Остров сокровищ / Treasure Island

“Oh, doctor,” we cried, “what shall we do? Where is he wounded?”

“Wounded?” said the doctor. “No more wounded than you or I. He is drunk.”

We laid the captain on his bed.

3. The Black Spot [13 - The Black Spot – Чёрная метка]

“Jim,” said the captain next morning, “did that doctor say how long to lie here in this old bed?”

“A week at least,” said I.

“A week!” he cried. “I can’t do that; they will send me the black spot! Jim, have you seen that seaman today?”

“Black Dog?” I asked.

“Ah! Black Dog,” said he. “He’s a bad guy; but his friends are even worse. They want my old sea-chest. I was Old Flint’s best friend and I’m the only one who knows the place. If I get the black spot, get on a horse, and go to that doctor.”

“But what is the black spot, captain?” I asked.

“That’s a sign. But be careful!”

My poor father died quite suddenly that evening. Our distress, the visits of the neighbours, kept me very busy.

About three o’clock in the afternoon, I was standing at the door, full of sad thoughts about my father, when I saw someone near the road. He was blind.

“Will anybody inform a poor blind man, what part of this country it is?”

“You are at the Admiral Benbow,” said I.

“I hear a voice,” said he, “a young voice. Will you give me your hand, my young friend?”

I gave him my hand. He took it.

“Now, boy,” he said, “take me in to the captain, and cry out �Here’s a friend for you, Bill.

I was so terrified of the blind beggar that I forgot my terror of the captain. When I opened the inn door, I cried out the words he ordered.

The poor captain raised his eyes. He made a movement to rise.

“Now, Bill, sit where you are,” said the beggar. “Give me your left hand.”

The blind man gave something to the captain.

The captain opened his palm.

“Ten o’clock!” he cried. “Six hours.”

He jumped to his feet. But then he made a strange sound and fell down on the floor. The captain was dead.

4.В The Sea-chest

I told my mother all that I knew. “We’ll open that chest,” said she. “I want to have my money.” On the floor close to the captain’s hand there was a little piece of paper.