Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-05

49, -
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E B Robert Louis Stevenson.
essassa.sss
tie. What you're after, Why YOU LETT
the block house, why YOU give me
that there chart, don't know now. do
L. And yet | done your bidding with
my eyes shut, and never Word OF
hope. But no. this here's too 'iauei.
[ II you Won't tell me what YOU mean
plain out just say so, and l leave tte
! helm.
NO said the doctor, nuslngly ve
no right to say more; it's not my
secret, you see Silver, or, l give yoa
my word. I'd tell it you. But III go
as far with you as l dare go. aiiil y
step beyond, for I'll have my wig sort
ed by the captain, or I'm mistaken!
] And, first, I'll give you bit of hope;
Silver. if we both get alive out of this
4 Molf-trap. III do the best to save YOU,
short of perjury"
silver's face was radiant You
couldn't say more, I'm sure, sir, not III
you was my mother" he cried.
i Well, that's my first concession,
added the DOCTOR My second is
piece of advice. Keep the boy close
beside YOU, and when You need help.
haloo I'm off TO seek it for You. and
that itself will show YOU If speak at
E random. Good-bS. Jim
And Or. Livesey shook hands With
me through the stockade nodded TO
\ silver. and set off at a brisk pace into
/, the wood.
Jim, said Silver, when we were
alone, ''if ! saved your life, YOU saved
mine: and I'll not forget 1T. I seen the
doctor waving you TO run for 1t--Wlth
the tail of my eye; and i seen you
say no, plain as hearing. Jim, that's
\ one to YOU This is the first CLINT OF
hope | had since the attack failed, anu
owe it to you. And now, jim, We're
to go i'm for this here treasure hunting,
\ with sealed orders. toe, and don
like it: and YOU and me must SUCK
| close. back to back like. and We'll save
our necks in spite o fate and lof-
| tune.
Just then a man hailed us from the
/ fire that breakfast was ready. and we
were soon seated here and there about
/ the sand over biscuit and fried junk.
/ They had lighted q fire MT 10 roast an
1 Gx; and i'll was now grown so NOV thite
they could only approach 1T from inc
/ windward, and even there not wiihoul
prccaution. In the same Waslel.i
,,i,i, ,,,.a,, ND cooked i suppose. three
~ i ~ 80 .,,, ,,,,,,id cat and one
Of tt,en vim an empty laugh threw
| vlat was left In the fire, which l,azed
| and roared again over this unusual
4 fuel never in my life saw men 50
,..,,.al,s..,5 ~ tho morrow: hand to mouth
Is the only word that can describe their
,y.,v ~ doing: and what with wasted
raad ,.5 e,,nni,,ey septries. though they
$3.50 ha,l enough for n brush and be
a.,nS. Nth a. i could see their entire
,,,,titnass for ANYTHING like Il prolonged
,,,,,,n,i,rr
sue, 4,,, .1x.av with
h-Nsn 9 ,,,,.,. ,,S,, bis sho,,lder
1 "p'ath niift ~, If h,,nts
ssu NOV a,,ll,ss,oss And
loi eheii ,,,s,, NO for r
,lls we mo- 49,. e,,o,.,, himself
4 lhoush, ne il"1i ~ 9,,1 ,l,n,
I so cunning aS ~ 49,.
Ay, mates, sald ne, ~ - iuohS soh
have Barbecue to 'hlhK lor you WI
i this here mead, sot Wli'.e = "'.''' ~, y,
did. sure enough lhey ''N -
ship. Who're lheS HaNe ~, -,
j know yet; but once we nv .i'e 80, 40
ure, We'll nave 10 jump ap,,u' 60 , ~ ,,,a
out Md then, mares W. wa. i'as ~
boats, ! reckon, mas me upper ii'nu
Thus he kept running ON. Win ms
mouth fun of hot bacon; thus he re-
i stored their hope and confidence, and,
more than suspect, repaired his own
/ at the same time.
CAS- for hostage he continued,
that's his last talk / guess, with them
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