`` Then , doctor , '' said Silver , `` you just step outside o ' that stockade , and once you 're there I 'll bring the boy down on the inside , and I reckon you can yarn through the spars . Good day to you , sir , and all our dooties to the squire and Cap'n Smollett . '' The explosion of disapproval , which nothing but Silver 's black looks had restrained , broke out immediately the doctor had left the house . Silver was roundly accused of playing double -- of trying to make a separate peace for himself , of sacrificing the interests of his accomplices and victims , and , in one word , of the identical , exact thing that he was doing . It seemed to me so obvious , in this case , that I could not imagine how he was to turn their anger . But he was twice the man the rest were , and his last night 's victory had given him a huge preponderance on their minds . He called them all the fools and dolts you can imagine , said it was necessary I should talk to the doctor , fluttered the chart in their faces , asked them if they could afford to break the treaty the very day they were bound a-treasure-hunting . `` No , by thunder ! '' he cried . `` It 's us must break the treaty when the time comes ; and till then I 'll gammon that doctor , if I have to ile his boots with brandy . '' And then he bade them get the fire lit , and stalked out upon his crutch , with his hand on my shoulder , leaving them in a disarray , and silenced by his volubility rather than convinced . `` Slow , lad , slow , '' he said . `` They might round upon us in a twinkle of an eye if we was seen to hurry . '' Very deliberately , then , did we advance across the sand to where the doctor awaited us on the other side of the stockade , and as soon as we were within easy speaking distance Silver stopped . `` You 'll make a note of this here also , doctor , '' says he , `` and the boy 'll tell you how I saved his life , and were deposed for it too , and you may lay to that . Doctor , when a man 's steering as near the wind as me -- playing chuck-farthing with the last breath in his body , like -- you would n't think it too much , mayhap , to give him one good word ? You 'll please bear in mind it 's not my life only now -- it 's that boy 's into the bargain ; and you 'll speak me fair , doctor , and give me a bit o ' hope to go on , for the sake of mercy . '' Silver was a changed man once he was out there and had his back to his friends and the block house ; his cheeks seemed to have fallen in , his voice trembled ; never was a soul more dead in earnest . `` Why , John , you 're not afraid ? '' asked Dr. Livesey .
`` XXXXX , I 'm no coward ; no , not I -- not SO much ! ''
Doctor John Livesey Silver Slow Smollett a-treasure-hunting dooties left volubility