"Oh, that's pure nonsense, of course. But did you see how she acted when we asked her about the Weasle?"
"Yes, she knows about that note, I'm sure," said Cleo. "But then she thinks she knows a lot of things. She certainly lives over on the Island, and so she couldn't very well start fires at night?"
"But she rows like an Indian. Here come the girls. Now we will have a chance to talk it all over."
The arrival of Helen, Mary, Louise, and Julia completed the group, and presently a summer session of the True Treds was under way.
To the newcomers at Sea Crest the whole situation was explained, and nothing short of consternation followed its recital.
"Do you mean to say no one knows this girl?" asked Helen.
"No one we can find," replied Louise. "You see the whole town moves away when the summer folks come, all but the cleaners and the store keepers; and we didn't like to ask any of them."
"I'm sure Captain Dave must know this girl," declared Grace. "I'm going down to the station this very afternoon and have a talk with him."
"Saw him go out to Brightwater in a motor boat this morning," Louise said.
"Well, we simply have got to keep up our troop tactics until we run this down," declared Cleo. "Think of her saying we tried to drown the boy!"