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The Wild wZ'st Detective
Among [1}9 Crooks.

BY EDWARD L. WHEELER,
AUTHOR OF THE “ munwoon DICK” AND
“munwoon DICK, JR.," NOVELS. " DEN-
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’ ' of the Girard House, in the city of Philadelphia.
‘ ‘ It Was Rats, the boy ferret, who spoke, and
person addressed was Deadwood Dick,
_ unior.
" , . The latter was seated by the window, engaged
. . f in perusing a morning paper, while the boy had
’ just come in from a stroll. .
Dick looked up from his paper, as he replied:
 " No, there is nothing special, so far as con-
 Ccrns us, I uess.” .
.: " Then, suppose you will be starting on
’, ‘West, to-night?”
1 "No. i shall not start West, yet. There is
» one matter I want to give a little investigation,
‘ l);‘li)l'0 I go.”
’ " And what is that 9”

For answer, Dick pointed to an article, in
the paper he had been reading.

It was headed:

“THOSE BURGLARS,”
in display type, and then he went on:

“ That section of the city, north of Girard avenue
and west of Broad street, and principally populated
,with well-to-do people. is literally under a reign of

i terror.

' " it is now nearly two months since that locality

became the prey of as (larin; a gang of burglars, as

l the city has ever known.

" So frequent have become their depredalions,
that residents stand in fear of retiring at night. lest
3‘ when they awaken, they will find their homes sack-

; ed of their valuables.

1' “Only last night, the gelatin] residence of Hon

; orable Ho tHylton, of xford street, was entered,

‘ and an e egant silver service secured. An attempt

~ was also made to en er the burglar-proof safe,

. where Hylton keeps hs money and the noted Hylton

’ , diamonds, which are worth a fortune.
g “NOW, though our large and disciplinei police
jand detective forces claim to have worked heartily
gin this matter, they have not as yet so much as
-, lscored a point t0ward ferreting or capturing the
iburglars. ‘
it, " Such an efficient force of men ought to bring
{iout better results. If they are incapable of doing
ijso, why don’t our City Fathers send for detectives
rafrom other cities?
. ‘ "The gang must be broken up. It is a disgrace

- “to our great citythat they have been allowed so

{long to ly their nefarious calling.
I : “ We ave a list of names of prominent citizens,
‘ [who are read to make upa handsome purse for the
pnan Who shal be instrumental in breaking u this
gang. To which sum, we, the publishers 0 this
‘lpaper, will add an ele ant medal.
; ' Now, then, detect ves, go in, and show us what
lyou can ddl"

Rats, who, like almost all street gamins had

' learned to read, he scarcely knew when or how,
‘ {perused the article with keen interest.

'l A“ Ho!” he exclaimed, “ this is a circus, to be
sure. So you’re goin’ to take a hand in it,
 bess?”

’, “Perhaps.”

~ " Bully for you! I’m with you, you bet!
ziAuything to break the mernoterny ofa town
 like this. Why it’s as solemn here as a funeral
*' all the time. What’s yer programme, Mister
Dick?” .

“ The first thing to do is to interview the chief
of police. That may set my mind’s locomotive
: in‘m’otion. Once it gets up steam, we’ll go in to
W11).

“ But, ef these Phila cops hev been two months
workin’ on the case, without hittin’ a p’int, how
are we strangers goin’ to git on, when we don’t

w I from ibex ’bout ther town?"

i ‘ 0h! we’ll git theie Past the same,” was the
confident repl . “ Whi e I am out, I want you
' to at a city irectory and hunt up the number

0 t Hylton’s street address.”

Die at once started for the City Hall, and
scan was in the chief‘s private office, where that
official was seated, in company with two other
gentlemen.
.- The chief was abnrly, pleasant-faced man,
wtho seemed well-fitted to command a large force
0 men. »
Next to him sat a plain-up ring, middle-
gentlsman, who looked as f he might be a
 m‘iiifhatiii‘d of a: littl mg
e r e e p was a ver tall
man, pf faultless hyslque, ark compleiien,
and With hair and flard as black as jet. His
r VB.
 ‘_ ly dressed, and from general
 rson of wealth.
» in 00 gave the new-comer a
“swam... . .
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gourcard I Met that you are from the

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Deadwood Dick J r., in Philadelphia.

“ That has been my chosen profession for sev-
eral vears pas .”

“ Just so. Mr. Bristol, I make you acquainted
with two of my friends. The gentleman on my
right is Deputy Sheriff Parks. The gentleman
on my left is Mr. Hoyt Hylton, retired com-
mission merchant.” .

The parties respectively acknowledged the in-
troduction, and the chief went on: .

“ I suppOSe you are East on business pertain~
ing to your profession, sir?” .

“ \Vell, no, not exactly, although I have ,at-
tended a few cases while here. My real object
in coming was .to visit some of the principal
cities, to study into Eastern ways and customs
as contrasted with Western life and people. _ As
it has happened, my trip has turned out both
pleasurable and profitable, and I have gained a
great deal of valuable information.

" I was to start westward to-day, but an arti-
cle in a morning paper temporarily caused me
to change m mind and pay you a visit.”

“ Yes? ell, sir, what is there I can do for

on?"

“That remains to be seen. I came to chat
with you concerning this gang of burglars. I
presumed you might be able to give me a few
points.”

