“I don’t understand,” said the boy, opening the bag, and looking in puzzlement at the bills and coin within.
“You don’t know anything about it, do you, Rod?”
“Never saw it before in my life,” answered Rodney, blankly. “Whose is it?”
“I don’t know,” said Jack. “I don’t understand it at all!”
“No, nor me, neither,” said the fisherman. “Leastwise, I ain’t got the proper hang of it, but I’ve got a notion, just the same. You say these two men set you adrift in the dinghy?”
Jack nodded.
“And then as soon as your backs were turned they started to strip off all the sheathing o’ the cabin?”
“Why, yes. And I saw Hegan put his hand behind one of the boards and lift this bag out.”
“Then,” declared Captain Sennet, logically, “if they went after this they must ha’ knowed it was there, and if they did they must ha’ been the ones who put it there! Who else could ha’ knowed where it was, besides them as put it there?”
Jack sat up suddenly, with a most astounding idea in his head. “I’m going to count it,” he announced.