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Making for Georgetown with a fair breeze and all hands enjoying prospect of shore leave.

As our last visit resulted in a certain misunderstanding with the authorities,

I shall issue strict orders to the crew to stay out of trouble.

We're gonna be in Georgetown for three days.

I hope it's not too much to ask you gentlemen to keep out of jail during that time.

Seems fair enough.

I'll tell you another thing.

It's gonna be a lot easier than usual to get on the wrong side of the law

because our old friend Major Langley's at the helm.

So steer clear of him.

No arguments, no fights.

Communicate my views to the rest of the men.

Is that all clear?

Aye, aye.

Are you going to follow your own advice, Dan?

I am.

And if you follow my example, you men'll be all right.

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Morning boys.

See that?

A new world for you coming to shore.

You want to take advantage of this.

Look around you, take it all in.

Still stay out of trouble.

That's it.

Can't you see that lad over there?

Would you like to buy a picture, ma'am?

Portrait of my father.

The frames of jewels and silver.

He look familiar to you?

Don't count him.

Well, he does to me, I must say.

Mother and I didn't want to part with it, but we had to.

I've seen that lad somewhere, Dickon, I swear it.

Oh, you poor boy.

Why, of course I'll buy it.

Save your money, ma'am.

I'll take charge of this young thief.

Now then, where did you steal this?

I didn't steal it.

It's mine.

Give it back.

It's all we've got.

Please, Sergeant.

Don't be stupid.

Have it.

It's been no harm.

Sergeant.

Dickon, I think maybe we ought to look into this.

But we don't argue with the authorities, do we?

No, absolutely not.

Just a moment, Sergeant.

Oh, be reasonable, Sergeant.

The lad's done no harm.

I'll vouch for him.

Major Langley has a special interest in this boy.

He'll decide whether he's done harm or not.

I'll step aside.

You there, clear this crowd away.

Dickon, take a boy.

Come out and hold guard.

Shh.

Better lay low here a bit.

Now then, lad, what's your name?

Where do I know you from?

My name is Edwin Druitt, sir.

I can't think where you'd know me from.

You're going to steal that picture or not?

No, sir.

It's a picture of my father.

I wanted to sell it so my mother and I could eat.

Why did those soldiers want to take you to Major Langley?

I know where there's a treasure hidden.

Major Langley tries everything he can think of to make me tell him.

But I won't.

Treasure?

Who hid it?

He did.

I know who you are.

This is Captain Adam Druitt.

You must be his boy.

Yes, sir.

He's very good to me.

He gave me a birth when I really needed it.

I'll have to look after him.

One good turn deserves another, Dickon.

You still keep out of trouble?

I hope we can.

I hope we can.

Come on.

Let's get out of here.

Now, Mrs. Druitt, perhaps you'll be good enough to tell us a little more about this treasure.

I'm very grateful, Captain, for what you did for Edwin today, but...

Well, Major Langley has been hounding us, so it's very difficult to know whom to trust.

I think I understand your reluctance, ma'am.

But it seems to me you and your boy need help.

That's true.

We do.

Now, I can give you that help.

But if I do, I must have your complete trust.

Now, that's entirely up to you to decide.

Mother, Captain Tempest did sail with father.

Yes, dear.

My husband had been on a three-year trading voyage to India and Persia.

He was returning to us with a fortune in bullion and jewels.

But the ship was captured by pirates in the entrance to the harbor.

Yes.

How did you know?

I heard.

And I heard that the treasure had disappeared when the ship was captured.

No.

My husband lost his life, but he saved the treasure.

Ah.

Well, the news of his good fortune had reached everywhere, and he thought there was a chance that pirates might try to waylay him.

So on the voyage home, he stopped at a small deserted island and buried the treasure.

Oh, well.

You just tell us where it is, Mom, and we'll dig it up.

Mrs. Druitt, how can you know about that treasure if you never saw him again?

Well, he sent me a letter telling me what he did.

This letter.

It took four years to reach me.

Latitude 3210 north.

Longitude 81 west.

Now, that's not too far.

Folly Island.

Right.

Could your husband have known about Folly Island?

Did he ever talk about it?

Yes.

Often he used to go hunting there.

Is Folly Island right enough?

