"Not particularly; but if they had been on the shore the pilot would have seen them. The clerk told me you lost your money last night, Phil."
"Yes, sir;" and I repeated my story to him.
"We will take an officer and visit the house," added the captain.
"The sooner we go, the more likely we shall be to find Lynch," I suggested.
"We will go at once, then."
Captain Davis and I landed, and walked up to the hotel. An officer was procured, and I led the way to the lodging-house. We entered without announcing our visit, and proceeded to the office, as Glynn had called the room in front of the gambling den.
"So you have come back, youngster," said the burly assistant.
"Where is the man that calls himself Lynch?" demanded the officer.
"No such man here," replied Glynn. "Don't know him."