"I want to see you about that money," added Pearl.
"What money?"
"You know what money as well as I do!" roared Pearl with a string of oaths. "The money you stole at the hotel!"
"The money Dory stole!" ejaculated Corny Minkfield, with a look of horror on his face.
"What hotel? I didn't steal any money at any hotel," returned Dory, startled at the charge.
"Yes, you did! It's no use to deny it. The landlord sent me off after you; and you'll have to pay for it, for the wild-goose chase you have led me on," cried Pearl, who had evidently lost his patience and his temper.
"I didn't know any money had been stolen from a hotel; and I didn't steal it," cried Dory, as the Goldwing passed out of easy talking distance from the steamer.
"You stole the money to buy that boat, and it's no sale!" yelled Pearl.
"Stole the money to buy the boat!" exclaimed Corny, looking at his fellow-members of the Goldwing Club.
"I don't believe it!" ejaculated Thad Glovering. "Dory isn't that kind of a fellow. He wouldn't do such a thing."