CONCLUSION "I don't blame you for being angry," Tom answered, quickly.

"However, you may safely go a bit slow on the idea that we stood by to see you robbed, merely to save our lives.

We had tried to escape from here.

We even sent out two letters by secret messengers, these letters to be mailed at points distant from here.

The letters would have told our friends in the United States what was up.
But, in some way of his own, Don Luis managed to catch the messengers and get hold of the letters." "Then," added Harry Hazelton, "we thought we were doomed if we didn't yield to Don Luis's commands.