Arizona republican., 1899-02-14
CHAPTER NJ.
WHAT HEARD IN THE APPLE
 BARREL


 "No, not r. said Silver. Flint was cap'n; l was quartermaster, along of my timber leg. The same broadside I lost my leg old Pew lost his headlights. It was master surgeon, him that ann pytated ne-out of college and all Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun- dried like the rest. at CorSo castle That was Roberts men, that was, and comed of changing names to their ships Royal Fortune and so on. Now, what a ship was christened, 60 let her stay, says l. So it was with the Cas- sandra,' as brought us all safe home from Malabac, after England took the 'Niceroy of the Indies;' so it was with the old Walrus, Flint's old ship, as I've seen amucl< with the red blood and fit to sink with gold.''
 ''Ah!" cried another voice, that of the youngest hand on board, and evidently full of admiration, he was the flower of the flock, was Flint"
 Davis was q man, too, by all ac- counts,' said Silver q never sailed along of him; first with England, then with Flint, that's my story; and now here on my own account, in q manner of speaking. l laid by 900 safe, from Eng land, and 2,OO0 after Flint That aint bad for man before the mast-all safe in bank. Faint earning now; it's say ing does it, you may lay to that. Where's all Englard's men now? 1 dunno. Where's Flint's? Why, most on ,em's aboard here, and glad to get the. duff-been begging before that, L | sight, and might have thought shame, spends $ 1,2OO a year, like a lord in parliament. Where is he now? We'll. he's dead now, and under hatches; but for two years before that, shiver my timbers! that man was starving. He begged and he stole, and he cut throats, and starved at that, by the powcrs." r Well, it ain't much use, after all," said the young seaman.
 "'Tain't much use for fools, you may lay to it-thdt, nor nothing" cried Sil- yer. But now, you look here; you're young, you are, but you're as smart as paint. Isee thatwhen I set my eyes on you, and I'll talk to you like man."
 You can imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue ad- dressing another in the very same words of fattery he had used to myself. 1 think, if I had been able, I would have killed him through the barrel. Meantime he ran on, little supposing he he was overheard.
 Here it is about gentlemen of for tune. They lives rough. and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds in stead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets. Now, the most goes for rum and a good fling, and to sea again in their shirts. But that's not the course I lay. l puts it away, some here. some there. and none too much 2nywheres, by reason Of suspicion. I'm 50, mark you; once back from this cruise, 1 set up gentleman in earnest. Time enough, too, say you. All! but I've lived easy in the peantime; never denied myself O nothing heart desires, and slept soft and eat dainty all my days, but when at sea. And how did I begin? Before the mast like You."
 ''VVeH." said the other ''but all the ! other moneys cone now, ain't it? You ] da~c1't show face in Bristol after this"
 Why. where might you suppose it i yvas?" asked Silver, dcrisively.
 Al Bristol in banks ard places" answered his companion.
 Ut were" said the cook; "it were ! when y*e weighed anchor. But my old . ,2issis has it all by now And the Spy glass is sold, lease and rocd-will and rigging; a@d the old girls of to meet me. l would tell ycu where, for l trust you; but it nd make jealousy amorg the mates"
 And you can trust your r1issis ?'' as-,cd the other.
 "CentleEen of fortune" returned the ccol:, usually trusts little among themselves, and right they are, you may lay to it. But I have q way with ne, have. When Q mate brings . slip or his cable-onc as knows me, I mean it won't be in thc same world with old John. There was some that was feared of Pew. and so1-c that was