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Captain Dance and I rode hard until we drew up before Dr. Livesey's door.

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The house was dark, but I jumped down and knocked anyway.

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A maid opened the door.

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"Is Dr. Livesey home?" I asked.

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"No, he's dining at Squire Trelawney's house," she said.

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"So much the better," said the captain.

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"We'll find them both at one location."

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The distance was short, so I ran alongside the horse up the moonlit avenue to the gleaming white buildings and grand old gardens.

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Here, Captain Dance dismounted, and the squire's servant led us into the library.

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Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey sat on either side of a bright fire, smoking their pipes.

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I'd never seen the squire up close before.

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Over six feet tall, with broad shoulders, he had a friendly face, reddened and lined from his long travels.

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The natural movement of his very black eyebrows gave him a look of a quick, but not a bad, temper.

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"Come in," he said, sounding very stately and condescending.

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"Good evening, Dance," the doctor said with a nod.

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"And good evening to you, Jim. What brings you here?"

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Captain Dance told his story, and the two gentlemen leaned forward, forgetting to smoke in their surprise and interest.

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Squire Trelawney rose and started to pace, and the doctor, as if to hear better, took off his powdered wig and sat there,

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looking odd with his close-cropped black hair.

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When they heard how my mother had bravely gone back to the inn, Dr. Livesey slapped his thigh and Trelawney cried,  "Bravo!"

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"And that's the whole story," Captain Dance said at last.

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"Trampling that wicked scoundrel was an act of virtue," the squire said, "like stamping on a cockroach."

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"Do you have what they were after, Jim?" the doctor asked.

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"Here it is, sir." I gave him the bundle of papers.

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The doctor looked excited, as if his fingers were itching to open the bundle right away, but he put it quietly in his coat pocket instead.

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"Thank you again, Captain Dance," the squire said.

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"Jim can sleep here tonight. Dance, you are dismissed."

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The captain bowed and left the room, and I sat down at a side table to eat a pigeon pie a maid had brought me.

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"Have you heard of this Flint?" the doctor asked the squire.

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"Have I heard of him!" the squire cried.

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"Flint was the most bloodthirsty pirate that ever sailed!"

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"Suppose I have here in my coat pocket some clue as to where Flint buried his treasure," said the doctor.

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"How much treasure do you think might be involved?"

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"If we had a clue like that," Trelawney cried, "I'd hire a ship to take us there immediately, and I'd have that treasure in a year."

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The doctor took out the papers and said, "If Jim agrees, let's open this."

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I nodded and got up from the side table as the doctor opened the bundle.

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Inside was a book and a sealed paper.

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"First, let's inspect the book," the doctor said.

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The squire and I peered over the doctor's shoulder, and we saw that the first ten pages were filled with a curious series of entries.

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At one end of each line was a date, and at the other end, a sum of money.

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Between the two were a varying number of crosses.

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"I don't understand it," Dr. Livesey said.

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"It's an account book," Trelawney cried.

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"The crosses stand for ships or towns that they sank or plundered, and the sums are the scoundrel's share.

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God help the poor souls who crossed paths with Flint!"

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"And look!" the doctor said. "The amounts increase as the years pass."

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"As he rose in the ranks of pirates, his share got bigger," explained Trelawney.

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Then the squire noticed something else in the book.

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"Look, Flint even had a table to figure out the different values of foreign coins."

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"No one was going to cheat him!" laughed the doctor.

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"And now," Trelawney said, "for the other item."

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The doctor carefully opened the sealed paper, and a map of an island fell out, with latitude and longitude, and every inlet, hill, and bay marked—

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everything that would be needed to safely anchor a ship upon its shores.

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Nine miles long and five across, the island had two landlocked harbors and a hill marked "The Spyglass."

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Below a red cross, in small, neat handwriting, "Bulk of treasure here" was written, and on the back of the map, these notes:

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Tall tree, Spyglass shoulder bearing N. of N.N.E.

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Skeleton Island E.S.E. and by E.

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Ten feet.

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The bar silver is in the north cache; by the east hill,

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ten fathoms south of black crag with a face on it.

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The arms are in the sand hill, N. point of north inlet cape, bearing E. and a quarter N.

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J.F.

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"It's incomprehensible to me," I said as the squire and Dr. Livesey laughed.

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"I'll start for Bristol tomorrow," Trelawney said.

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"We'll have the best ship and crew in England, and Hawkins will be our cabin boy.

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Livesey will be ship's doctor, I'll be the admiral, and we'll take my men Tom Redruth, Richard Joyce, and John Hunter.

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We'll have no trouble finding the spot, and we'll have plenty of money to enjoy forever after."

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"I'll go," the doctor said, "and Jim will be a credit to the undertaking, but there's only one man I'm afraid of."

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"Who's that?" Trelawney cried. "Name him, sir!"

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"You," the doctor said. "You can't hold your tongue.

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We're not the only men who want that money.

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The pirates who attacked the inn tonight are bold and desperate men, and they're not far off.

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We must not breathe a word of what we've found."

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"I'll be as silent as the grave," Trelawney vowed.