Although I was glad to hear the sound , yet my gladness was not without admixture . I remembered with confusion my insubordinate and stealthy conduct , and when I saw where it had brought me -- among what companions and surrounded by what dangers -- I felt ashamed to look him in the face . He must have risen in the dark , for the day had hardly come ; and when I ran to a loophole and looked out , I saw him standing , like Silver once before , up to the mid-leg in creeping vapour . `` You , doctor ! Top o ' the morning to you , sir ! '' cried Silver , broad awake and beaming with good nature in a moment . `` Bright and early , to be sure ; and it 's the early bird , as the saying goes , that gets the rations . George , shake up your timbers , son , and help Dr. Livesey over the ship 's side . All a-doin ' well , your patients was -- all well and merry . '' So he pattered on , standing on the hilltop with his crutch under his elbow and one hand upon the side of the log-house -- quite the old John in voice , manner , and expression . `` We 've quite a surprise for you too , sir , '' he continued . `` We 've a little stranger here -- he ! he ! A noo boarder and lodger , sir , and looking fit and taut as a fiddle ; slep ' like a supercargo , he did , right alongside of John -- stem to stem we was , all night . '' Dr. Livesey was by this time across the stockade and pretty near the cook , and I could hear the alteration in his voice as he said , `` Not Jim ? '' `` The very same Jim as ever was , '' says Silver . The doctor stopped outright , although he did not speak , and it was some seconds before he seemed able to move on . `` Well , well , '' he said at last , `` duty first and pleasure afterwards , as you might have said yourself , Silver . Let us overhaul these patients of yours . '' A moment afterwards he had entered the block house and with one grim nod to me proceeded with his work among the sick .
He XXXXX under no apprehension , though he must have known that his life , among these treacherous demons , depended on a hair ; and he rattled on to his patients as if he were paying an ordinary professional visit in a quiet English family .
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