However, as I have never spoken to him about that affair from beginning to end, I don't see that he can do any mischief if he wants to." Andrew Jackson, however, had obtained information which he considered valuable.

He learned that Vincent had been away in a boat for five days, and that his mother had been very uneasy about him.

He also learned that the boat was one belonging to Mr.Furniss, and that it was only quite lately that Vincent had taken to going out sailing.
After considerable trouble he succeeded in getting at one of the slaves upon Mr.Furniss' plantation.

But he could only learn from him that Vincent had been unaccompanied, when he went out in the boat, either by young Furniss or by any of the plantation hands; that he had taken with him only his own slave, and had come and gone as he chose, taking out and fastening up the boat himself, so that no one could say when he had gone out, except that his horse was put up at the stables.

The slave said that certainly the horse had only stood there on two or three occasions, and then only for a few hours, and that unless Mr.Wingfield had walked over he could never have had the boat out all night, as the horse certainly had not stood all night in the stables.
Andrew Jackson talked the matter over with his son, and both agreed that Vincent's conduct was suspicious.