Arizona republican., 1899-02-20
CHAPTER XIX.

CHAPTER XIX.
 NARRATIVE RESUMED BY JIM HAw-
 KINS - THE GARRISON AT THE
 STOCKADE.
 As soon as Ben Gum saw the colors he came to q halt, stopped me by the arm, and sat down.
 "Ncw," said he, there's your friends, sure enough"
 Far 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 nc doubt of that. No that's your friends. There's been blows, too, and I 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. An, he was the man to have headpiccc, was Flint! Barring rum, his match was never seen. He were afraid of none; not he; on'y Silver Silver wEs that gentcel.'
 We'll said I. that may be so, and so be it; all the more reason that I should hurry on ard join my friends
 Nay, r92te," returned Ben, mot you. You're a good boy, or I'm nistook; but you're on'y a boy, all told. Now, Ben Gum is fly. Rum wouldn't bring me there, where you're going-not rum wouldn't, till I see your born gentleman. and gets it on his word of ho2o". And you went forget my words: "A precious sight Chats what you'll say), a precious sight more con T I,
 Ard he pincheG me the third time with the same air Of cleverness.
 And when Ben Gum is wanted, you knov: where to find hin, Jim. Just where you found hi11 today. And him that comes is to have white thing in his hand; ard he's to co1ac alone. Oh! and you'll say this: Zen Gunn,' says you, has reasons of his Own.'"
 Well" said I, 'I believe I under stand. You have something to pro- pose, and you wish to sec the squire or the doctor; and you're to be found where I 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 go?''
 You won't -forget?" he inquired anziously. Precious sight, and reasons 1 of his owE, says you. Reasons Of his own; that's the mainstay; as between man and man. We'll, then''-still hold ing mc-''I reckon you can go, Jim. And Jim, if you was to see Silver, you wouldn't go for to sell Ben Gum Wild | horses wouldn't draw it from you? No. says you. And if them pirates came ashore, Jim, what would you say but there'd be widders in the morn ing?"
 Here he was interrupted by a loud re- port, and cannonball came tearing | through the trees and pitched in the | sand, not 100 yards from where we two were talking. The next moment each | of us had taken to his heels in differ ent direction.
 For a good hour to come frequent reports shook the island, and balls kept crashing through the woods. I moved from hiding-place to hiding-place, al ways pursued, or so it seemed to me, by these terrifying missiles. But toward the end of the bombardmcnt, though still durst not venture in the direction of the stockade, where the balls fell IltNAASSls 1iSANI uii' III s' tO pluck up my heart again; and after long detour to the east, crept down among the shore-eide trees.
 The sun had just set, the sea breeze was rustling and tumbling in the woods, and rufiling the gray surface of the anchorage; the tide, too, was far put, and great tracks of sand lay un- covered; the air, after the heat of the lay, chilled me through my jacket.
 The 'Hispanicla, still lay where she nad anchored; but, sure enough. there vas the Jolly Roger-the black flag of from her peak. Even as looked there came another red flash md another report, that sent the echoes clattering, and one more round shot whistled through the air. l. was he last of the cannonade.
 1 lay for some time. watching the oustle which succeeded the attack. Men were demolishing something with lxes on the beach near the stoclzade; he poor jolly-boat, I afterward dis covered. Away, near the mouth of the ' river, a great fire was glowing among the trees. and between that point and he ship one of the gigs kept coming and going, the men, whom I had seen 50 gloomy, shouting at the oars like children. But there was a sound in heir voices which suggested rum,