Daily camera., 1901-08-21

ANNOYANCE when Ii blew. l remember
the appearance of his coat, which he
patched himself upstairs in his room,
and which. before the end, was nothing
but patches. He never wrote or re-
ceived q letter, and he never spoke with
any but the neighbors, and with these.
for the most part. only when drunk on
rum. The great sea-chest none of us
had ever seen open.
He was only once crossed, and that was
toward the end. when my poor father
was far gone in decline that took him
of. DR., Livesey came late one after
noon to see the patient. took n bit of
dinner from my mother. and went into
the parlor to smoke pipe until his
horse should come down from the ham
let, for we had no stabling at the old
Benbow | followed him in, and l re-
member observing the contrast the
neat, bright doctor, with his powder as
white as snow, and his bright, black
eyes and pleasant manners. made with
the coltish country folk, and, above all
with that filthy, heavy, bleared scare
crow of pirate of ours, sitting far gone
in rum, with his arms On the table. Sud.
denly he-the captain, that is-began
to pipe up his eternal song:
Fifteen men on the dead mans chest
Yo-ho-ho. and bottle OF rum,
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo-ho-ho. and a bottle OF rum"'
At hrst ! had supposed "thc dead
mans chest TO be that identical big
box of his upstairs in the front room,
and the thought had been mingled in
my Nightmares with that of the one
legged seafaring man. But by this time
we had all long ceased to pay any par
ticular notice 10 the song; 1t was new,
that night, to nobody hut DIR. Livesey,
and on him l observed that it did not
produce an agreeable effect, for he
looked up for a moment quite angriiy
before he went on with his talk to old
Taylor, the gardener, on new cure for
rheumatics. In the meantime the cap
tain gradually frightened up at his
own music, and at last tapped his hand
upon the table before him in way we
all knew to mean-silence. The VOICE;
stopped at once, all bqs Dr. Livesey's;
he went ON as before, speaking clear
and kind, and drawing briskly at his
pipe between every word or two. The
captain glared at him for awhile
tapped his hand again, glared still
harder, and al last broke out with 6
yillainous, low oath: "Silence, there
between decks!"
Were you addressing me, sir?' say
the doctor; and when the ruffian hat
told him, with another oath, that thi.
was SO, II have only one thing to say t.
you, SIR" replies the doctor, "that i
you keep on drinking rum the worlt
will soon be quit Of a very dirty scoun
drell"
The old fellows fury was awful. IL
sprung to his feet, drew and opened ,
sailors clasp knife, and, balancing i
open on the palm of his hand, threat
ened to pin the doctor to the wall.
The doctor never so much as moved
He spoke to him, as before, over hi
shoulder, and in the same tone Of voice
rather high. ~ that all the room
might hear, but perfectly calm ant
steady:
"If you don't put that knife this in
stant into your pocket, premise, upol
my honor, you shan hang at the mex
assizes."
Then followed battle Of looks be
tween them; but the captain SEQ
knuckled under, put Up bis weapon. AM
resumed his seat, grumbling like o beat
en- dog.
"And now, SIR" continued the doctor
"since know there'a such fellow Il
my district, you may count I'll have a
eye on you day and night. I'm not
doctor, only; I'm a magistrate; and If
! catch q breath of complaint agnins