“Are you sure you are telling me the truth?” asked the commander of the cutter. “Dead sure of it, sir; and, if you go to the ship, you will find Mr. Wallgood on board of her, with his wife and Mrs. Crogick, who is her sister.” “You said that before,” said the captain. “The cashier gave the men on the yacht a hundred dollars apiece to keep still about it; and I don’t know what he gave the captain of the ‘Moonlight,’” continued Wade, not a little excited. “He gave me a hundred dollars too; but Capt. Bendig took it away from me.” “And that’s the reason you are telling about the matter, I suppose,” added Capt. Singleton. “I told Mr. Wallgood I would keep still if I was allowed to keep the money; and, as the captain did not allow me to keep it, I am willing to tell all I know about the case,” answered Wade. “I see; and the captain of the yacht made a mistake when he took the money away from you,” laughed the commander. “I didn’t mean to meddle with any thing that did not concern me,” said Wade. “Didn’t you say you would not take any of the money the two boys had?” “Yes, sir: I wouldn’t have any thing to do with the money Matt Swikes stole from his father.” “But you were willing to take some of the money the cashier stole. How is this?” asked Capt. Singleton. “I didn’t think any thing about it. Do you suppose the hundred dollars was a part of the money he stole from the bank?” asked Wade, with a look of anxiety on his face; for this was the first time he had thought about the subject. “I should suppose so, though I know nothing about it.” “I had an idea that the hundred thousand dollars he took from the bank was all fixed up some other way. I heard him tell his wife about it; but I couldn’t understand it. Somehow he was to get the money when he got to Italy. At any rate, I didn’t think the money he gave me had any thing to do with what he stole: if I had, I wouldn’t have taken it.” “And you say the two boys are on board of that yacht?” “Yes, sir; and one of them is the son of Capt. Trustleton, the president of the bank,” replied Wade. “His son, is he? What did he say when he saw the cashier of his father’s bank on board of the yacht?” “He did not see him. Capt. Bendig locked the two boys into his state-room till the cashier and his wife had gone on board of the ‘Housatonic.’” Capt. Singleton sent the officer to direct Mr. Wilkins to take possession of the yacht. He wanted her captain to be where he could find him. He questioned Wade for half an hour longer, and then he sent a boat to bring Lon Trustleton on board. “He will tell you hard stories about me; but they are not true,” said Wade, when the boat had gone. “I will hear what he has to say. Did you tell the president’s son that the cashier had gone on board of the ship?” asked Capt. Singleton. “No, sir: I had no chance, for the captain kept them out of my way. He took them into the cabin.”