Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-03-22
CHAPTER XIX.

NARRATIVE RESUMED BY JIM HAw-
KINS - THE GARRISON AT THE
STOCKADE.
AS soon as Ben Gum saw the colors
he came to halt, stopped me by the
arm, and sat down.
''Now," said he, there's your friends,
sure enough
Ear more likely it's the mutineers,"
I answered.
That" he cried. "Why, in a place
like this, where nobody puts in but
gentlemen of fortune, Silver would
fly the Jolly Roger. you don't make no
doubt of that. No; that's your friends.
There's been blows, too, and l reckon
your friends has had the best of it;
and here they are ashore in the old
stockade, as was made years and years
ago by Flint. All, he was the man to
have headpiece, was Flint! Barring
rum, his match was never seen. He
were afraid of none; not he; on'y Silver
Silver was that genteel.'
WELL" said /, that may be SO, and
so be it; all the more reason that 1
should hurry on and join my friends"
Nay, mate" returned Ben, mot you.
You're good boy, or I'm mistook;
but you're on'y boy, all told Now,
Ben Gum is fly. Rum wouldn't bring
me there, where you're going-not
rum wouldn't, till see your born
gentleman, and gets it on his word of
honor. And you won't forget my
words: "A precious sight CHATS what
you'll say, "a precious sight more con-
fidence'-and then nips him.
And he pinched me the third time
with the same air of cleverness.
"And when Ben. Gum is wanted,
you know where to find him, Jim. Just
where you found him to-day. And him
that comes is to have white thing in
his hand; and he's to come alone. Oh!
and you'll say this: Ben Gunn,' says
you, has reasons of his own"
WELL" said 1, 81 believe 1 under
stand. You have something to pro-
pose, and you wish to see the squire OF
the doctor; and you're to be found
where found you. Is that all?"
"And when? says you," he added
"Why, from about noon observation to
about six BELLS"
"Good," says I, "and now may l go?"
"You won't forget?" he inquired
anxiously. Precious sight, and reasons
of his own, says you. Reasons of his
own; that's the mainstay; as between
man and man. Well, then"-still hold
ing me-T reckon you can go, Jim
nd Tim If To Ct1,-a,.
wouldn't go for to sell Ben Gum? Wild
horses wouldn't draw it from yout
No, says you. And if them pirate,
came ashore, Jim, what would you say
but there'd be widders in the morn
ing?"
Here he was interrupted by loud re
port, and cannonball came tearing
through the trees and pitched in thi
sand, not 100 yards from where we two
We're talking. The next moment eacl'
of us had taken to his heels in differ
ent direction.
For good hour to come frequent
reports shook the island, and balls kept
crashing through the woods. movet'
from hiding-place to hiding-place, al
ways PulSucu, VI 81 ~ seeLueu 10 NE, Us
these terrifying missiles. But toward
the end of the bombardment, though
still 1 burst not venture in the direction
of the stockade, where the balls felt
oftenest, had begun, in a manner, to
pluck up my heart again; and after E
long detour to the east, crept dowr
among the shore-side trees.
l,.l
was rustling and tumbling in thu
woods, and ruffling the gray surface o.
the anchorage; the tide, too, was faI
out. and great tracks of sand lay I'M
covered; the air, after the heat of the
day, chilled me through my jacket.
The "Hispaniola" still lay where she
had anchored; but, sure enough, there
was the Jolly Roger-the black faF Of
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