Isabel Ostrander

“ They can't get the French one to say a word, but the Grady girl's cornered like a rat in a trap, and telling all she knows. Maida——" he turned to me suddenly. "I don't want to distress you now, Little Princess, but that sailor on the yacht whom you told all of us about this morning—the one who picked up your handkerchief and called you 'Miss Smith' and whom you overheard talking in an insolent tone to Craigen just before you landed—didn't you say he was fair-haired, and very broad shouldered and tanned, with bold prominent eyes?" ”

“ The chief could scarcely restrain his amazement when I told him of Herman Goebel and Connie Cole, and I wish I could have had a photograph of Daddy's face at the mention of May Grady and the role she had played.
"I know who they all are now," the chief remarked, when I had finished. "Pelissier is that scoundrel's real name, as it happens, although he's traveled under many another in his time, and Nicolette is his wife. They're infernally clever swindlers and confidence workers of the first grade, and they're wanted from Petersburg to Frisco, Scotland Yard to Cape Town. ”

“ I told every other detail that I could remember which might have any possible bearing on the conspiracy, from the moment the doors of Miss Farmingdale's had closed behind me, even to that cry in the night and the flowerbed which was never completed, and which looked so much like a grave. ”

“ He was gone more than an hour, and when he returned, he looked very grave and stern, as if he had received some kind of a shock, too.
"When you blew up their boathouse, Gilbert, you did for two of them," he said, in a significant tone. "Pelissier and Craigen have gone to their account."
"Poor Nicolette!" I cried softly, my thoughts darting swiftly to the unhappy wife, but no one heard me except Gilbert and he only pressed my hand, quietly.
"Goebel's injured, but he'll live, I hope, to spend a few wholesome years in prison," Daddy went on. "The chief got them all. The women aren't hurt. ”

“ The yacht had only been hired for the occasion, so of course it would never have done to let him get away from the island with the information he already possessed. Craigen made an appointment with him for late that night, and then he and Pelissier did for the fellow—garrotted him, in true Apache fashion. May Grady doesn't know how they succeeded in explaining his defection to the Captain of the yacht, so that he would sail the next morning without the Swede ”