Then he turned to his secretary.
"My good Carlos, see that Nicolas knows what he is going after.
Then let him go in the car." Nicolas sped away in the automobile.

Presently he was back, with the typewriting machine and an abundance of stationery.
Tom quickly fitted a sheet of heavy bond paper to the carriage of the typewriter.
"Now, let us agree," asked Tom, "on what the report is to contain." Slowly at first, then more rapidly, the matter was planned.

Tom winced a bit, as he made up some tables of alleged output of the mine supposed to have come under his own observation and Harry's.
But he wrote it all down with lead pencil and afterwards copied it on the machine.
At the end of three hours the report was finished.

Tom read it all over slowly to Don Luis.

As Tom laid down each page Dr.Tisco picked it up to scan it.
At last the infamously lying document had been read through and approved.
"Let us have the end of it over with quickly," begged Tom, producing and shaking his fountain pen.