![]() So the weeks passed on, till one fine day there came a letter addressed to Dr. Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures. Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island in my fancy from every possible direction I explored every acre of its surface I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy-glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects. I brooded by the hour together over the map, all the details of which I well remembered. The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice the squire was hard at work at Bristol and I lived on at the hall under the charge of old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full of sea-dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange islands and adventures. Livesey's, of keeping me beside him-could be carried out as we intended. ![]() It was longer than the squire imagined ere we were ready for the sea, and none of our first plans-not even Dr. ![]()
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