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Elsa Mallaby did not even wait for the departure of the _Charming

Lass_ on her second voyage before she acted on a determination

that had come to her. She shut up Mallaby House entirely, and,

with Caroline as her companion, started on a trip around the

world, promising to be back in three years.

But she did not go on the mystery schooner, nor did anybody ever

see or hear of it again.

It soon developed that the government officials were hard after

the boat that had impersonated a gunboat, and would make it very

hot both for owners and crew. Elsa knew this the day she made her

final triumphant dash into Freekirk Head, and that was the reason

that the ship only stayed ten minutes.

So quietly and skilfully was the whole thing managed that, in the

excitement of Code's arrest, every one thought Elsa and her

sister had come on the evening boat from St. John's.