"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 fonda didn't know anything about Tolo."
"Could you find out anything about him in Caracas?"
"No."
"Then it's a cinch the Jap wasn't telling you a straight story. It's my impression he hired out to you just to get the packet of papers."