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Treasure Island

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Chapter 1The Captain Takes Up Lodging at the Benbow

  1. The grey stone Admiral Benbow stands alone between the coast road and the cold sea
  2. A nut-brown seaman plods to the Admiral Benbow, his sea-chest behind him in a barrow
  3. On the Admiral Benbow's threshold, the captain stares down over gold on the doorstep
  4. Billy Bones stands on the cliff edge, sweeping the sea with a brass telescope
  5. The captain offers the boy a silver coin to watch for the seafaring man with one leg
  6. Jim Hawkins runs across a field as the one-legged monster of his dream leaps the hedge
  7. The landlord backs out of the parlour as the captain's fist pins the bill to the table
  8. The captain's sea-chest stands locked on the bare floorboards of the upstairs room
  9. Lit by the fire's coals, Billy Bones leans over the table and shouts at Doctor Livesey
  10. The drunken seaman springs up, knocking over his stool, and fumbles in his coat pocket
  11. The drunken captain springs up with an open knife; Doctor Livesey answers calmly
  12. Doctor Livesey, pipe held aside, steadily names the gallows over his shoulder

Chapter 2Black Dog's visit and the captain's stroke

  1. A January dawn: hoar-frost grips Black Hill Cove and the little grey Admiral Benbow
  2. Jim freezes as a pale man with a maimed left hand appears on the threshold
  3. Black Dog holds Jim back behind the open door, his cutlass hilt cleared, both listening
  4. Billy Bones spins round, face drained, scar white — the look of a man who sees a ghost
  5. Extreme close-up of Billy Bones's eyes, ringed with fear, a tear on the lower lid
  6. Billy Bones reels against the table as Black Dog stands by the open door
  7. As Black Dog runs, the captain swings a last cut that meets the signboard, not his back
  8. Billy Bones lies senseless; Jim freezes with spilling rum as his mother comes running
  9. The captain's bared forearm shows an old blue tattoo: Billy Bones his fancy
  10. The doctor presses the captain down as he cries for Black Dog; Jim holds the basin

Chapter 3The Black Spot and the Captain's Death

  1. The lonely Admiral Benbow lies in January sea fog, a single warm window glowing
  2. Told to lie a week, Billy Bones stares in fear past Jim at the ceiling
  3. Billy Bones rises from his bed, leaning his whole weight on Jim Hawkins's shoulder
  4. The dying lodger points at Jim, declaring himself old Flint's first mate
  5. A hunched blind man in a tattered hooded cloak stops before the Admiral Benbow
  6. The blind beggar's fist grips Jim's hand, leaving four white finger-marks
  7. The blind beggar leads Jim into the parlour as the sick captain raises his head
  8. The captain looks to the door, his face turned grey and sober in the glow of the coals
  9. The blind beggar lets the black spot fall into the captain's closing palm
  10. Billy Bones staggers, hand at his throat, eyes rolled up, just before he falls

Chapter 4Opening the dead captain's chest

  1. Mrs. Hawkins confronts the men in the hamlet street, little Jim drawn up at her shoulder
  2. Jim and Mrs. Hawkins walk the frozen road back to the Admiral Benbow under a red moon
  3. Kneeling by the dead captain, Jim holds the black spot to the candle and reads it
  4. Jim draws the string from the dead captain's neck and raises the captain's own knife
  5. Jim's fingers lift a small iron key on a bit of tarry string above the dead captain's bared chest.
  6. Mrs. Hawkins throws back the chest lid as candlelight strikes her face and Jim's
  7. By candlelight, Jim feels the gold in a canvas bag beside an oilcloth bundle
  8. Pew leans on the bolted door of the Admiral Benbow, a candle in the window above
  9. Jim lifts the oilskin packet from the dead captain's chest as his mother stares
  10. A thin ribbon of fog still hides Jim and his mother as they run toward the hamlet
  11. Jim and his mother look back as dark figures with a lantern run towards them
  12. Jim hides under the bridge arch while his mother lies senseless on the moonlit bank

