Yet there were still three upon that island -- Silver , and old Morgan , and Ben Gunn -- who had each taken his share in these crimes , as each had hoped in vain to share in the reward . `` Come in , Jim , '' said the captain . `` You 're a good boy in your line , Jim , but I do n't think you and me 'll go to sea again . You 're too much of the born favourite for me . Is that you , John Silver ? What brings you here , man ? '' `` Come back to my dooty , sir , '' returned Silver . `` Ah ! '' said the captain , and that was all he said . What a supper I had of it that night , with all my friends around me ; and what a meal it was , with Ben Gunn 's salted goat and some delicacies and a bottle of old wine from the HISPANIOLA . Never , I am sure , were people gayer or happier . And there was Silver , sitting back almost out of the firelight , but eating heartily , prompt to spring forward when anything was wanted , even joining quietly in our laughter -- the same bland , polite , obsequious seaman of the voyage out . 34 And Last THE next morning we fell early to work , for the transportation of this great mass of gold near a mile by land to the beach , and thence three miles by boat to the HISPANIOLA , was a considerable task for so small a number of workmen . The three fellows still abroad upon the island did not greatly trouble us ; a single sentry on the shoulder of the hill was sufficient to ensure us against any sudden onslaught , and we thought , besides , they had had more than enough of fighting . Therefore the work was pushed on briskly . Gray and Ben Gunn came and went with the boat , while the rest during their absences piled treasure on the beach . Two of the bars , slung in a rope 's end , made a good load for a grown man -- one that he was glad to walk slowly with . For my part , as I was not much use at carrying , I was kept busy all day in the cave packing the minted money into bread-bags . It was a strange collection , like Billy Bones 's hoard for the diversity of coinage , but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them . English , French , Spanish , Portuguese , Georges , and Louises , doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins , the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years , strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider 's web , round pieces and square pieces , and pieces bored through the middle , as if to wear them round your neck -- nearly every variety of money in the world must , I think , have found a place in that collection ; and for number , I am sure they were like autumn leaves , so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out .
Day after XXXXX this work went on ; by every evening a fortune had been stowed aboard , but there was another fortune waiting for the morrow ; and all this time we heard nothing of the three surviving mutineers .
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