Now, why this Colonel John Mohune, whom we call Blackbeard, should have chosen a well at all to hide his jewel in, I cannot say; but given he chose a well, 'twas odds he would choose Carisbrooke.

'Tis a known place, and I have heard that people come as far as from London to see the castle and this well.' He spoke quick and with more fire than I had known him use before, and I felt he was right.

It seemed indeed natural enough that if Blackbeard was to hide the diamond in a well, it would be in the well of that very castle where he had earned it so evilly.
'When he says the "well north",' continued Elzevir, ''tis clear he means to take a compass and mark north by needle, and at eighty feet in the well-side below that point will lie the treasure.

I fixed yesterday with the _Bonaventure's_ men that they should lie underneath this ledge tomorrow sennight, if the sea be smooth, and take us off on the spring-tide.

At midnight is their hour, and I said eight days on, to give thy leg a week wherewith to strengthen.