Treasure Island Page #2

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- They're gonna come back.

I will watch you.

They'll come back and kill us

if we find us thieving the chest.

- Not thieving.

- We need help.

- They'll be cut throats.

- Come on.

Doctor! Doctor!

Flint's crew are coming to

the Admiral Benbow?

We need that money

or we'll be done for.

Yes, yes.

- Let me just...

- Come on.

No. I'll saddle them right

for their revenues.

I hear they've been patrolling

in Kitt's Cove.

No, we need you to come now!

Let me ride for the men.

The revenue's men, Jim will help.

Jim, Jim.

Use this if you have to.

I'm going to get the revenue's men.

- Is that you I hear?

- It is, Pew.

Good.

Come on, lads, step on it.

- I should be hearing more feet.

- He's coming.

He'll have a key on him.

- Where is it?

- His shirt.

Look.

There.

Bones, we've come early

for you, Bill.

It's all the boys you sent drifting.

- Mum!

- This is not our English coin, Jim.

Move it, Pew!

Where is he?

Something on the floor.

He's dead, Pew.

- Check the chest then.

- Take anything!

Get up them stairs!

Who is it?

Somebody's rifled through it.

It's that boy has stolen it.

That boy and that woman.

He's legged it!

Then search for them!

And you find them and kill them.

- Jim.

- They'll be near.

Find her!

- Take the money and run.

- No, please. Come on.

That's it, reports are coming.

I've got you now!

I have the boy here!

Are you the boy?!

Over there, hunt him down!

Are you safe?

- Is your mother safe?

- Jim.

We're fine.

Your mother's going to

sleep upstairs.

You can sleep here.

You still miss her, Doctor?

Two years, Jim, now.

And the baby.

What's that?

I think it's what

Flint's crew were after.

"12th June 1745, off Caracas."

7,000.

You see here,

this is latitude and longitude.

- It's like an account book.

- That's exactly it.

It's Flint's tally

of the ships he's taken.

The money here, 3,000 here, 10,000.

Let me see.

These markings.

Doctor, I heard Bones

tell that Black Dog

Flint had hidden his treasure

and made a map.

- This is Flint's map?

- It has to be.

This is Flint here?

Oh, Jim. Oh, no, Jim.

This is fortune.

I must collect myself.

If this book is what is buried here,

there must be more money

than men like us,

men like your father

would see in an eternity.

My mother would want for nothing.

No.

We would all be free.

All of us,

free of these lives we lead.

Free to be as... gentlemen.

- Will we go?

- We must go.

Have you sailed?

No, but I have maps of the seas,

I have knowledge

of how the world works.

And the world works best

when there is a plan.

I will plan a venture, Jim Hawkins,

and we will both profit wildly.

Trust me, boy.

- This is genuine?

- Yes.

My proposition, Squire Trelawney,

is that I'll hire a sea captain,

Jim and I,

crew a schooner out of Bristol,

equip it for the purpose

of excavation.

And set out on an expedition

for this island

which I believe to be here,

just here.

In the West Indies.

For which a request

capital of 1,000.

The return on which

I guarantee... at 500%.

Not a punt, sir, guarantee.

I'm equipped to lead the expedition

for I served as medical officer

with the Duke of Cumberland

at Fontenoy.

How much are you expecting to find

on Captain Flint's island?

We don't want to say, sir.

Young Mr Hawkins, whose father was

always in arrears on the Benbow.

He borrowed money from me also,

isn't that not so?

That is so.

300,000.

I know of a sea captain

called Smollett, sir,

who's of the highest reputation.

Having served under Admiral Hawke

before he came a merchantman.

Get him to Bristol

as soon as you can.

I'll be taking rooms at the George.

Good news,

I will be financing the venture.

And I will be commanding it myself,

I hope that's agreeable?

It's most agreeable.

Hunter and Joyce are coming

to Bristol, aren't you, lads?

Yes, sir.

And will help crew the ship I go to

purchase because haste is of the essence.

Absolutely.

You will govern as the

medical man on the ship.

Yes.

And we will need a ship's boy.

You still want the adventure

of a lifetime, young man?

- Yes, Squire.

- Then the berth is yours.

Be in Bristol

by the end of next week.

When your father was away,

he would say,

"Look at the moon, Meg."

"Look at it every night

and know that wherever I am in the

world, I'll be looking at it too."

Must go, Jim.

Dr Livesey thinks

we'll be three months.

Fresh fish!

This way.

Stay close, Jim.

Come on, sir.

- Whatever takes your fancy.

- Fresh banana.

Doctor?

Doctor?

Doctor?

Doctor?

You're alright, lad.

Quite a tumble, that, eh?

Come on.

Sorry.

- You looking for your berth?

- I am.

What's she called?

The Hispaniola.

The Hispaniola, eh?

How about I give you a hand

trying to find her?

Thank you, sir.

Hispaniola.

Squire Trelawney.

There you are, Jim.

Come on board, Hawkins.

- Is this our ship?

- She is.

My Hispaniola, bought and fitted.

The Squire was saying

you could sail her tomorrow

were the service of a crew as simple

to secure as the ship itself.

Captain Smollett comes from Plymouth

with the haste of the snail.

- He thinks we're a dozen short.

- I say she's a lovely ship.

Well chosen.

Thank you.

She's got arse on her

that would sit well on any sea.

I always say a man who can choose a

good horse could choose a good ship

just by looking at its arse.

And you, sir, look like a man who

knows his way around a horse's ass.

Yes, I do.

- Might I ask how long is the passing?

- Three months.

- To whom am I speaking?

- John Silver, sir.

John Silver to you all.

Young man.

Mr Silver.

May I enquire if you have nailed

the service of a cook,

a sea cook being what I am.

I heard talk round about

you're scouting for a crew.

No, but Mr Silver...

You don't need to go pointing out

at the lack of a peg, sir.

You cooks with your fingers

and your thumbs.

Not with your toes.

Don't you, boy?

I serve dishes down at the Spyglass.

You won't get any niggle there

about the food.

- Have you sailed, Mr Silver?

- Since I was a lad.

Boat shipman.

- Your first passing, son?

- It is.

You're lucky to be part of

such a ship.

If you're serious, come on board

and let the first mate show you

the galley and we can talk terms.

You shouldn't talk terms with a cook

without first tasting his food.

Like marrying a girl before

seeing how her mother's turned out.

When you're ready,

why don't you can down the Spyglass.

Find the food tasty,

then we should talk terms.

- Until then, good day to you.

- Good day, Mr Silver.

- Jim.

- Sir.

Another bottle of this, thank you.

Now, you honour,

been thinking about your situation

- and if I may be so bold...

- This is excellent, Silver.

If I might be so bold as

to act as recruiting sergeant,

I feel I could crew

your ship by the weekend.

Allright, then do it.

With who?

A ship came in from the Indies

not six days ago.

I know the men.

Used to have the berth.

I also know in a couple of days'

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