"Yes, I do know her, Pet. She is headstrong, and greatly influenced by those Rover boys—especially by Dick Rover, who seems to be—ahem—somewhat smitten with her."
"Dick always impressed me as being a good youth."
"Good? He is anything but that. Why, if it wasn't for the Rovers, I would now have the finest boarding school for boys on Cayuga Lake. They spoiled all the plans I ever made. But they shall do so no longer. They cross my path again at their peril!"
"The tragic old fraud!" whispered Tom. "I've a good mind to face him just where he stands."
"Go slow! We dun't know who is on board of that ship."
"Evidently friends to Crabtree, or they wouldn't let him hypnotize
Dora's mother."
"Where can Dora be?"
"That remains to be found out."
"I wonder where that ship hails from?"
"One of the lake towns. She is an old vessel. There is the name—Wellington. That sounds as if she might be a Canadian."