Chapter 5Pew's raid and death under the hooves

  1. A buccaneer bursts open the captain's window and bellows down at the blind beggar
  2. At the broken window a ruffian shows empty palms; another kneels by the gutted chest
  3. Pew brings his stick crashing down on the frozen road as his men move away
  4. Furious, blind Pew strikes right and left with his stick in the moonlit road
  5. Four or five riders gallop over the crest and down the moonlit slope
  6. Blind Pew dashes from the ditch under a galloping horse as the rider wrenches the reins
  7. Blind Pew lies face down in the frozen rut as the riders rein in up the slope
  8. Supervisor Dance reins in over the blind man's body and leans down to the boy
  9. Supervisor Dance hails the departing lugger as a shot flashes from her side
  10. In the wrecked Admiral Benbow, Jim presses his hand to the packet in his breast pocket
  11. Jim clutches Dogger's belt behind the saddle as the horse trots away from the hamlet

Chapter 6The Packet Opened: Flint's Map

  1. Three riders hurry along the coast road toward Doctor Livesey's dark house at night
  2. Jim runs at Dogger's stirrup up the moonlit avenue toward the hall's glowing open door
  3. Mr. Dance and Jim stop at the library door where the squire and doctor sit by the fire
  4. Squire Trelawney cries Bravo! and swings his long clay pipe over the iron grate
  5. Doctor Livesey slips the stitched oilskin packet into his coat pocket as Jim watches
  6. Doctor Livesey snips the last stitch; out come a battered notebook and a sealed paper
  7. The doctor flattens Flint's island map as the squire leans in and Jim stretches across
  8. The chart of Treasure Island: brown ink, the Spy-glass label and three scarlet crosses
  9. Candle flames tremble in the boy's wide grey eyes, already burning with sea and treasure
  10. Over the map, the doctor points at the squire, who stops dead; Jim looks up at the finger

Chapter 7Farewell to Home and Arrival in Bristol

  1. The squire's white hall stands in the sodden winter park, one warm window lit in the wing
  2. The boy dreams of the island from above: vast, sweltering, empty, ringed with white surf
  3. The Hispaniola rides at anchor in Bristol, two boats of workpeople alongside, deck empty
  4. By the fire, Jim reads the squire's letter aloud, naming the one-legged seaman untroubled
  5. Jim leaps up laughing at the letter; Tom Redruth sinks onto a chest, crumpling his hat
  6. In the Admiral Benbow parlour, a clumsy apprentice stacks pewter pots, eyeing Jim warily
  7. Close-up: a single tear breaks from Jim Hawkins' lashes in the Admiral Benbow parlour
  8. Jim looks back at the empty bend where the Admiral Benbow stood as Tom Redruth strides on
  9. Morning on the Bristol quay: a forest of masts; Jim and Redruth walk tiny along the water
  10. In sea-officer's blue, the squire rolls out of the inn; Jim and Redruth stop short
  11. Squire Trelawney flings his arm toward the masts, shouting to Jim, frozen at his feet

Chapter 8Meeting Long John Silver at the Spy-glass

  1. Bristol port on the last morning ashore: quays, masts, crowds, and a boy with a note
  2. John Silver swings on his crutch between tables and claps a favoured guest's shoulder
  3. Silver takes Trelawney's note from Jim and goes still; his smile stays, his eyes don't
  4. The landlord's broad pale hand closes over the boy's beside the squire's unfolded note
  5. Black Dog flings himself out the Spy-glass side door; no one in the room looks up
  6. Long John Silver whispers to Jim about Tom Morgan, his grey eyes sliding past the boy
  7. Holding his breath, Jim Hawkins watches the landlord pace the Spy-glass, suspicion awake
  8. Long John Silver falls on a bench laughing till he cries, and Jim Hawkins laughs with him
  9. On the quay, the one-legged cook names the ships' rigs and flags as the boy looks up
  10. In a smoky tavern, the one-legged cook tells his story to the squire, the doctor and Jim
  11. The squire grabs his cocked hat and calls Jim to see the schooner; the doctor rises too

