Silver's Escape

From Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Silver's escape with a sack of coins refuses neat moral closure, making him one of literature's first morally ambiguous villains.
Chapter 34

Silver slips away at a port of call with 'one or two of the sacks' of coin: 'we were all pleased to be so cheaply quit of him.' Jim hopes he finds comfort with his wife and parrot — an extraordinarily generous farewell to a murderer.

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