen a better boy than that. He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and
48what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him--that's what I say, and you may lay to it." There was a
49long pause after this. I stood straight up against the wall, my heart still going like a sledge-hammer, but with a ray
50of hope now shining in my bosom. Silver leant back against the wall, his arms crossed, his pipe in the corner of his
51mouth, as calm as though he had been in church; yet his eye kept wandering furtively, and he kept the tail of it on his
52unruly followers. They, on their part, drew gradually together towards the far end of the block house, and the low hiss
53of their whispering sounded in my ear continuously, like a stream. One after another, they would look up, and the red
54light of the torch would fall for a second on their nervous faces; but it was not towards me, it was towards Silver that
55they turned their eyes. "You seem to have a lot to say," remarked Silver, spitting far into the air. "Pipe up and let me
56hear it, or lay to." "Ax your pardon, sir," returned one of the men; "you're pretty free with some of the rules; maybe
57you'll kindly keep an eye upon the rest. This crew's dissatisfied; this crew don't vally bullying a marlin-spike; this
58crew has its rights like other crews, I'll make so free as that; and by your own rules, I take it we can talk together.
59I ax your pardon, sir, acknowledging you for to be capting at this present; but I claim my right, and steps outside for
60a council." And with an elaborate sea-salute, this fellow, a long, ill-looking, yellow-eyed man of five and thirty,
61stepped coolly towards the door and disappeared out of the house. One after another the rest followed his example, each
62making a salute as he passed, each adding some apology. "According to rules," said one. "Forecastle council," said
63Morgan. And so with one remark or another all marched out and left Silver and me alone with the torch. The sea-cook
64instantly removed his pipe.
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