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"I have my doubts about their being connected with the secret service," Chester replied. "We are positive," Gostel said. "They were followed from New York. We know the plotting that has been going on between Gordon and Nestor." Much more concerning the boys was said, but Ned was too anxious to get away to pay full attention to it. Another burden was now on his mind.
"An important one," Gostel put in. "And a midnight visit to the dam," Itto said. "I have a previous engagement at the camp," Harvey insisted. "We have guests from New York, my son and myself." "The secret service lads," exclaimed Gostel, scornfully. "Leave them to me to-night, and you can then keep your engagement with us."
Van Ellis went there to call the whole thing off, but Gostel and Itto lied to them. I heard Gaga admit to Itto that there were no emeralds under the canal line. I found there another map of the dam, with marks where the bombs were to be placed. Then, when I got back to Culebra and found that Lieutenant Gordon had been abducted, I knew that the job was set for that night."
If the others knew, then all his plans must be revised. "No," came the reply. "I had had no opportunity of telling them." "You were placed on guard here by the man called Gostel?" "Yes." "Well, who was it that pulled you down? There is something strange about that." "I saw no one," replied the other, feeling of his throat again. "Were others watching here with you?" The prisoner shook his head.
The impression was in the lad's mind from the moment of his meeting Gostel that the two men, Itto and Gostel, were in the plot for some purpose of their own, a purpose which was not the accumulation of money, and which did not match the motives of the others. About six o'clock Chester arose to his feet. "I must go back to camp," he said. "But there is a meeting to-night," Van Ellis urged.
Anxious to see what Gostel really was up to, Ned had instructed the boys to remain at a hotel at Culebra or visit the Chester camp, just as they saw fit, and had followed Gostel back to Gamboa and out to the stone house, where he had managed to hide himself in the room above described without his presence on the premises being suspected.
"Jaguars rarely come as far north as this," Ned said, "and your serpents are not dangerous," but the other insisted that there were both jaguars and boas in the jungle. "This man Gostel may have gone to the rescue of the boys," suggested Ned. Gastong laughed weakly. "You don't know him," he said. "I tell you he is a spy, a Japanese spy, watching every inch of the canal as it is excavated.
The reports of the men who had been sent out to the danger points showed that each one of the four had been caught lighting a fuse, the bombs having been set. "We were forced to work before we were ready," Gostel said, defiantly. "Our government discovered what was going on, and we would have been arrested to-morrow. So we were obliged to take the risk to-night.
Surely a man of the education and evident wealth of Harvey Chester was not loitering along the Culebra cut just for the excitement there was in it. It was plain that he was there for a purpose, and the arrival of a man Jimmie declared to be Gostel had convinced Ned that the heads of the plot were not far away.
"You don't need any whiskers, boy, to do the brain work of a man. Here comes the first batch!" Itto and Gostel were the first ones brought in. Itto was wounded fatally and Gostel was bleeding from a wound in the side. The other men were not injured. They stood in a little group for a moment, and then Itto dropped to the ground.
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