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1When the doctor had wormed this secret from him on the afternoon of the attack, and when next morning he saw the
2anchorage deserted, he had gone to Silver, given him the chart, which was now useless--given him the stores, for Ben
3Gunn's cave was well supplied with goats' meat salted by himself--given anything and everything to get a chance of
4moving in safety from the stockade to the two-pointed hill, there to be clear of malaria and keep a guard upon the
5money. "As for you, Jim," he said, "it went against my heart, but I did what I thought best for those who had stood by
6their duty; and if you were not one of these, whose fault was it?" That morning, finding that I was to be involved in
7the horrid disappointment he had prepared for the mutineers, he had run all the way to the cave, and leaving the squire
8to guard the captain, had taken Gray and the maroon and started, making the diagonal across the island to be at hand
9beside the pine. Soon, however, he saw that our party had the start of him; and Ben Gunn, being fleet of foot, had been
10dispatched in front to do his best alone. Then it had occurred to him to work upon the superstitions of his former
11shipmates, and he was so far successful that Gray and the doctor had come up and were already ambushed before the
12arrival of the treasure-hunters. "Ah," said Silver, "it were fortunate for me that I had Hawkins here. You would have
13let old John be cut to bits, and never given it a thought, doctor." "Not a thought," replied Dr. Livesey cheerily. And
14by this time we had reached the gigs. The doctor, with the pick-axe, demolished one of them, and then we all got aboard
15the other and set out to go round by sea for North Inlet. This was a run of eight or nine miles. Silver, though he was
16almost killed already with fatigue, was set to an oar, like the rest of us, and we were soon skimming swiftly over a
17smooth sea. Soon we passed out of the straits and doubled the south-east corner of the island, round which, four days
18ago, we had towed the HISPANIOLA. As we passed the two-pointed hill, we could see the black mouth of Ben Gunn's cave and
19a figure standing by it, leaning on a musket. It was the squire, and we waved a handkerchief and gave him three cheers,
20in which the voice of Silver joined as heartily as any. Three miles farther, just inside the mouth of North Inlet, what
21should we meet but the HISPANIOLA, cruising by herself? The last flood had lifted her, and had there been much wind or a
22strong tide current, as in the southern anchorage, we should never have found her more, or found her stranded beyond
23help. As it was, there was little amiss beyond the wreck of the main-sail. Another anchor was got ready and dropped in a
24fathom and a half of water. We all pulled round again to Rum Cove, the nearest point for Ben Gunn's treasure-house; and
25then Gray, single-handed, returned with the gig to the HISPANIOLA, where he was to pass the night on guard. A gentle
26slope ran up from the beach to the entrance of the cave. At the top, the squire met us. To me he was cordial and kind,
27saying nothing of my escapade either in the way of blame or praise. At Silver's polite salute he somewhat flushed. "John
28Silver," he said, "you're a prodigious villain and imposter--a monstrous imposter, sir. I am told I am not to prosecute
29you. Well, then, I will not. But the dead men, sir, hang about your neck like mill-stones." "Thank you kindly, sir,"
30replied Long John, again saluting. "I dare you to thank me!" cried the squire. "It is a gross dereliction of my duty.
31Stand back." And thereupon we all entered the cave. It was a large, airy place, with a little spring and a pool of clear
32water, overhung with ferns. The floor was sand. Before a big fire lay Captain Smollett; and in a far corner, only
33duskily flickered over by the blaze, I beheld great heaps of coin and quadrilaterals built of bars of gold. That was
34Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the
35HISPANIOLA. How many it had cost in the amassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what
36brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could
37tell. Yet there were still three upon that island--Silver, and old Morgan, and Ben Gunn--who had each taken his share in
38these crimes, as each had hoped in vain to share in the reward. "Come in, Jim," said the captain. "You're a good boy in
39your line, Jim, but I don't think you and me'll go to sea again. You're too much of the born favourite for me. Is that
40you, John Silver? What brings you here, man?" "Come back to my dooty, sir," returned Silver. "Ah!" said the captain, and
41that was all he said. What a supper I had of it that night, with all my friends around me; and what a meal it was, with
42Ben Gunn's salted goat and some delicacies and a bottle of old wine from the HISPANIOLA. Never, I am sure, were people
43gayer or happier. And there was Silver, sitting back almost out of the firelight, but eating heartily, prompt to spring
44forward when anything was wanted, even joining quietly in our laughter--the same bland, polite, obsequious seaman of the
45voyage out. XXXIV And Last The next morning we fell early to work, for the transportation of this great mass of gold
46near a mile by land to the beach, and thence three miles by boat to the HISPANIOLA, was a considerable task for so small
47a number of workmen. The three fellows still abroad upon the island did not greatly trouble us; a single sentry on the
48shoulder of the hill was sufficient to ensure us against any sudden onslaught, and we thought, besides, they had had
49more than enough of fighting. Therefore the work was pushed on briskly. Gray and Ben Gunn came and went with the boat,
50while the rest during their absences piled treasure on the beach. Two of the bars, slung in a rope's end, made a good
51load for a grown man--one that he was glad to walk slowly with. For my part, as I was not much use at carrying, I was
52kept busy all day in the cave packing the minted money into bread-bags. It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones's
53hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure
54than in sorting them. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and
55moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces
56stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored
57through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck--nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have
58found a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with
59stooping and my fingers with sorting them out. Day after day this work went on; by every evening a fortune had been
60stowed aboard, but there was another fortune waiting for the morrow; and all this time we heard nothing of the three
61surviving mutineers. At last--I think it was on the third night--the doctor and I were strolling on the shoulder of the
62hill where it overlooks the lowlands of the isle, when, from out the thick darkness below, the wind brought us a noise
63between shrieking and singing. It was only a snatch that reached our ears, followed by the former silence. "Heaven
64forgive them," said the doctor; "'tis the mutineers!" "All drunk, sir," struck in the voice of Silver from behind us.
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