“About that I can’t tell. Mort said by losing the little girl he lost the Golden Sun mine and so he went from there to Colon and rioted on what he had—and that’s all I remember!”
“That makes everything very plain to me,” declared Mr. Gray. “Henry Morgan said that all Mort could talk to him about was the Golden Sun, but Henry thought it might be the little girl, or a mine, he didn’t know what, when we discussed it.”
“So Mort ran away with the child,” Bill contributed. “And from what Jack, here, has told us, I think that Henry Morgan knew, from what Mort may have told him back in Mexico, that Tom’s father had discovered some mine or knew of one and either gave his daughter the title to it or else told her, and no one else, where it was located.”
Tom and Nicky nodded vigorous agreement.
“That’s why Henry Morgan, when he found out we were trying to trace my sister,” Tom said, “was so anxious to be one of the party. He wants to get the information before we find out anything about it.”
“I think he wants to get it all for himself,” Nicky declared. “I don’t think he intended that we should ever find out anything.”
“No,” Cliff said. “But why did he want us to go to Toosa first?”
“That’s so—if the little girl knew about the mine,” Nicky agreed.
“I think this may be it,” Bill suggested. “You know, Toosa was a great medicine man and witch-doctor, and he knew a lot about Henry Morgan and Mort Beecher when they were in his country earlier.”
“I see,” Tom said. “He thought Toosa would know how to locate Mort better than anybody else.”