“I’m more than willing to have you consider Ah Sin one of the crew. He’ll probably be useful to me in Para, and not until we get there.”
“There are not many Japs in La Guayra, are there?” queried Bob, with a sudden thought.
“Tolo is the only one I saw,” answered Glennie.
“Then it’s a little queer he should be there at the same time you were. There was a Japanese war vessel in Belize a day before we left the harbor, and I understood she had called at Venezuelan ports. Do you think Tolo could have deserted from her?”
“The Japs never desert.”
“Was Tolo a sailor?”
“He said he was a servant, and that he had come to La Guayra from Caracas.”
“But the authorities told you he had been a waiter in a hotel in Port of Spain?”
“That was wrong, for the proprietor of the hotel didn’t know anything about Tolo.”
“Could you find out anything about him in Caracas?”