Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-12-28

there. Then you can talk.
"Thanky George, replied tn,
sea-cook. You always was brisk fol
business, and has the rules by heart
George, as I'm pleased TO see. Well
what is it, any way? Ali 'Deposed
that's 1t, is it,? Very pretty wrote
to be sure; like print, I swear. You
hand o write, George? Why, you
was gettin quite a leading man in
this here crew. You'll be cap
next, / shouldn't wonder. Just oblige
me with that torch again, Will you
this pipe don't draw"
Come, now, said George, you
don't fool this crew no more. You're
la funny man, by your account; but
you're over now. and you'll maybe
step down OFF that barrel, and help
vote.
Il thought You said you knowed
the rules, returned Silver, cOntemp-
tuosly. 'Leastways, If you don't, j
do; and / wait here-and I'm still
your cap'n, mind till you outs with
your grievances, and 1 reply; in the
meantime, your black spot amt
worth q biscuit. After that We'll see. "
oh, replied George, you don't
be under no kind of apprehension;
We're all square, we are. First, you
have made a hash of this cruise
you'll be a bold man to say no to
that. Second, you let the enemy out
O this trap for nothing Why did they
want out? / dunno, but it's pretty
plain they wanted it, Third, you
wouldn't let us go at them upon the
march. Oh, we see through you.
John Silver; you want to play booty
that's what's wrong with you. And
then, fourth, there's this here boy. 3"
Is that all ?" asked Silver, quietly.
Enough, too" retOrted George.
Wen all swing and sun-dry for
your bungling."
Wei, now, look here. III an
SWer these four pints; one after
III answer 'em. / made a
hash o. this cruise, did /? Well.
now you all know what / wanted:
and you all know, If that had been
done, that we'd a. been aboard the
Hispaniola this night as ever was,
every man Of us alive and fit, and
fuH Of good plum-dufi, and the treas
ure in the hold of her, by thunder!
Well, who crossed me? Who forced
my hand, as was the lawful capn?
Who tipped me the black spot the
day we landed and began this
dance? All, it's a fine dance-Pm
with you there ~ and looks mighty
like hOrnpipe in a ropes end at
Execution Dock by London town, it
does. But who done IL? Why. i'll
was Anderson and Hands and YOU
George Merry And you're the last
above board of that same meddling
crew; and you have the Davy Jones
nsolence to up and stand for cap'n
over me-you, that sunk the lot of
rs! BY the powers but this tops
he stiffest yarn to nothing"
Silver paused, and I could see by
,he faces of George and his late COM
'ades that these words had not been
IN vain.
That's for number one," cried the
accused, wiping the sweat from his
'row' for he had been talking with a
yehemence that shook the house.
Why, l give you my word, I'm sick
% speak to you. You've neither
.ense nor memory, and I leave It to
ancy where your mothers was to
ct you TO come to sea. Seal Gentle
nen O. fortune! / reckon tailors is |
our trade"
Go on, John, said Morgan. !
Speak up to the Others.
All, the others!" returned John. /
They're nice lot, amt they? You
ay this cruise is bungled. All. by /
'um, if you could understand how
'ad it's bungled you would sect
We're that near the gibbet that my
eck's stiff with thinking on it.
.ou've seen EN-, maybe, hanged in
hains, birds about 'em, seamen
hitting 'em out as they go down
nth the tide. Who's that? says
ne. That Why, that's John Silver.
knowed him we'll says another.
ma you Gan hear the chains a-jangle
S you go about and reach for the
ther buoy Now, that's about where
e are, every mothers son Of us,
hanks to him, and Hands, and An
erson, and other ruination fools Of
gu. And If you want to know about
lumber four, and that boy, why,
liYer my timbers! isn't he a host
ge? Are we going to waste a host
ge? No, not us; he might be our
st chance, and I shouldn't wonder.
i'll that boy? not me, matesl And q
lumber three. Maybe you don't /
)unt it nothing to have a real col
ge doctor come to see you every
ly-you, John, with your head {
roke-or you George Merry, that !
Id the ague shakes upon you not six q
ours agone, and has your eyes the J
'lor Of lemon peel to this same mo- I
ent on the clock? And maybe,
srhaDs, you didn't know there was
coneort coming, either? But there ,
, and not so long till then; and
ell see who'll be glad to have J
ostage when It comes to that And
for number two, and why I made
bargain-well, you came crawling j
your knees to me to make it-on ,
'ur knees you came, you was that
~ and you'd have
arved, too, if I hadn't-but that's
triflel you look there ~ that's u
hyi"
And he cast down upon the floor q
paper that I instantly recognized e.
me other than the chart on yellow d
per, with the three red crosses,
at I had found in the oilcloth at
e bottom of the captains chest. s.
by the doctor had given It to him
rs more than I could fancy. T.
But if IT were inexplicable to me g
n 80 a.. I d