Show F PORTO P BELLO B L GOLD LV by PI arthur arthur D owden howden smith WW service CA copyright by arthur D blowden smith YIV SYNOPSIS the story opens in now new york fork about the middle of 0 the right eight anth century robert ormerod who ho tells tell the tale la is talking to peter corlzer Cor laer laor chief of 0 the trader rs and man of enormous strength tr eneth when darby mcgraw irish bonded boy brings brines news that a pirate ship to is oft off the hook an old sea ea captain an he h has been chased by the notorious pirate captain nip alp nap the older ormerod tells tella robert the pirate is t andrew murray his hi nober ri oberta tm great creat uncle commanding the pirate ship the royal jamar murray is an ardent jacobite next day robert and darby encounter a one logged ballor john stiver silver robert meets a young woman from a spanish frigate who Is moo raking king her fattier father colonel odonnell murray with a force of sailors visits the ormerod house lie ile announces his intention of carrying oft off robert hobert by forts force it necessary promising him a treat great future CHAPTER V 5 aboard the brig I 1 woke with a ray of sun sunshine shinO streaming across tny my face through the thick greenish glass of a deadlight and an odd feeling of contentment there was a soothing sh bh of dt dl elded waters and the brig herself was swaying easily in a following sea corlzer was wa sleeping the sleep of titter exhaustion and I 1 was at pains not to disturb him as I 1 slipped to the floor opened the door and entered the main cabin this was deserted save for the boy darby who was curled up on the seat under tinder the stern windows peering out at the brigs creamy wake ile he heard the door close after me and swiveled round at once landing lightly on lila ills feet as if he had been to sea for years oali master blaster nob bob says he 1 I thought never wake up ali ah its the grand grand day and do ye smell the brine in the air it makes the toes of your two feet dance whether ye will or no troth it does tw owna n impossible to nourish resentment against the boy for ills his betrayal of us I 1 ile he wits was as an naturally lawless jawless and unni unmoral oral as a young wolf nit but I 1 could not resist a jeer at his recent transformation and how does it seem to tie he a pl pi rate darby oh flue elnel I 1 sure I 1 always know knew I 1 intended for a bond boy to run errands and carry bales ah its tile the grand life master blaster bob I 1 they tell me himself lie he jerked lila fits thumb to toward ward tile the door of it a stateroom opposite that in which peter ieter and I 1 were berthed Is own uncle to ye and some day if je ye cli choose loose ye can be as great its as him faith and I 1 know what my choice would bell be Is it your idea that pirates nevor never work I 1 inquired ills face fell a trine trifle och theres work everywhere ye go bad icess cess to it I 1 but im to have my own cutlass and pistols for my belt and they say im good luck good luck hows that sure its my hair I 1 think flint him film that title this crew sail gall with by usual he has a liking for a redheaded lad such as myself brings him luck so they swear and long john 1 long lone john Mister silver to be 11 ure cure him with the one leg we talked to by the shore yesterday he says ill go far with flint I 1 had to laugh at my own bemusement at the picture dalbys remark called up yesterday morning at tills this hour I 1 had been laboring industriously triou sly in the counting room in pearl apar street and how flow inu much had bapp happened ened since atheni I 1 harked hack back to my setting forth for the brig bristol packet tile the casual conversation with the one legged ni mariner ariner how skill skillfully filly he had quipped me and annexed darby to his hig plot 1 tho encounter with the irish mald maid with this I 1 curbed my recollections thought of albotra odonnell wita MUS unpleasant tor for I 1 could not rid my mind of the suspicion that she must le be bound up in some way in the schemes riis her father worked at in operation cooperation co with my great uncle but therel there I 1 i found relief in this reflection certes bertes her fattier father could be no worse than my relative and here was 1 I innocent of any art or part in murrays Mur blur rays devious ploys yet tossed A into the grip of their mechanism as aa ruthlessly as if my life upon his success and perhaps it t did what more natural then than that slie she was equally innocent aye from the conversation betwixt the 1 two conspirators I 1 had overheard tile the night before it appeared that she was ignorant gnoni Bt probably in greater ig norence of lier her fathers father s plans than 1 I else le how explain ODon nells concern upon dw the character of the men with whom she was to be thrown in contact and alfs aroused a further decoi lection what was it the lass lad had mid PA nis ve e parted mr 11 i nur paths alge m A wili wi l rot roi have bald that bad I 1 aft she known all for there had been no necessity for the lie doubt not she jibe was wan in entire ignorance of 0 the black evil these two plott plotted edl I 1 I 1 was glad with a great creat burst of exultation which must have shown itself in nay my face for darby exclaimed there wits waa it a good fairy flicked a wing wine over you