Chapter 9The Captain's Warning and the Stern Garrison

  1. Bristol roads from above: a small schooner lies alone at her moorings as a boat nears
  2. In the Hispaniola's cabin, the tall captain shuts the door and looks across at the squire
  3. Captain Smollett calmly lays out his three objections to the squire in the after cabin
  4. Under the low lamp, Captain Smollett reproaches the squire: the secret has been blabbed
  5. Captain Smollett leans on a chair-back and names the map, the crosses and the bearings
  6. Doctor Livesey rises in the locked cabin, palm on the table, and names the fear of mutiny
  7. Close-up: Captain Smollett rejects the word mutiny and takes responsibility for every man
  8. Singing seamen pass powder kegs and muskets aft as Captain Smollett and Mr. Arrow watch
  9. Long John Silver bounds over the Hispaniola's bulwark, already eyeing the powder kegs
  10. Jim hurries from the brass gun as Captain Smollett's words to the doctor carry to him
  11. Sent to the galley, Jim Hawkins looks back at the deck in silent, burning resentment

Chapter 10The voyage and the apple barrel

  1. Before dawn, the schooner lies alone off Bristol, lanterns lit, as two boats approach
  2. Lit by lanterns, Long John Silver throws back his head and strikes up the old song
  3. At the third Ho! the crew heave the capstan; Jim joins in as Silver beats time
  4. In the heeling companion house, the mate's bunk lies empty; a boy freezes on the ladder
  5. The one-legged cook hands himself across the flooded waist as seamen look on, admiring
  6. By the galley range, Long John Silver gravely touches his forelock in salute to the boy
  7. The open apple barrel stands lashed in the Hispaniola's waist as cheerful seamen dip in
  8. Jim Hawkins climbs into the apple barrel in the empty waist as the sunset burns out
  9. In the barrel, wide-eyed Jim hears Silver and knows the honest men's lives depend on him

Chapter 11Overheard plot from the apple-barrel

  1. Jim, huddled in the apple barrel, hears the same flattery now spoken to another
  2. The cook's huge hand grips the young seaman's, shaking the barrel where the witness hides
  3. At Long John's whistle, Israel Hands sits beside Dick by the barrel where the boy hides
  4. Silver points toward the bows and calmly appoints death; Dick and Israel Hands sit still
  5. Silver leans from the barrel, finger raised, and votes death for the honest men
  6. Silver claims Trelawney, closing his fingers on an imaginary throat, his face mild
  7. Long John Silver breaks off his threat with a grin and sends Dick Johnson for an apple
  8. Close-up: the boy's wide grey eyes in a chink of light, a tear caught in one corner
  9. Huddled in the apple barrel, Jim Hawkins lifts his face into a cold shaft of moonlight
  10. Moonlight pours into the apple barrel as the lookout's cry falls from above: Land ho!

Chapter 12Landfall and the secret council in the cabin

  1. Under full sail by moonlight, the Hispaniola sights Treasure Island and its three hills
  2. Land by night off the Hispaniola: two low black cones and a higher one in fog
  3. Long John Silver takes the captain's chart, eyes burning with greed behind his half-smile
  4. Silver lays a broad hand on Jim's sleeve; Jim grips the rail, staring at the black island
  5. Jim whispers his terrible news to Doctor Livesey at the Hispaniola's rail
  6. Long John calls a second cheer for the captain; only a pale boy stays silent
  7. Jim tells the squire, the captain and Doctor Livesey all of Silver's overheard talk
  8. The squire, the doctor and the captain bow over raised glasses to the ship's boy
  9. Squire Trelawney shouts in the low cabin while Doctor Livesey watches him
  10. The three men draw together at the table's far end; the boy sits alone at the other

