that as much as possible should have been left in store on the island no doubt sir answered the man grinning if so be as it has been left in store though from what i have seen of our late ship mates they are not the ones to let good liquor spoil in the cellar this reply would not have caused robert but that it had seemed to him that the amount of spirits which he had been to purchase and which he was now bringing with him was very large while if it was really true that the store was already sufficient for the in that respect it would be immensely in excess of their needs well returned he with an air of s s � assumed indifference the cellar key will of course be taken care of and the liquor only given out under proper by the master sir or the butler inquired the other with a most significant action of the left what the deuce do you mean man p asked robert angrily well sir i mean no offence returned the other only that s what we � i mean we of the crew � used to call mr and his man master and butler because they were such i ve known three bottles of go into mr s cabin of a morning and come out empty before night i dare say helped him and too for that matter but to have d t for the second time during one voyage well that s going it a too fast of course i thought you had known sir or i would not have mentioned it was not so simple but that he had heard of delirium but until that moment he had been totally unaware that he had himself been a witness to a sufferer from that complaint this then was the explanation of s cries for help and gestures and also of the of to admit him on such occasions to his master s cabin a shadow seemed to fall upon his heart with the revelation for how he reflected must those fortunes be that but a while ago had looked so fair which rested on the caprice of an habitual the vague but solemn warning of miss mary the farewell of mistress to him now with novel force and foimd at least partial one t i io � � t c� h what had � he liad thrown in his lot with and it was far too late � and indeed for the present impossible � to their fortunes chapter xiv what had done on the fifth day the made the island and its arrival was welcomed in the little harbour with evident satisfaction yet as it seemed to robert without the enthusiasm that might have been expected there was an air of about these usually frank and light hearted people which under the circumstances was quite unaccountable robert s first act � would have been to go to government house � as the only wooden of which the harbour boasted was termed and from whose roof floated a huge green flag � to report himself to the governor however he was informed was not within lie had it seemed started with a few hours ago for another spot in his upon the other side of the hill and there was nothing for it but to proceed with the of the stores the live stock which included sheep pigs poultry and even a few excited such admiration as no golden of a cattle show ever for these poor folk had been living on salt for the u t three and milk � a so s master even to the little children it was no little disappointment to robert who was secretly conscious of having himself well as to the little that mr was not present during these proceedings and when they were concluded and such things as might suffer damage from exposure placed safely under cover he was naturally impatient to see his patron to whom offered to conduct him the colony had been divided it seemed into two parts in consequence of a fight that had already taken place between his boys and the other members of the community and the latter were on the south side of the island in a settlement of their own to which the governor was now paying a visit just as in disturbed districts a progress is sometimes made for the purpose of on the way robert noticed with pleasure that some attempts at cultivation had been made and not without success for though the agricultural knowledge of the community was for the most part confined to planting potatoes or the of and the soil was so fertile that you had but to it with a and it straightway laughed in harvest in a few years it was plain that with very moderate industry s island might be changed from a comparative desert to a spot not only self supporting but with plenty they were not long before they came in sight of new town as it was called a little cluster of tents with one wooden house from the roof of which a green flag was flying similar to that which adorned the harbour tbat the sign of your vice observed in answer to r j i what had done to have told you that it has been arranged that you are to live here the new town folks you see will have no objection to since you are not connected with our lot while on the other hand it would never have done to leave them without some representative of authority there was a in s tone which would not have escaped his companion had his thoughts not been otherwise occupied the news he had just heard was to him for a reason which however he would have been ashamed to mention he had pictured himself as 