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31. The Treasure-hunt--Flint’s Pointer

IM,” said Silver when we were alone, “if I saved your
life, you saved mine; and I’ll not forget it. I seen the
doctor waving you to run for it--with the tail of my eye,
I did; and I seen you say no, as plain as hearing. Jim, that’s one to
you. This is the first glint of hope I had since the attack failed, and
I owe it you. And now, Jim, we’re to go in for this here treasure-
hunting, with sealed orders too, and I don’t like it; and you and me
must stick close, back to back like, and we’ll save our necks in
spite o’ fate and fortune.”

Just then a man hailed us from the fire that breakfast was
ready, and we were soon seated here and there about the sand
over biscuit and fried junk. They had lit a fire fit to roast an ox,
and it was now grown so hot that they could only approach it from
the windward, and even there not without precaution. In the same
wasteful spirit, they had cooked, I suppose, three times more than
we could eat; and one of them, with an empty laugh, threw what
was left into the fire, which blazed and roared again over this
unusual fuel. I never in my life saw men so careless of the morrow;
hand to mouth is the only word that can describe their way of
doing; and what with wasted food and sleeping sentries, though
they were bold enough for a brush and be done with it, I could see
their entire unfitness for anything like a prolonged campaign.

Even Silver, eating away, with Captain Flint upon his shoulder,
had not a word of blame for their recklessness. And this the more
surprised me, for I thought he had never shown himself so
cunning as he did then.

“J




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