But the great thing for boys is discipline , sonny -- discipline . Now , if you had sailed along of Bill , you would n't have stood there to be spoke to twice -- not you . That was never Bill 's way , nor the way of sich as sailed with him . And here , sure enough , is my mate Bill , with a spy-glass under his arm , bless his old ` art , to be sure . You and me 'll just go back into the parlour , sonny , and get behind the door , and we 'll give Bill a little surprise -- bless his ` art , I say again . '' So saying , the stranger backed along with me into the parlour and put me behind him in the corner so that we were both hidden by the open door . I was very uneasy and alarmed , as you may fancy , and it rather added to my fears to observe that the stranger was certainly frightened himself . He cleared the hilt of his cutlass and loosened the blade in the sheath ; and all the time we were waiting there he kept swallowing as if he felt what we used to call a lump in the throat . At last in strode the captain , slammed the door behind him , without looking to the right or left , and marched straight across the room to where his breakfast awaited him . `` Bill , '' said the stranger in a voice that I thought he had tried to make bold and big . The captain spun round on his heel and fronted us ; all the brown had gone out of his face , and even his nose was blue ; he had the look of a man who sees a ghost , or the evil one , or something worse , if anything can be ; and upon my word , I felt sorry to see him all in a moment turn so old and sick . `` Come , Bill , you know me ; you know an old shipmate , Bill , surely , '' said the stranger . The captain made a sort of gasp . `` Black Dog ! '' said he . `` And who else ? '' returned the other , getting more at his ease . `` Black Dog as ever was , come for to see his old shipmate Billy , at the Admiral Benbow inn . Ah , Bill , Bill , we have seen a sight of times , us two , since I lost them two talons , '' holding up his mutilated hand . `` Now , look here , '' said the captain ; `` you 've run me down ; here I am ; well , then , speak up ; what is it ? ''
`` That 's you , Bill , '' returned Black Dog , `` you 're in the right of it , XXXXX .
Benbow Bill Billy fancy left parlour right sheath sich spy-glass