"Do you think Ikey Trethewy hasn't found out, living where he has lived all these years?"
"Ikey! Iss, Ikey do knaw. Aw, aw!"
I saw his meaning, and suspected then what I afterward found to be true. Cap'n Jack's business was very extensive, and he employed people up and down the coast on both sides of the county. Moreover, several pedlars who carried jewelry, laces, and fine silks, obtained their supplies from Cap'n Jack.
"The Preventive men are busy watching you," I said.
"The Preventive men, aw, my deear. Iss, they be watchin', but how do you knaw?"
I told him what I had heard between them and Richard Tresidder.
"Iss, iss," said Cap'n Jack, with a grunt of satisfaction; "tha's all right, and they'll never vind out, no, they'll never vind out, and now you've zaid oal, my booy?"
"No, I haven't; there's another who knows."
"Who?"
He looked at me in such a way, that before I had time to think his white eyes seemed to drag the words from me.