WE rode hard all the way, till we drew up before Dr Livesey's door. The house was all

dark to the front.

Mr Dance told me to jump down and knock, and Dogger gave me a stirrup to descend by. The

door was opened almost at once by the maid.

`Is…

THERE was no return of the mutineers - not so much as another shot out of the woods.

They had `got their rations for that day,' as the captain put it, and we had the place to

ourselves and a quiet time to overhaul the wounded and get dinner. Squire…

THERE was a great rush of feet across the deck. I could hear people tumbling up from

the cabin and the foc's'le; and, slipping in an instant outside my barrel, I dived behind

the fore-sail, made a double towards the stern, and came out upon the open deck in time…

THE council of the buccaneers had lasted some time, when one of them re-entered the

house, and with a repetition of the same salute, which had in my eyes an ironical air,

begged for a moment's loan of the torch. Silver briefly agreed; and this emissary retired

again, leaving us…

`JIM,' said Silver, when we were alone, `if I saved your life, you saved mine; and I'll

not forget it. I seen the doctor waving you to run for it - with the tail of my eye, I

did; and I seen you say no, as plain as hearing. Jim,…

WE made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided us from the stockade;

and at every step we took the voices of the buccaneers rang nearer. Soon we could hear

their footfalls as they ran, and the cracking of the branches as they breasted across a…

IT was longer than the squire imagined ere we were ready for the sea, and none of our

first plans - not even Dr Livesey's of keeping me beside him - could be carried out as we

intended. The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take…

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