"You have found the papers."
The others started and looked at the two men whom, instinctively, they knew to be stronger than themselves.
"Yes," said Henry Matthewson.
"Where are they?" asked Charles Matthewson and Frank Hunter, in a breath.
The other did not answer. Then Charles repeated the question:
"Where are they?"
"Where would they be now, if they had come into your hands a half-hour ago?" demanded Matthewson.
"Destroyed!" said Charles Hunter unhesitatingly.
"They are where they will never menace us or ours again," said Henry Matthewson, "unless the river gives them up. I dropped them from the bridge into the pool below the Falls a half-hour ago."
"But where did you find them?" was Frank Hunter's question.
Charles Hunter looked again at the other's face, and said:
