The man of the island

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The man of the island

/ `+ D! W- I4 @, |& z+ |$ l0 GThe man of the island
. b) V/ V8 O4 Z' ]: eBut 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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I 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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4 _+ Q% k  o$ r1 s5 F‘Who are you ?I asked, staring at him.
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# }+ w) \% i' S) p0 B! n‘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.’



‘Were you shipwrecked?’I asked.
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! N( |1 S# ]4 M& M- N‘No ,my friend,’he said.‘Marooned.’
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9 n; C% p/ j" C9 q& U; U! VI 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.

8 |2 n0 c4 ]8 p( @7 Q- H‘Jim,’I told him.

. Y) Z# P2 w/ [+ Q" G. R! Y3 y5 j, y‘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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I 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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  p# X2 a+ [3 O  y! F: q‘A man with one leg?’he asked, fear in his voice.

‘Silver?’I asked.

$ X& {0 L7 z  |, w( y‘Yes ,Silver,’he said,‘that was his name.’

9 P! s, e; y( B: l‘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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‘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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4 W9 e. k: B$ i' f+ M‘I'm sure he will,’I said.

‘And take me home on your ship?’
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‘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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