“If you won’t prosecute I’ll tell all about the Captain’s schemes.”
“I know them already.”
“I’ll tell you who the Captain is he divided with on the oil, and you can make him pay it back.”
Alan was silent.
“I’ll also tell you where Morris hid his pocket book.”
“I can’t agree to compromise a crime,” said Alan, “but if you try to repair your wrong I will try to make your punishment as light as possible.”
“All right, Captain. I hope you will. I never would have stayed with Morris, only he knew I had been in jail and threatened to have me arrested again.”
“And the pocket book?”
“Here it is. Morris handed it to me while the officers were not looking.”
Alan left the pocket book with the police, and that night he and Will and Jack started homeward bound for Watertown.