Perhaps half-an-hour had passed when he returned to Dan in the Bar. "The old gentleman's gone, sir," he said.
"Gone!—where?" cried Dan.
"Don't know, sir," Jesse replied. "To the schooner, I guess. He left this money on his dressing-bureau."
Dan took the gold which Jesse held out to him. "Well, well," he murmured, "quite on his dignity, eh? All right, Jess, take his stuff to the beach and hail the schooner. He will probably have given directions. I hope we've seen the last of him."
PART IV
THE ATTACK ON THE INN
CHAPTER XVIII
THE AVENUE OF MAPLES