Arizona republican., 1899-02-13
Treasure
 ..IslaDd.& BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON CContinued From YesterdayD
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Continued From YesterdayD
CHAPTER TX. POWDER AND ARMS.


 The Hispaniola lay some way out and we went under the figureheads and round the sterns of many other ships and their cables sometimes grated be- meath our keel and sometimes swung above US. At last, however, we swung alongside and were met and saluted as we stepped aboard by the mate, MT. Arrow, a brown old sailor, with ear 1 rings in his ears ard q squint. He and the squire were very thick and friendly, but I soon observed that things were not the same between Mir Trelawney and the captain.
 The Inst was q sharp-looking man who seemed angry with everything on board, ard vas soon to tell us v-(~~T, for we had hardly got down into the cabin when sailor followed us.
 Capt S1no,lctt. sir, axing to speak with you" said he.
 T am always atN the captains or dcrs Shcw him in.' said the squire.
 The captain. who was close behind his messenger, entered at once and shut the docr behind him.
 ''Wel, s:r,' said the captain, "better speak plain, l believe at the risk of 
 i like the rcr, and I don't like my officer That's short and sweet"
 Perhaps, sir, you don't like the 1 ship?" inquired the squire, very angry, as 1 could sec.
 T can't speak as to that, sir, not hay ing seen her tried" said the captain. ''She seems a clever craft; more l can't say"
 Possibly, sir, you may not like your employer, either?" says the squire.
 Bu: here Dr. Livesey cut in.
 Stay a bit" said he, "stay bit. No use of such questionsas that butto pro- duce ill feeling. The captain has said too much CT he has said too 1itt1e, and I'm bound to say that I require an ex- placatiCr of his words. You don't, you say like the cruise Now. why?"
 T was engaged. sir. on what ye call sealed orders. to sail this ship for that gentleman where he should bid me-" said the captain. 'SO far so good. But now 1 find that every man before the mast knows more than I do. I don't call that fair, now, do yOu?"
 'No," said Dr. Livesey, q don't"
 Next" said the captain, "I learn we X my own hands, mind you. Now, treas ure is tickIish work; don't like treas ure voyages on any account; and don't like them. above all, when they are secret. and when (begging your par don, MT. Trelawrey) the secret has been tod to the parrot"
 "Silver's parrot?" asked the squire
 'It's way of speaking" said the captain. "B,abbed, I mean. It's my belief that neither of you gentlemen know what you are about; but I'll tell you my way of it-life or death, and a close rrn.''
 That is all clear. and, I dare say. true enough" replied Dr. Livesey. eve take 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?"
 q don't like them, sir," returned Capt. Smollett. ,s And I think should have had the choosing of my own hands, i if you go to that"
 Perhaps you should" replied the doctCr. 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 AIr. Arrow?'
 T don't. sir. l believe he's a good seaman; but he's too free with the crew to be a 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.
 NO. 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.
 every good" said the captain. "Then, as you've heard r12a very patiently, say ing things that could not prove, hear me Q few words more. They are put ting the powder and the arms in the fore hold. Now, you have q good place under the cabin; why not put them there first point. Then you are bring ing four Of your own people with you, and they tell me some of them arc to be berthcd forward Why not give them the bcrths here beside the cabin-sec- ord point"
 Any more?" asked MT. Trelawney. "One more," said the captain, | There's been too much bIabbirg al- ready"
 Far too much agreed the doctor
 ''I'H tell you what I've heard my self" continued Capt. Smollett: That you have rap of an island; that there's crosses c2 the map to show where the treasure is; and that the island lies" And then he named the latitude ard longitude exactly.
 T never told that" cried the squire, ito soul,"
 "The hands know it, sir" returned Lhe captain.
 ''Livesey, that must have been you or Hawkins" cried the squire.
 Ut doesn't much matter who it was"