y-visaged son.

Suddenly I heard in the next room what sounded like a series of little
explosions, as though someone were treading on match-heads.

"My burglar powder," muttered Craig in a hoarse whisper. "Every step,
even those of a mouse running across, sets it off!"

He rose quickly and threw open the door into the Mendoza suite. I sprang
through after him.

There, in the shadows, I saw a dark form, starting back in retreat. But
it was too late.

In the dim light of the little explosions, I caught a glimpse of a
face--the face of the person who had been craftily working on the
superstition of Don Luis, now that his influence had got from the
government the precious concession, working with the dread drug to drive
him insane and thus capture both Mendoza's share of the fortune as well
as his daughter, well knowing that suspicion would rest on the jealous
Indian woman with the wonderful eyes whose brother had already been
driven insane and whose son Inez Mendoza really loved better than
himself--the soldier of fortune, Lockwood.

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