CHAPTER X.
AN ADVENTURE AT DIAMOND HEAD.
"You saved us a clean ten thousand dollars!" announced John Palmer, as he presented himself that night at our rooms, accompanied by Paul Carson.
"You are satisfied that Delverez is a swindler?" questioned Dan, who was taking it easy on a rattan couch.
"I am. After we parted I made a number of inquiries and I am as satisfied as anybody that he ought to be in prison instead of walking the streets of Honolulu. Both Carson and I owe you young men something."
"So we do," put in the man from Chicago. "My, but that Don is a slippery one!" he added, with a shake of his head.
"Was he angry when you told him you wouldn't go into the scheme?" asked Dan curiously.
"Angry doesn't express it, Holbrook. He was tearing mad, and said we must be fools not to see the advantage of the deal. Then I got
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