decide to make a run to the nearby town to get help, but the townspeople are too frightened to return to the inn with them. Mrs. Hawkins declares scornfully that she will go back to the Admiral Benbow to get the money the dead sailor owed them and the townspeople to provide her and Jim with a loaded pistol with which to defend themselves. Jim and his mother make it back safely to the inn, where they examine the paper with the black spot on it and learn that Billy Bones' enemies will come for him at ten o'clock, it being then six o'clock. They search the sailor's sea-chest and find, among other things, a bag of gold coins from all over the world and a bundle of papers wrapped in oilcloth. Mrs. Hawkins insists on counting out the exact amount she's owed; while she's counting, they hear the blind man's cane tapping on the road outside, followed by a whistled signal. Spooked by the arrival of Flint's crew, Jim and his mother flee the inn, but not before Jim grabs the oilcloth bundle. They run a short distance from the inn and manage to get under cover before Mrs. Hawkins faints.