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"You recall my asking bout your first meeting with Cameron?" Big Bob asked. "Yes, and I wondered at it." "There was a photograph in the Tolford envelope. Have you ever seen it?" Fremont shook his head, wondering if the man was going out of his mind. He had often handled the papers, and had never come upon a photograph. "There was one there," the other insisted.
During part of the time spent in the investigation Fremont sat by the side of the unconscious man in the north room. "Now," asked Nestor, presently, "do you know what business brought Mr. Cameron to his office to-night?" "Yes; he was closing up the Tolford estate." "He asked you to come and go home with him?" "That is the fact, but how did you know it?"
"He has been active all day, with half a dozen men going and coming under his orders. He missed you this afternoon." "I had a date to view the scenery up the Chagres river," laughed Ned. The patrol leader went back to the room where he had left Frank, George, Glen, and Peter. Tony had left for his father's camp and George Tolford had gone with him.
While Fremont was clambering down the eastern slope, studying the renegade Englishman whenever opportunity offered, and puzzling over the source of the fellow's information concerning the Cameron building and the Tolford estate papers, Ned Nestor and his companions were preparing to visit the interior of the strange shelter-place in which they found themselves.
They might just as well have left their cards in the papers they examined." "What papers were they?" "The Tolford estate papers." "Yes, of course. The Mexican wanted to know something about the buried mine," Frank said. "We're getting at the motive now."
It will be remembered that Jimmie McGraw, Jack Bosworth, and Harry Stevens were at the old stone house on the road to Las Cruces from Gamboa, and that George Tolford had accompanied Tony to the Chester camp. On reaching Gatun the boys had slipped out of the lights of the station and descended immediately to the bottom of the cut.
They admitted having visited the Cameron suite on the night of the tragedy, and told how and why they went there. At least they gave good reasons for going, that of Don Miguel being legitimate, that of the others based on crime, for they admitted that they went there to steal a paper from the Tolford estate envelope, or, at least, to copy it.
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