"I don't know about treasure," he said,"but I' ll stake my wig there's fever here."
If the conduct of the men had been alarming in the boat, it became truly threatening when they had come aboard. They lay about the deck growling together in talk. The slightest order was received with a black look, and grudgingly and carelessly obeyed. Even the honest hands must have caught the infection, for there was not one man aboard to mend another. Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.
We held a council in the cabin.
“关于宝库,我是不知道的”他说道,“不过我可以赌咒,有人为着这个在那里发热狂了。”
倘使小艇中的船员的行为不是带着一种警惕的情形,那么当他们回船的时候的形势，真的要变得紧张可怕了。他们都躺在甲板的四围，一同兴奋地大声谈话。虽是极微细的命令，现在他们也是眼黑突出了来接受，勉勉强强,疏疏忽忽的遵行着。就是诚实的水手,也受到他们的感化了，因为当时船上已没有一个人肯注意别人的话了。这是很显明的,暴动像雷响时的云一般的笼罩住了我们。
我们在房舱中开了一个会议。
"Sir," said the captain, "if I risk another order, the whole ship'll come about our ears by the run. You see, sir, here it is. I get a rough answer, do I not? Well, if I speak back, pikes will be going in two shakes; if I don't, Silver will see there's something under that, and the game's up. Now, we've only one man to rely on."
"And who is that?" asked the squire.
"Silver, sir," returned the captain; "he's as anxious as you and I to smother things up. This is a tiff, he'd soon talk'em out of it if he had the chance, and what I propose to do is to give him the chance. Let's allow the men an afternoon ashore. lf they all go, why, we' ll fight the ship. If they none of them go, well, then, we hold the cabin, and God defend the right. If some go, you mark my words, sir, Silver'lI bring 'em aboard again as mild as lambs."
“先生”船长说道,“倘使冒着险，再发一个命令的话，全船的人，就立刻要来围攻我们了。你想，先生，这是事实啊。我已猜中几分了，我说的是不是?嗯,要是我说一句回去的话，双方的枪棒立刻会爆发了;要是我不说的话，[雪而浮]一定会看出其中底细,爆发之事立刻实现了。现在我们所能依赖的只有一个人。
“那个人是谁呢?”绅董问道。
“就是[雪而浮]，先生,”船长答道,“他的急切像你我一般的,想把事情遮掩起来。这是一种纠葛,他只须得一机会,他立刻可以以利害说上他们了，我现提议想做的就是给与他这种机会，让我们准许水手们下午上岸去。倘使他们都去的话,那么我们可以据船作战了。要是他们全不去的话,我就固守着房舱，只有由天主持了。倘使有几个人去了,你注意我的话，先生，[雪而浮]带他们回船之时，一定使他们柔顺得和小羊一般了。”
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