Treasure Island Page #9

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But we need money

and there are rooms.

Maybe jobs in the kitchen,

you can do that.

Come.

Where's the...

The thing?

Johnny.

Johnny.

Where's the...

The thing?

God.

What?

The bloody thing has disappeared.

What thing?

The thing.

With the mast and the sails

and the occasional flag.

The ship.

The ship,

the bloody ship has disappeared.

Where is it?

Look, Long John.

This is Flint.

This is not Captain Flint's doing.

That was Flint in the Mist,

Long John.

And it was him we saw last night.

And now he's made our ship vanish.

The ship is Israel Hand's.

Israel's only fit for gallery,

George.

He can't sail.

Where is it then?

I don't know.

This place is cursed, Long John.

We're dropping like flies.

And if Flint knows we're gonna

cheat him out of his treasure,

he's gonna come to us in the night

and stab us as we sleep.

What was that for?

Flint is dead!

His ghost isn't.

Flag of truce.

Where's our ship?

I don't know where the ship is.

Come on, George.

Flag of truce.

George Merry.

This is a flag of truce.

The law states there will be

no killing now.

There's no law here.

Ain't you noticed?

George.

What I've got to say,

I say to the captain.

Gentleman to gentlemen.

What I saw yesterday, Doctor,

you're turning into a fighting man.

Isn't that how it went, George?

Will you come doctoring to my boys?

Fevered up and Tom Morgan

needs better nursing than me.

I'll do that.

Let's parley.

Wake up, Mr Hands.

Coming up on deck?

You're gonna tell me

how to beach this ship.

Where have you come from?

Ship's drifted round

the other side of the island,

we need to bring her in.

Can we do it?

I'll bet you.

Israel could do it.

Just somebody to sail.

So, come on.

You want to take the wheel, Jim?

So, you're for the seafaring life,

are you?

Neither was I.

I got pressed about your age.

Them Navy types, they're crooks.

You know it pays?

I heard that.

You did, did you?

You think you could cope

with killing, Jim?

You've got to be man enough

not to care after it's all done.

I could cope.

You've got to be strong.

In a religious way.

Or have not thought for God at all.

I could cope.

I reckon we'll be about

an hour or so, Captain Jim.

Look lively there, lad.

Are we on course, boy?

Two points starboard.

Two points starboard it is.

Bring her in slowly.

I ain't got no control of that, lad.

This is good.

Bring her in straight.

We're doing it.

Don't struggle, boy. Don't struggle.

Let it come.

There you go.

Here's your test, boy.

Got your powder wet, did you?

You're gonna die now, boy.

You're gonna go up

to your own place up there

just like that man in the Bible.

I'm gonna kill you, boy!

Please.

Come here!

I'm gonna cut you.

Dr Livesey?

Captain Smollett?

James Hawkins.

Boy as smart as paint.

- We're not having it.

- We're gonna slit his throat.

Don't you poke up with the orders.

You left us with nothing!

We ain't got not shoot.

You tell him, George.

Got you the only fresh water

on the island.

We came here for money

that was owed.

And your captaincy

ain't got us a single coin.

The boy is currency.

Why can't you see that?

The boy is awake.

Jim.

Where's the Captain?

Where's the Doctor,

have you killed them?

What if we have?

We haven't.

Seen as the ship's gone,

that doctor traded

half our stores for this stream.

Now they've gone where they've gone.

But their parting words were

that they were sick of you, Jim.

Sick of you

and your turncoat wanderings.

So, now it seems

you're back in my camp.

Or none at all.

I won't join you, Silver.

Not now, nor any day, never.

Slit him.

No.

I am your captain

and I am sick of this killing.

You're still clinging

to captaincy, John.

I'm calling a crew's conference.

Outside, boys.

Don't go out there, Tom. Tom!

I've lost them, Jim.

Since the ship's gone,

there has been a swell of anarchy.

And your half a blank

away from death, boy.

I ain't afraid to die now, John.

Well, bully for you.

But you die here and that mother of

yours is all alone in the world.

Are you thinking of that?

Jimmy, we've got to

help each other a bit.

You and me is all we got now.

George Merry's gonna come for me.

It's in the air.

But I've got insurance.

In my pocket.

If you've got an ace in your collar,

now's the time to reveal it, boy.

Cos God help me,

I don't want to see you die.

God bless me for that.

Give me something so I can help you.

I have the ship.

It's beached up in the north.

It's safe.

The ship?

Hands and Anderson are dead.

I done some of that killing myself.

Well, we won't mention

you killed their mates.

But the ship is good.

Good insurance.

Come outside, John Silver.

And bring the boy.

I said you was smart.

Step up then.

What you got?

It's the Black Spot, Jimmy.

We took a vote.

It's on account of your bungling,

Silver.

And your best friend, patience.

It says "deposed" on the back.

We listened to you.

Now we've got no treasure, no map.

And we got no boys.

Cos you let them ride to the guns.

You were never man enough

to be our captain, John.

So is it not man enough to say me

and the boy have got the ship safe?

Where?

The boy knows.

And he ain't told me.

For payment he'll lead us there.

And that's

the way it's going to stay.

You're lying.

Is it not man enough to say

when that fierce doctor came

and negotiated this morning,

I got, through a captain's guile,

possession of Flint's map?

The doctor gave you the map?

Prove it.

Don't touch.

That's it.

That's Flint's hand.

George, that's Flint's hand.

Why did you keep this from us?

What was the point without a ship?

But now I can surprise

my loyal boys and say,

"Let's go and make ourselves rich!"

Let's go now.

Shall we just throw this away, lads?

Yeah.

Tom?

Tom.

Get up, lad.

Got to think about what

this treasure is gonna bring us.

Fine wines.

John, please. Tell me more, John.

Turkish delight.

Houses as big as fields.

Carriages.

For you and all your ladies, Tom.

It's...

all white in here.

John.

John.

Tom.

It says a pointer.

It'll be up, John. Up.

What did you see?

John.

What is it?

Recognise that cap, boys?

That's Allardyce.

That's our captain's pointer.

What was that?

How far is it, Silver?

It's definitely Flint, that is.

It's alright.

What's that you say?

It's Captain Flint.

Is that you, Captain?

That's not Flint's voice.

What was it then?

That's his song.

I know that voice,

that's a Yankee voice.

That's Ben Gunn.

Ben Gunn, that you out there?

That's Ben Gunn.

How can you be scared about him?

He was a runt when he sailed with us

and he's a runt now.

I know your Yankee voice, Ben Gunn!

Right, and the Devil...

Did you kill him?

Didn't I?

I did, yes.

Only 100 yards now, lads.

Then 12 paces from the tree.

Come on, let's go there.

Alright, hold on for your captain.

There's the tree.

That tree, that tree!

Wait.

Wait for your captain.

No.

This ain't good, Jim.

Stand by for trouble, boy.

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