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Hasbrook, and he was glad to see that the work he had done made its impression upon him. In fact, his client was a little afraid that some of his arguments might be too radical in tone from the strictly legal point of view, he made haste to explain. But Montague reassured him upon this point. And then came the day when the great ship was ready for launching.
"Though I knew about it all the time, I didn't mean to say a word." "About what?" "About your tin trunk. We didn't keep any such in our store! I knew what you meant all the time; but I didn't let on that Don John had done it." "Done what?" "Stolen it. That day I was in the library with Don John and Hasbrook, I was discharged from Miller's, because I wanted to go away to stay over Sunday.
The visitor was one Jacob Hasbrook, from a neighboring town, and his reputation for honesty and fair dealings was not the best in the world. Captain Patterdale held his note, without security, for thirteen hundred and fifty dollars. Hasbrook had property, but his creditors were never sure of him till they were paid.
They looked like the bills he had deposited in the tin box, when Hasbrook paid him the thirteen hundred and fifty dollars and interest. Twelve of the bills which made up this sum were fifties, nearly new; the balance was in hundreds, and smaller notes, older, more discolored, and worn. "Laud Cavendish paid you three hundred and fifty dollars, then?" continued the nabob. "Yes, sir; just that.
"You knew that the captain was down by Long Island." "Yes, but I didn't know he was at Turtle Head; and I am satisfied now that he is the man that shook up Hasbrook that night," continued Laud, in meditative mood. "Are you? Then I will let the whole thing out," exclaimed Donald. "No, no! don't do that!" protested Laud. "That wouldn't be fair, at all."
Ben Hasbrook trod almost in Charlie Madden's footsteps going to Drennen; he came away almost immediately, tugging at his beard, hot-eyed and wrathful. Marshall Sothern, having had a word with Père Marquette, a word with Lunch Counter Joe, having seen Hasbrook's retreat, frowned thoughtfully and postponed any interview he may have desired with No-luck Drennen.
Donald was somewhat staggered in his belief by the evidence of his companion, but he determined to inquire further into the matter, and even hoped now that Hasbrook would call upon him. "One more question, Laud. Do you know where Captain Shivernock got the bills he paid you, and you paid me?" asked he. "Of course I don't.
Such a man was Ben Hasbrook, little and dried up and nervous mannered, a power in the network of ramifications of a big corporation having its head in Quebec, its tail in Vancouver, its claws everywhere throughout Canada. These men spelled big interests; these were the lions come to wrest away the prey which the pack of wolves was ravening for.
"No; though I thought I had seen him before," replied Donald, as they walked along in the rear of the party. "He is the man who was beaten within an inch of his life over to Lincolnville, a while ago." "Hasbrook?" "Yes, his name is Jacob Hasbrook." "He was with us in the library of Captain Patterdale the day we were there, when the man had a sun-stroke." "Was he? Well, I don't remember that.
I put the money in the box, intending to take it over to the bank before night, and deposit it the next day. I looked at the bill when I counted the money, and I spoke to Hasbrook about it. I called it the white cross of Denmark then." "Where did you get it now?" inquired Nellie, her heart in her throat with anxiety. "Mr. Leach, the sail-maker, paid it to me just before you came into the library."
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