""The Old Sea at the "" Admiral Benbow""

Jim could sense that the Captain (Billy Bones) was frightened by the one-legged man by the ways he insisted Jim look out for him and paid him to do so. The fact that he sensed Billy Bones discomfort.... made his own all the more apparent. The one-legged man was a mystery..... the stuff of dreams.

How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you. On stormy nights, when the wind shook the four corners of the house and the surf roared along the cove and up the cliffs, I would see him in a thousand forms, and with a thousand diabolical expressions. Now the leg would be cut off at the knee, now at the hip; now he was a monstrous kind of a creature who had never had but the one leg, and that in the middle of his body. To see him leap and run and pursue me over hedge and ditch was the worst of nightmares. And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.