The stranger kept hanging about just inside the inn door , peering round the corner like a cat waiting for a mouse . Once I stepped out myself into the road , but he immediately called me back , and as I did not obey quick enough for his fancy , a most horrible change came over his tallowy face , and he ordered me in with an oath that made me jump . As soon as I was back again he returned to his former manner , half fawning , half sneering , patted me on the shoulder , told me I was a good boy and he had taken quite a fancy to me . `` I have a son of my own , '' said he , `` as like you as two blocks , and he 's all the pride of my ` art . But the great thing for boys is discipline , sonny -- discipline . Now , if you had sailed along of Bill , you would n't have stood there to be spoke to twice -- not you . That was never Bill 's way , nor the way of sich as sailed with him . And here , sure enough , is my mate Bill , with a spy-glass under his arm , bless his old ` art , to be sure . You and me 'll just go back into the parlour , sonny , and get behind the door , and we 'll give Bill a little surprise -- bless his ` art , I say again . '' So saying , the stranger backed along with me into the parlour and put me behind him in the corner so that we were both hidden by the open door . I was very uneasy and alarmed , as you may fancy , and it rather added to my fears to observe that the stranger was certainly frightened himself . He cleared the hilt of his cutlass and loosened the blade in the sheath ; and all the time we were waiting there he kept swallowing as if he felt what we used to call a lump in the throat . At last in strode the captain , slammed the door behind him , without looking to the right or left , and marched straight across the room to where his breakfast awaited him . `` Bill , '' said the stranger in a voice that I thought he had tried to make bold and big . The captain spun round on his heel and fronted us ; all the brown had gone out of his face , and even his nose was blue ; he had the look of a man who sees a ghost , or the evil one , or something worse , if anything can be ; and upon my word , I felt sorry to see him all in a moment turn so old and sick . `` Come , Bill , you know me ; you know an old shipmate , Bill , surely , '' said the stranger . The captain made a sort of gasp . `` Black Dog ! '' said he . `` And who else ? ''
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