Where is it ?" Winslow put down his work and began to hunt.

From one drawer of his work bench, amid nails, tools and huddles of papers, he produced a small bundle of banknotes; from another drawer another bundle.

These, however, did not seem to satisfy him entirely.

At last, after a good deal of very deliberate search, he unearthed more paper currency from the pocket of a dirty pair of overalls hanging on a nail, and emptied a heap of silver and coppers from a battered can on the shelf.

Captain Hunniwell, muttering to himself, watched the collecting process.