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 house must have shook with it . Promptly afterwards , fresh sounds of astonishment arose ; the window of the captain 's room was thrown open with a slam and a jingle of broken glass , and a man leaned out into the moonlight , head and shoulders , and addressed the blind beggar on the road below him . `` Pew , '' he cried , `` they 've been before us . Someone 's turned the chest out alow and aloft . '' `` Is it there ? ''
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