So now , Livesey , come post ; do not lose an hour , if you respect me . Let young Hawkins go at once to see his mother , with Redruth for a guard ; and then both come full speed to Bristol . John Trelawney Postscript -- I did not tell you that Blandly , who , by the way , is to send a consort after us if we do n't turn up by the end of August , had found an admirable fellow for sailing master -- a stiff man , which I regret , but in all other respects a treasure . Long John Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate , a man named Arrow . I have a boatswain who pipes , Livesey ; so things shall go man-o ' - war fashion on board the good ship HISPANIOLA . I forgot to tell you that Silver is a man of substance ; I know of my own knowledge that he has a banker 's account , which has never been overdrawn . He leaves his wife to manage the inn ; and as she is a woman of colour , a pair of old bachelors like you and I may be excused for guessing that it is the wife , quite as much as the health , that sends him back to roving . J. T. P.P.S. -- Hawkins may stay one night with his mother . J. T . You can fancy the excitement into which that letter put me . I was half beside myself with glee ; and if ever I despised a man , it was old Tom Redruth , who could do nothing but grumble and lament . Any of the under-gamekeepers would gladly have changed places with him ; but such was not the squire 's pleasure , and the squire 's pleasure was like law among them all . Nobody but old Redruth would have dared so much as even to grumble . The next morning he and I set out on foot for the Admiral Benbow , and there I found my mother in good health and spirits . The captain , who had so long been a cause of so much discomfort , was gone where the wicked cease from troubling . The squire had had everything repaired , and the public rooms and the sign repainted , and had added some furniture -- above all a beautiful armchair for mother in the bar . He had found her a boy as an apprentice also so that she should not want help while I was gone . It was on seeing that boy that I understood , for the first time , my situation . I had thought up to that moment of the adventures before me , not at all of the home that I was leaving ; and now , at sight of this clumsy stranger , who was to stay here in my place beside my mother , I had my first attack of tears . I am afraid I led that boy a dog 's life , for as he was new to the work , I had a hundred opportunities of setting him right and putting him down , and I was not slow to profit by them .
The night passed , and the next day , after dinner , XXXXX and I were afoot again and on the road .
Benbow Bristol Postscript Redruth attack colour first night under-gamekeepers war