The Black Spot

• Jim comes in with medicine for the captain.
• The captain begs Jim for some rum.
• Jim agrees because he doesn't want the captain to make a fuss and disturb Jim's poor father.
• The captain keeps raving about getting "the black spot" (3.16) because Black Dog and some other friends of his want the captain's old sea-chest.
• The black spot is a summons – a demand to appear.
• The captain was actually a first mate (the second in command on a ship) to someone he calls "old Flint" (3.16). He adds that he's the only one who knows the place – what place, we don't know yet.
• The captain also drops a hint about "a seafaring man with one leg" (3.16) who is the worst of all.
• Jim's father dies suddenly that night, and Jim forgets all about the captain's confessions.
• The captain comes downstairs the next day and continues on just as usual, drinking even more rum than before his stroke.
• The day after Jim's father's funeral, a blind man appears at the inn.
• The blind man asks Jim for his hand to guide him inside.
• Once the blind man has hold of Jim, he grips him hard and demands to be taken to the captain.
• The blind man is twisting Jim's arm so hard Jim is afraid it will break.
• Jim leads the blind man to the captain.
• The blind man demands that the captain hold his left hand out.
• The blind man presses something into the palm of the captain's left hand. Then he leaves the inn.
• The captain exclaims, "Ten o'clock [...] Six hours" (3.36). The captain wants to go find Doctor Livesey.
• The captain jumps up, grabs his throat, then falls to the ground.
• Jim runs for his mother, but it's too late: the captain has died.