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1The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west, this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide prospect on either
2hand. Before us, over the tree-tops, we beheld the Cape of the Woods fringed with surf; behind, we not only looked down
3upon the anchorage and Skeleton Island, but saw--clear across the spit and the eastern lowlands--a great field of open
4sea upon the east. Sheer above us rose the Spy-glass, here dotted with single pines, there black with precipices. There
5was no sound but that of the distant breakers, mounting from all round, and the chirp of countless insects in the brush.
6Not a man, not a sail, upon the sea; the very largeness of the view increased the sense of solitude. Silver, as he sat,
7took certain bearings with his compass. "There are three 'tall trees,'" said he, "about in the right line from Skeleton
8Island. 'Spy-glass shoulder,' I take it, means that lower p'int there. It's child's play to find the stuff now. I've
9half a mind to dine first." "I don't feel sharp," growled Morgan. "Thinkin' o' Flint--I think it were--as done me." "Ah,
10well, my son, you praise your stars he's dead," said Silver. "He were an ugly devil," cried a third pirate with a
11shudder; "that blue in the face too!" "That was how the rum took him," added Merry. "Blue! Well, I reckon he was blue.
12That's a true word." Ever since they had found the skeleton and got upon this train of thought, they had spoken lower
13and lower, and they had almost got to whispering by now, so that the sound of their talk hardly interrupted the silence
14of the wood. All of a sudden, out of the middle of the trees in front of us, a thin, high, trembling voice struck up the
15well-known air and words: "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" I never have seen men
16more dreadfully affected than the pirates. The colour went from their six faces like enchantment; some leaped to their
17feet, some clawed hold of others; Morgan grovelled on the ground. "It's Flint, by ----!" cried Merry. The song had
18stopped as suddenly as it began--broken off, you would have said, in the middle of a note, as though someone had laid
19his hand upon the singer's mouth. Coming through the clear, sunny atmosphere among the green tree-tops, I thought it had
20sounded airily and sweetly; and the effect on my companions was the stranger. "Come," said Silver, struggling with his
21ashen lips to get the word out; "this won't do. Stand by to go about. This is a rum start, and I can't name the voice,
22but it's someone skylarking--someone that's flesh and blood, and you may lay to that." His courage had come back as he
23spoke, and some of the colour to his face along with it. Already the others had begun to lend an ear to this
24encouragement and were coming a little to themselves, when the same voice broke out again--not this time singing, but in
25a faint distant hail that echoed yet fainter among the clefts of the Spy-glass. "Darby M'Graw," it wailed--for that is
26the word that best describes the sound--"Darby M'Graw! Darby M'Graw!" again and again and again; and then rising a
27little higher, and with an oath that I leave out: "Fetch aft the rum, Darby!" The buccaneers remained rooted to the
28ground, their eyes starting from their heads. Long after the voice had died away they still stared in silence,
29dreadfully, before them. "That fixes it!" gasped one. "Let's go." "They was his last words," moaned Morgan, "his last
30words above board." Dick had his Bible out and was praying volubly. He had been well brought up, had Dick, before he
31came to sea and fell among bad companions. Still Silver was unconquered. I could hear his teeth rattle in his head, but
32he had not yet surrendered. "Nobody in this here island ever heard of Darby," he muttered; "not one but us that's here."
33And then, making a great effort: "Shipmates," he cried, "I'm here to get that stuff, and I'll not be beat by man or
34devil. I never was feared of Flint in his life, and, by the powers, I'll face him dead. There's seven hundred thousand
35pound not a quarter of a mile from here. When did ever a gentleman o' fortune show his stern to that much dollars for a
36boozy old seaman with a blue mug--and him dead too?" But there was no sign of reawakening courage in his followers,
37rather, indeed, of growing terror at the irreverence of his words. "Belay there, John!" said Merry. "Don't you cross a
38sperrit." And the rest were all too terrified to reply. They would have run away severally had they dared; but fear kept
39them together, and kept them close by John, as if his daring helped them. He, on his part, had pretty well fought his
40weakness down. "Sperrit? Well, maybe," he said. "But there's one thing not clear to me. There was an echo. Now, no man
41ever seen a sperrit with a shadow; well then, what's he doing with an echo to him, I should like to know? That ain't in
42natur', surely?" This argument seemed weak enough to me. But you can never tell what will affect the superstitious, and
43to my wonder, George Merry was greatly relieved. "Well, that's so," he said. "You've a head upon your shoulders, John,
44and no mistake. 'Bout ship, mates! This here crew is on a wrong tack, I do believe. And come to think on it, it was like
45Flint's voice, I grant you, but not just so clear-away like it, after all. It was liker somebody else's voice now--it
46was liker--" "By the powers, Ben Gunn!" roared Silver. "Aye, and so it were," cried Morgan, springing on his knees. "Ben
47Gunn it were!" "It don't make much odds, do it, now?" asked Dick. "Ben Gunn's not here in the body any more'n Flint."
48But the older hands greeted this remark with scorn. "Why, nobody minds Ben Gunn," cried Merry; "dead or alive, nobody
49minds him." It was extraordinary how their spirits had returned and how the natural colour had revived in their faces.
50Soon they were chatting together, with intervals of listening; and not long after, hearing no further sound, they
51shouldered the tools and set forth again, Merry walking first with Silver's compass to keep them on the right line with
52Skeleton Island. He had said the truth: dead or alive, nobody minded Ben Gunn. Dick alone still held his Bible, and
53looked around him as he went, with fearful glances; but he found no sympathy, and Silver even joked him on his
54precautions. "I told you," said he--"I told you you had sp'iled your Bible. If it ain't no good to swear by, what do you
55suppose a sperrit would give for it? Not that!" and he snapped his big fingers, halting a moment on his crutch. But Dick
56was not to be comforted; indeed, it was soon plain to me that the lad was falling sick; hastened by heat, exhaustion,
57and the shock of his alarm, the fever, predicted by Dr. Livesey, was evidently growing swiftly higher. It was fine open
58walking here, upon the summit; our way lay a little downhill, for, as I have said, the plateau tilted towards the west.
59The pines, great and small, grew wide apart; and even between the clumps of nutmeg and azalea, wide open spaces baked in
60the hot sunshine. Striking, as we did, pretty near north-west across the island, we drew, on the one hand, ever nearer
61under the shoulders of the Spy-glass, and on the other, looked ever wider over that western bay where I had once tossed
62and trembled in the coracle. The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearings proved the wrong one. So with
63the second. The third rose nearly two hundred feet into the air above a clump of underwood--a giant of a vegetable, with
64a red column as big as a cottage, and a wide shadow around in which a company could have manoeuvred. It was conspicuous
65far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart. But it was not its
66size that now impressed my companions; it was the knowledge that seven hundred thousand pounds in gold lay somewhere
67buried below its spreading shadow. The thought of the money, as they drew nearer, swallowed up their previous terrors.
68Their eyes burned in their heads; their feet grew speedier and lighter; their whole soul was bound up in that fortune,
69that whole lifetime of extravagance and pleasure, that lay waiting there for each of them.
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