Tom would have been arrested, but Mrs.Denman promptly applied to a great detective agency, which quickly established the young man's mental condition at the of "forging" the checks.

Moreover, Mrs.Denman, after cabling her husband for authority to use his funds, had made good the loss to the bank.

Then mother, daughter and son had journeyed hastily to Vera Cruz, that the boy might be under his father's eye.
That one lesson was enough for Tom Denman.

He has never strayed since.
As to the theft of his landing plan, Captain Gales afterward explained to several of his officers that no such theft had ever taken place.
"You recall, gentlemen," the captain explained, "that I referred to the envelope which had contained the plans.

And I then stated that the envelope which had contained the plans had disappeared.