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But, more than this, I also learned that Blowitz had cheated me in another way, by taking property and money that belonged to me. I consulted my lawyers, and they told me I had a right to the entire ship Rockhaven and all that it contained. I am the sole owner, and Blowitz has no right to the brig nor anything on it. It is all mine, though he is trying to get it.
Things have gone up in Rockhaven, and the place that cost my father eleven hundred dollars seven years ago, is worth eighteen hundred or two thousand now. My affectionate grandpa knows this just as well as my mother; and if he can get the place for the seven hundred we owe him, he will do it. He says it is too expensive a place for poor folks who haven't got anything."
But I was thinking I might engage the motor boat and you with it, as a crew, to go on a cruise for me." "A cruise?" "Yes, out on the Pacific, but not too far from shore, say not more than twenty miles." "What for?" asked Jerry. "To search for that derelict the brig Rockhaven!" "The Rockhaven!" exclaimed Ned and Bob together.
"Do you deny that you are following me, and seeking to find the derelict Rockhaven?" demanded Mr. De Vere. "I deny nothing I admit nothing, my dear partner." "I am no longer in partnership with you, since you tried to cheat me," was the answer. "I consider our relations at an end." "Very well. But I am sorry to see that you are hurt. I hope it is nothing serious."
"Where is it?" asked Leopold, now for the first time manifesting a real interest in the conversation. "In the ground." "Buried?" "Yes." Miss Liverage was very much agitated for a few moments, for she had now actually entered upon the business which had brought her to Rockhaven.
Katharina Schlager spoke English then as well as a native; and she was not only neat and skillful, but she was a pretty and wholesome-looking woman. Peter married her, and, after a while, bought out the hotel. But he was not successful in the venture; and, with only a few hundred dollars in his pocket, he returned to Rockhaven, his native place, where he soon opened the Cliff House.
"Neither can I," said the fop, angrily; for by this time he had come to the conclusion that Leopold did not intend to do "the fair thing." The money-digger was appalled to think of having the story of the buried treasure told all over Rockhaven, and perhaps being compelled to hand it over to his father before he had made any effort to find the heirs of the lost passenger.
We are very anxious to get to some good hotel, where we can remain till the fog has blown away," continued Mr. Hamilton. "You can go into Rockhaven, sir," suggested Leopold. The Hon. Mr. Hamilton smiled gloomily, and shrugged his shoulders, for he knew how limited were the accommodations in the old Cliff House. "Your hotel would not hold us, Leopold," said Mr. Hamilton.
It is true that the people of Rockhaven were very much surprised to hear Squire Moses and his son preaching such a doctrine; but they were willing to accept it, for it seemed to be just and right that the heirs should have what plainly belonged to them. Unknown to them, and not yet with the entire approbation of his father, Leopold was their ally in directing public sentiment.
If there was any person in or about Rockhaven from whom he would have particularly desired to keep his secret, it was Mr. Charles Redmond, or any other person like him. Both Leopold and Stumpy supposed the little New Yorker with the eye-glass was making himself as agreeable as he could to the young ladies on the cliffs above.
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