“ I would be glad to do it, sir; but to tell the
truth, I haven’t any points myself, in the mat-
ter, nor have any of the force. The case we
most puzzling and provoking one. For two
months all the police and detective forces have
been actively tryin to ferret out and capture
the offenders, but a l to no avail. It is evident
that they are a most artful and skillful gang,
whom long experience has made cunning
adepts, and invulnerable to capture.”

“ I don’t agree with you on the innumerable
part,” Dick declared. “ There are‘just as smart
men on the detective force as these self-same
burglars, and if you will grant me your personal
oflicialco-operation, [ have a plan by which I
can find out who these night-robbers are, and
work the total breaking up of their ranks.”

That the stranger was in dead earnest and
megéit what he said, all present well .under-
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CHAPTER II.
DICK’s SCHEME.

DEADWOOD DICK’S confidence appeared to
strike the chief of police in a humorous way,.£or
he smiled broadly.

“ You ?” he ejaculated, incredulously.

“ Yes, I—I, individually, and co lectively.
You will, of course. co-operate with me in the
carrying out of my plans, but I alone, with my
detecfive partner, “ will do the work.”

“ This is utter nonsense,” the chief declared.
“ How on earth do you, with but one aide, ex-
pect to do what a hundred others have failed to
accomplish?” r .

“Two men, and even one, can often accom-
plish more than many. When the villains see
that they have a large army to contend with,
the ' are more strategic and wary; they act
wit excessive caution; but when they find only
a small party to contend with, they Will grow
bold and incautious and thus will be the easier
to discover and cute .”

" Well, there is good sense in your argument;
3%,)? on and give us our £13m of operation. If
g , of course I s all glad to see y0u
thr‘ou h.’;

‘ y p an or plans must positively remain a
dead secret between you, myself and my aide,
until the trap is ready to spring, for then a few
trusted persons must necessarily be let into the
secret. For,” continued Dick, “ were even a
hint of m scheme to come to the hearing of
these burg are, the effort to secure them would
be totally frustrated, and my life would not be
worth t e drop of a pin. So, when you are
alone, at a later time, we will review the matter
more full .” '

And Dick arose to depart. .

“Hold on! hold on! both the deputy—sheriff
and Hoyt Hylton cried, rising. “ Do, not let the
private conference be disturbed on our account,
as We were goino: to take our do rture anyhow,
only havingldropped in for a f endly call. By
all means, old the consultation, and it is to b
lio that it will result in the breaking up 0
th s lawlem band. .

“ As for you, Mr. Bristol, if your plans work
successfully, permit me to assure you that I will

'personally make you a present of a handsome

recompense.” .

Dick thanked him for his e‘nerous offer, and
then the two men took their eparture;

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fore some other caller arrives,” the chief urgodi .
“ I am all ears and a willing bearer.” '2 , ‘

“ Well, I don’t know that there is an partlo- ‘
ular spreading to be done!” Dick replied:

“ Here are my plans in a nutshell. Such a
hullabaloo has been made over these burglaries,
and the officers are so Vigilant, that the burg-
lars are always on their guard, and prepared
forany emergency. If we succeeded in locating
their headquarters, they of course would be pre-
pared for escape.”

The chief nodded.

“ Undoubtedly. Such rogues are as wary as _ .
foxes, and would not neglect to pre are an "
avenue for escape in. case their en was,
raided.”

“Exactly; and therefore, before any attack
is made, all their secrets, as well as their place of ‘
refuge, should be kn0wn to us. So,.«to secure
this information, it will be necessary for me to
join the gang l” '

The chief stared, in amazement. . ,

“ You join the burglars?” he ejaculated. ' .

“ That’s what I said!” Dick replied; “ and V a  .
here is my plan: In the first place, too late, in  ‘
the day for me to have a police court hearing '1
before the next mornin , I am to be arrested b '
one of your special 0 cers, on suspicion that
am so-and-sc, a notorious housebreaker and ex-
convict, of Chicago, and additional sus cion
must he cXpressed that Iam directly or in irect-
1y identified with this Philadelphia gang. See?”

“ Go on l” the chief commanded, his interest ‘
on the increase. I

“ Well," the oung stranger pursued, “ I will
of course be 100 ed up to await a hearing. In
the mean time you must work the news pers,
and have them come out With big head- ine no~
tices of the capture of probably one of the most
notorious bur lars of modern times.”

“ Humphl don’t see what you’re driving at,
yet!" the chief declared.

“ You will, directly,” was the reply. “The
newspaper articles will not only attract/the at-
tention of the respectable class but will also be
read with avidity by all the crooks, whose eyes
they meet, and they will be only too eager to 
alook at the king-pin burglar, so that a crow ed
court room is assured.” ‘

“But, what has this todo wi ~  '-
the burglars?” ' '

“ Well, in this way: When
fore the judge, or magistrate,
case may be, no one is to appe
identify me, and 1 will s , v ' ,-.- ‘ ‘
least you can fix it that way ,
will be a comparatively easy j, , H
pick 11 an acquaintance an! '- "  - '
who wilbe eager to learn If I really am the
notorious Mr. So-and-So.’

“ Yes. By Jove! the plan IOOkS feaSible, but,
whether you can make it work or not, is a,
question. What name will you adopt?”

“ The name I shall ive in court Will be Jake
Short, of Louisville, entucky. As for the
name of the suspected burglar. I’ll leave that
for you to determine.”

