"He is the son of Cole Tolford, who was killed in New York a long time ago, and would have inherited the property." "And Mr.Cameron knew that ?" asked Nestor, his old suspicions, voiced to Fremont at the time they talked of Mother Scanlon, recurring to his mind.
"Of course he knew," was the reply.

"With Cameron out of the way, and the boy ignorant of his parentage, I would have been safe.

Still, I thought best to put Fremont out of my way also.

Then there could have been no danger, for I was the next heir." "I understand!" Nestor said, greatly shocked at the revelation of the cold-blooded murder plot.

"You had seen Fremont about the building, and yet you pretended not to know him after your men had taken him prisoner ?" "I knew him," was the faint reply.