"No!" roared Captain Chinks.
"That's what they said, anyhow," added Ben, stoutly.
"Who said so?"
"Why, the man that took the stuff off your hands."
"Who is he?"
"Well, don't you know?"
"No, I don't," gasped Captain Chinks.
"I'm sure I don't, then. He wouldn't tell me his name. He came down in the Skylark with Bobtail yesterday."
The gentleman with a doubtful reputation uttered an exceedingly hard and naughty expletive, and he did so with much emphasis. His face was very red, and his lips quivered with wrath.
"Have you been talking with any one about this business, Ben Chinks?" demanded the smuggler, shaking his clinched fist in the face of his nephew.