Now Winn Caspar had accidentally discovered it, and recognized it as the _Venture_.
He did not know the man standing in the doorway and looking so curiously at him, nor did he suppose himself known by the other.

So, with a great effort, he strove to conceal the tumult of his feelings, and to appear natural and self-possessed.

He answered the man's curt inquiry regarding his business there by saying, in as pleasant a tone as he could command, that he was searching for a lost monkey, which he thought might have taken to the timber beside which this raft was moored.

"You startled me by throwing open your door so suddenly just as I was about to knock," he continued; "but you haven't seen anything of a stray monkey this morning, have you ?" "Not until this moment," answered the man, surlily, "and I don't want to see any more of him.

Good-day." With this he slammed the door in the boy's face, and then, stealing on tiptoe to a window, watched for his departure from the raft.
To say that Mr.Grimshaw was rendered uneasy and apprehensive by this sudden appearance of one whom he suppose to be hundreds of miles away, and who was also the very person he was most anxious to avoid, would by no means express his feelings.