Far from it.

The school stood there in all its glory, under the able supervision of Barnabas Wise and Birchel Rodney, the local board of education.
About in the center of the lake, Pee-wee saw a small red light.
Sometimes there seemed to be two lights, but he thought that one was the reflection of the other in the water.

The light seemed very lonely, yet very inviting out there.

He supposed it was on a boat Perhaps some one was fishing....
But in all this surrounding beauty and peacefulness, Pee-wee saw no sign of the murder of any captive maiden.

His eagle eye _did_ see where a boat had been drawn up on shore, and if any "shoves" and other cruel and abusive "handling" had been administered by those scoundrels with seventy pistols, it must have been to that poor defenseless boat.