The chief reflected.

“I have it,” be said, finally. “ About the
most notorious cracksman of Chicago, is Pete
Plummer. Young as he is he has already done a -
term in J oliet State’s Pusan, and one in the
Columbus, Ohio, Penitentiary. l_3ut he don’t '
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as an Ita ian, with hair and eyes of about your , ‘
color, but has a brick-red mustache! This one ,, ; .
peculiarit has fre uently gothlm into trouble.” ' i ,
“0h! here will be no difficulty about my ' ,
making up ’so as to resemble Mr. Plummer,” . ; ‘

Dick assured, with a light la“sh. “ I am quite ,
an adept at disguise.” . ' ‘
‘But, my young friend. 0}: must be aware 9’ ’
that this arrangement will ring you into great ,, ,u
danger. Suppose you succeed in etting into ..
the confidence of these very burgers by the l
method suggested, and also succeed in obtaining  ,
{1 membership, are you not aware that, if your. 15'
identity and pu should be betrayed, your , ,
life would be the penalty?” _
“ on! of course, But that’s nothing. In the ,
last seven years of my exgenence I have stood , ‘,
face to face with grim euth a dozen times,- l
without the host of a chance of escape; yet, h
here I am, we andfwell. If I were to nalgnte .~
to on the history 0 my career, you won set I
maydown either as a lunatic or the biggest mu- 
this side of Denver. -. iv
“ But, let that pass. Enou h to so that when .
I undertake a case I go at i regar less of per- _
sonal consequences. and I have yet to be told of ’ 7,},
a single case of detective work in which I did . , in

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remarkable yo man. I have such faith in
your plan, that W tever assistance I can be to
you is yours to command.”

“ Thanks. But, you understand, what I have
told on is to be a profound secret.”

“ xactly. When do you propose to put your
plan into execution?”

“ I am not prepared to say as to that. I slmil
want to prospect a little at first, to get the lay
of the land. As soon as I’m all ready I’ll call
upon you.”

“ Very well; do so. What
is your partner going to play?’

“I have not yet dec1ded. I shall find some-
thing for him to do. He’s only a kid, but
smarter than many a grown person. By the
way, Mr. Hylton’s house was burglarized, eh ?”

“Yes, but Hylton is able to stand the loss
and don’t mind dollars as much as you or I
would cents.”

“ He is rich, then i”

“Yes; rated among the millionaires. The
Hylton gwels, bequeathed him by his brother-
in-law, a Costa, are estimated to be worth
over one hundred thousand dollars, you know.”

Dick, of course, didn’t know, but he took it
for granted that such was the case, and bidding
the chief goodrday, left the office.

CHAPTER III.
Tim STORY or THE JEWELS.

“WELL, so far, so good,” Dick mused, as,
after leaving the chief of police, he made his
way leisurely up Chestnut street, toward Ninth.
“ It’s a dangerous undertaking, and perhaps a
foolish one, but I’m going to try sure’s my
name is Dick Bristol. I’ve alrea y made a
name for myself, in New York and Boston—
why not in Philadelphia? This promises to be a
fat paying job, too, if I can carry out my plan
successfully.

“ I wonder what sort of a man this Hylton is?

part in the game

 

/ I couldn’t help but notice that his piercing

never once left me, when he was in the 0506.
Was be suspicious of me? or didn’t he like my

interest in this bur lar case?
“His words on eavin , disconntenance such
a supposition. Neverthe ess, it may be of ad-
vantage for me to know more of the gent than I

. do at present.”

Reaching the hotel, Dick found Rats waiting,
xford street number of Ho t Hylton s
residence, of which the detective ma 9 a memo—
randum in his note-book, and that afternoon be

A .._ yisiafid_.,the office of the newspaper which had

pub shéd' ‘fhe'nrticle already quoted. There,
after formally introducin himself, he received
dresses of the people
who had suffered by the depredations of the
burglars: .

And quite a list it was, too. _

Dick then proceeded to the vicinity of Hoyt
Hylton’s residence, which he found to  a
handsome sandstone villa, of modern architec-
tural design, set down upon a smoothly-shaven,
terraced lawn. . ' I

Dick did not apply for admission to this real-
deuce, but sought a little ocggar-shop in the vi-
cinity ke t by a buxom, g matured looking
woman 0 middle age. _ .

Purchasin ' a cigar, and lighting it, the detec-
tive leaned eisurely against the counter and
struck up a conversation, which was not hard to
do in that case. .

“ This is Mrs. Fielding, I believe?” he casually
observed. ,

“ Yes, sir,” was the answer.

“ Been long in this neighborhood?” ‘ .

“ Oh, yes. Henry and I started. this little
place years ago, long before this locality became
so swell as it is now. Henry is a laboring man,
you see, and by attention to business we always

contrived to make ends‘ meet, without owing-

any one a red cent. Since the rich folks have
crowded into this neighborhood and made it
high-toned, we’ve been offered good sums to
give up the little place, but we won’t do it. We
are doing fairl well, and love the little store
that helped a ong way toward giving us a
pro rous start in life.”

