When we met at Nassau he told me what he wanted done and I agreed to do it, for some money he gave me and for more that he promised me." "And what did you agree to do ?" asked Anderson Rover.
"I agreed to get a job as a deck hand if I could and then, on the sly, cripple the yacht so she couldn't reach Treasure Isle as quick as the _Josephine_--the steamer Merrick is on.

Then I also promised to make Bahama Bill sick if possible, so he couldn't go ashore and show you where the cave was.

I wasn't going to poison him.

The stuff I used was given to me by Merrick, who bought it at a drug store in Nausau.

He said it would make Bahama Bill sleepy dopy, he called it." "Did he tell you what the stuff was ?" "No." "Then it may be poison after all," said Captain Barforth.