Chapter 4

The Sea Chest

 The boy wasted no time in telling his mom all that he knew. The boy and his mom were scared that the men would come back and kill them too. They decided that running to the neighbouring hamlet. So they ran into the gathering evening. The hamlet was only a hundred yards away, on the other side of the next cove. When they got there there were people in side the hamlet. They told the people in there of their troubles some of them were scared. Some of them knew the captain as Captain Flint, a lot of the people flinched when they heard the name. Some of the men worked with the captain on a couple of ships. After the boy and his mother told of their problems they asked if some of the men would come and help defend the Admiral Benbow, but they said that they would not help them because they did not want to get in it. But they said that they would have two horses waiting for them if they needed to run away from their pursuers. And they also gave the boy a loaded pistol. They sent a boy to the doctor’s in search of armed assistance. Then the boy and his mother crept in the shadows back to the Admiral Benbow. When they got in the boy closed and locked the door. Then they went into the room where the captain lay just as they had left them. Then the boy closed all of the blinds. When the boy closed the blinds he knelt beside the captain and opened the hand where the thing the blind man gave to him. In there was a little round piece of paper, it was blackened on one side. It was no doubt the black spot. On the other side of the paper it said” You have until ten tonight.” Then the boy’s mother told the boy to look for the key to the chest in his pockets. So the boy started searching and found some coins, a thimble, some thread and some big needles, a piece of tobacco that had been bitten away at the end, his gully with the crooked handle, and a pocket compass. Then the boy’s mother said to look around his neck. The boy tore his shirt open and there it was on a thin piece of string. The boy then went to the captain’s room and found the captain’s chest with the letter B burned on the top. The boy’s mother took the key and opened the box. When she opened the chest and the smell of tobacco rose from the interior. On top was a suit of very good close, carefully brushed and folded. Under the close was a quadrant, a tin cannikin, several stick of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch, a pair of compassed mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells and a bag of gold. The boy’s mother took only what the captain owed the inn. When they were half finished with counting the gold the boy suddenly heard the blind pew’s stick upon the road. The sound drew nearer and nearer. Then it struck hard on the inn door, and then they could the bolt rattling as the wretched being tried to enter. Then the noise stopped. Then they started to run down stairs. They started to run not a moment to soon because the fog was thinning rapidly. They started to run towards the hamlet when the heard several footsteps running towards the inn. Then the boy’s mother told the boy to take money and run because she was about to faint. She suddenly did and the boy caught her and he very slowly drug her under a bridge.

                                                         Chapter 5

The Last of the Blind Man

The boy was more curious than scared so he peeked his head over the wall and saw the men running towards the inn. There were several of them running hard. And behind them there three men were running hand in hand. The men were carrying the blind man. When they got to the inn door the blind man which name was Pew told the men to break down the door. So they did, and when they got in the inn they found the captain laying dead on the floor. So Pew told some of the men to check the captain and the rest to go and get the treasure chest. All the men found on the captain was some of his money and they took that. When then men sent to retrieve the treasure chest came down they told Pew that someone had already been through it. Then Pew told them that it was the boy and his mother that had been through it. Then Pew told the men to spread out and find them. So the men started to break everything in the inn to try to find boy which name was Jim and his mother. Then all of a sudden they heard a pistol shot and they rushed outside to find the buccaneers had turned up. Every body started to run. When they did they forgot about the blind man. Then blind man started to walk towards the approaching buccaneers. When he heard them coming he ran towards the ditch. He fell and got up and tan right into on of the horses, fell down and the horse came down on him and killed him.  The boy jumped out from under the bridge and hailed the riders. The riders helped Jim’s mother into the hamlet. Jim went back to the Admiral Benbow and he was shocked because everything in the house was broken. Jim told a man called Supervisor Dance that the only thing that they stole was the captain’s money and some of theirs. Supervisor Dance said that they were only there for money but Jim told him that they were looking for the thing that was in his breast pocket. He said that he would like to give it to Dr. Livesey. Jim and Supervisor Dance walked back to the hamlet to where the horses were. Then Dance asked Jim if he would ride with him for an errand. Jim and his mom said okay, and they were off.

                                                        Chapter 6

The Captain’s Papers

Dr. Livesey was at the squire’s house. Jim was introduced to the squire. The squire was told of the events that have been happening. Mr. Dance was congratulated on his work. The doctor asked the squire if Jim could stay over his house. The squire said yes. All three of them opened the pouch that Jim had. There was a book and a piece of paper in it. The book had writings and directions to different in it. And it told of the towns and the ships captain Flint had stole from. The piece of paper was a map to an island. They made plans to go to the island in a couple of days, but they had to get a ship and supplies witch they did not have at the moment. Then they made a promise to never tell anybody about the paper and the book.