Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-03-01

the risk; but we are not so ignorant as
you believe us. Next, you say you don't
like the crew. Are they not good sea-
men?'
II don't like them, SIR" returned
Capt. Smollett. "And think should
have had the choosing of my own hands,
if you go to that"
"Perhaps you should" replied the
doctor. my friend should, perhaps,
have taken you along with him; but the
slight, if there be one, was uninten-
tional. And you don't like Mr.. Arrow %
II don't, sir. I believe he's a good
seaman; but he's too free with the crew
to be good officer. A mate should
keep himself to himself-shouldn't
drink with the men before the mast!"
! "Do you mean he drinks?' cried the
squire.
mo. sir" replied the captain; "only
that he is too familiar"
''Well, now, and the short and long of
it, captain?" asked the doctor. Tell us
what you want
"Well, gentlemen, are you determined
to go on this cruise?''
Like iron," answered the squire.
"Very good" said the captain. "Then,
as you've heard me very patiently, say
ing things that I'could not prove, hear
| me few words more. They are put
| ting the powder and the arms in the
| fore hold. Now, you have good place
under the cabin; why not put them
there ?frstpoint. Then you are bring
ing four of your own people with you,
and they tell me some of them are to
be berthed forward. Why not give them
the berths here beside the cabin-sec-
ond point
ANY more?" asked Mr. Trelawney.
Zone MORE" said the captain.
''Therc's been too much blabbing al
ready"
Ear too much,' agreed the doctor.
I'll tell you what I've heard my
sclf,' continued Capt. Snollett: 'That
you have map of an island; that
there's crosses on the map to show
where the treasure is; and that the
island lies" And then he named the
latitude and longitude exactly.
II never told that" cried the squire,
''to SOUL"
1.-THE hands know it, sir" returned
the captain.
''Livesey, that must have been you or
Hawkins" cried the squire.
1T doesn't much matter who it was"
replied the doctor. And I could see
that neither he nor the captain paid
much regard to Mr.. Trelawney's pro-
testations. Neither did I, to be sure, he
was so loose talker; yet in this case
l believe he was really right, and that
nobody had told the situation of the
island.
"Well, gentlemen" continued the CAP
tain, Il don't know who has this map;
but make it point, it shall be kept
secret even from me and Mr.. Arrow.
Otherwise would ask you to let me re-
sign"
II sce," said the doctor. "You wish to
keep this matter dark, and to make a
garrison of the stern part of the ship,
manned with my friends own people,
and provided with all the arms and pow
der on board. In other words, you fear
a mutiny."
"Sir," said Capt. Smollett, with no
intention to take offense, I deny your
right to put words into my mouth. No
captain, sir, would be justified in going
to sea at all if he had ground enough for
that. AS for Mr.. Arrow, I believe him
thoroughly honest; some of the men
are the same; all may be for what T
know. But I am responsible for the
ships safety. and the life of every man
Jack aboard of her. see things going,
as think, not quite right. And 1 ask
you to take certain precautions, or let
me resign my berth. And that's ALL"
capt. Smollett," began the doctor,
with a smile, Ibid ever you hear the
fable of the mountain and the mouse?
You'll excuse me, dare say, but you
remind me of that fable. When YOU
came in here I'll stake my wig you
meant more than this
doctor" said the captain, "you are
smart. When I came in here I meant
to get discharged. I had no thought
that Mr.. Trelawney would hear a
word.''
mo more would" cried the squire.
Had Livesey not been here I should
have seen you to the deuce. AS it is, I
have heard you. will do as you desire;
but I think the worse of you.''
THAT'S as you please, sir" said the
captain. you'll find I do my duty"
And with that he took his leave.
"Trelawney," said the doctor, "con-
trary to all my notions, I believe you
have managed to get two honest men
on board with you-that man and John
Silver"
"Silver, if you like" cried the squire;
"but as for that intolerable humbug, I
declare think his conduct unmanly.
unsailorly, and downright un-English."
"Well," says the doctor, 1--WE shall
see."
When he came on deck, the men had
begun already to take out the arms and
powder, yo-ho-ing at their work, while
the captain and Mr.. Arrow stood by
experimenting. ... =.
The new arrangement was quite to
my liking. The whole schooner had