"I wish to see you, sir."
"You do see me—don't you?" growled the eccentric. "What's your business?"
"On the morning after the Hasbrook outrage, Captain Shivernock, you were seen at Seal Harbor," said Laud.
"Who says I was?" roared the captain, springing to his feet.
"I beg your pardon sir; but I say so," answered Laud, apparently unmoved by the violence of his auditor. "You were in the boat formerly owned by Mr. Ramsay, and you ran over towards the Northport shore."
"Did you see me?"
"I did," replied Laud.
"And you have come to levy black-mail upon me," added the captain, with a withering stare at his visitor.
"Nothing of the sort, sir. I claim to be a gentleman."
"O, you do!"