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Then he tried to satisfy himself as to why the captain had walked at least three miles to Turtle Head, instead of waiting till the tide floated the Juno. This appeared to be also a whim of the strange man. People in the city used to say it was no use to ask the reason for anything that Captain Shivernock did.
"How are you, Don John?" shouted the captain, as he came within hailing distance of Donald. "How do you do, Captain Shivernock," replied the young man, rather coldly, for he had no regard, and certainly no admiration, for the man. "You are just the man I wanted to see," added the captain. Donald could not reciprocate the sentiment, and, not being a hypocrite, he made no reply.
"No, sir," replied Laud, who had concluded to tell the whole truth, hoping it would go easier with him if he did so. "Where did you get the mended bill you paid Don John?" "From the tin trunk." "Why did you say that Captain Shivernock gave you the money you paid for the Juno?" "I couldn't account for it in any other way.
"I meant all questions." "But I cannot betray the secrets of Captain Shivernock. My honor " "Stick your honor up chimney!" interrupted Donald. "If you go back on the agreement, I shall take the fire before Squire Peters. The question I asked was, why Captain Shivernock gave you four or five hundred dollars?" "I wish I could answer you, Don John; but I do not feel at liberty to do so just now.
I started early this morning to go down to Vinal Haven; but I'm dished now, and can't go," continued Captain Shivernock, so interlarding with oaths this simple statement that it looks like another thing divested of them. "Where did you get aground?" asked Donald. "Down by Seal Harbor." "About three miles from here." "Do you think I lied to you?" "By no means, sir."
He had driven to the house of the victim of the outrage, and looked the matter over again in the light of the evidence obtained from the boat-builder. "I have been trying to see Donald Ramsay," said Hasbrook. "I have been to his shop four times, but he's always off on some boat scrape. You say he saw Captain Shivernock the next morning."
Don John says he had it from me." "Precisely so; and that is what makes it unpleasant to be suspected of a crime," laughed Captain Shivernock. "But you don't state where you got the bill, Mr. Cavendish. Perhaps you don't wish to tell." "I shall tell the whole story with the greatest pleasure," added Laud.
"Is Captain Shivernock at home?" asked the young man, trying to appear indifferent, for he wanted to get as much information in regard to the strange man's movements during the last twenty-four hours as possible. "No, he is not," replied Sykes, who to some extent aped the manners of his eccentric employer.
While he was plying his oars, it suddenly came across the mind of the young boat-builder that he could not sell this boat without exposing his relations to Captain Shivernock. He was rather startled by the thought, but, before he had followed it out to a conclusion, the tender was alongside the Juno. "How are you, Don John?" said Laud. "I thought I would come down and look over the Juno."
"I remember that, Don John," added the captain. "He told me that Captain Shivernock gave him the money; but he would not tell me why he gave it to him; but I knew without any telling, for the captain gave me sixty dollars, besides the Juno, for holding my tongue." "About what?" asked the nabob, deeply interested in the narrative.
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