Arizona republican., 1899-02-07

THE OLD sEA-DOG AT THE ADMIRAL
 BENBOW.
 Squire 1relawncy, Dr. Livesey and
 the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole par
 ticulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping noth-
 ing back but thc bearings Of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, 1 take up my | pen in the year of grace IT., and go
 back to tine time vixen my father kept the Admiral benboW Inn, and the brown old seaman, with the saber cut,
 first took up lis lodgings under our roof.
 1 remember him as if it was yester
 day, as he cune plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in hand-barrow; tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pig tail falling over the shoulders Of his soiled biae coat; his hands ragged and scared, with black, broken nuIls, and the sahcr cut across one check Il dirty, liyil white. 1 remember l.iln locking round the cove and whistllng to him. self as he did so, and then breaking out il that old sea song that he sung so often afterWard: -
 Fifteen men cn the dead mans chest
 Yo-ho-ho, and q bottle of run!'
 in the high, old tottcring voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the cGPstan bars. Then he rupncd on il he door with 2 bit of of stick like a haEdspike that he carried. and when my father appeared called roughlyfor . glass of rum. This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisscur. lingering on the taste, and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.
 This is handy cove" says he@Eat length; and q pleasant sittyafed grcg-sEop, Much company, mat2?"
 Ny father told him no, very little company, the more was the pity.
 Well, thcn," said lie, this is the berth for me. Here you, matey," he cried to the man who trundled the bar TOW; bring up alongside and help up my chest. I'll stay here a bit" he con- cinucd. I'm q plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what l want, and that head up there for to watch ships off What you thought call me? You thought call TIC captain. Oh, I see what you're at-there;" and he threw down three or four gold pieces on the threshold. You can tell me when I've worked through that" says he, locking as fierce as commander.
 ind, indeed, bad as his clothes were. and coarsoly cs hc spoke, he had none Of tbc appearances of a man who sailed before the mast; but seemed like q mate CT skipper. accustomed to be  came with the barrow told us tho mail had set him down the morning before at the Royal George; that he had in ] quired what inns there were along the coast. and hearing ours well spoken of, suppose, ard described as lonely, had chosen it from the others fer his place of residence. And that was all we could learn of our guest.
 He was very silent man by custom All day lie hung round the cove, or up- on the cliffs, with q brass telescope; all evening he sat in corner Of the par Tor next the fire, and drank rum and water very strong. Mostly he would not speak when spoken to; only look up suddenly and fierce, and blow through his nose like q fCg-horn; and we ard the people who came about our house soon learned to let him be. 1 Every day wien he came back from his stroll, he would ask if any seafaring i men had gone by along the road? At ] first we thought it was the want of l company of his kind that made him i ask this question; but at last we began ! to see he was desirous to avoid i them. When a seaman put up at the i Admiral Bcnbow Gas now and | then some did. making by the coast [ road for BristoI), he would look at him i through the curtained Gcoc before he i entered the parlor; and he was always I sure to be as silent as q mouse when . any such was present. For me, at least, there was no secret about the matter; for I was, in way, a sharer ia his alarms.
 He had taken me aside one day, and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if 1 would only keep my ."'weather-eye open for a sea- faring man with one leg" and let him know the moment he appeared. Often enough, when the first of the month came round, and I applied to him for 1:2v wage, he would only blow through his nose at me, and stare Ire down, but before the week was cut he was sure to think better of it, bring me my four penny piece, and repeat his orders to lock out for 'the seafaring man with one leg .| 3a
 How that parsonage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you. On stormy nights, when the wind shook the four corners Of the house, and the surf roared along the cove and up the cliffs. I would see him in thousand forms. and with a thousand diaboiical expressions. Now the leg would be cut off at the knee, TOW at the hip; now he was monstrous kind of a creature who had never had but the one leg, md tkat in the middle Of his bcdy. To zoe l,i1-, lnn-, o,,G 1-,,., a..d 1.1lrsl1n