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My curiosity was stronger than my fear, so I crept back toward the inn, hid behind a bush, and watched as my enemies began to arrive.

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Five of them ran along the road, with a man holding a lantern in front.

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Right behind them were three men, hand in hand; the man in the middle was blind.

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"Knock down the door!" the blind man cried.

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"Aye, aye, sir!" two men answered, and then they ran at the door.

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I saw them pause in confusion and surprise when they discovered that the door was open.

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Then the blind man shouted, "Go in! In! In!"

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He cursed at the men for their delay.

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Five of them obeyed at once while two stayed in the road with the blind man.

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There was a cry of surprise, and then someone shouted from the house, "Bill's dead!"

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The blind man swore again. "Search him, and then get the chest!"

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I could hear their feet rattling up our stairs; they made the whole house shake.

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The window of the captain's room was thrown open with a slam and a jingle of broken glass.

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A man leaned out into the moonlight and addressed the blind man on the road below.

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"Pew," he cried, "someone got here first. The chest is open."

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"Did you find them?" roared Pew, the blind man.

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"Some money's there."

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"I don't care about the money, you swab," cursed Pew. "Flint's secret papers, I mean."

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"We don't see anything that looks like that," the man replied.

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"You, below there, are the papers on Bill?" Pew cried to the men on the first floor.

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At that, another fellow came to the door of the inn.

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"Bill's been searched already," he said. "Nothing's left."

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"It's those inn people—it's that boy. I wish I'd put his eyes out!" Pew cried.

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"They can't be far. Scatter, lads. Find them!"

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Heavy feet pounded to and fro, and the men toppled furniture over and kicked in the doors of every room.

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Then the men came out again, one after another, onto the road.

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"They aren't here," one announced.

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The whistle that had frightened my mother and me earlier sounded two times.

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Then, I had thought it was Pew calling his men to assault us,

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but now, I realized it was a warning signal from a lookout hiding somewhere near the village.

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"There's the signal," a man said.

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"That means the law is coming. Let's go!"

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"You dogs, you're so close," cried Pew.

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"Scatter and look for Bill's secret! Oh, if I only had eyes!"

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At Pew's urging, two fellows began to look here and there, but half-heartedly, with an eye to their own danger all the time.

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The rest stood on the road, unsure what to do.

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"You could be as rich as kings, you fools!" Pew shouted.

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"But you're just standing around!

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I'll end up a poor beggar, when I could be riding in a fine coach!

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If you had any guts, you'd catch that boy."

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"Forget it, Pew. We've got the money!" grumbled one man.

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"The boy and his parents might have hid the papers," another said.

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"Take the money, Pew, and don't stand here squawking."

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Pew struck blindly at his men right and left, with his stick hitting a few of them.

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They, in turn, cursed at the sightless villain and tried in vain to catch the stick and take it from him.

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Their quarrel saved my mother and me, for while it was raging, there was another sound—horses galloping.

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The pirates heard it too. They turned and ran, separating in every direction so that in half a minute no one remained but Pew.

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He tapped up and down the road in a frenzy, groping and calling.

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Finally he took a wrong turn and ran a few steps past me, crying, "Alan, Tom, Job," and other names, "don't leave old Pew, mates—not old Pew!"

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The noise of the horses grew louder, and five riders swept down the road at a full gallop. Pew screamed and ran straight into a ditch.

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But he was on his feet again in a second and made another dash, now utterly bewildered, right into the path of the nearest horse.

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The rider tried to stop, but Pew went down with a terrible cry.

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The four hoofs trampled him as he fell on his side and then collapsed face down, moving no more.

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As the riders pulled up, I leaped to my feet, horrified at the accident.

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A lad from the village was trailing behind the horsemen.

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"These men are military officers," he told me.

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"I met them and recruited them to help on my way to Dr. Livesey's."

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Pew was dead, and his crew had fled back to their ship, chased by the horsemen.

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As for my mother, we carried her to the village, and cold water and smelling salts soon had her back to normal.

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When I finally returned to the Admiral Benbow with Captain Dance, one of the officers, I saw that the house was completely wrecked.

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"We are ruined!" I cried, looking at the result of the pirates' furious hunt.

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Captain Dance was sympathetic. "What were they after? Money?"

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"No, sir, not money," I replied.

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"I believe I have what they were looking for in my breast pocket.

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I'd like to show it to Dr. Livesey."

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"Well, I have to ride there and report what happened back to him and the squire," he said cheerily as he mounted his horse.

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"So come along, Hawkins."

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"Thank you, sir," I said as he offered his hand and then pulled me up behind him in the saddle.