CHAPTER XXXIII.
ON THE YACHT.
For fully two minutes there was a lapse of dead silence, broken only by the commotion in the outside bar-room.
Will sat watching Morris in the half light of the apartment with the keenest satisfaction.
He realized that the latter was tormented over what he knew from Will’s disclosures to be the wreck of all his evil schemes.
For if the true story of the Albatross was known, and his attempt to wreck the Golden Moose made public he might lose both his fortune and his liberty.
It was not Will’s intention to reveal the entire truth to him, however.
He was, in fact, now sorry that he had warned him to the extent he had.
Finally the captain said:
“You say you don’t know where Jack Marcy is?”