Pirates Of The Caribbean: Treasure Island Test Chapter

The year was 1757, and I was whipping off the counter when he walked into the Admiral Benbow, my father’s inn. It was a normal day, not to bright outside, a few billowy clouds floating lazily by in the sky. Then suddenly it seemed darker, and a shadow filled the doorway. I looked up to see a tall man, unlike our typical guests, he seemed like a different kind of sailor. What exactly, I couldn’t put my finger on.

He was pulling a huge sea-chest behind him, and singing under his breath,

Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest-

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Drink and the devil had done the rest-

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Despite the strange song, my mother approached the man confidently. “Can I help you sir?” She raised an eyebrow. She was used to dealing with sailors and their habits, as most of our guests were. The man took a seat at one of the tables, and asked for rum, which was brought to him, and he drank painstakingly slow while I wondered what kind of person he was.

Finally, he asked if things were often loud and if the hallways were full of people, and mother answered no. He seemed pleased with the idea, making me wonder if he was on the run from something, perhaps the government, the King, or something else.

“You can call me Captain,” The man began. “I’m a simple man, I don’t ask for much. Just my eggs, bacon, rum will do.”

He stayed at the Admiral Benbow long, and many weeks ticked by. He often did strange things, and was a quiet and secretive man by nature. Once he took me aside and said, “You want to earn a little keep boy?”

I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I should have known it was a terrible descion to agree to it. “Good.” He nodded. “You keep an eye out for the seafaring man with one leg boy,” Captain shivered. That made me think back to the day he came, and seemed to want to avoid people.

I agreed to it, and once a month he paid me fourpence for keeping a lookout for his “seafaring man with one leg”. I really shouldn’t have...

Summery
Jim meets Captain, who comes to the Inn, who is a very interesting man to be sure.