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