I could hear their feet rattling up our old stairs, so that the house must have shook with it. "Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest," he cried. Surprise, and then a voice shouting from the house:īut the blind man swore at them again for their delay. "In, in, in!" he shouted, and cursed them for their delay.įour or five of them obeyed at once, two remaining on the road with the formidable beggar. His voice sounded louder and higher, as if he were afire with eagerness and But the pause was brief, for the blind man again issued his commands. If they were surprised to find the door open. "Ay, ay, sir!" answered two or three and a rush was made upon the "Admiral Benbow," the lantern-bearer following and then I could see them pause, and hear speeches passed in a lower key, as Three men ran together, hand in hand and I made out, even through the mist, that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar. I was scarcely in position ere my enemies began to arrive, seven or eight of them, running hard, their feet beating out of time along the road, and the man with the My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the The Project Gutenberg eBook of Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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