Isabel Ostrander

“ They stayed shut up in the saloon and they never touched the food that had been laid out for them, but from the empty bottles scattered around Hoyos must have tanked up on enough champagne to float the whole boat. Later, going on toward midnight, the quarrel broke out again louder than before, the girl crying fit to kill herself and the man shouting and swearing like the brute he was.
"The stewardess on board had her own reasons for hating Hoyos and when she heard the girl's sobs she felt sorry for her, and crept up and listened at the door. ”

“ I don't know how the girl down south found out that Hoyos and Hoguet were the same, but I suspect it was through a discharged valet he'd beaten up; the stewardess on the second yacht, The Muette, heard him swear to get even. Anyhow, one night in May—the twenty-sixth, it was—when The Muette was lying off in the Hudson the girl came on board. Hoyos was evidently expecting to see someone else entirely for when he came into the saloon where he'd directed his guest was to be shown and found out who it was he took good care that none of the crew or the help should get a sight of her face. ”

“ Dennis gazed about him in bewilderment. "I could have sworn I saw a woman coming in here; a woman with a long, black veil!"
"You'll be seeing more than that before the night's over!" retorted McCarty impatiently.
The arrival of Vivaseur and Calvin Norwood, the former frankly curious, the latter laboring under an agitation which he strove in vain to conceal, precluded further talk, and Dennis subsided. The newcomers were scarcely seated when Wade Terhune accompanied by his client Oliver Jarvis appeared upon the scene. ”