CHAPTER XI.
BLACK BEAR AND DIPLOMAT.
"It looks to me as if there might be civil war down here, with all these men waiting for guns and ammunition," said Shaw, as Nestor concluded the story of the letters which had been forwarded to Washington.

"I didn't know what I was getting into when I left New York.

I wish I could send that story to my father.

What a scoop he would have on the other newspapers!" "That is the very last thing you should think of," declared Nestor.
"The publication of the story now might bring about the very thing we are trying to prevent.

There is no knowing what the Texans would do if they learned of the plot to invade their state.