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1"No," I replied; "you know right well you wouldn't do the thing yourself--neither you nor squire nor captain; and no
2more will I. Silver trusted me; I passed my word, and back I go. But, doctor, you did not let me finish. If they come to
3torture me, I might let slip a word of where the ship is, for I got the ship, part by luck and part by risking, and she
4lies in North Inlet, on the southern beach, and just below high water. At half tide she must be high and dry." "The
5ship!" exclaimed the doctor. Rapidly I described to him my adventures, and he heard me out in silence. "There is a kind
6of fate in this," he observed when I had done. "Every step, it's you that saves our lives; and do you suppose by any
7chance that we are going to let you lose yours? That would be a poor return, my boy. You found out the plot; you found
8Ben Gunn--the best deed that ever you did, or will do, though you live to ninety. Oh, by Jupiter, and talking of Ben
9Gunn! Why, this is the mischief in person. Silver!" he cried. "Silver! I'll give you a piece of advice," he continued as
10the cook drew near again; "don't you be in any great hurry after that treasure." "Why, sir, I do my possible, which that
11ain't," said Silver. "I can only, asking your pardon, save my life and the boy's by seeking for that treasure; and you
12may lay to that." "Well, Silver," replied the doctor, "if that is so, I'll go one step further: look out for squalls
13when you find it." "Sir," said Silver, "as between man and man, that's too much and too little. What you're after, why
14you left the block house, why you given me that there chart, I don't know, now, do I? And yet I done your bidding with
15my eyes shut and never a word of hope! But no, this here's too much. If you won't tell me what you mean plain out, just
16say so and I'll leave the helm." "No," said the doctor musingly; "I've no right to say more; it's not my secret, you
17see, Silver, or, I give you my word, I'd tell it you. But I'll go as far with you as I dare go, and a step beyond, for
18I'll have my wig sorted by the captain or I'm mistaken! And first, I'll give you a bit of hope; Silver, if we both get
19alive out of this wolf-trap, I'll do my best to save you, short of perjury." Silver's face was radiant. "You couldn't
20say more, I'm sure, sir, not if you was my mother," he cried. "Well, that's my first concession," added the doctor. "My
21second is a piece of advice: keep the boy close beside you, and when you need help, halloo. I'm off to seek it for you,
22and that itself will show you if I speak at random. Good-bye, Jim." And Dr. Livesey shook hands with me through the
23stockade, nodded to Silver, and set off at a brisk pace into the wood. XXXI The Treasure-hunt--Flint's Pointer "Jim,"
24said Silver when we were alone, "if I saved your life, you saved mine; and I'll not forget it. I seen the doctor waving
25you to run for it--with the tail of my eye, I did; and I seen you say no, as plain as hearing. Jim, that's one to you.
26This is the first glint of hope I had since the attack failed, and I owe it you. And now, Jim, we're to go in for this
27here treasure-hunting, with sealed orders too, and I don't like it; and you and me must stick close, back to back like,
28and we'll save our necks in spite o' fate and fortune." Just then a man hailed us from the fire that breakfast was
29ready, and we were soon seated here and there about the sand over biscuit and fried junk. They had lit a fire fit to
30roast an ox, and it was now grown so hot that they could only approach it from the windward, and even there not without
31precaution. In the same wasteful spirit, they had cooked, I suppose, three times more than we could eat; and one of
32them, with an empty laugh, threw what was left into the fire, which blazed and roared again over this unusual fuel. I
33never in my life saw men so careless of the morrow; hand to mouth is the only word that can describe their way of doing;
34and what with wasted food and sleeping sentries, though they were bold enough for a brush and be done with it, I could
35see their entire unfitness for anything like a prolonged campaign. Even Silver, eating away, with Captain Flint upon his
36shoulder, had not a word of blame for their recklessness. And this the more surprised me, for I thought he had never
37shown himself so cunning as he did then. "Aye, mates," said he, "it's lucky you have Barbecue to think for you with this
38here head. I got what I wanted, I did. Sure enough, they have the ship. Where they have it, I don't know yet; but once
39we hit the treasure, we'll have to jump about and find out. And then, mates, us that has the boats, I reckon, has the
40upper hand." Thus he kept running on, with his mouth full of the hot bacon; thus he restored their hope and confidence,
41and, I more than suspect, repaired his own at the same time. "As for hostage," he continued, "that's his last talk, I
42guess, with them he loves so dear. I've got my piece o' news, and thanky to him for that; but it's over and done. I'll
43take him in a line when we go treasure-hunting, for we'll keep him like so much gold, in case of accidents, you mark,
44and in the meantime. Once we got the ship and treasure both and off to sea like jolly companions, why then we'll talk
45Mr. Hawkins over, we will, and we'll give him his share, to be sure, for all his kindness." It was no wonder the men
46were in a good humour now. For my part, I was horribly cast down. Should the scheme he had now sketched prove feasible,
47Silver, already doubly a traitor, would not hesitate to adopt it. He had still a foot in either camp, and there was no
48doubt he would prefer wealth and freedom with the pirates to a bare escape from hanging, which was the best he had to
49hope on our side. Nay, and even if things so fell out that he was forced to keep his faith with Dr. Livesey, even then
50what danger lay before us! What a moment that would be when the suspicions of his followers turned to certainty and he
51and I should have to fight for dear life--he a cripple and I a boy--against five strong and active seamen! Add to this
52double apprehension the mystery that still hung over the behaviour of my friends, their unexplained desertion of the
53stockade, their inexplicable cession of the chart, or harder still to understand, the doctor's last warning to Silver,
54"Look out for squalls when you find it," and you will readily believe how little taste I found in my breakfast and with
55how uneasy a heart I set forth behind my captors on the quest for treasure. We made a curious figure, had anyone been
56there to see us--all in soiled sailor clothes and all but me armed to the teeth. Silver had two guns slung about
57him--one before and one behind--besides the great cutlass at his waist and a pistol in each pocket of his square-tailed
58coat. To complete his strange appearance, Captain Flint sat perched upon his shoulder and gabbling odds and ends of
59purposeless sea-talk. I had a line about my waist and followed obediently after the sea-cook, who held the loose end of
60the rope, now in his free hand, now between his powerful teeth. For all the world, I was led like a dancing bear.
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