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1Silver hobbled, grunting, on his crutch; his nostrils stood out and quivered; he cursed like a madman when the flies
2settled on his hot and shiny countenance; he plucked furiously at the line that held me to him and from time to time
3turned his eyes upon me with a deadly look. Certainly he took no pains to hide his thoughts, and certainly I read them
4like print. In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten: his promise and the doctor's warning
5were both things of the past, and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the
6HISPANIOLA under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail away as he had at first intended,
7laden with crimes and riches. Shaken as I was with these alarms, it was hard for me to keep up with the rapid pace of
8the treasure-hunters. Now and again I stumbled, and it was then that Silver plucked so roughly at the rope and launched
9at me his murderous glances. Dick, who had dropped behind us and now brought up the rear, was babbling to himself both
10prayers and curses as his fever kept rising. This also added to my wretchedness, and to crown all, I was haunted by the
11thought of the tragedy that had once been acted on that plateau, when that ungodly buccaneer with the blue face--he who
12died at Savannah, singing and shouting for drink--had there, with his own hand, cut down his six accomplices. This grove
13that was now so peaceful must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it
14ringing still. We were now at the margin of the thicket. "Huzza, mates, all together!" shouted Merry; and the foremost
15broke into a run. And suddenly, not ten yards further, we beheld them stop. A low cry arose. Silver doubled his pace,
16digging away with the foot of his crutch like one possessed; and next moment he and I had come also to a dead halt.
17Before us was a great excavation, not very recent, for the sides had fallen in and grass had sprouted on the bottom. In
18this were the shaft of a pick broken in two and the boards of several packing-cases strewn around. On one of these
19boards I saw, branded with a hot iron, the name WALRUS--the name of Flint's ship. All was clear to probation. The CACHE
20had been found and rifled; the seven hundred thousand pounds were gone! XXXIII The Fall of a Chieftain There never was
21such an overturn in this world. Each of these six men was as though he had been struck. But with Silver the blow passed
22almost instantly. Every thought of his soul had been set full-stretch, like a racer, on that money; well, he was brought
23up, in a single second, dead; and he kept his head, found his temper, and changed his plan before the others had had
24time to realize the disappointment. "Jim," he whispered, "take that, and stand by for trouble." And he passed me a
25double-barrelled pistol. At the same time, he began quietly moving northward, and in a few steps had put the hollow
26between us two and the other five. Then he looked at me and nodded, as much as to say, "Here is a narrow corner," as,
27indeed, I thought it was. His looks were not quite friendly, and I was so revolted at these constant changes that I
28could not forbear whispering, "So you've changed sides again." There was no time left for him to answer in. The
29buccaneers, with oaths and cries, began to leap, one after another, into the pit and to dig with their fingers, throwing
30the boards aside as they did so. Morgan found a piece of gold. He held it up with a perfect spout of oaths. It was a
31two-guinea piece, and it went from hand to hand among them for a quarter of a minute. "Two guineas!" roared Merry,
32shaking it at Silver. "That's your seven hundred thousand pounds, is it? You're the man for bargains, ain't you? You're
33him that never bungled nothing, you wooden-headed lubber!" "Dig away, boys," said Silver with the coolest insolence;
34"you'll find some pig-nuts and I shouldn't wonder." "Pig-nuts!" repeated Merry, in a scream. "Mates, do you hear that? I
35tell you now, that man there knew it all along. Look in the face of him and you'll see it wrote there." "Ah, Merry,"
36remarked Silver, "standing for cap'n again? You're a pushing lad, to be sure." But this time everyone was entirely in
37Merry's favour. They began to scramble out of the excavation, darting furious glances behind them. One thing I observed,
38which looked well for us: they all got out upon the opposite side from Silver. Well, there we stood, two on one side,
39five on the other, the pit between us, and nobody screwed up high enough to offer the first blow. Silver never moved; he
40watched them, very upright on his crutch, and looked as cool as ever I saw him. He was brave, and no mistake. At last
41Merry seemed to think a speech might help matters. "Mates," says he, "there's two of them alone there; one's the old
42cripple that brought us all here and blundered us down to this; the other's that cub that I mean to have the heart of.
43Now, mates--" He was raising his arm and his voice, and plainly meant to lead a charge. But just then--crack! crack!
44crack!--three musket-shots flashed out of the thicket. Merry tumbled head foremost into the excavation; the man with the
45bandage spun round like a teetotum and fell all his length upon his side, where he lay dead, but still twitching; and
46the other three turned and ran for it with all their might. Before you could wink, Long John had fired two barrels of a
47pistol into the struggling Merry, and as the man rolled up his eyes at him in the last agony, "George," said he, "I
48reckon I settled you." At the same moment, the doctor, Gray, and Ben Gunn joined us, with smoking muskets, from among
49the nutmeg-trees. "Forward!" cried the doctor. "Double quick, my lads. We must head 'em off the boats." And we set off
50at a great pace, sometimes plunging through the bushes to the chest. I tell you, but Silver was anxious to keep up with
51us. The work that man went through, leaping on his crutch till the muscles of his chest were fit to burst, was work no
52sound man ever equalled; and so thinks the doctor. As it was, he was already thirty yards behind us and on the verge of
53strangling when we reached the brow of the slope. "Doctor," he hailed, "see there! No hurry!" Sure enough there was no
54hurry. In a more open part of the plateau, we could see the three survivors still running in the same direction as they
55had started, right for Mizzenmast Hill. We were already between them and the boats; and so we four sat down to breathe,
56while Long John, mopping his face, came slowly up with us. "Thank ye kindly, doctor," says he. "You came in in about the
57nick, I guess, for me and Hawkins. And so it's you, Ben Gunn!" he added. "Well, you're a nice one, to be sure." "I'm Ben
58Gunn, I am," replied the maroon, wriggling like an eel in his embarrassment. "And," he added, after a long pause, "how
59do, Mr. Silver? Pretty well, I thank ye, says you." "Ben, Ben," murmured Silver, "to think as you've done me!" The
60doctor sent back Gray for one of the pick-axes deserted, in their flight, by the mutineers, and then as we proceeded
61leisurely downhill to where the boats were lying, related in a few words what had taken place. It was a story that
62profoundly interested Silver; and Ben Gunn, the half-idiot maroon, was the hero from beginning to end. Ben, in his long,
63lonely wanderings about the island, had found the skeleton--it was he that had rifled it; he had found the treasure; he
64had dug it up (it was the haft of his pick-axe that lay broken in the excavation); he had carried it on his back, in
65many weary journeys, from the foot of the tall pine to a cave he had on the two-pointed hill at the north-east angle of
66the island, and there it had lain stored in safety since two months before the arrival of the HISPANIOLA.
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