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The Challenge of 1812had been paid off. O n 9 July, Charles Dre w of the "Monticello"appeared at Adams ' house and proclaimed that onlyone ma n of his vessel had received his wages. Adam s couldn'tignore Drew as easily as he had Cook. Drew was just a commonseaman, but also a ma n of considerable intelligence and stubbornness.When , a bit later, Adams asked Harris about Drew's complaint,Harris produced an account sent him by Sparrow showinga payment of nearly three thousand rubles to the crew ofthe "Monticello" as a whole and three hundred and forty-onerubles, forty-four copecks, to Dre w in particular. Adam s tookthis account and showed it to Drew, who "solemnly protestedand swore he had not received a copeck, and he indulgedhimself in reflections upon Sparrow and Harris natural enoughon such an occasion, and which though I did not encouragethem, I could not blame."O n 11 July, Adam s had from Sparrow an entirely ne waccount of payments of wages to the crew of the "Monticello."Adam s was satisfied. "I a m very sure," said Adam s to Harris,"that if it had not been for Drew, not a ma n of them wouldhave received a ruble." Harris promised that the matter wouldbe settled with no further trouble to Adams. (One wonders ifDre w and his fellows ever did really receive their wages or25not.)Why didn't Adams follow up with an investigation of whatwas so blatantly collusion between the masters of the falseAmerican vessels and Sparrow and, probably, Harris? Adams 'suspicions about Harris, which apparently had existed formonths and perhaps years, must have been inflamed by thisaffair of Cook and Drew and their poor fellow seamen.241