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1A moment afterwards he had entered the block house and with one grim nod to me proceeded with his work among the sick.
2He seemed under no apprehension, though he must have known that his life, among these treacherous demons, depended on a
3hair; and he rattled on to his patients as if he were paying an ordinary professional visit in a quiet English family.
4His manner, I suppose, reacted on the men, for they behaved to him as if nothing had occurred, as if he were still
5ship's doctor and they still faithful hands before the mast. "You're doing well, my friend," he said to the fellow with
6the bandaged head, "and if ever any person had a close shave, it was you; your head must be as hard as iron. Well,
7George, how goes it? You're a pretty colour, certainly; why, your liver, man, is upside down. Did you take that
8medicine? Did he take that medicine, men?" "Aye, aye, sir, he took it, sure enough," returned Morgan. "Because, you see,
9since I am mutineers' doctor, or prison doctor as I prefer to call it," says Doctor Livesey in his pleasantest way, "I
10make it a point of honour not to lose a man for King George (God bless him!) and the gallows." The rogues looked at each
11other but swallowed the home-thrust in silence. "Dick don't feel well, sir," said one. "Don't he?" replied the doctor.
12"Well, step up here, Dick, and let me see your tongue. No, I should be surprised if he did! The man's tongue is fit to
13frighten the French. Another fever." "Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles." "That comes--as you call
14it--of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the
15dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough. I think it most probable--though of course it's only an opinion--that you'll
16all have the deuce to pay before you get that malaria out of your systems. Camp in a bog, would you? Silver, I'm
17surprised at you. You're less of a fool than many, take you all round; but you don't appear to me to have the rudiments
18of a notion of the rules of health. "Well," he added after he had dosed them round and they had taken his prescriptions,
19with really laughable humility, more like charity schoolchildren than blood-guilty mutineers and pirates--"well, that's
20done for today. And now I should wish to have a talk with that boy, please." And he nodded his head in my direction
21carelessly. George Merry was at the door, spitting and spluttering over some bad-tasted medicine; but at the first word
22of the doctor's proposal he swung round with a deep flush and cried "No!" and swore. Silver struck the barrel with his
23open hand. "Si-lence!" he roared and looked about him positively like a lion. "Doctor," he went on in his usual tones,
24"I was a-thinking of that, knowing as how you had a fancy for the boy. We're all humbly grateful for your kindness, and
25as you see, puts faith in you and takes the drugs down like that much grog. And I take it I've found a way as'll suit
26all. Hawkins, will you give me your word of honour as a young gentleman--for a young gentleman you are, although poor
27born--your word of honour not to slip your cable?" I readily gave the pledge required. "Then, doctor," said Silver, "you
28just step outside o' that stockade, and once you're there I'll bring the boy down on the inside, and I reckon you can
29yarn through the spars. Good day to you, sir, and all our dooties to the squire and Cap'n Smollett." The explosion of
30disapproval, which nothing but Silver's black looks had restrained, broke out immediately the doctor had left the house.
31Silver was roundly accused of playing double--of trying to make a separate peace for himself, of sacrificing the
32interests of his accomplices and victims, and, in one word, of the identical, exact thing that he was doing. It seemed
33to me so obvious, in this case, that I could not imagine how he was to turn their anger. But he was twice the man the
34rest were, and his last night's victory had given him a huge preponderance on their minds. He called them all the fools
35and dolts you can imagine, said it was necessary I should talk to the doctor, fluttered the chart in their faces, asked
36them if they could afford to break the treaty the very day they were bound a-treasure-hunting. "No, by thunder!" he
37cried. "It's us must break the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his
38boots with brandy." And then he bade them get the fire lit, and stalked out upon his crutch, with his hand on my
39shoulder, leaving them in a disarray, and silenced by his volubility rather than convinced. "Slow, lad, slow," he said.
40"They might round upon us in a twinkle of an eye if we was seen to hurry." Very deliberately, then, did we advance
41across the sand to where the doctor awaited us on the other side of the stockade, and as soon as we were within easy
42speaking distance Silver stopped. "You'll make a note of this here also, doctor," says he, "and the boy'll tell you how
43I saved his life, and were deposed for it too, and you may lay to that. Doctor, when a man's steering as near the wind
44as me--playing chuck-farthing with the last breath in his body, like--you wouldn't think it too much, mayhap, to give
45him one good word? You'll please bear in mind it's not my life only now--it's that boy's into the bargain; and you'll
46speak me fair, doctor, and give me a bit o' hope to go on, for the sake of mercy." Silver was a changed man once he was
47out there and had his back to his friends and the block house; his cheeks seemed to have fallen in, his voice trembled;
48never was a soul more dead in earnest. "Why, John, you're not afraid?" asked Dr. Livesey. "Doctor, I'm no coward; no,
49not I--not SO much!" and he snapped his fingers. "If I was I wouldn't say it. But I'll own up fairly, I've the shakes
50upon me for the gallows. You're a good man and a true; I never seen a better man! And you'll not forget what I done
51good, not any more than you'll forget the bad, I know. And I step aside--see here--and leave you and Jim alone. And
52you'll put that down for me too, for it's a long stretch, is that!" So saying, he stepped back a little way, till he was
53out of earshot, and there sat down upon a tree-stump and began to whistle, spinning round now and again upon his seat so
54as to command a sight, sometimes of me and the doctor and sometimes of his unruly ruffians as they went to and fro in
55the sand between the fire--which they were busy rekindling--and the house, from which they brought forth pork and bread
56to make the breakfast. "So, Jim," said the doctor sadly, "here you are. As you have brewed, so shall you drink, my boy.
57Heaven knows, I cannot find it in my heart to blame you, but this much I will say, be it kind or unkind: when Captain
58Smollett was well, you dared not have gone off; and when he was ill and couldn't help it, by George, it was downright
59cowardly!" I will own that I here began to weep. "Doctor," I said, "you might spare me. I have blamed myself enough; my
60life's forfeit anyway, and I should have been dead by now if Silver hadn't stood for me; and doctor, believe this, I can
61die--and I dare say I deserve it--but what I fear is torture. If they come to torture me--" "Jim," the doctor
62interrupted, and his voice was quite changed, "Jim, I can't have this. Whip over, and we'll run for it." "Doctor," said
63I, "I passed my word." "I know, I know," he cried. "We can't help that, Jim, now. I'll take it on my shoulders, holus
64bolus, blame and shame, my boy; but stay here, I cannot let you. Jump! One jump, and you're out, and we'll run for it
65like antelopes."
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