The trap was laid for this diplomat.

The others could have been found later on." "Oh, you didn't do a thing, I guess," laughed Shaw as the two turned up the acclivity, planning to keep some distance in advance of the party behind.

"Say, do you think this third man recognized Scoby as a person he had seen in the Cameron building?
What?
That might be one reason for marching the two off." "I can't say," Nestor replied, "but the diplomat probably had his eyes open when he was in that building.

Don't ask so many questions." Twice within a few moments the boys heard some one approaching them, coming down the mountain side at a great pace, and twice they saw a man hasten by the place where they had hastily secreted themselves and confer with the party below.
"Spies! Messengers! Japs!" commented Shaw.

"I heard that jargon in a Jap restaurant in New York.