Billy Bones: A Short Story

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When I was rowing out to the Espanula I saw a giant group of people on the spy glass. I could see that they had on red coats, then I saw three without red coats. I thought the British naval fleet had come back for us. Indeed that is what happened, the captain told the British intelligence about Long John Silver. This whole thing was a setup to capture the pirates. Ben Gun was actually a spy. We returned home and the treasure map was fake. Billy Bones was not dead, but returned home to his family. His dad did die, but his mom was feeling better. As for the doctor he was a spy too and he went on to be a professor at Oxford. As for me, I believe the treasure is still out

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