I looked to Eli, but before the dwarf could speak Tamsin had caught my hands.
"I have plenty, Jasper," she cried. "Oh, let me help you! It was all my fault, let me do what I can now."
"Where is your money, girl?" asked Mr. Penryn.
"It is at Kynance, Jasper," she said, not noticing him; "father is not yet home, and we can get there before he returns."
"It is scarcely out of our way," I said to Mr. Penryn, and it seemed our only hope. And so we went thitherward, although I had grave doubts as to whether Cap'n Jack had not returned.