until a warrant had been obtained replied mr it should be done at once and mr hastened to attend to this important duty dock and attempted to resist the as he termed it but the was determined and not the prisoner s protest or his struggles on his person was found a variety of papers and among them the letter which captain had written in the cabin of the but this document had no signature and was hardly more half round the world satisfactory than the letter which mr had received from at least it contained no accurate information one sentence however was sufficiently definite to make a beginning upon we are somewhere inside of sandy hook ready to go to sea at a moment s notice captain wrote you know where to leave a letter in new york when you are ready to go on board and one of us goes up to the city every day now it s no use said dock you can t find the mr i may rot in jail but you will never see your daughter again if you go on with this matter if you want to get her back pay me the money i ask let me go and you shall have her in a week i will not pay you a dollar replied mr firmly all right added dock with a sneer you will wish you had in the course of a year or two i know what i m about this time mr mr and went to another room to consider the situation leaving in charge of the prisoner of fortune or � do you want to make a hundred dollars easy said dock in a whisper i don t know replied the officer i can t compromise myself you run no risk added dock as he wrote with a pencil on half a sheet of note paper the letter which captain received just before the sailed put this in an envelope direct it to captain john care of e g co no � maiden lane new york and put it into the post office that s all and here is a hundred dollars took the note and the money dock wrote the direction for the letter on a piece of paper he thrust the whole into his pocket he had his doubts as well he might about the propriety of the letter from the information obtained was satisfied that the was at anchor in one of the secluded below york waiting for dock to join her it was not likely that she would go to sea without her owner whose family were on board of her dock says she will go to whether he her or not mr half bound the she will not sail till those on board have heard from dock we must take care that he does not send any letter or message added perhaps it would be better to let him do so if we could only stop the letter at the post office but we don t know who has charge of the vessel it is plain that he has a captain on board of her but he does not sign his name to the letter we found upon dock interposed mr don t let him send any letters persisted then the will stay where she is till we find her that is the better way replied mr perhaps it is said mr but it would do no harm to ask the to stop any letter to mat for instance mat did not take that vessel round to new york added there is a bigger man than he on board of her and we don j know his name we can t do anything in this way unless we stop all the letters directed to the vicinity of new york doesn t this man s name appear in any of dock s papers op or no i have looked in vain for it mr said suddenly springing to his feet i am sure i can find both mr and mr looked at him with interest he had done a similar work once before and his confident expression was entitled to respect i am as sure as i want to be that the is somewhere in new york bay dock s letter says so he sent her there intending to join her as soon as he had collected his black mail the facts and the theory agree with each other u admit what you say added mr a and there is no doubt of it what shall we do tt i will go to new york in the flag i can tell the as far as i can see her by night or by day i will stand off and on by sandy hook so that she cannot pass me you and mr shall go to new york to night a small steamer and explore all the and below the city till you find her w she may escape before you get there suggested mr half bound the world a no she will wait till she hears from dock it may get into the newspapers we will see that it does not various to s plan were considered but it was adopted without material alteration mr thought it would be better to a steamer in new york for s use but he preferred the she would be under his control and at the critical moment would not be out of coal or her machinery out of order determined to sail as soon as the examination of dock was finished he engaged three extra hands and put provisions and water enough on board to meet any emergency in case the should be unexpectedly prolonged he was confident that his plan could not fail and if had not been unfit for a place of trust probably it would not have failed either in whole or in 