"I don't know why you didn't see some of these things when the pictures were made," laughed Frank. "Next time I go out taking snapshots I'm going to study the landscape, so I can choose subjects for my pictures!"
"All this means," Ned began, "that we were watched when we were taking the pictures that afternoon. These people were looking at us! We might as well have been walking through an open street."
"But why didn't they do something to you, then?" demanded Frank.
"They captured the ones who entered the workroom."
"Those were counterfeiters, not abductors."
"Well, then, they caught Jimmie and lugged him away?"
"In an effort to drive us out of the country, yes."
"Then why didn't they capture you?"
"Because they thought they had us scared so we'd go, and so didn't want to show their hand. Remember that it was the counterfeiters who were supposed by us to have taken Jimmie."
"I understand. When you found that the boy at the cabin was not the one you were looking for you were supposed to go away so as to save Jimmie's life, and leave the true prince here in hiding."
"That is just it."