We'll find out soon, considering it's already Thursday. I really hope the vacation until Oct 12-13 isn't a desperate hope that Pirate starts paying people back on the 12th, otherwise everyone can probably count their coins as gone.
Clipse hasn't been online since Sept. 29th so he might actually be on vacation/away from the computer at least. Why bother lying about some Jonathan keeping eye of the pool, making payments etc. if he's going to run. I really hope this is just a big misunderstanding between Jonathan and Clipse. On the other hand, pool is still operational and everyone can check that pool IP relaying transactions several times a day.
Clipse has the coins, that's for sure. He is just not paying. No excuse. Nice way to ruin a good business.