Chapter 13Jim slips ashore as mutiny ripens

  1. The becalmed Hispaniola lies off Treasure Island, open from end to end
  2. Jim, at the backstay, sees Treasure Island's low grey shore for the first time
  3. Long John cons the Hispaniola through the narrow passage while Jim watches him
  4. From above, the Hispaniola lies alone in still water ringed by woods and summits
  5. Dr. Livesey, at the rail in the stagnant anchorage, gives his verdict on the island
  6. Jim stares at Long John singing and guesses at fear behind his cheerfulness
  7. The captain, palms on the table, names to the squire the one man to rely on
  8. Jim huddles under the bow thwart, looking back at the Hispaniola's black planking
  9. Jim swings from the boat's bow on a low branch toward the shore

Chapter 14Silver Murders Tom in the Marsh

  1. From the live-oaks the island opens out: marsh, plain, two-peaked hill and Spy-glass
  2. Jim Hawkins leaves the marsh and sees a distant hill with two craggy peaks
  3. Jim Hawkins crawls under a live-oak and freezes on the sand, listening
  4. Hidden in the leaves, Jim looks down at Long John Silver pleading with Tom
  5. Tom, crimson with heat and fear, swears to Long John he will keep to his duty
  6. Alan's death yell crosses the marsh and marsh-birds burst up, darkening the sky
  7. Close-up of Long John Silver's narrowed eye and smile as he names the dead man
  8. Tom hurls his defiance at Long John Silver, who rests on his crutch in silence
  9. Tom walks off toward the beach as Long John draws back his crutch to throw
  10. The one-legged sea-cook stabs the fallen sailor again as a boy watches from above
  11. Long John Silver blows a boatswain's whistle, eyes sliding toward Jim's hiding place
  12. Jim Hawkins stops dead mid-run at the foot of the two-peaked hill, hand on his heart

Chapter 15Jim meets the marooned Ben Gunn

  1. Jim freezes among the pines as a shaggy figure circles to cut off his way to the boats
  2. The shaggy islander kneels before Jim, who keeps his hand on his pistol pocket
  3. Close-up of the islander's face behind his tangled beard as he says his name
  4. Close-up of Ben Gunn whispering his three-year secret, eyes slanted to the wood
  5. Close-up of the islander's face turned to stone with terror at Flint's men
  6. Ben Gunn slyly presses Jim Hawkins for a last term; Jim answers with open palms
  7. Ben Gunn breaks off his story, hand raised before his face, staring up at the crags
  8. Jim and Ben Gunn turn toward the anchorage at a cannon-shot as birds burst up
  9. Jim runs for the anchorage while Ben Gunn trots beside him, pointing the way
  10. The Union Jack blazes above the treetops as powder-smoke drifts from the wood

Chapter 16The Doctor's Party Abandons the Hispaniola

  1. The Hispaniola lies motionless in Captain Kidd's Anchorage, sails furled, no wind
  2. Hunter stands in the cabin doorway with news that Jim has gone ashore
  3. Doctor Livesey first sees the stockade: a log-house and paling in the noon heat
  4. Doctor Livesey stands frozen by the spring as a death cry rings over the island
  5. At a dying man's cry, Doctor Livesey freezes by the spring, thinking of the boy
  6. Doctor Livesey points to the stockade on the chart; Captain Smollett's hand joins
  7. Captain Smollett raises his pistol and drives back a head at the fore hatch
  8. Jettisoned muskets and cutlasses lie on the sand below as a powder keg sinks
  9. An open watch lies on Captain Smollett's palm, its second hand creeping
  10. Abraham Gray, knife cut on his cheekbone, runs from the fore hatch to the captain
  11. Captain Smollett climbs into the overloaded boat as the squire pushes off

