But my old missis has it all by now . And the Spy-glass is sold , lease and goodwill and rigging ; and the old girl 's off to meet me . I would tell you where , for I trust you , but it 'd make jealousy among the mates . '' `` And can you trust your missis ? '' asked the other . `` Gentlemen of fortune , '' returned the cook , `` usually trusts little among themselves , and right they are , you may lay to it . But I have a way with me , I have . When a mate brings a slip on his cable -- one as knows me , I mean -- it wo n't be in the same world with old John . There was some that was feared of Pew , and some that was feared of Flint ; but Flint his own self was feared of me . Feared he was , and proud . They was the roughest crew afloat , was Flint 's ; the devil himself would have been feared to go to sea with them . Well now , I tell you , I 'm not a boasting man , and you seen yourself how easy I keep company , but when I was quartermaster , LAMBS was n't the word for Flint 's old buccaneers . Ah , you may be sure of yourself in old John 's ship . '' `` Well , I tell you now , '' replied the lad , `` I did n't half a quarter like the job till I had this talk with you , John ; but there 's my hand on it now . '' `` And a brave lad you were , and smart too , '' answered Silver , shaking hands so heartily that all the barrel shook , `` and a finer figurehead for a gentleman of fortune I never clapped my eyes on . '' By this time I had begun to understand the meaning of their terms . By a `` gentleman of fortune '' they plainly meant neither more nor less than a common pirate , and the little scene that I had overheard was the last act in the corruption of one of the honest hands -- perhaps of the last one left aboard . But on this point I was soon to be relieved , for Silver giving a little whistle , a third man strolled up and sat down by the party . `` Dick 's square , '' said Silver . `` Oh , I know 'd Dick was square , '' returned the voice of the coxswain , Israel Hands .
`` He 's no fool , is XXXXX . ''
Dick Flint Hands John Pew Spy-glass buccaneers quarter right third