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"Yes; and the captain didn't want to be seen, which is the best part of the testimony. If it was he, it seems to me you would have known him when he hammered you." "How could I, when he was rigged up so different, with his head all covered up?" replied Hasbrook, impatiently. "The man was about the captain's height, but stouter."
Hasbrook and Sothern are both on the job, and they're both good enough old ducks. But they haven't got the companies behind them I've got behind me. They can't get their fingers on the money as I can. And," shrugging his shoulders, "they're old guys and too damned cautious to live. I'll take a gamble. Damn it, I'm always ready for a gamble."
"He is the biggest scoundrel in the State of Maine, and I am much obliged to the man who did it. I would have taken a hand with him at the game, if I had been there." This was equivalent to saying that he was not there. "Do you know this Hasbrook?" asked Donald. "Do I know him? He swindled me out of a thousand dollars, and I ought to know him.
Apparently he was to be nothing but a figure-head in the case! And he turned to the phone and called up Mr. Hasbrook, and asked him what he expected him to do with these papers. There was the whole case here; and was he simply to take them as they stood? No one could have replied more considerately than did Mr. Hasbrook.
Beardsley slept some that night, though it is certain he was at Saturday Cove, in Northport, the next forenoon. He had a "theory;" and when a man has a theory, he will sometimes go without his sleep in order to prove its truth or its falsity. Jacob Hasbrook was with him, and quite as much interested in the theory as the officer, who desired to vindicate his reputation as a detective.
He had received the money in payment of his note, which he had expected to lose, or to obtain only after resorting to legal measures, and he was fully determined to have nothing more to do with the man. He had said all this as mildly as he could; but Hasbrook was persistent, and probably felt that in paying an honest debt he had thrown away thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.
"Have you heard the news, Captain Shivernock?" asked Donald, suddenly changing the topic. "What news?" "It's in the Age. A man over in Lincolnville, by the name of Hasbrook, was taken out of his bed last night, and severely beaten." "Hasbrook! Served him right!" exclaimed the captain, with a rough string of profanity, which cooled the blood of the listener.
Here is the motive for the outrage," reasoned Laud. "Why didn't he prosecute him for swindling? for that's what it was." "Captain Shivernock says he won't trouble any courts to fight his battles for him; he can fight them himself." "It was wrong to pound any man as Hasbrook was. Why, he wasn't able to go out of the house for a month," added Donald, who was clearly opposed to Lynch law.
"It seemed to me that this was obviously a just case, and it seemed so to you. And the only other matter that I thought you had a right to be assured of was that it was seriously meant. Of that I felt assured. It did not seem to me of any importance that there might be interested individuals behind Mr. Hasbrook.
I have seen some grand sights, but taking everything into consideration, that was the grandest sight I ever witnessed." Hasbrook followed relentlessly Jack's band and captured them in the canyon below Steel Swamp.
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