But avengers don't always turn up, in real life, when they ought to, girls; so we mustn't be too sure that one turned up in this case." "But now else can you account for the captain's murder ?" objected Louise.
"Well, some one else might know he had money, and that Ethel's grandfather had money, too," was the reply.

"Suppose the robbery and murder had nothing to do with the old crime at all, but that the murderer knew this to be a deserted place where he could make a good haul without being discovered.

The two old men sat in the right wing, quite unsuspicious, when----" "When in walks Mr.Murderer, chokes the captain, knocks his friend on the brain-box, and makes off with the money!" continued Patsy, gleefully.

"Oh, girls, I'm sure we've got it right this time." Louise reflected a moment.
"This country is almost a wilderness," she mused, aloud, "and few strangers ever come here.

Besides, a stranger would not know positively that these two men had money.