"He wouldn't tell me where he was going or what he was going to do, but he did let drop a remark or two about the fortune you discovered on Treasure Isle. He said that he was firmly convinced that the money belonged to him and to his uncle's estate, and that he meant some day to make a fight for it."
"In the courts?" asked Tom. "If he does that he'll get beaten. Father says the treasure belongs to the Stanhope estate and to nobody else."
"No, he didn't say he was going to court about it, but he said he was bound to get hold of it some day."
"I hope he doesn't try to get it by force," said Sam. "That would mean trouble for the Stanhopes and the Lanings."
"The money is in the banks now, Sam," said Dick. "He couldn't get hold of it excepting on an order from those to whom it belongs."
"And they'll never give him any such order," added Tom.
"Do you suppose he was going to see the Stanhopes and the Lanings?" questioned the oldest Rover anxiously.
"He didn't say, I wanted to question him further, but a man who was standing on a corner, some distance away, beckoned to him, and he left me and joined the man, and the two walked off."
"Who was the man?"
"I don't know."