It was dark but there was a full moon

But my mother went on counting until we heard a low shout coming from the hill outside.‘I'll take what I have,’ she said, jumping to her feet.

‘And I'll take this for what I'm owed, ’I said, and picked up the cloth of papers.

We ran from the inn and along the road to the village. It was dark but there was a full moon .We heard running feet coming towards us.

‘Take the money and run on,’ my mother said breathlessly. But I refused to leave her. Quickly, I pulled her off the road and down under a small bridge .There we hid ,trembling.

Not a moment too soon .Seven or eight men were running past us. Three men ran in front, and I saw that the one in the middle was the blind man. Silently, I climbed back up to the road and lay in the long grass to watch what happened.

‘Down with the door!’the blind man shouted.

Four or five of them broke down the door of the Admiral Benbow and ran inside. There was a shout:‘ Bill's dead!’

The blind man swore at them.‘Look upstairs and find the chest!’he cried.

I could hear their feet on the stairs ,then a voice shouting down to the blind man in the road outside:‘Pew! They've been here before us. The money's here but Flint's papers have gone!’