Arizona republican., 1899-02-17
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 ..IslaDds& BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (Continued From Yesterday)
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Continued From Yesterday)

'Iiands off" cried Silver, leaping i back yard, as it seemed to me, with
 tle speed and security of a trained
 gym ast.
 Hands off, if you like, John Silver,' said tEc other. Its black conscience
 that can make you feared Of me. But, in IIeavea's name, tell ne what was that?"
 ''TEat?" returned Silver, smiling
 away, but waric~ than ever, his eye
 mere Pin-point in his big face, but
 gIeanine like crumb of glass.
 That? Oh, l reckon that'H be Alan"
 And at this poor Tom flashed out like
 q hero.
 Alan" he cried. "Then rest his
 soul for q true seaman. And as for you, John Silver, long you've been mate Of nine, but you're mate Of mine no more. If l die ike dos, I'll die in
 my dooty. You've killed Alan, have you? Kill nc, too, if you can. But I dcfcs you"
 And with that, this brave fellow turned lis back directly or the cook, and set CE walking for the Leach. But he was rol destined to go far. With a cry, john seized the branch cf tree, whipped the crutch out of his arI>,pit, and sent that rncouth missile hurling through the air It strucl; pocr Tom, point foremost, ard with stunning violence, right between the shoulders in the middle Of his back. His hands flew up, he gave sort of gasp and fell
 Whether he was injured much or little none could ever tell. Like enough, 10 judge from the sound, his back was broken On the spot, but he had no time given him to recover. Silver. agile as . monkey, even without leg CT crutch, was on the top of him the next moment, and had twice buried his k..ife rp t9 the bilt in that deftnsclcss body. From my place of ambush Iccu!d hear him pant loudly as he struck tEc blows
 I do not know what it rightly is to faint, but 1 do know that for thc-next little while thc whole world s7vam away from before nc in a Nhif!ing mist; Silver and the birds and the tall S5py-Siaas hilltop, going round and round and topsy turvy before my eyes, l ard ali manner of bells ringing and dis i t2nt voices shouting in my ears.
 When 1 came again to myself, the | monster had pulled himself together, l his crutch under his arm, his hat upon his head. Just, before him Tom lay | upon the sward; but the ! minded him rot 2 whit, l cleansing his blood-staiEed knife the 1 while upon q wbisp of grass. Every [ thing else was unchanged, the sun still ! shining nlcrciIessly on the steaming marsh and the tall pinnacle of the noun i tain, and I could scarce persuade my . self that murder had actually been done, and a human life cruelty cut . short a moment since before my eyes.
 But now John put his hand into his pocket, brought out a whistle, and blew upon it several uOdulated blasts, that rang far across the heated air I could not tell, of course, the meaning of the signal, but it instantly awolze my fears. dore men would be coming. I might De discovered. They had already slain .wO Of the honest people; after Tom md Alan, might net ! come next?
 Instantly 1 began to eXtricate myself and crawl back again, with what speed and silence l could manage, to the more open portion of the wood. As l did so, could hear halls coming and going be- tween the old bucCanccr ard his com rades, and this sound of danger lent me wings. As soon as 1 was clear of the thicllet I ran as 1 never ran before, scarce miuding the direction of my flight, so long as 1t led me from the mur- ierers; and as I ran, fear grew and grew upon me, until it turned into kind of frenzy.
 Indeed, could anyone be more entire V lost than I? When the gun fired, how should I dare go down to the boats lmonG those fiCnds, still smoking from heir crime? Would not the first of them who saw me wiring my neck like l snipe's? Would not my absence itself De an evidence to them of my alarm, md therefore of my fatal knowledge? It was ell over. I thought. GOod-by 10 the ILisFaciola; eood-by to the squire, Jhc doctor and the captain. There was nothing left for rle but death by starvation or death by the hands of the nut;necrs.
 All this while, as I say, I was still 'unring, and, without taking any mo- ice, had drawn near to the foot cf the ittie hill with tho two peaks, and had yot into q part cf the island where the wild oaks grew El0"c widely a9a-t. and seemed more like fcrcst trees in their , 3earinrs ard dimensions. Mingled with thceo were a fcsv scattered pines, .one @, s9-.c nearly 1G feet high. The $ ir, tco. rtscl.2d mere freshly than town beside tbc r1arsh
 And here r~es, alarm brought me to
 standstiu wits a dumping heart.
 CHATTER NV.
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