“ on are right. A happy home is ever to be
cherished, be it ever so humble,” Dick replied.
“None but those who have one know how to

’ , value it properly. Do you, know the Byltons,

who reside in this neighborhood?"
The good woman shrugged her shoulders.
“ I know of them, but that’s about all,” she

replied. “They’re a queer set at the best, all
exec t little Haidee, who is a sweet young lady,
fait'héif’erent from her high-headed, arrogant
“ How ym  at the family!”
.~ Mrs. , red ' a moment.
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“ and Ham—that’s his son, and a wild one he is,

too. Then there’s Haidee, the daughter, and I

Don Da Costa, the coachm‘an, a son of Hylton’s
brother-in-law, whom Hylton claims to have
taken into his employ, out of pity. There’s
quite a curious history linked with this family.”

“ Indeed? W'ould you mind giving me an in-
sight into it, for I have reason to be somewhat
interested.”

“ So? Well, I haven’t an over lot to tell, but
if what I know will prove interesting you shall
have it, in welcome.

“ Years ago, when Hoyt Hylton, wife, son,
and his (Hoyt’s) sister, settled in this neighbor—
hood, the sister, a charming girl, married a man
named Delos Da Costa, who was possessed of a
fine education,and was a person of unusual intelli—
gence and strength of character. Nevertheless,
he did not succeed in business, and after some
twelve ears of married life, leaving his wife
only su cient means to support herself and two
chi dren for a year, he set forth for other parts
in quest of fortune.

“ He traveled extensively, with varying luck.
Whenever he had any money he sent it home.
Finally he was heard of as a colonel in the Ans
trian Army; later, as a prospector in the South
African diamond fields. After that nothing

was heard of him for over a year, when a vague ;

rumor reached this country that he had perished
on the African frontier.

“By this time Mercedes Da Costa, his wife,
was reduced in circumstances to the int of
starvation. She had her two children, onald,
aged fourteen, and little Royal, whom his play-
mates nick-named ‘Rats,’ aged twelve. Donald
is the one who is now Hoyt Hylton’s coach-
man.

Deadwood Dick started when he heard the
nick-name Rats mentioned, but held his own
counsel, and allowed the cigar-vender to go on.

“ Well,” Mrs. Fielding proceeded, after draw-
ing a long breath, “ Mercedes was at last, when
nearly driven to take her bed from hard work
and poor food, obliged to apply to Hoyt Hylton
for assistance.

“ Hylton has ever been characterized as a
hard taskmaster and miser, since I first knew
him; but, when she so piteonsly begged of him
to save her from having to go to the poor—house,
he told her if she would put away her children,
so that they would be no incumhrance to her or
him, he would give her a place in his home as a
domestic.

“ With no alternative left, she was at last
compelled to make the sacrifice. She succeeded
in getting Don into a boys‘ boardin school, to
do chores for his board and what e ucati'on he
was allowed time to pick up. Little Royal was
adopted by a French lady, but he’was a stub-
bOrn youngster, and growing sick of his place,
ran away, and that’s the last that’s been heard
of him.”

“ How old would these two brothers be,
now?”

“ Eighteen, and sixteen, respectively. But, to
go on with my stor : About a year after Mer-
cedes had been esta lished in her brother’s home,
a letter reached her, from Australia, coming
from her husband, whom she had mourned as
dead. It stated that, while in South Africa,
Da Costa had succeeded beyond his wildest ex-
pectations; that, besides a snug sum of money,

a had secured diamonds, lar and small.worth
in. the American market fu 1y a quarter of a
million dollars. He furthermore stated, that, a
week before the date of his letter, he had shipped
the jewels, in a sealed package, to America, ad-
dressed to his wife, in care of her brother, Hoyt
H lion, as he did not know his wife’s present
a dress. As for himself, he should start home
in two weeks’ time. I myself saw this letter,
and can vouch for what I am saying.”

“ Well, what was the upshot of the matter?”
asked Dick, who had of course become greatly
interested.

“ The diamonds reached here, in safety, and
were taken charge of b Hylton, in whose care
they were addressed. ercedes made a demand
for them, but the brother refused to give them
up until Colonel Da Costa arrived to lay claim
to them. This naturally worried her greatly.

“ Finally, after several weeks, two letters
came. One was for Mercedes, the other for her
brother. Both were post-marked San Francisco
and the letter was signed “ Hutchinson Higgins,’
a man who traveled with Da Costa considerably,
I believe.

“ The letter stated that Colonel Da Costa had
died on shipboard, while en route from Mel-
bourne for ’Frisco, and had been buried at sea.
He had, however. left a sealed package in Hig-
gins’s hands, to be brought to Philadelphia, the
package containing his will, and a sum of

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’ money, which Higgins said he would bring, in“
person, in a short time. x 

“What was contained in Hylton’s letter 
refused to disclose, but he immediatelgvyt
town, and was gone for several weeks. on
he returned, it was with Higgins and the pack- .
agHr, at least, a packa 9. Next followed; a'
formal opening of the pac age in the reaction
of Mercedes, two lawyers, and oyt Hy ton.

“ Well, to make a long story short, the pack-
age contained a document, purporting to be
Delos Da Costa’s will, and five thousand and
five hundred dollars in money. By the terms of
the will, Mercedes was to receive five hundred
dollars, and one hundred dollars was to go to
each of her sons. The balance of the five thour
sand dollars. and the diamonds, were Willed out
and out, to Hoyt Hylton.

“Of course the matter created a sensation
among those who heard anything of the affair,
but they were few, for Hylton was rich and in-
fluential, and caused the gossipto be speedin
hushed up.”

