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"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 gave him his coffee at half past three, and it must have been about four when he went away." If the outrage at Lincolnville had been committed in "the dead of the night," it was perfectly evident to Donald that Captain Shivernock had had nothing whatever to do with it.
He was just the man to take the law into his own hands, and assault one who had done him a real or a fancied injury. Donald began to think he understood why the captain did not wish it to be known that he was on Long Island the night before. But the outrage had been committed in Lincolnville, which bordered the western arm of Penobscot Bay. It was three miles from the main land to the island.
"Perhaps I can," added Captain Shivernock, who seemed to be in an unusual humor on this occasion, for the pretentious manners of his visitor appeared to amuse rather than irritate him. "Again, sir, Jacob Hasbrook, of Lincolnville, believes you are the man who pounded him to a jelly that night," continued Laud. "Does he?" laughed the captain.
"What's the news?" asked Donald, rather to open the way to what he had to say, than because he was interested in the latest intelligence. "How are you, Donald?" replied the ship carpenter. "There's a bit of news from Lincolnville, but I suppose you heard it; for all the town is talking about it." "I haven't heard it."
It was said that he was as faithful and devoted in his friendships as he was bitter and relentless in his hatreds; but no one in the city, where he was a very unpopular man, had any particular experience of the soft side of his character. He was a native of Lincolnville, near Belfast, though he had left his home in his youth. He had a fine house in the city, and lived in good style.
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