n a-lookin' back up at him. He looked closter before he hurried
away, an' saw that the poor devil was chained to the wreck. Now, that
bein' the case, an' this feller that's got the gal bein' the man in
charge o' the yacht, then why _ain't_ he wanted for murder?"

Van Dusen nodded his head understandingly.

"This clears up part of the mystery," he said to Roy. "Now, if we can
only catch Garnet and save Miss Marion, the case will be happily ended.
The whole thing is clear in my mind, but we have still to find the
proof."

"Them's the names the feller give me," the fisherman vouchsafed, "when
he introduced himself to me. I 'lowed he was 'most crazy from his scare.
Say, men! Do you know I think that feller was a-takin' dope, an',
furthermore, since I've had time to think it over, I'm almost certain I
saw him puttin' some under the gal's skin. As folks around here only use
Baitman Drops or swallers pills, I took a spot on the gal's arm fer a
skeeter bump. I didn't know what the shiny thing was that he slipped in
his pocket when he saw me a-lookin'. Since then the Doctor has told me
he 'lowed it was a hypodermic. First he called it a gun, but when he
discovered that I thought he meant a shootin' iron, because I said it
was too small fer that, why, then he give me the other name. O' course,
I had heard that other name afore."

"This whole business is goin' to turn out just as I outlined it to you,
Roy," Van Dusen asserted. "These things are unusual, but I don't think
you need have any fears for Miss Marion, provided she doesn't starve, or
meet with some accident through the foolhardiness of this crazy Garnet.
The thing I suggest is to solicit the aid of Captain Jones, and have him
act as our pilot. We should also charter several small gasoline boats
and go through the waters of this shallow Sound and its tributaries like
a fine-toothed comb. It's haste now that is important. We'll probably
find the fellow hidden away in some remote fisherman's home where he can
administer to the wants of his patient, while avoiding capture. I
believe that he is, even though deranged, terrorized at the thought of
arrest, so that he will not dare come out into the open. That's the
reason he left the comfortable quarters of the Island."

Roy was all eagerness to begin the work forthwith, and Ichabod proffered
all the assistance in his power.

"Jest a minute, men," he said, "till I swaller my coffee an' put out the
fire, then Ichabod Jones w