“ How about Mercedes?”

“ Poor thing! The blow drove her crazy, and
she was packed off to an asylum. She did not
remain long, however, for she was only mildly
demented—had simply lost her mind. Nothing
of the past does she now remember, and insists
that she is the discarded daughter of Queen
Victoria. She does not remember Don, nor
nie—for l was a good‘friend to her. Whenever
I meet her, I try to get her to come and stay
with me, the few years she has yet to live, but
all to no avail.” ,

“ Where does she live?”

“ That is more than I can tell you. She wan-
ders about the city, and ekes out a living as a
rag-picker, and purchaser of castofl? clothing.
Although only forty years old, she is thin, con-
sumptive, and gray-haired, and you’d take her
to be over sixty.”

“ And Don lives with Hylton ?”

“ Yes. He has been there some three months,
now. I say he lives there, but it would be more
correct to say he only works there. He eats
with the cook, sleeps over the stable, and, as I
hear is treated with far less kindness and
civility than any of the rest of Hylton's em-
ployees—except by Haidee, who is a little mad-
cap, anyhow, whom even her father cun’t man-
age when she takes it into her head to be un-
ruly. She declares she likes no one so Well as
Donald, and it would do me good to have her
run 011‘ and marry him, just out of spite on
Hylton, whom I thoroughly despise. And, you
know, it’s quite the thing, nowadays. for a girl
to elope with her father’s coachmanl”

And here the voluble storekeeper laughed,
heartily.

“ Such matches seldom terminate happily,”
Dick responded. “It is four years since Don
and Royal have met each other?”

“ Yes, or a trifle over 1”

“ They ought to recognize each other, if they
met now.”

“i should think so. Why?”

“Well, 1 am not prepared to say why, just
yet. Let nfinpssure you, my dear Mrs. Field-
ing, that I deeply grateful for what on
have told me, for, as a etective, I have n
the deepest interest in the story 1”

“Ah! are you a detective?”

“ Yes!"

“But, you seem so young 2”

“ Young in looks, mayhap, but older even than
my years, in experience. have s. few more
westions to ask you, and then I must be going.

but was the name of the woman who adopted
Royal Da Costa?”

“ La range.”

“ Di Mercedes live in this city, beforp going
into her brother’s employ?”

“Oh! no. She lived over across the Dela-
ware, in Camden, New Jersey. you know
anything of little Royal, sir?”

“ I am not prepared to say for certain, but I
fancy I do. It ma be I can resta‘eflie brothers
to each other, an it may be I can do more. To
tell you the truth, Mrs. Fieldin , I haven:
doubts about the genufnenem of at will which
Hylton produced! -

“And I share yourdoubts, sir, as do many
others.” ‘

“ It_ does not look likely Da Costa would lites»
ally disinheri't his own wife and children whom
he loved, and leave Hylton those jewels?"

“ No, sir.” , ‘

“ Well, now, you say nothing of what you
have told me, to any one, until see you a
I am goin to look into this matter, to
my curi , if nothing more. Where

 

be likely to find this man, Hutchinson Hi;b
gins?” -

 

   
 

Deadwood Dick, J r., in Philadelphia.

 

 

“ That’s more than I am able to tell you, sir.
The last I' heard of him, he had got to be a
hammer, and frequented the lowest slums of
the city.”

“And you have no idea where I might run
across Mercedes?”

“Well, no—that is, not for a certainty. I
have most frequently found her down along
Front street, Delaware River. I suppose she

gathers in a plenty of refuse there, that gives ,
It wouldn’t do you any geod to ‘

er a living.
hunt her up, for she would only laugh you in
the face, and tell you she was heiress to the
throne of England.’

“ Well, I must be going, and now again thank
you for what you have told me.”

“ Oh! not at all. It’s an open story to me,
and Hylton knows I know it, and that’s why he
hates me and Henry; and that’s why he
offered a real—estate agent ten th0usand dollars
to buy us out of our cosey little home. Pshawl
H lton couldn’t have this place under any con-
si erationl”

“ Bravo! I admire your grit!” Dick said.
“ So good-day!”

“ cod-day, air. You will call again?”

“ Certainly.”

“ For I would like you to meet little Miss
Madcap—I mean Haidee. I know you will like
her, for she is the soul of good-nature, and as
unsoilhisticated as a rustic lass. She comes
over here and chats with me, daily.”

Promising to call soon, Dick took his leave.

He had not given Mrs. Fielding his name.

He had reason for not doing so.

 

CHAPTER IV.
“RATS,” THE BOY or GRIT.

IT was in rather a peculiar state of mind, to
say the least that the l ild West Detective made
his we back, down-town. ,

He id not venture to pay a. visit to the H l-
tou mansion, as he had first intended, for, e-
fore he again saw the millionaire, he wanted to
put his " thinking-machine " into active opera-
tion, and deliberate over the situation.

One thing in rticular occupied his mind:
Was the' boy “ ats,” now in his em loy, and
Re hi DaCosta,likewisenicknamed“ ts,”one
an the same person?”

If so, Dick’s youthful protege had not given a
correct version of his histor .

But why had he not? hat had been his
object in withholding an facts from his bene-
factor? This was what ick could not under-
stand.

