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`` The wind is fair , and there is plenty of it , '' added Donald . `` What time did he leave ? '' `` About four o'clock . I gave him his coffee at half past three , and it must have been about four when he went away . '' If the outrage at Lincolnville had been committed in `` the dead of the night , '' it was perfectly evident to Donald that Captain Shivernock had had nothing whatever to do with it . This conclusion was a great relief to the mind of the young man ; but he had hardly reached it before the captain himself passed through the gate , and fixed a searching gaze upon him , as though he regarded him as an interloper . `` What are you doing here , Don John ? ''