"I've been cornered, and
I've admitted it."
"But that fellow's daughter?" asked Jack, as the chief led them away.
"Hodges hasn't any daughter," replied Chief Ward. "We found the young
woman, but we let her go. She is an idle, vain young woman. Hodges
told her the same old story--a joke he was playing, and persuaded the
young woman to go along and pretend to be his daughter. In payment he
bought her the fine clothes she was wearing when you saw her. And now,
here's some one you may like to see here!"
For a moment or two not a word was uttered as the submarine people found
themselves gazing between bars at--Fred Radwin.
Radwin did not look depressed, but, on the contrary, jaunty and defiant.
"He's the one I'm best pleased of all to have," chuckled Chief Ward.
"The four ruffians who attacked you boys, and held two of you in that
deserted house before Benson led our party to the place, have confessed
that they were acting for Radwin. And Hodges has confessed, too, that
Radwin employed him, and that, between them, they put the doctored axle
in the auto.
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