1‘ I’ll bet I’ll find out,”he muttered. “ What
a" recious close-mouthed kid he is, to be sure.”

hen the detective reached the hotel, he
found Rats seated in the office, reading a novel,
in which he appeared to be deeply engrossed,
gar he did not notice Dick’s approach until ad-

_ ressed:

“ Hello Rats! Are you ready to start for
New Yor i”

“I’m generally ready for anything,” Rats
replied. “ Why, » boss, what is ther racket
now?” I

“ The racket is, that I don’t think I have any
further need of your services.”

Rats stared in anxious surprise.

. “ Why, what's the matter?” he demanded.
“ I haven’t done anything wrong, have I?”

” Yes. You have deceived me in regard to
yourself, and I cal. that wrong. When I first
met on in New York, you told me your name
was ts. I asked you what your real name
was, and you said you didn’t have any, and that
you were brought up in the streets; further-
more, you did not know who our parents were.
Now, boy. I have found out t at you told me a
deliberate lie.”

Rats winced and looked ready to cry, but
made no answer. '

“Another thin ,” Dick went on, “when we
arrivad in Philade phia, I asked you if you had
ever been here before, and you positively de-
clared you had not.” _

“ Neither I had sir!” Rats averred, his eyes
flashing with spir t..  '3' ' '

“ But you lived with your mother only across
the river, in Camden?” ' " '

“ That don’t make no difference- I never was
in Phila till now unless it was when I was too

oung to remem . Don’t try to‘ make me out
much of a liar, boss, for it goes ag’in’ my
grain. I don’t know that I’ve harmed you, and
if you den’t want me any longer, say so, and I’ll
gq-back to New Y

“:22

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ork ”
Tmyou acknowledge that you are‘Boyal

Da C
“Well, what of it, if I am! I’ve allus been
called Rate, and probably anus will be?”

 

I “ But you must have had an object in not re-
! vealing to me who you really were?”

| “ So I did. You see, it was this way: Dad
i went off to furrin parts to make some money,
' an’ tuk sick an’ died. Mom struggled along fer
l awhile, but finally got so hard up that she had
l to give up housekeepin’ and. go out as a servant.
I So she sent Don, my brother, off to school, and
bound me out to a mean old Fi'enchwoman,
named Lagrange.

“ I didn’t like this a bit, ’cause I was willin’ to
earn my livin’ by sellin’ papers an’ blackin’
boots, like other kids did. But, mom Wouldn’t
have it, and so old Lagrange gobbled me up.

“She was meaner than skim-milk, an’ made
me do all the dirty work, an’ I didn’t get half
enough to eat. So one night I slid out an’
hoofed it all the way to New York. On the way
I got several little jobs of work to do, and when
I got in New York, to start in business on my
own book, I had just two dollars and forty
cents.

“ I immegetly bought out another kid’s boot-
blackin’ outfit, and went to work, and ’twixt
shines an’ sellin’ a rs, I made out furst-rate.
I stuck to that tifl lpfnet you. When you begun

 

 

 

quizzin’ me about my name and folks, I reck—
oned as h0w you were lookin’ fer a teller 0'
about my Size to take back to old Lagrange, soI
didn’t give ye no satisfaction. So there 'ou’ve
got it, Iac’ fer fac', and now, I reckon, ’ll go
back to New York an’ start inter bizuess ag’in,
fer I ain’t afeard to work.”

“Oh, I mm on won’t be in no hurry about
going haci to ew York,” Dick replied, good-
naturedly.

“ Why won’t 1? Who’s goin’ to hinder me?”
the boy demanded, half-angrily.

“ I am, Royal ts. I reckon you and I
won’t dissolve partnership yet awhile, even if

on 1are worth the half of a quarter of a i-nil-
ion.

The boy looked astounded.

“ A quarter of a million!” he ejaculated.
“ Get out! What you givin’ us? If national
banks were sellin’ for a cent a gross, I wouldn’t
be able to buy a brick 0’ one. Say, what you
drivin’ at, anyhow? How d’ye happen to know
so much about me?”

“ Well, listen attentively, and I will tell on,”
Dick answered, and then went on, in a de iber-
ate way, and told of his visit to Mrs. Fielding,
and explicitly narrated all that he had learned
there, not neglecting a single particular.

Rats listened with great interest, until Dick
had finished. Then he said: i. . . ~

" Well, I guess that Woman told you correct,
tho’ 0’ course I don’t know what happened after
I was bound out, for I have never seen or heard
from mom since. So Don is workin’ for Bylton,
they?” .

“Yes. I suppose you will want to go and see
him, eh?” ,

“Oh, I dunno. I an’ Don never used ter hitch
very well. He was an overbearin’ sort 0‘ roos-
ter. But, jest the samee, I could lick him every
day in a week an’ twice on Sundays, an’ I did
him u brown jest the day before I saw him last
fer ca lin’ me a lazy loon, an’ sayin’ I wouldn’t
never amount to nothin’ more’n a tramp. Phewl
but didn’t I haste him, tho’l”

“ You are brothers, and you should allow no
unfriendly feeling like that to exist between

“ Well, I hain't got nothin’ purtic’lar ag’in’
him, ’cept that he counts himself a g better
than I am. I reckon a detective stand): a notch
or so over a Coachman, an’ so I reckon I an’
Don will be just as good friends as ever, and
there will be ess gore spilt, if we each hoe our
own ’row, and keep out of each other’s chicken-

p.