Chapter 17The Sinking of the Overloaded Jolly-boat

  1. The Hispaniola rides at anchor as the overloaded jolly-boat creeps toward shore
  2. The overloaded jolly-boat heads due east across the ebb, her wake trailing west
  3. From the jolly-boat they watch five rogues uncover the Hispaniola's long nine-pounder
  4. Squire Trelawney aims his musket as his companions lean out to balance the boat
  5. A wounded pirate crawls across the deck as Israel Hands and his mates tend the gun
  6. The overloaded jolly-boat sinks stern-first as Doctor Livesey holds up his musket
  7. The sunk jolly-boat leaves Doctor Livesey and Captain Smollett waist-deep in water
  8. Five soaked men wade ashore as the sunken boat settles behind them

Chapter 18Redruth's Death and the Colours over the Stockade

  1. The five survivors of the sunken jolly-boat run through the wood for the stockade
  2. A pistol cracks from the bush and old Tom Redruth pitches forward onto the sand
  3. The squire kneels beside his dying gamekeeper, kisses his hand and cries
  4. Old Tom Redruth dies quietly on the sanded floor of the log-house.
  5. Captain Smollett climbs onto the log-house roof with the folded British colours
  6. Captain Smollett points at Redruth's body under the flag: one less mouth to feed
  7. Captain Smollett turns on the squire and refuses to haul down the colours
  8. Gray and Hunter watch from the trees as mutineers wade their last stores to a gig
  9. The captain's quill stops in the log-book after the words James Hawkins, cabin-boy
  10. At dusk Dr. Livesey sees Jim Hawkins, thought dead, climbing over the stockade

Chapter 19Jim joins the garrison in the stockade

  1. A tiny Union Jack flies over a wood on Treasure Island; the schooner lies at anchor
  2. A cannonball tears through the trees and throws up a fountain of sand a hundred yards away.
  3. At dusk Jim lies among the shore trees and sees the black flag on the HISPANIOLA
  4. Jim steps into the smoky log-house at dusk as the doctor hurries to him, hands out
  5. Old Tom Redruth, still unburied, lies stiff along the log-house wall under the Union Jack.
  6. The doctor opens his snuff-box to show the Parmesan he has kept for Ben Gunn
  7. Four tired defenders stand bare-headed around old Tom Redruth's fresh sand grave
  8. Night in the smoky log-house.
  9. Woken by a cry of Silver himself, Jim presses his eye to a blazing loophole

Chapter 20Silver's Failed Parley

  1. At icy dawn a mutineer waves a truce flag beside Long John Silver outside the stockade
  2. One-legged Long John Silver, in his best blue coat, heaves himself over the stockade
  3. Silver, in his immense blue coat and laced hat, gives the captain a grand salute
  4. Jim's eyes in an extreme close-up.
  5. Captain Smollett and Long John Silver smoke in silence on either side of the kettle
  6. Silver has just made his "handsome" offer.
  7. On the log-house porch, Captain Smollett gives Long John Silver his ultimatum
  8. Captain Smollett has just refused Long John Silver's terms and ordered him out.
  9. Long John Silver crawls to the porch post and hauls himself onto his crutch
  10. His parley refused, Long John Silver drops his cheerful mask.

Chapter 21The first assault on the block house

  1. Captain Smollett's anger breaks out for the first time.
  2. Quiet Joyce, the valet, whips up his musket and fires the first shot through a loophole
  3. Through a loophole, a pack of yelling pirates charges from the woods at the stockade
  4. Job Anderson, the boatswain, shoves his head into the middle loophole of the block house
  5. Pirates reach the loopholes as powder smoke and pistol flashes fill the log-house
  6. Jim runs round the corner of the block house and comes face to face with the roaring boatswain.
  7. Jim scrambles up out of the sand after his fall.
  8. Gray stands by the log-house in the noon sun over the giant boatswain he has cut down
  9. As the powder smoke clears in the log-house, the doctor and Jim see what the fight cost.
  10. The valet Joyce lies dead beneath his west loophole as dust drifts in shafts of sun
  11. Wounded and pale, Captain Smollett stares into the thinning powder smoke and counts the odds.

