It is needless to add that the provisions were sent! When the party reached El Paso one of the first men they met was Don Miguel, who smiled in a sarcastic manner as he greeted Nestor.
"And so you were released ?" the boy asked.
"On orders from Washington," was the reply.
"The case ended when the arms were captured," Nestor said.
"And if they had not been taken ?" "If a raid had actually taken place, you would have been charged with murder," was the quiet reply.
"Only for you," snarled the other, "my plans would have succeeded." "Only for the strange combination of circumstances which brought us both to the Cameron building that night, you should say," Nestor replied.

"It chanced that we appeared on the scene in time to interrupt a murder plot." "It is fate!" Don Miguel said, with a frown.

"It was to be.

Why, half the police officers in New York might have visited the suite without seeing anything significant in those letters.

And even if they had found them interesting reading, they would not have been capable of smashing all our plans.