Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-02-20

don for physician to take charge OF
ms practice; the squire was hard at
work at Brstols and l.lived on at the
Hall under the charge of old Red
ruth, the samekeeper, almost a pris-
oner, but full OF sea dreams and the
most charming anticipations of strange
islands and adventures. 1 brooded by
the hour together over the map, all the
details of which we'll remembered.
sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's
room. ! approached that island in my
fancy sronl every possible direction;
explored every acre q its surface; 1
climbed a thousand times to that tall
Hill they called The Spy glass and from
the top enjoyed the most wonderful
and changing prospects. Sometimes
the isle Was thick with saNages, with
whom We fought; sometimes full of
dangerous animals that hunted us; but
in all my faneics nothing occurred to
i.le SO strange ;;td l.asis as our actual
adv eatures.
So the weeks passed on. till one fine
day there came Il letter addressed to
Or. livesey, With this addition: ITO
be opened in the case OF his absence
h5' Tom Redruth or young Hawkins.
obegiue this order We found OF rather
[ found for The gamekeepcr was
poor hand at reading anything but
print-the following important news:
Dear Iiyesey: AS do not know
whether you are ct the Hail or still in
London, send this in double to both
places.
The ship is bought and fitted. She
lies at anchor, ready for sea. You
never imagined Il sweeter schooner-a
child might sail her--two hundred
tens; iaina. Hispaniola.
got her thr5:.,g3l my old friend
Blandly, who proved himself through
cut sne most surprising trump The
admirable fellow literally shaved in my
interest. and So ] may say did every
one in Bristol, as soon as they got
wind of the port We sailed fortress
urc | mean.
"Redrutlo," said L. interrupting the
letter. 'I>f. I.ivesey Will not like that.
The Squire has been talking after ALL
We'll. who's got Il better right?"
growlcd the g;tniekeeper. y pretty
rum 50 if squire ain't to talk for DIR.
Livesey, l shousl think
Al that gave up all attempts at
'Elandly himself found the llispa-
niola' and by the most admirable
management got her for the merest
tl'fe. There IS class OF men in Brs-
tol mcrstrousy preiudiced against
l}landly. They so tlle Length of de
vlaing that This honest creature would
do anything for money, that the His
panicl;t belonged to him and that he
Sod it to me a)ssuraly high-the most
ttal sllareli calumni"s. None of them
dare however, to deny the merits of
the ship
$50 far there was not a hitch. The
wolllpeopc TO be sure--riggers and
what not--were most annoyingly slow;
but time cured that. 1T was the crew
that troubled me.
Il wished a round score of men--in
case of natives, buccaneers, or the odi-
Gus F'rench-and i had the worry of a
deuce itself 10 find so much as half
dozen. till the most remarkable stroke
of fortune brought me the very man
that required
by the merest accident, fell in talk
with him. | found he was an old
sailor, kept public house, knew all
the seafal-ing men in Bristol, had lost
his health ashore. and wanted good
berth as cook TO get to sea again. He
had hol,hled down there that morning,
he said, to get q smell of the salt
Il Was monstrously touched-so
would you have been-and, out of pure
pity / engaged him ON the spot to be
ships cock Long John Silver, he is
called and has lost q leg; but that
regarded as 81 recommendation. since
he lost IT in his coumtry'.s service, UNI
der the Immortal Hawke. He has no
pension, Liyesey. Imagine the abomi-
nable age We live in,
q 'Ontipiied next Week)