Calico Illustrated Classics: Treasure Island

Calico Illustrated Classics: Treasure Island — page 9
I got the drink quickly and Black Dog told me to leave and not to listen in I fled the parlor Minutes later I heard a crash of furniture and shouting Black Dog ran out clutching a streaming wound in his shoulder The captain chased him outside and would surely have killed him with a second vicious swing of his cutlass but the blow instead struck the sign for the inn nicking a piece from it With Black Dog well away the captain staggered back inside and dropped to the floor with a moan My mother came down from tending my father and saw the old pirate sprawled on the floor Oh dear she cried This is disgraceful And with your father sick We were much relieved when Dr Livesey came for a visit with my father He helped us get the captain to a bed where he announced the old man had fallen from a stroke He bled him as was the medical custom of the time 12