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Rh "Now I want my money!" stormed Giles Borden. "Every shilling of it!"

"I haven't any of it," replied Rumney. "Geswick and Pardell have it all." Rumney had had a quarrel with his fellows, just as Merwell had quarreled with Jasniff.

"Just you wait, Rumney; we'll fix you for going back on us," growled Andrew Geswick. But this threat did him little good. In the end he and Pardell had to hand over every penny taken from Giles Borden, and then they were marched off to jail, to await a hearing before the authorities.

In the meantime Dave had run across the deck and followed Jasniff down the companionway. He was afraid that the evil-minded youth might hide the stolen jewels or throw them overboard.

When he got below he looked around, but could see nothing of the other boy. He ran along a passageway, peering into one stateroom after another, and also into the cabin and the pantry. Then he heard something like a cover drop near by and hurried in that direction.

Jasniff was in a corner stateroom on his hands and knees. Beside him was a flat steamer trunk, which was closed. It was the lid of this trunk that Dave had heard drop.

"Jasniff, come out of that!" ordered Dave, sternly. "Come right out and hand over those jewels."