been to Bar Harbor."

"I have."

"Did you see Captain Chinks?"

"I haven't anything to say about it," answered Bobtail.

"Can't you tell me whether you saw him or not?" asked the squire, in his
cross-examination style.

"I can, but I would rather not. Mr. Brooks told me to keep still about
it, and I'm going to do so."

The squire coaxed and threatened, but without effect.

"You will know all about it to-day or to-morrow. There comes the
Eagle,--Captain Chinks's boat, Squire Gilfilian. He's in her, and he
will tell you all you want to know, and more too, perhaps."

The lawyer was not in good humor, though he was, in the main, a very
good sort of man. He did not like to have a boy like Little Bobtail say
no to him.

"I must say, Mrs. Taylor, it looks rather black for your son. Colonel
Montague testifies that the bill which was stolen with the letter was
paid for a boat to a gentleman at Bar Harbor. Your son comes home one
night with a boat, and no one knows where he got it," said Squire
Gilfilian, sharply.

"He told where he got it, and he was discharged at the examination
yesterday," replied Mrs. Taylor, smartly.

"We shall see when Captain Chinks gets back."

"I think you will see," added Bobtail.

"In the mean time, Mrs. Taylor, I shall expect you to pay the mortgage
note," said the squire, as he walked towards the railroad wharf, where
the Eagle appeared to be headed.

Bobtail soon followed him, and was at the wharf when the Eagle came up
at the steps.

"So you have arrived, Bobtail," said Mr. Hines.

"I got in at eleven o'clock last night, and should have been here sooner
if I hadn't stopped to pick up the Penobscot's people," replied the
skipper of the Skylark, as he proceeded to describe his cruise, and tell
the news of the wreck, and of the death of the Hon. Mr. Montague.

"And so you have been to Belfast since?"

"Yes; and been back some time. Where's Captain Chinks? Squire Gilfilian
wants to see him," added Bobtail, as the lawyer came down the steps.

"The captain is below. He is all used up, and willing to confess
everything. But we must take him down to Rockland at once, and we will
go in the Skylark. For we want her there."

"She's all ready, sir."

"Where's Captain Chinks?" demanded the squire.

The captain came on deck when he heard the lawyer's voice. He was pale
and dejected. The Eagle had anchored under the lee of an island during
the storm, and Mr. Hines had explained to hi