Chapter 20
WHAT CAME OF A DEMAND The letter from Amos Bangs worried Andrew Shalley a little and he at once called on Captain Hadley, as soon as the steamboat made a landing at Nyack. "It seems you ran down a boy a few days ago," said the steamboat owner. "He tried to run us down," answered the captain, quietly. "Was he hurt?" "Not in the least." "His father wants a thousand dollars' damages." "I wouldn't pay him a cent." "Did you run him down?" "No, he tried to run us down." "This is no joke, Captain Hadley." "I know it, Mr. Shalley. But to threaten us with a suit at law is absurd. I can bring a dozen witnesses to prove that the accident was entirely of the boy's making." "I am glad to hear that," and Andrew Shalley breathed a sigh of relief. He did not care so much for the mo
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