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Donald felt that he was in hot water, in spite of the assurance of / Captain Patterdale that he believed him innocent of all wrong, and he / was sorry that he had made any bargains, conditional or otherwise, with / Captain Shivernock or Laud Cavendish. The nabob would not tell him what / was wrong, and he could not determine whether Laud or some other person / had stolen the money. He went into the house on his return from the / elegant mansion. His mother had gone to watch with a sick neighbor, / though his sister Barbara was sewing in the front room.
Donald was troubled, not by a guilty conscience, but by the fear that he / had innocently done wrong in concealing his relations with Captain / Shivernock and with Laud Cavendish. Somehow the case looked different / now from what it had before. Laud had told where he got his money, and / given a good reason, as it seemed to him at the time, for concealment; / but why the strange man desired secrecy he was utterly unable to / imagine. He almost wished he had told Captain Patterdale all about his / meeting with Captain Shivernock on Long Island, and asked his advice. It / was not too late to do so now. Donald was so uneasy that he could not / sit in the house, and went out doors. He walked about the beach for a / time, and then sat down in front of the shop to think the matter over / again.