1 Dick," said Silver, "I trust you.
2 Silver trusted me; I passed my word, and back I go.
3 "I did think I could have trusted Hands," added the captain.
4 For the rest, the HISPANIOLA must trust to luck, like myself.
5 The mutineers were bolder than we fancied or they put more trust in Israel's gunnery.
6 Gentlemen of fortune," returned the cook, "usually trusts little among themselves, and right they are, you may lay to it.
7 And the coxswain, Israel Hands, was a careful, wily, old, experienced seaman who could be trusted at a pinch with almost anything.
8 Yet I felt sure that I could trust him in one point, since in that our interests jumped together, and that was in the disposition of the schooner.
9 What he would do afterwards--whether he would try to crawl right across the island from North Inlet to the camp among the swamps or whether he would fire Long Tom, trusting that his own comrades might come first to help him--was, of course, more than I could say.