CHAPTER XXV.
READY FOR THE CANAL ZONE.
"This is the end of the case," Frank Shaw said, covering the face of the dead man with a handkerchief.

"Fremont is free to go back to New York, taking his mine with him! Nestor was right when he declared that the solution of the Cameron mystery lay on this side of the Rio Grande." "But the object of our visit has not yet been accomplished," Nestor said, "and so I can't go back with you.

Perhaps you would better leave me in charge of the mine!" "You are wrong," Lieutenant Gordon said, then, "the object of our journey is accomplished.

I was ready to announce the fact when you stopped me to listen to the last words of the poor wretch who lies there." "Do you mean that the arms and ammunition were stopped on the other side ?" demanded Nestor.
"That is what the signals said! When I left Don Miguel in charge of the secret service men at San Jose and came back into the hills to find you, I left word with the men to climb to the top and signal if the news came that the arms had been stopped.

I don't know just how they got the news, but it is undoubtedly reliable.