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230 What!' said I, surprised, 'Amador is here?'

Yes,' answered Lindo, lowering his voice, 'he has come precisely to obtain the means of bringing about a revolution, but he has failed and is sailing for Panama in a few days. He will tell you all. He is in despair.

It was the following morning that Amador and Bunau-Varilla sat face to face in room 1162 of the Waldorf Astoria, and there lies the key to the Revolution of Panama, as is revealed by the working of this master Diplomat-at-Large.

Amador was speaking, agitated with suppressed emotion and indignation.

"During the past year" said he, "a group of citizens of the Isthmus, of whom I was one, have met together to consider the measures to be taken if Colombia rejected the Hay-Herran Treaty.

"We one and all agreed that such a decision would ruin the inhabitants and transform the Isthmus into a virgin forest