master blaster bob I 1 glory hut yc ya had tile the happy thought will y ye e throw in with us and be b a pirate chief chlost troth be no better not 1 I darby but I 1 will have it a bite to eat if such there be aboard a pirate craft of everything in nature rejoined darby briskly sit alt to the able yon and ill fetch it from tho the galley the table was set met and ready not with coarse crockery and steel forks knives and spoons but with dainty china heavy silverware rind fine napery too I 1 commented on this when darby returned balancing smoking dishes and a jug of hot chocolate upon a tray the way himself his bis thumb indicated the starboard stateroom door will live tile the best of everything hell have and on his own ship slaves to serve him and they in ily erles cries like grand gentle gentlemen irien have you seem to have experienced no trouble in becoming intimate with your new companions darby I 1 remarked its me head does doea it returned darby unabashed As AB I 1 told ye it brings good luck I 1 not to me I 1 retorted with a grin and dont ye be too sure bure he flashed well maybe sail flail a long ways together and im your friend master bob for ye were never one to let me be put upon in tho the counting room Ill said I 1 that la Is to be seen where la Is himself as you call bilm asleep in his berth troth he was up until dawn conning the bik br through the harbor shoals are we outside sure were by and beyond what they call sandy hook theres only the wide ocean in front im for the deck then I 1 answered the empty and I 1 met nobody until I 1 had climbed to the deck passing strange that I 1 so readily adapted myself to the sea and its ways seeing that nil all my life I 1 had never been beyond the waters of the inner harbor yet the fact that I 1 ila had no discomfort or mis alving and even acquired instinctively the sailors talc arices s of standing and walking as was commented upon by no na less nn an authority than john silver thy tho deck was deserted fo ferard forn rard rd one roan man was lashed to the main cross trees sweeping the entire of the horizon with a spyglass aft there yore only silver and another fellow at the wheel the one legged man waved to me with ills his crutch from his big seat on the cabin skylight come and talk with long john master ormerod 11 lie he called where did ye find them sea legs 0 yourn you walk like a blasted admiral no le lesa 13 1 I found them below I 1 answered for tho the life of me unable to resist the scoundrels ingratiating ni manner anner where are the rest of your company ile he laughed and winked at the man at it the wheel an awful looking creature so heavy of shoulder as to appear deformed with a green shade over deeply sunken eyes that were nil all pitted around with tiny blue scars Is that fore full john asked the man with the green eye eyeshade shade in a voice that was wag barly toft boft silver squinted aloft shell do he decided Nil would you mind telling me how a blind man can steer I 1 Inqui inquired ted the man with the green eyeshade eye shade chuckled in a way to chill your blood so 80 sardonic so overpoweringly evil was the of tile the mirth it suggested dont go to malan up tip your mind pew cant see everything master ormerod said sliver silver shifting ills crutch rd id hate to have him decide to take a shot at me steer well now needed in ste steer crin ln A strong arm says you and you says true also and likewise an ear car for canvas lastly and leastwise nn an eye tor for the course any ninn man can read a compass young gentle gentleman nian but not every sailorman can feel how tits his ship takes the wind and meeth tits his rudder quick when she wants rue etIn pew can give him blai some one like me to play eyes tor for him and hell steer as straight p course as a packet boat wv wl a bonus ou on the voyage are there many cripples in your crew I 1 naked asked curiously cripples repeated silver it all depends ou on what you ou might mean theres erin ripples ples and cripples some on eni en ye pays their screw their whitt what I 1 interrupted their screw the he what dye call it insurance money so much we get from tile prize money extry for the hurt pew lie he got a thousand pounds which same he be in three nights it ih st pierre dye mind ezra I 1 sot got eight hundred pounds for my leg and fair enough it you asks me and that eight hundred aundre I 1 pounds ill bamble yb na ha stowed away la in a safa af hole john said pew with a gentleness which gave the words a peculiarly pecullar ly al sinister nister significance silver nodded almost complacently what I 1 gets I 1 keeps im none 0 your free spenders spen dern rich today poor tomorrow some day ill be ret retiring irin from pi ratin and then ill rim aim to ride in my own coach and gilt alt in parley merit have to sail your own ship first john bald pew and the remark was fraught with implications that made me turn cold at the pit of my stomach ston it was as if you could see the trail of bloodshed and suffering silver would blaze to possess that ship and to exploit her to advantage and why not returned silver vigorously orous ly well name no names ezra but captains cant live for ever some Is aged and some soaks in rum you never knowl know I 1 you never know 11 theres nill bones as has ideas on the remarked pew and he contrived to