“ Well, you’re an odd one," Dick observed.
“And I suppose it’s our own business asre—
gards associating wit your brother. 80 suit
yourself.”

“That’s what I intend to do. Say, what are
you oin’ to do about this will business?”

“ othing at present, until Iget better posted.
For the present I shall look up the burglar
racket, as there is a prospect of more money in
that. AsI shall have little or nothing for on
to do in that direction, I’ll give you another oh.
I want you to search the city over in quest of

our mother. She is known as Mercedes, the

neon rag-picker. When you locate her and

her abode, communicate at once with me.”

m

CHAPTER v. ,
now run BOBBIE WORKED.

Dome the next two damnly two events
transpired that have any ring upon our

 

 

story, one of which was that Dick and Rats
changed their place of abode to a private board-
ing house on Green street, above Broad; and the
other, another depredation of the burglar s, in
the northwestern part of the city, where they
succeeded in capturing nothing of particular
value.

On the third day, Dick sent the following mes‘
sage to the chief of police:

“Pete Plummer will be at the corner 8th and Vine
streets, this afternoon, at four o’clock. R. B.”

And, at four o’clock, a striking-lookiiifi'indi—
vidual stood at the northwest corner of lglltl‘.
and Vine streets, near what used to' be the
entrance to Johnny Clark‘s Olympic Theater.

He possess? a raceful yet athletic figure,
which was h biterfin a very loud suit of clot h~
ing, including a shiny silk hat, sealskin-trimmui
overcoat, and patent—leather shoes. He carried
a gold-headed cane, and a brilliant diamond
sparkled on his shirt bosom.

His face was dark as an ltalian’s, bis 9 es and
hair of a dark-brown color, but his ip n as
adorned with a mustache of light-brick color,
which gave to him a most peculiar appearance.
Otherwise, he would not have been a badelooking
fellow. _ _

While he puffed leisurely at a cigar, his time
seemed preoccupied in gazmg at the fair female
shopping element, which daily throngs Eighth
street, from early mOi'n till late at night.

Although he was stared at by all passers-by,
he appeared totally oblivious of the fact that he
was attracting attention, until he felt a heavy v
hand clapped upon his shoulder, and wheeled
around, to find himself in the clutches of a burly
Cop, who towered full a head above him!”

“ Hello! Plummer, what in thunder are you
doin here?” the officer demanded.

“ fiy name’s not Plummer, sir!” was the re-

! . “ You’ve made a mistake in your man i”

“Well, I reckon not! Once seen, you’re not
easy forgotten. Peter! It’s been two years, now,
since I sawyou last—that’s when you got out o
J oliet prison, after servin’ out a two years’ term
for bu lary—but, you look just as natural as
ever. hat red mustache o’ yourn is a sure-
landmark o’ yer phiz. I say what are you do’ihg
here in I’hiladelphia? Chicago gettin tap hot
for ou?’ '

“ tell you my name is not Plummer, Inever-
was in Joliet, nor Chicago, nor did you ever see
me before l”’tlie accused man retorted. “ My
name is Jacob Short, and I belong ,in Ken;
tuck .w m. L \ t I

“ t out! You can’t l ive‘m'e any such gufl
as that. So come along, or I’ll have to run you
in. You’re too hard a character to be laym’
round loose!” , I ‘

“ I won’t go!" ,

“ Won’t, ch? We’ll are about that! ’ _

Then there was an apparent struggle. in which
the liceman came out victorious by securely
hau cuflin his man. ,_

By this films a curious crewd had collected, '
that nearly blockade-d the street, but the officer
succeeded in marching blS risoner off, 'fol-
lowed by a strangely-asserts mob of curious
urchins. .

To the Central Station Deadwood Dick we.
escorted, for, as the reader is ~aware, the red.
mnstached stranger was our detective in dis-
guise. _

On the way. to the station the policeman said:

" Jove, young man. you’ve got a nerve!”

‘ ow do on mean?” Dick asked.

“ How do Imeanl Why, I refer to this game
you’re playin’. If you succeed in breakin’ up
that gang 0’ burglars, you’ll be a Jim-Dandy,
and no mistake.”

“ Oh! you’re on to the racket, eh ll” .

“-Yes. The chief had to let me‘ into the
secret. I’m the only one on the force who
knows a thing about it.”

“ What’s the prospect o’ my getting off in the
morning? Perhaps the judge .will see fit to hold
me, to await news from Chicago?”

“Oh! that will be fixed. on see, I an a.
special from Central Station, and I am now
taking you there. In the morning you et a
hearing. When you are called up there Will . .no
one to prefer a, charge against you, as I shall he ‘
011‘ of duty for a day or two. you see. No charge
bein against you, the can’t hold 309-”

“ ut, maybe I’ll be old untilyour return?”

“ No. That is not customary, unless when a.
prisoner is incarcerated, he lscharged with a
criminal oflense.”

In due time the Central Station was reached.
and Dick was taken before the lieutenant on
duty, where the arresting omoer stated that the
prisoner was Pete Plummet, a notorious swoon-
vict from Chicago, and had been on

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suspicion that he was identified with the recent
bur laries in the Quaker City.

chk was then locked up for the night.

“ Well! here I aml” he soli] uized, when he
was left alone, “ as snug as a bug me rug, though
this bench don’t look very much like a feather»
bed. I got in here easy enough, but the next
question before the house of representatives is,
am I going to get out as easy? It would be a
fine note if they would conwct me on sus town
and send me up for three or six months. guess
the chief will fix it all right, however.”

