Although Pearl had been outwitted by Mary he had not so informed John Craig, so that when he gets a letter telling him to keep Mary out of the way if he wished to earn the reward, he made renewed efforts to find her. John Craig and his son are released on a writ of habeas corpus In their lawyer's charge. They hunt up Peart, who shows them that Mary is masquerading as a Salvation Army lass. They locate her on the docks selling "War Cries." They get her aboard a schooner on the pretext that a seaman is ill. After several days at sea the schooner anchors off Martha's Vineyard. When the opportunity arrives Mary springs on the old servant woman who brings her meals. The woman is bound and gagged and Mary creeps out of the cabin. In the distance she sees a lighthouse. There is a boat trailing at the stern. She climbs over the side, drops into the little boat and rows to the lighthouse. After hours of exposure she is seen by the light-keeper and rescued.