Chapter 22Jim's escape and Ben Gunn's coracle

  1. Armed and alone, the doctor swings over the north paling at noon and heads for the woods
  2. Alone by the woodpile, Jim crams the last fistful of ship's biscuit into his pocket
  3. Jim Hawkins sits astride the sunlit paling, one leg already over, leaning toward the dark woods.
  4. Jim steps out of the pines into a cool sea breeze.
  5. Jim lies hidden in the bushes on the ridge of the spit and watches the anchorage.
  6. Ben Gunn's tiny, lopsided coracle of crooked sticks and hide lies under a goat-skin tent
  7. Jim's grey eyes reflect the distant Hispaniola as he plans to cut her adrift
  8. Jim stands alone in black fog with Ben Gunn's coracle on his shoulder.

Chapter 23The Hawser Cut, Adrift on the Ebb

  1. Jim kneels in Ben Gunn's coracle and paddles, but it keeps spinning on the black ebb
  2. The taut hawser suddenly sags in Jim's grip, and his hand dips under the black water
  3. Beside the schooner's slack hawser, Jim Hawkins pulls his gully open with his teeth
  4. From his coracle under the schooner's bow, Jim saws through the last strands of hawser
  5. The hawser parts, and Jim's coracle is swept against the HISPANIOLA's bows as she swings
  6. Just clear of the spinning hull, the boy's wet hands grab a cord trailing from the stern
  7. Through the stern window, Jim sees Israel Hands and the red-cap fighting by the lamp
  8. Through the stern window, Jim glimpses Israel Hands and the man in the red cap
  9. The loose Hispaniola and Jim's coracle are swept together out through the narrows

Chapter 24Adrift in the Coracle, Onto the Hispaniola

  1. Jim wakes in his coracle, a tiny dot on the grey swell below Haulbowline Head's cliffs
  2. Jim peers from his coracle at two or three score sea lions barking on the rocks
  3. Jim sits up to paddle, and the coracle drives its nose into the next wave in spray
  4. Parched and salt-caked, Jim stares from his coracle at the Hispaniola under white sail
  5. Thirsty and adrift, Jim Hawkins grips his paddle and eyes the unsteered Hispaniola
  6. The breeze dies and the drifting Hispaniola turns her stern to Jim.
  7. The unsteered Hispaniola swings round and bears down on Jim, towering over his coracle
  8. Jim is on the crest of a swell in his small coracle.
  9. Jim leaps from the sinking coracle at the Hispaniola's jib-boom as her bow stoops on him
  10. Seen from the jib-boom, the schooner's stem drives the swamped coracle under the foam

Chapter 25The Boy Takes the Ship and Bargains with Hands

  1. Jim has just reached the bowsprit as the flying jib bangs over with a report like a gun
  2. As the main-boom swings inboard, Jim Hawkins sees the two watchmen on the after-deck
  3. Jim Hawkins mockingly greets the bleeding coxswain, with the dead red-cap between them
  4. Jim, soaked through, stops short at the foot of the companion stairs.
  5. Seated by the rudder head, Jim Hawkins tells Israel Hands he has come to take the ship
  6. Jim has struck the pirates' black flag and thrown it overboard.
  7. Jim Hawkins steers the Hispaniola before a fair wind along the coast of Treasure Island
  8. In the blazing noon sun, the wounded coxswain Israel Hands wears a haggard, crooked smile.

