The Washington herald., 1912-01-21

The affair in the sleeper. when the
dummy arranged by Brockett had been
stabbed with Aguilars keen-bladed knife.
was like a bombshell to them, and their
worries were intensified by the fact that
no trace Of the would-be murderer could
be found. Nobody even resembling the
little Filipino had left the train in the
morning-the boys had scrutinlEed every
outgoing passenger-and the porter and
conductor asserted that no one even Of
a brown complexion had been aboard that
train as far as they were aware. Fore
Gawd, gemmen," protested the porter, ''if
any dahlI-brown pusson had got into dis
heah cab, Ah'd have seized him up 70
notheh niggah. an Aid suttin suah re-
membeh any niggah dat had de nehve
to ride In a Pullman"
Was Aguilar in the employ OF YAH
motto, with whom he had been closely
connected back in Washington? Was
he now an emissary of Baron Zollern?
Or was he pursuing a policy OF pri-
vate. personal revenge, OF vengeance
for the thrashing the boys had given him
only few days before?
Solano. whose Spanish relatives had
told him much of the Philippines and
the brown, treacherous Tagalogs, was
positive that Aguilar was following his
own road. fighting for his own hand. and
trying to get even for the beating he
had sustained. "a Tagal," argued Ra-
mon, would forget his employer, his
position, everything else on earth, to fol-
low an enemy to the bitter end That
little devil, from the moment We laid
hands on him, forgot Yazlmoto, Zollern.
and his own peoples cause. All he
thought Of, from that time TO this, was
getting even He may have been trail
ing us right along, on his own hook. He
may have crossed our trail last night by
sheer chance, and at once tried to take
advantage OF the opportunity. He may
possibly have been with either Zollern
or Yazimoto, allowing them to pay his
way around the country, but he wasn't
thinking fer a single minute OF their in
terests-alI that he hoped and dreamed
about was his personal revenge"
II figure 1t just a little differently" an
swered Brockett. II think that he has
| remained in the employ OF one of the
| two spies, more likely YaZimoto, as two
/ Asiatics would more probably stick to-
gether than one Asiatic and a German.
AguiIar, as ] see II, followed US on
behalf OF the Jap, but when he actually
got in the same car with US his venge-
| full spirit was too much for him, and he
| stabbed meas he believed-before he
could hold back his hand. On calmer
afterthought, ne must have been utterly
| embarrassed and unnerved at his deed,
and at the light in which he would now
appear to Yazimoto. How can he ever
make good to the Jap? How can he ex-
plain his failure TO steal the documents
he was after, and make excuses for let
ting his temper take him outside the
path of his duty?''
Good logic" dissented Solano, but it
doesn't fit in with what have heard
OF FiIipinos in general, and Tagalogs in
particular. Anyhow, we will have TO add
| Mr.. Aguilar to our list of special dan
gers, and watch out for him little more
carefully than for either of the others.
One thing sure-he'Il take you for a
ghost If we meet him anywhere. and We
ought to gather him in without much
trouble before he can recover from the
shock"
Throughout the day that followed the