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Updated: June 13, 2025
Captain Patterdale opened the door himself, and Captain Shivernock stalked into the room as haughtily as though he owned the elegant mansion. He had been to Newport and Cape May to keep cool, and had arrived a couple of hours before from Portland. Mrs.
I will sail up in your boat, and you may go to Jerusalem in the Juno, if you like. I will never get into her again," added the captain, spitefully. "But, Captain Shivernock, you surely don't mean to give me this boat." "Do you think I don't know what I mean?" roared the strange man, after a long string of expletives. "She is yours, now; not mine.
But Donald paid little attention to the speed of the Juno, for his attention was wholly absorbed by the remarkable events of the morning. Captain Shivernock had given him sixty dollars in payment nominally for the slight service rendered him.
"Captain Shivernock gave me sixty dollars, and then gave me the Juno, for which I understood that I was not to say I had seen him that day. I refused to sell the boat to Laud till he told me where he got the money. When he told me the captain had given it to him, and would not say what for, I concluded his case was just the same as my own.
It was now about half tide on the flood, and she must have grounded at about half tide on the ebb. This fact indicated that Captain Shivernock had left her at four o'clock in the morning. The owner of the Juno stepped into her, and Donald hoisted the sail for him. The boat was cat-rigged, and about twenty-four feet long.
"But you paid him a considerable sum of money some two months ago," suggested Captain Patterdale. "Not a red!" protested Laud. "I never paid him any money in my life." "You bought the Juno of him." "No, sir; nor of any one else. She don't belong to me." "But you are using her all the time." "Captain Shivernock got tired of her, and lets me have the use of her for taking care of her."
"You promised not to tell where I got the money to pay for the Juno. You went back on me," pleaded Laud. "I told you I wouldn't tell if everything was all right. When it appeared that the mended bill was not all right, I mentioned your name, but not till then." "That is so," added the nabob. "Now, Laud, did Captain Shivernock pay you any money?"
"I do," growled the rich culprit. "He is the fellow that saved a man's life down at Haddock Ledge; a man he hadn't been introduced to, who gave him a pile of money for the job, but didn't give him his name." "But, Captain Shivernock, you said you gave him some money, and you didn't tell us what you gave it to him for," added Beardsley. "That was my joke." "We do not see the point of it."
If there was any probability that Captain Shivernock had committed the crime, our hero was not to be bribed by sixty or six thousand dollars to keep the secret. If guilty, he would have been more likely to go below and turn in than to walk three miles on the island for assistance, and he would not have gone three miles off his course.
As he approached the landing steps, he saw Captain Shivernock hastening down the wharf with a valise in his hand. It was evident that he was going up the river, perhaps to Bangor. Laud did not like the idea of the captain's going away just at that time.
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