Chapter 26Duel with Israel Hands aboard the Hispaniola

  1. Israel Hands smiles at Jim while his eyes slide away toward the dead O'Brien on the deck.
  2. Alone at the scuppers, Israel Hands pulls a bloody dirk from a coil of rope and tests it
  3. Propped against the bulwark with a broken bottle, Israel Hands says dead men don't bite
  4. The schooner glides down North Inlet toward a dead three-master with a flowering deck
  5. Jim turns from the tiller to see Israel Hands half-way across the deck, dirk raised
  6. Jim leaps clear and the loose tiller swings over to hit Israel Hands full in the chest
  7. On the mizzen cross-trees, Jim aims two pistols at Israel Hands, dirk in his teeth
  8. In the tarred shrouds, the coxswain cocks his blood-darkened dirk back over his shoulder
  9. A thrown dirk nails Jim Hawkins by the shoulder to the mizzen mast.
  10. The coxswain lets go of the mizzen shrouds and falls head first toward North Inlet

Chapter 27The Schooner Won, the Stockade Lost

  1. Jim Hawkins is pinned to the mizzen cross-trees by Israel Hands's dirk.
  2. Pinned to the mizzen mast by the dirk, Jim reaches a trembling hand toward the hilt
  3. Two dead pirates lie together on bright sand under the clear green water
  4. At dusk Jim Hawkins looks back from North Inlet's sand at the heeled-over HISPANIOLA
  5. Jim stumbles through the dark low ground of the island.
  6. Jim reaches the stockade and finds it silent.
  7. In the pitch-dark log-house, Silver's parrot Captain Flint shrieks from the woodpile
  8. Jim's eyes go wide in the dark as he realises the cry was Silver's parrot, Captain Flint
  9. Jim steps into the dark log-house and finds it full of mutineers.
  10. Running blind in the dark log-house, Jim bounces off one pirate into another's arms
  11. Jim is held in the dark log-house, and a pirate lad steps through the doorway with a burning brand.

Chapter 28Captive Jim and Silver's secret bargain

  1. Jim is dragged in through the doorway of the block house.
  2. Jim stands against the log wall, eyes lowered, as Silver repeats the doctor's words
  3. In red torchlight, Jim Hawkins tells the buccaneers he has beaten them from the first
  4. Long John Silver's torchlit face stays unreadable as he tells Jim he'll bear it in mind
  5. Old Tom Morgan draws his knife and lunges at Jim Hawkins, whose back is to the wall
  6. On the brandy cask, Long John Silver roars his challenge at the crew, his pipe raised
  7. The mutineers leave the torchlit log-house one by one to hold their forecastle council.
  8. Alone with Jim once the crew has gone out, Long John Silver drops his swagger.
  9. Alone in the torchlit log-house, Jim Hawkins stands against the wall and gives his word.
  10. In the torchlit blockhouse, Jim's wide grey eye answers Silver's question about the chart

Chapter 29The deposition that returned Silver to power

  1. From a log-house loophole, Jim watches the mutineers gather round a torch on the slope
  2. The mutineers crowd the doorway of the log-house in the torchlight and shove young Dick forward.
  3. By red torchlight, Long John Silver turns the black spot over with dry contempt
  4. In the torchlit log-house, the lanky mutineer with yellow eyes steps out alone from the crew.
  5. Long John Silver leans off his brandy cask and jabs a rigid finger at George Merry
  6. Long John Silver flings Flint's yellow chart onto the log-house floor before the crew
  7. Flint's yellow chart with three red crosses lies on the floor by Long John Silver's shoe
  8. Long John Silver springs up and roars his warning down at kneeling George Merry
  9. In torchlit Flint's log-house, the mutineers roar for Long John Silver as their captain
  10. Jim's ash-blackened fingers hold the scrap of Bible page that became the black spot
  11. Awake in the dark blockhouse, Jim stares at a thin bar of moonlight through a loophole