There's more here, men.

In the earth, under the hand.

Under whose hand?

Do you know what that means?

No, I don't.

Why was he so secretive in a letter to you?

Well, I never saw the man who delivered the letter, but I imagine he must have been a member of the pirate crew.

I suppose my husband was afraid he would look at the letter.

He wanted to make it sound as implausible and confusing as possible.

It's easy to see how Langley got news of this.

Many a pirate's been in his pay.

See, and Black Barty's one of them.

The very man that made Capitan Druitt walk the plank.

How do you know?

I heard.

Well, the first thing to do is to get to Folly Island and see what we can find.

But we've got to put Langley off the scent.

Now, Dickon, take Mrs. Druitt and the boy here ashore in the longboat.

Meanwhile, we'll make for Folly Island and the Sultana.

And, Dickon, keep out of trouble.

Aye, aye.

I didn't see the man!

And this is the young ruffian that stole the picture.

Take those two to jail.

I'm taking this one to Major Langley.

Right.

Right, come on.

We've got to go.

I in.

What is it now?

Your pardon, Major Langley, the Druitt boy.

I don't know what to do.

As military governor of this community, it is my duty to set an example of scholastic achievement.

Do I have the chance to study?

Not one word of it have I been able to read.

Now, boy, you're going to be sensible about this treasure, aren't you?

I won't tell you anything.

Where is that treasure?

Answer me at once or I shall have you flayed.

I'm not afraid of you.

Oh, it's a hardened young villain, is it?

We shall soon see about that.

Lieutenant.

Sir.

Possibly all right.

Boy, do you care for an apple?

No, not from you.

Come along, come along, come along.

Have as many as you like.

Fill your pockets with them.

Give some to your mother.

You and your mother don't have enough to eat, do you?

Poverty is a terrible thing.

I'm going to alter all that.

Soon you'll be able to give her everything she wants.

You'd like that, wouldn't you?

Yes, of course I would.

Take money.

Tell me where that treasure is and you shall have it.

No, never!

Return it, have the scoundrel whipped.

That won't make me tell you.

Return it.

Years later.

He's quite right, it won't.

Very well.

Let him remain here.

Let him eat.

Let him do everything he wants.

Have his mother whipped.

No!

No!

Please don't do anything to her.

Promise you'll let her go.

I'll tell you anything you want to know.

Please.

Well, that's better.

Where is it?

Latitude 3210 north.

Longitude 81 west.

In the earth.

Under the hand.

Thank you.

Release the boy and his mother.

Lieutenant.

Yes, Major.

Send for Black Bart.

Yes, sir.

Edwin!

Mother!

Are you all right?

Did they hurt you?

No, Mother, I'm all right.

Edwin.

Come, Mother.

Not you!

Did you hear that it happened?

Just about.

You saw it all?

Say I saw it.

Black Bart prodding him along the plank with his cutlass.

But he was a brave man, this Adam Druitt.

He stood his ground without flinching.

Then he turned on that swaying plank and he spoke to us all.

Are you one of Bart's crew?

See, if there be any here, he said, who has a single spark of humanity left in him,

I charge him by his immortal soul to look after my wife and child.

He was looking straight at me as he said.

And Black Bart saw that look.

What did Bart do after Druitt went over the side?

Turned on me next.

You are sorry for him, he said.

You shall join him.

And so they tied my hands and into the waves I went.

But here you are.

Oh, here I am.

In Corsica I learned a trick.

When they tie your hands, you put your wrists so.

And when they have tied them, you twist them.

And then you can slip your hands out.

And so I was free.

I swam.

The ship picked me up.

So Bart still thinks that you are dead.

No, I still.

Might be useful someday.

Well, all the items coming up.

In the earth, under the hand.

What's that?

A pie.

I guess it's all right.

Told, didn't you?

I had to.

I had to save mother.

Oh, look, she's made this for you.

Oh, thanks.

What's in it?

Apples and things.

You mean there are things in this pie that I like?

I hope so.

Now then, I'll just take a look at the inside of that pie.

Oh, no, it's mine.

Come on, give it here.

I'm on to your trick.

No, come on.

Come on, we've got to find Dan.

Hey, come back.

Come back.

I tore up the card.

