Chapter 8

XXVIII. IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP 185 XXIX. THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN 193 XXX. ON PAROLE 200 XXXI. THE TREASURE HUNT--FLINT'S POINTER 207 XXXII. THE TREASURE HUNT--THE VOICE AMONG THE TREES 214 XXXIII. THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN 220 XXXIV. AND LAST 226

WILL O' THE MILL

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THE PLAIN AND THE STARS 235 THE PARSON'S MARJORY 244 DEATH 256

THE TREASURE OF FRANCHARD

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I. BY THE DYING MOUNTEBANK 267 II. MORNING TALK 271 III. THE ADOPTION 278 IV. THE EDUCATION OF A PHILOSOPHER 286 V. TREASURE TROVE 296 VI. A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, IN TWO PARTS 309 VII. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF DESPREZ 320 VIII. THE WAGES OF PHILOSOPHY 329

TREASURE ISLAND

TO

LLOYD OSBOURNE

AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHOSE CLASSIC TASTE THE FOLLOWING NARRATIVE HAS BEEN DESIGNED IT IS NOW, IN RETURN FOR NUMEROUS DELIGHTFUL HOURS AND WITH THE KINDEST WISHES, DEDICATED BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND

THE AUTHOR

_TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER_

_If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day:_

_--So be it, and fall on! If not, If studious youth no longer crave, His ancient appetites forgot, Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, Or Cooper of the wood and wave: So be it, also! And may I And all my pirates share the grave Where these and their creations lie!_