Chapter 30The Doctor's Visit and Jim's Word

  1. At grey daybreak, Jim looks out through a narrow loophole in the log-house.
  2. Dr. Livesey hears Silver say "The very same Jim as ever was" and stops dead on the misty hilltop.
  3. At dawn in the log-house, the boy gives his word of honour not to escape
  4. Long John Silver drops his geniality and bares his teeth at his own crew
  5. At the paling, back turned on his crew, Long John Silver's cheerful face falls apart
  6. At the stockade paling on a cold, misty morning, Jim's courage breaks.
  7. Tearful Jim looks straight at the doctor through the gap in the stockade paling
  8. Dr. Livesey is astonished as Jim says the Hispaniola lies safe in North Inlet
  9. Through the stockade, Dr. Livesey raises his hand and gives Silver his solemn word
  10. Through a gap in the stakes, the doctor grips Jim's bandaged hand one last time

Chapter 31Flint's Pointer: A Skeleton on the Way to Treasure

  1. Long John Silver bends over half-dressed Jim Hawkins and quietly offers him a pact
  2. Jim Hawkins sits alone at the edge of the pirates' breakfast.
  3. The two gigs cross the sunlit anchorage toward the pine-covered plateau.
  4. Tied on Silver's rope, Jim grips the cook's forearm so Silver doesn't slide back
  5. The treasure party stops at a big pine where a skeleton lies, arms pointing out to sea
  6. Allardyce's skeleton lies dead straight, arms raised past his skull like a diver's
  7. Long John Silver's compass lines up with Allardyce's arms, pointing to Skeleton Island
  8. Beneath Flint's pine, Long John Silver compares the six living buccaneers to Flint's six dead men.
  9. A pirate names Flint's death-song, "Fifteen Men", beside the skeleton.
  10. The treasure-seekers walk in a silent knot across the plateau, frightened of dead Flint

Chapter 32The Ghost's Voice and the Empty Cache

  1. Silver's resting party is a tiny huddle above the empty anchorage and the eastern sea
  2. A thin, high voice sings from the treetops and the buccaneers go grey in the noon sun
  3. The ghostly hail of "Darby M'Graw" has just died among the Spy-glass clefts.
  4. Long John Silver throws back his head and roars Ben Gunn's name toward the trees.
  5. Flint's tall tree, a red-columned pine nearly two hundred feet high, is found at last
  6. Close to the treasure, Long John Silver stops pretending.
  7. A weathered board at the bottom of the old pit bears WALRUS, the name of Flint's ship

Chapter 33The empty pit, the ambush and Ben Gunn's cave

  1. Seven people stand frozen at the rim of the rifled treasure pit under the noon sun.
  2. Three musket shots flash from the nutmeg thicket as George Merry raises his arm to charge
  3. Dr. Livesey, Abraham Gray and Ben Gunn step from the thicket toward Jim and Silver
  4. Three surviving mutineers, tiny specks, run across the plateau toward Mizzenmast Hill
  5. Silver has lost the treasure and stares at Ben Gunn, the man who beat him.
  6. The gig rows past the two-pointed hill as the party cheers the squire at Ben Gunn's cave
  7. At Ben Gunn's cave, a flushed Squire Trelawney grips his musket as he rebukes Silver
  8. Jim steps into Ben Gunn's cave and sees Flint's treasure: heaps of coin and gold bars
  9. At the merry supper in Ben Gunn's cave, Long John Silver sits at the edge of the firelight.

Chapter 34The Treasure Shipped, Silver Gone, Voyage Home

  1. Early morning off the north-east coast of Treasure Island.
  2. Jim and the doctor hear Long John Silver's voice right behind them on the dark hill
  3. On the dark shoulder of the hill, the doctor's dry jab lands on Silver.
  4. From the HISPANIOLA's rail, Dr. Livesey hails the three marooned mutineers
  5. A marooned mutineer aims his musket at the departing HISPANIOLA while two others plead
  6. On the voyage home, the last grey tooth of Treasure Island sinks into the sea
  7. The worn-out schooner drops anchor at sundown in a beautiful land-locked gulf.
  8. Dawn light in the Hispaniola's hold falls on a neat hole cut through the bulkhead.
  9. Years after the voyage, Jim Hawkins jolts upright in bed under cold moonlight.