I begin to think the bloke what named this folly island certainly named it right.

This whole thing's one big joke on us.

In the perishing earth, under the perishing hand.

Ah, that letter don't seem so much now, do you?

Let's get to work, men.

Gaff, cut across the island, search the beach on the far shore.

Pop, you take the north shore.

Taffy?

Taffy?

Dan, there it is.

If it's the hand right enough.

That's her.

Kind of pretty looking thing, isn't it?

But how did it get there?

Captain Druid must have put it there.

It's ivory.

Must have picked it up in the east.

Right, let's get to work.

Back, back, back, back.

One, two.

Put down that scampi.

Where's your shovel underneath?

Here, grab him.

This is coming out.

Here he is.

Here you go.

Thank you very much, lads.

Black Bart.

Flattered that you know me.

And more than grateful to you all for sparing us the digging.

You've got it.

You're right to avoid violence, Captain Tempest.

Now, the treasure, please.

I don't like to appear oppressing, but it's more than likely that this splendid hole you've so laboriously dug may have to be refilled.

With you in it.

You have a sample.

All right, Bart.

My men come up first, then the chest, then me.

Splendid.

The judgment of Solomon.

Look, there's the hole they dug.

We're too late.

Maybe they dug up the treasure and left.

Nah, Dan Tempest's too good a skipper to leave all these tools lying around.

Something's gone wrong.

Do you think Major Langley's got them?

Maybe.

Come on, we'll find out.

Fine thing.

Beaten at our own game by Black Bart.

What I'd like to know is, what happened to Armando?

A very good question.

Did you know that Bart made Armando walk the plank with his hands tied behind his back?

No.

Oh.

You know about that, huh?

Yes, I know about that.

I'm sorry you do.

You see, there's rather a stupid law against making anybody walk the plank.

It might be rather inconvenient for me if anybody knows about Armando.

Anybody still living, that is.

Oh well, you'll be delighted to hear I'm prepared to make an exception.

For members of my own crew.

Ben, Bart's offering you your lives in exchange for joining his crew.

Huh.

Talking over among yourselves.

I'll give you three minutes.

One each.

Poor Armando.

Poor us.

Well, do we say yes or no?

After all, what's the difference?

The way they're spilt.

What do you say, Danny boy?

I've sowed several seeds, and I hope some of them will bear fruit.

They do grow pretty fast.

See there.

There's a sultana.

Shall we approach from the leeward? So as to avoid the lookouts.

Right.

I'll make a semen of your yet.

Before I finally make up my mind, Black Bart,

there's one thing I'd like to have absolutely clear.

If I say no,

will you carry out your threat just as you did with Armando that time?

You're a rum one.

All right. I'll make it as clear as you like.

I'll shove you off the plank with your hands tied behind your back.

Just as I did with Armando that time.

Then I say no.

I will never sail with you.

All right, Mr. Honorable. You'll find I'm as good as me worth.

The paint for them all.

Wait a moment.

As captain, I would like to go first.

My pleasure, captain.

All right, Tempest. Walk.

Come on, keep moving.

Keep moving, Tempest. Come on.

Come on.

I'll come back and haunt you, Bart.

Come back before, Tempest, or I'll take my chance with you.

Now get moving.

Armando.

Come back, or you're dead.

No, get back.

No.

Get away.

Get away.

Men, help me.

No, get back.

Get away.

Footprints?

You're no ghost.

Get your hands up, gentlemen, or you'll be joining Black Bart over the side.

Well done.

Well, what do we do now, Captain Tempest?

We're going to make for Georgetown and pick up your mother.

Well, Mrs. Druitt, we shall take you to Boston.

You'll be safe from Major Langley there.

I can't find the words to thank you, Captain.

When I've made a proper home for Edwin again, perhaps you'll come and visit us.

I'll be delighted.

I'll come and see you both.

And still keep out of trouble, Captain?

You're the one who's got to keep out of trouble.

Let's go a-roving, a-roving across the ocean.

Oh, let's go a-roving and join the buccaneer.

He's the bravest man we know.

Say he's not and you'll be walking the plank, sir.

Let's go a-roving, a-roving across the ocean.

Oh, let's go a-roving and join the buccaneer.