[00:00.15] Chapter 33.
[00:02.93] The Fall of a Captain.
[00:05.87] Each of the six men stared into the pit, thunderstruck.
[00:11.83] But Silver didn't waste his time on regret.
[00:15.39] He had changed his plans before the others had time to get over the shock.
[00:21.20] He handed me a pistol and muttered, "Jim, take that, and stand by for trouble."
[00:30.03] "So, you've changed sides again."
[00:33.89] I whispered back with a look of disgust.
[00:37.49] The pirates were leaping into the pitch with cries and curses.
[00:42.34] They dug with their bare hands in the dirt.
[00:46.94] George Mary found one gold coin and held it up to Silver.
[00:53.60] "That's your 700,000 pounds, is it?
[00:58.41] Oh, a fine bargain you made.
[01:01.66] Dig away, boys," said Silver with a hollow laugh.
[01:06.97] "Hear that, mates?"
[01:09.32] roared Mary.
[01:11.18] "He knew there was no treasure all along.
[01:14.76] You can see it written on his face."
[01:18.94] "Standing for captain again, Mary?" asked Silver.
[01:24.97] The mutineers scrambled out of the pit.
[01:29.31] There we stood, five on one side and two on the other, and the pit between us.
[01:37.83] Silver never moved.
[01:40.53] He watched them as cool-headed as ever.
[01:45.24] At last, Mary spoke.
[01:49.76] "There's only two of them.
[01:52.62] One's that one-legged cripple, and the other's no more than a boy.
[02:00.56] Now, mates!"
[02:03.21] He was raising his arm, about to charge when, crack, crack, crack!
[02:11.74] Three musket shots came from the bushes.
[02:16.15] Mary tumbled forward into the pit, and the pirate with the bandaged head fell down dead.
[02:24.95] The other three ran for their lives.
[02:30.79] At the same moment, Dr. Livesey, Gray, and Ben Gunn burst out of the trees.
[02:37.78] "Forward!" cried the doctor.
[02:41.50] "Cut them off before they reach the boats."
[02:47.74] We set off running, but the mutineers were not running for the boats.
[02:52.97] They fled into the woods to avoid a fight.
[02:58.52] "Thank you kindly, doctor," said Silver when he caught up.
[03:03.89] "I reckon you came in about the nick of time for me and Jim.
[03:10.07] And so it was you, Ben Gunn.
[03:14.36] You're a nice one to be sure."
[03:21.73] Ben Gunn wriggled and grinned.
[03:25.73] "How do you do, Mr. Silver?"
[03:29.94] "Pretty well, thank you," says you.
[03:38.72] As we walked down to the boats, the doctor told us the whole story.
[03:45.11] Ben Gunn had found Flint's treasure months before we arrived on the island.
[03:50.94] He dug it up and hid it in the cave where he'd made his home.
[03:59.27] When Dr. Livesey heard this, he realized the treasure map was useless.
[04:05.84] The next day, he'd offered Silver the map, along with the stockade and its stores.
[04:14.74] In return, he and his friends were allowed to leave in safety.
[04:20.56] They moved camp to Ben Gunn's cave, where they could guard the treasure.
[04:26.59] That morning, they'd waited in ambush for us to arrive.
[04:31.92] It was Ben Gunn who had played on the pirates' fears of Flint's ghost.
[04:41.29] Our next thought was to find the Hispaniola.
[04:45.90] When we reached the inlet, we found the tide had lifted her off the beach, but luckily she hadn't drifted far.
[04:58.08] Soon we were sailing for Rum Cove and Ben Gunn's cave.
[05:07.05] At the cave, we met the squire waiting for us.
[05:11.56] He greeted me warmly, but was taken aback by Silver's polite salute.
[05:18.99] "John Silver," he said.
[05:23.32] "You are a villain and a liar, but the doctor tells me you saved Jim's life.
[05:31.88] Very well then, I won't hand you over to the law, but the dead men, sir, hang about your neck like millstones."
[05:44.75] "Thank you kindly, sir," replied Silver with another salute.
[05:52.96] Gunn's cave was a large one with a spring of clear water at the back.
[06:00.68] In a far corner, I could see piles of coins and mountains of gold bars.
[06:08.29] At last, I was looking at Flint's treasure that we'd come so far to find.
[06:16.97] It had cost the lives of 17 men who had sailed on the Hispaniola.
[06:25.03] How many more lives?
[06:27.91] What blood and sorrow?
[06:31.94] What sunken ships, lies, and cruelty, I couldn't tell.
[06:39.53] But the only men of Flint's crew left to see it were Silver and poor half-crazed Ben Gunn.
[06:51.81] Captain Smollett was lying by a fire.
[06:55.91] Raising himself on his elbow, he said, "Is that you, John Silver?
[07:02.02] What are you doing here?"
[07:06.84] "Come back to do my duty, sir," answered Silver.
[07:14.37] Later, we all ate a hearty meal.
[07:19.12] Silver sat with us, joining in the laughter and springing up when anything was wanted.
[07:27.66] For all the world, he seemed like the same humble, cheerful cook, who had sailed with us from Bristol.