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"I am anxious to know how they tangled these three business men up in the game." "Is it true," Ned asked of Mr. Shaw, "that Gostel and Itto first proposed delaying the work on the canal?" "Yes; they first suggested it." "They told you of emerald mines under there?" "Certainly." "But they never took you to see the mines?" "No; we took their word for it." "Well, they lied to you.
There was silence for some moments, during which Van Ellis pored over some drawings on his desk, Chester walked the floor excitedly, Gostel regarded the others with a sinister smile on his face, and Itto, the recent arrival, sat watching all the others as a cat watches a mouse. "And this territory will be under the Lake of Gatun?" Chester asked, presently.
But while the two white men were angry, the Japs seemed pleased. I'll tell you what I think, Ned. The Japs are up to something the others do not like." Ned was beginning to see a great light. Once before, since seeing Gostel, he had studied out the problem of the sincerity of the man, and had reached the conclusion that he was using Chester perhaps others for some sinister purpose of his own.
"I stopped at the old house," began the other again, "and remained there only a few minutes. Then I went on toward the Culebra cut and came upon a friend who told me what had taken place." "Well! Well! Well!" "The boys stopped at the cut, this side of the high point, and were there accosted by Gostel. Oh, you don't know Gostel?" "No, no," was the impatient reply. "Who the dickens is Gostel?"
Chester came out of the parlor as red as a lobster, about six o'clock, and I guess he had a fight with a couple of Japs, Gostel and another chap I've never seen before. They parted courteously, but I could see that Tony's father was angry clear through. After he had gone back to his camp, or started for it, the Japs got a little crowd of gabbers about them and set off down the road toward Colon.
Gostel had greeted the boys heartily, expressing relief at the knowledge that they had escaped in safety from the jungle, and Chester had urged them all to accept of his continued hospitality. Nothing had been said of Gostel's pursuit of the two boys, and Ned had reached the conclusion that Gostel did not know that his movements had been observed.
We were working for the glory of the Emperor, but he forbade it!" "I did not believe the government of Japan would descend to any such despicable work," Ned said. "You fellows are cranks! You would have worked great harm to your Emperor if you had succeeded. By the way," he added, "what did you do with Lieutenant Gordon?" Gostel glared at his questioner, but Itto beckoned Ned to his side.
There is death in the jungle." "And why didn't you go in after them?" asked Ned. "What could I do alone?" asked the other, with a little shiver of apprehension. "If you know the country " Gastong interrupted with a gesture of impatience. "Knowing the country couldn't help me, not with Gostel and his men trailing into the jungle after the boys."
There seemed to the boy only one way in which he could attain the results sought for. He must catch the plotters "with the goods on," as the police say. He must catch them with explosives in their hands under the shadow of the dam! Ned knew that Harvey, Van Ellis, Gostel, and Itto were deep in the treacherous game, but he did not know how many others were taking part in it.
Van Ellis, the military man Frank Shaw had talked with in the old house near the Culebra cut, Harvey Chester, the father of the boy Jimmie and Peter had encountered in the jungle, and Gostel, the man who had approached the two boys the night before on the lip of the great excavation.
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