The governor of Bonista was discovered guilty of so much corruption in office that he died, while serving a sentence in prison.
Pedro Gato became an avowed outlaw.

Senor Honda, while acting for the government in Bonista, sent the troops in pursuit of the outlaw.

He was caught and shot by the soldiers.
As for Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton, they were happy indeed when they found themselves wholly reestablished in the respect of Mr.
Haynes and his friends.

The young engineers had played a most daring game throughout, and would have gone to their deaths at the hands of the sham Don Luis sooner than to have betrayed their own honor.
Tom and Harry spent days showing the American investors through that forest stretch.

It proved an amazingly wonderful mineral claim, and has since paid enormous dividends.
"Mr.Haynes," Tom asked, anxiously, one day, "would you have done the same as we did, had you been in our place ?" "I don't know, my boy," replied the railway president, with a frank smile.