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[Treasure Island] Why didn’t Billy Bones want to get the treasure?

It’s my favourite book and I’ve read it probably 30 times, but I can’t understand why he wouldn’t want to get the treasure with Flints old crew. Did he plan to get it himself? That wouldn’t make sense.
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I think he and Silver had some kind of personal beef going on, and the old crew were loyal to Silver. For whatever reason, keeping Silver and his friends from having the treasure was more important to Billy than getting it for himself. He'd rather die poor than enrich his enemy.

So why not scrape together a new crew and go in secret? Well, Silver ran a pub on the docks, which means he had his ear to the ground. Going by Pew's part in the story, he was actively looking for Billy. If Billy started putting together a crew, especially on a limited budget, there was a risk that word would make its way back to Silver, and then Billy would be doomed.