make me feel the horror of a long drawn out feud and rivalry yes theres bill ruminated rumina ted silver flints mate Is bill flints best put pal to Is bill flints some says Is bill well belll but we was 0 cripples and how a blind A 0 N you walk like a blasted admiral no less roan man can steer which Is a long way off from bill who neither crippled nor blind and maybe has hopes so he be has when he remembers that pew laughed so coldly with such demoniac inhumanity that I 1 experienced a sudden fellow feeling tor for master blaster bones distasteful as a I 1 had find found him also a pronounced desire to change the subject the bare proximity to such whole heartless cruelty was unpleasant do you commonly indulge in exploits plaits like yest yesterdays yesterday erda y a silver 1 I asked did you take this ship de sign edly to carry you into now new york you might say truthfully she was wa the best fitted tor for it of several he acknowledged blow my other stick off if she was good f fr anything else not forty pounds in her mumbled pew twiddling the wheel spokes her crew silver raised his eyebrows and save gave me a slow wink poor unfortunates unfortunate sl I 1 one time we take chances pews chuckle trickled icily from under n d e r tile the eyeshade eye shade which cast a whole lower face ace green r e e n blur over hla his 1 I suppose there la Is a hell for such ouch as an you I 1 said tryl trying ng to keep my voice steady some says saya there Is and sortie ome says bays there answered silver reasonably no use to worry says saya I 1 I 1 was so no wrought up that I 1 think I 1 roust must have come to blows with them but for a fortunate diversion bones bonea and several other men emerged from the hatch yawning and stretching their arms evidently having just arisen from sleep at the same came moment ment peter corlzer climbed from the cabin companionway lurched for a moment on tits his feet and then sarg staggered precariously toward the but bul barks I 1 started ferard to aid him and bones ran aft with a loud yell dont ye spoil my decks ye fat CONVI cow 1 he shouted poor peter regardless of both of us seized a stay and clung to it abjectly quite helpless bones reached him first and gave him a shove which sent him plunging into the sc uppers head first get up snarled benes and dealt him a vicious kick with a heavy sea boa boot I 1 peter groaned and I 1 caught bones by the arm D n you yon for a coward I 1 I 1 shouted captain murray bade you use us gently la Is this athla how you obey ile he snatched freo free of we me and yanked out a knife obey ye re lousy lub lubber berl I 1 he howled bowled im flints mate and ill show ye who can say obey tol to me get back there or all cut your heart out and eat it afore ye I 1 looked about me for a weapon anxious to give him a lesson but there was not a sign of anything handy rind and I 1 backed away cautiously from the menace of his knife silver shouted to him film to let us be as an did one or two others but his only answer was a string of the curses in which he was so BO proficient and he continued to circle after roe me for myself I 1 was not greatly frightened for as it chanced kalfe fighting was an art in which I 1 was somewhat somo what expert thanks to Ins instruction truMon from my fathers athers indian friends but I 1 was concerned lest the scoundrel make a dart nt at peter and slay the Dutch dutchman dian as he lay inert judge of my amazement then when peter swayed to tits his feet holding on to the bulwarks bulwa to pull himself erect his face was white but he abandoned his support without hesitation and advanced crooked legged across the deck toward us 1 I take him bob he said I 1 jumped between him and bones in time to stop the pirates rush dodging a knife thrust by the width of my coat sleeve bleeve keep away peter I 1 panted 1 I can handle him you cant 11 1 I take him repeated corlzer Cor laer he reached out ills his hand grabb grabbed ed m my y shoulder and spun me from his path as easily as if I 1 had been it a child and I 1 did not attempt to return to hla his side for I 1 had felt the strength th in his bl arm and knew that I 1 had no cause to his ability to take care of himself aganad any man however armed 1107 let him be bill called silver again was wag I 1 wrong in fancying his tone unduly officious provocative 7 im d d it if I 1 do rasped bones if he be wants it hell get it he sprang at peter with knife up rat batted ratted aiming to slash his throat but peter moved with lightning speed to 1 counter him one Im merile firm arm thick tree beugli shot out fill and imprisoned mpr as a the wrist of the knife hand twist and the he knife pinged hinged on the dock deck the other oth er arm captured a above peteer and bones was wa reared head peter gave him a preliminary shake ahnke as aa if to prove pr ove to him how completely he was in hla his power a and nd started to walk back to the lee lea bulwark bula ark bones shrieked like the lost soul he was certain that peter intended to cast him into the sea but halfway half way across the deck peter came to it a loose halyard balyard lie lowered bones carelessly tucked him under one arm and proceeded to reeve it a landsmann lands mans tip slip noose we all watched him with utter fascination an and 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