The man of the island

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The man of the island
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3 s" x! T7 R/ H' u( {  @The man of the island
0 F$ v+ n0 Y8 OBut almost immediately I ran intoInteractive whiteboard a new danger.As I ran, I heard some small stones falling from the side of a steep hill. I stopped to look round, and saw a figure jump quickly behind a tree.Frightened, I turned back towards the boats, but the figure appeared again and moved with the speedof an animal. But it was a man, I knew that now.

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* R4 B) j, M% B  pI remembered I had a pistol if I needed it, and turned back towards this man of the island. He was hiding behind another tree but stepped out to meet me.
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, `% I3 U- }" [6 v5 L% W) @‘Who are you ?I asked, staring at him.

‘Ben Gunn ,’he answered, and his voice sounded rough andstrange .His skin was burnt nearly#x black by the sun and his clothes were made from pieces of a ship's sail.‘Poor Ben Gunn,’he went on.‘Alone for three years.’


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/ k* a' W* @: Z" ^‘Were you shipwrecked?’I asked.
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9 d( a& ?/ `# p! K, ]9 v$ e‘No ,my friend,’he said.‘Marooned.’

3 g* J/ R) L8 hI had heard the word before, and knew it meant a cruel pun－ishment often used by pirates－leaving a man alone on some distant, empty island.

‘Marooned three years, he continued,‘ living on wild goats and fish. But I'm desperate for real English food. You don't have a piece of cheese, do you? Many nights I've dreamed of cheese.’
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‘If I can get on board ship again, ’I saidInteractive whiteboard, ‘you can have as much cheese as you want.’
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‘Who's going to prevent you?’he said.‘And tell me your name.
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. V$ N1 n0 H) }1 e1 Z5 w‘Jim,’I told him.
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( e4 E( _1 J6 r& b+ ?) v‘Well, Jim,’he said, looking around and lowering his voice to a whisper, ‘I'm rich.’I was now sure the poor man was crazy ,but he repeated his words.‘Rich, I say! Now ,DVD Ripper,Jim ,that isn't Flint's ship, is it?’


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  Y+ T  f% _# FI began to think that I had found a friend, and I answered him at once.‘It's not Flint's ship. Flint is dead, but there are some of Flint's men aboard, and that's bad news for us.’
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' a7 {; u; `. k7 i0 Q/ B' W‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.
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- r3 q. c5 I, E) T! ]+ f‘Silver?’I asked.

9 d2 Z: J$ ?; Y5 x4 {9 f3 {- [‘Yes ,Silver,’he said,‘that was his name.’

+ }2 Q5 y7 d: e: j‘He's the cook, and their leader ,too.’ And I told him the whole story of our voyage, and the danger we were now in.
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. }5 X- \- p* V' u‘You're in trouble, Jim,’he said when I'd finishedInteractive whiteboard.‘Well, Ben Gunn will help you. Will your squire be generous if I do, do you think? I don't want him to give me a job, but will he give me one thousand pounds out of money that's really mine?’

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‘I'm sure he will,’I said.

‘And take me home on your ship?’

4 o0 Z2 m9 t6 W# @‘If we can escape from the others,’I told him#x,‘we'll need your help to get the ship home.’
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