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5. The Last of the Blind Man

MY curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear, for I
could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank
again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of
broom, I might command the road before our door. I was scarcely
in position ere my enemies began to arrive, seven or eight of them,
running hard, their feet beating out of time along the road and the
man with the lantern some paces in front. Three men ran
together, hand in hand; and I made out, even through the mist,
that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar. The next
moment his voice showed me that I was right.

“Down with the door!” he cried.
“Aye, aye, sir!” answered two or three; and a rush was made
upon the Admiral Benbow, the lantern-bearer following; and then
I could see them pause, and hear speeches passed in a lower key,
as if they were surprised to find the door open. But the pause was
brief, for the blind man again issued his commands. His voice
sounded louder and higher, as if he were afire with eagerness and
rage.

“In, in, in!” he shouted, and cursed them for their delay.
Four or five of them obeyed at once, two remaining on the road
with the formidable beggar. There was a pause, then a cry of
surprise, and then a voice shouting from the house, “Bill’s dead.”

But the blind man swore at them again for their delay.
“Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you
aloft and get the chest,” he cried.

I could hear their feet rattling up our old stairs, so that the

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