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The next morning, we started moving the gold to the Hispaniola.
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Abe Gray and Ben Gunn went back and forth with the shore boat, while the rest of us kept piling it up on the beach.
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The gold was very heavy; I couldn't carry any of it, so I kept busy packing the coins into bags.
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"There are so many different coins from so many different countries!" I thought.
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"I think all the kings of Europe must be represented here."
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For two days, the work went on,
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and on the third night, as Dr. Livesey and I were walking on the beach, the wind carried a strange, shrieking noise through the darkness.
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"Heaven help them," the doctor said. "It's the mutineers! They're singing."
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"All drunk, sir," said Long John, who had decided to follow behind us.
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"Drunk or insane," the doctor answered gruffly.
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"Right you are, sir," agreed Long John, "but it hardly matters which."
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"My feelings may surprise you, Mr. Silver," retorted Dr. Livesey, "but if I was certain they needed me, I'd go and help them, no matter what the risk."
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"And you would be wrong, sir," Long John said. "You'd lose your life.
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I'm on your side now, and I don't want to see our side weakened, let alone see you die.
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Those men down there couldn't keep their word, and what's more, they wouldn't believe you would keep yours."
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"Perhaps not," snapped the doctor, "though we all know how you keep your word."
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That was all we heard from the pirates until, one day, a gunshot sounded a long way off.
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"I suppose they are hunting," said Squire Trelawney.
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"Do you think they have enough to eat?"
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"It doesn't matter now," replied Captain Smollett.
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"We must leave them on the island. We cannot risk taking them with us."
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"Good!" exclaimed Ben Gunn.
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"I agree," Gray said with a nod.
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"There's a good supply of gunpowder and shot, a few pounds of salted goat meat, and medicine," noted Dr. Livesey,
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"and other necessities—tools, clothing, a spare sail, and a mile or two of rope.
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We can also leave them some tobacco."
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Not long after, the day came for us to leave the island.
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"We've stowed all the gold on board, and we have enough water and goat meat," Gray reported.
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"It's a fine morning to pull up the anchor," said the squire.
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"And there's the Union Jack!" shouted the captain with a smile as we sailed out of North Inlet, flying the same flag we'd fought under at the stockade.
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The three pirates must have been watching for us,
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because as we sailed out to sea, they knelt together on the southern strip of sand and raised their arms. "Don't abandon us!" they begged.
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"It pains me to leave them, but we cannot risk another mutiny," declared the squire.
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"And to take them home to be hung at Execution Dock would be a cruel sort of kindness," said Captain Smollett.
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"We left food in the cave!" the doctor shouted to the pleading pirates.
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"Dr. Livesey! Squire Trelawney! Captain Smollett!" they cried.
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"For God's sake! Be merciful! Don't leave us here to die!"
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At last, when they saw the Hispaniola wouldn't stop,
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one pirate put his musket to his shoulder and sent a shot whistling over Long John Silver's head and through the mainsail.
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After that, we kept our heads low, and when I looked out again, the island had melted out of sight.
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We headed for the nearest South American port to hire new sailors, and anchored in a beautiful landlocked gulf after sundown.
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The doctor, the squire, and I went ashore and had such fun that we didn't get back to the ship until early morning.
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As soon as we returned, Ben Gunn reported, "Long John is gone.
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I helped him escape in a shore boat to save your lives.
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You were all in danger if that man stayed aboard."
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"I suppose we should thank you," the squire said. "Is that all?"
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"No," he admitted. "He didn't go empty-handed. He took a sack of gold coins."
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We looked at each other.
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"Actually, I'm glad we got rid of him so cheaply," said the doctor.
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We hired some new men and made good time home to Bristol.
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"Mr. Blandly will just be thinking of coming after us," said Squire Trelawney as we landed.
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"Of all those who sailed, only five men returned," observed the captain.
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Dr. Livesey nodded. "'Drink and the devil had done for the rest,' most definitely."
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"Not quite as bad as that other ship they sang about," I said.
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"'But one of her crew was still alive, of the ship that sailed with seventy-five.'"
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All of us got an ample share of the treasure and used it wisely or foolishly, according to our natures.
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Captain Smollett retired from the sea. Gray saved his money, and he's now part owner of a fine ship, married, and the father of a big family.
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Ben Gunn spent or lost all his money within three weeks.
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He ended up in a small village and he still lives there, singing in the church every Sunday and on holidays.
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We heard no more of Long John Silver.
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He probably met up with his wife and perhaps still lives with her in comfort.
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As I said at the beginning of my tale, there is still treasure on that island, so I won't reveal the location.
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All the bars of silver that remain on Treasure Island are where Flint buried them.
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But the devil himself could not drag me back to that cursed place.
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I still have nightmares whenever I hear the booming of the surf on the coast,
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and then I sit upright in bed with the sharp voice of the parrot ringing in my ears: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!"
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