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“ Were you speaking to me , sir ? ” asked the doctor calmly . “ Then hear this . If you keep on drinking rum like this , the world will soon be free of a very dirty man . ” The captain jumped up with a knife in his hand . The doctor did not even move . “ Put that knife away at once , ” he said . “ I am not only a doctor . I am also a magistrate , a judge for this part of the country . If I hear one complaint about you , I will have you taken away and hanged . ” The captain put the knife away , and for many evenings after that he was as quiet as a mouse . II . Black Dog That winter was long and cold , and my poor father grew weaker every day . Early one frosty morning in January , the captain went down to the beach with his telescope . I was laying the table for his breakfast when the door opened . A pale stranger came in , and I saw that he had only three fingers on his left hand . He carried a cutlass , a short , heavy sword . “ Is this table for my friend Bill ? ” he asked with an ugly smile . I said that it was for our guest , the captain . “ That’s him , ” said the stranger . “ We’ll wait for him together , you and I . ” He pulled me behind the door with him . At last the captain came in and walked to his table . “ Bill , ” said the stranger . The captain turned round , and all the colour left his face . “ Black Dog ! ” he said . “ Who else ? ” said Black Dog with a smile . They sent me out of the room . For a long time I heard only their low voices . Then there was a terrible noise . The table and the chairs fell over , and steel rang against steel . A moment later Black Dog ran out with blood on his shoulder , and the captain came after him with his cutlass . At the door the captain swung his sword one last time . It missed Black Dog and cut deep into our wooden sign . You can still see the mark today . Black Dog ran down the road and disappeared over the hill . The captain stood and stared after him . “ Rum ! ” he cried . “ Jim , rum ! I must get away from here ! ” Then he fell heavily to the floor . My mother ran downstairs , but we did not know what to do . Luckily , Dr Livesey arrived at that moment to visit my father . He looked at the captain and shook his head . “ It’s a stroke , ” he said . “ I warned him about the rum . ” The doctor rolled up the captain’s sleeve to treat him . On his strong arm there were some words in blue ink : “ Billy Bones his fancy . ” So now we knew his name . When the captain woke up , the doctor told him that more rum would kill him . Later that day the captain called me to his bed . “ Jim , ” he said , “ bring me a glass of rum , mate . ”
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