It is not
true. It was his belief that if he were given time in which to
realize them all would be well and every creditor paid in full.
He started in his little yacht for Norway just before the
warrant was issued for his arrest. I can remember that last
night when he bade farewell to my mother. He left us a list of
the securities he was taking, and he swore that he would come
back with his honour cleared, and that none who had trusted him
would suffer. Well, no word was ever heard from him again.
Both the yacht and he vanished utterly. We believed, my mother
and I, that he and it, with the securities that he had taken
with him, were at the bottom of the sea. We had a faithful
friend, however, who is a business man, and it was he who
discovered some time ago that some of the securities which my
father had with him have reappeared on the London market.
You can imagine our amazement. I spent months in trying to
trace them, and at last, after many doublings and difficulties,
I discovered that the original seller had been Captain Peter
Carey, the owner of this hut.
"Naturally, I made some inquiries about the man.
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