"Then we've been through all this trouble for nothing!" exclaimed Fenton.
"If you two fellows hadn't been engaged in this dirty game," Will said severely, "you would have been mixed up in some other dirty deal, so you're probably no worse off than you would have been in any event."
"If you'll go to the peg driven into the wall near the north window," Cameron remarked, "pull out the peg and run your finger into the augur hole, you'll find the plans rolled into a very small package."
Will rushed to the peg indicated, and the plans were soon in his hands.
"This settles it!" exclaimed Will. "The case is finished!"
"Are the thumb marks there?" asked Frank.
"Plain as the nose on your face!" replied the boy.
"And to think that they have been right under our nose all the time!" exclaimed Tommy. "I shall certainly have to partake of a large meal before I can recover my reason!"
"And to think that, after we came all the way to Alaska, we received the correct tip regarding the hiding place from Chicago by wireless!"
"I know how the people at Chicago came to discover the whereabouts of the plans," shouted Fenton. "There's a sneak of a clerk in the office where I was employed who gave me away. He saw me looking over the plans and betrayed me."