"I didn't send him," said Captain Chinks, very much perplexed.
"You didn't?"
"No; the young villain picked up the boat, but I couldn't do anything with him."
"Sho!" exclaimed Ben, who began to be worried himself. "Bobtail's here, and that other man with him."
"What other man!" demanded the captain, savagely.
"That man that took the stuff off your hands."
"What stuff!"
"Why, the liquor that was in the Skylark."
"What do you mean, Ben?"
"Didn't Bob pick up the Skylark and land the stuff in the night; and didn't you sell it to that other man? and didn't he move it out of Bob's house in the night?"