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"I will, uncle. As surely as father was
murdered, I will remember--when the time comes."
They were strange words from a boy. My uncle looked at me again, but
doubtless thinking my brain turned with grief, said nothing.
"Have you told anybody?" I asked at length.
"I have seen nobody. There will be an inquest, of course, but in
this case an inquest can do nothing. Murderer and murdered have both
gone to their account. By the way, I suppose nothing has been seen
of the man who gave evidence. It was an unlikely tale; and this
makes it the more suspicious. Bless my soul!" said my uncle,
suddenly, "to think it never struck me before! Your father was to
sail in the _Belle Fortune_, and this man gave the name of the ship
as the _James and Elizabeth_."
"It was the _Belle Fortune_, and the man told a falsehood."
"I suppose it must have been."
"I know it was."
"Know? How do you know?"
"Because the _James and Elizabeth_ is lying at this moment in
Falmouth Harbour, and her captain is down at the 'Lugger.'"
Thereupon I told how I had met with Captain Antonius Merrydew.


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