"That would be the way of it, no doubt.

To be sure! He's set down in this attestation clause as Michael Carstairs, engineer, American Quarter, Colon; and John Phillips is described as sub-contractor, of the same address.

The three of 'em'll have been working in connection with the Panama Canal.

But--God bless us!--there's some queer facts coming out, my lad! Michael Carstairs knows Gilverthwaite and Phillips in yon corner of the world--Phillips and Gilverthwaite, when Michael Carstairs is dead, come home to the corner of the world that Michael Carstairs sprang from.

And Phillips is murdered as soon as he gets here--and Gilverthwaite dies that suddenly that he can't tell us a word of what it's all about! What is it all about--and who's going to piece it all together?
Man!--there's more than murder at the bottom of all this!" It's a wonder that I didn't let out everything that I knew at that minute.