Nothing was left for the
stretch himself out upon the
wait for the next day to come.

It was a long, 10ng wait, for slee was out of
the question, owing to the racket ept up be-
tween two prisoners in an adjoining cell.

Morning at last dawned, however, but it was
after ten o’clock when an officer came for Dick
and conducted him to a police court, where he
was immediately arraigned.

After the customary preliminaries, the court

an:

‘ What is your name?”

“ Jacob Short.”

“ Where do you belong?”

“ In Louisville.”

“ What is your business?”

“ In spring, summer and fall, I am a book-
maker at the races. In the winter I buy and
sell horses."

4‘ The charge against you is that you are
Peter Plummer, an ex-convict from the prison
at Joliet, Illinois, and that you are a notorious
house-breaker. What have you to say i"

“ I deny the allegation. I am not guilty.”

“ When were you in Chicago last?”

“ Never in my life. Nor was I ever in jail, at
Joliet.”

“Clerk of Court, order Officer Hohn to step
forward.” .

“ Omoer Hohn is not present,” said the officor
who had escorted Dick into court. “ He has
obtaiped a leave of abSence on account of sick-
ness.

The judge surveyed Dick, critically, a mo-

’ ment before he spo e:

“ fiave you any proof to produco, to verify
yelp;d statement concerning yodrself, sir?” he
as .

f ‘2 gonunately I have none with me. I
aura "anger here.”

“ Ahem! and the judge his glasses.

f “You may be all right but oer Hohn, who
 you, and who formerly belonged to the
Chicago force, being absent, I will hold you in
three hundred dollars bail, to await further ex—
amination.” . 2

Thin\ announcement caused Dick’s spirits to
fall, but outwardly he was unchanged.

The court officer was about to conduct him
tram the room, when an unexpected inter-
ference occurred—unexpected, at least, to Dead-
wood Dick.

A tall, elegantly dressed man, of five-and-
thirty ears, stepped forward—a handsome fel~
10w With a pleasant face, brilliant eyes, and,
as the ladies would say, a very love of a mus-
tache. ’

“Your Honor,” he said, “my I say a word
in this matter?"

“ Certainly,” was the reply.

“ My name as you will see by this, my busi-
neas card,‘is Julius Baumain, junior partner of
the drygoods firm of Myers & Bauman Louis-
ville. he prisoner, Mr. Jacob Short, know
well, he having been in our employ several
years as bookkeeper, until several years ago he
entered the business of speculating on races. He
is well-known in LOUISVIHB, and his honor and
integrity stand unblemished. So if bail is need-
ed, in this unjust case, I will go the security.”

“ Do you own property here, sir?”

“ I do not, but rather than see Mr. Short lock-

risoner but to
ard bench and

’ iv!

A , ed up, I will deposit the bail in cash.”

The judge seemed more inollifled by this state-
ment, and after a moment’s reflection said:

“ Well, I uess that is not neoessar . If you
are a man 0 the large business whic this card
signifies you represent, I hardly believe “you
would care to commit perjury in a case like is
The prisoner is therefore discharged.”

This change of verdict caused a murmur of
surprise througho t the court-room.

As for Julius B uman, he turned to Deadwood
Dick'with‘ a smile.

' ‘ “Come sleng, Short,” he said, pleasantly.

“It’s aducky”thing I chanced tode m be“?

  

0Q  -gly, Dick arose, and followed his
4 r , cuer from the room.
" ‘ his life he was thoroaghly non-

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Deadwood Dick, Jr., in Philadelphia.

Who was this stranger?

Was he Julius Bauman? If so, what motive
prompted him to come to the rescue?

Or was he—was he an agent of the burglars?

 

CHAPTER VI.
wnnanm DICK RECEIVES INSTRUCTIONS.

TOGETHER the two men left the police court
in silence, and it was not until they were a lull
block from it that either spoke.

Then Bauman clapped his hand familiarly on
Dick’s shoulder, and said:

“ Plummer, you had a narrow esca

“ Yes, it did look rather off color or a time,
until you came forward,” Dick acknowledged.
But, say, who the deuce are you 1"

Julius laughed. '

“ Kind of a surprise to you, eh?” he queried.

“ I should remark!” Dick replied, for he had
already taken the cue.

His rescuer was a crook, and Dick’s ingenious
plot had signs of being successful.

“I guess you never saw me before?” Julius
next observed.

“Not to my knowled e. I allow, however,
that you are not Julius auman, of Louisville,
for I was never there in my life. Moreover, I
don’t know where you ever saw me.”

“ Well, it’s not altogether sometimes safe to
talk over business matters on the street, but if
you will accompany me to my studio we’ll come
to an understanding.”

“ Correct. You have befriended me, and you
can bet Pete Pluinmer, alias Plum Pete, never
forgets a kindness.”

“ No need to tell me that!” Julius returned,
heartily. “Your record bears evidence of that.
Rascal though you are, you’ve always had the
reputation of being white. And it report be
true, and I don’t doubt but what it is, many a
poor family has cause to thank you for tern-
porary assistance!" ‘

Only with difllculty could Dick keep a straight
face. It was one of the strangest of all his ex-
periences, to hear himself thus lauded for his
charitable deeds, by a rofessional crook!

Nevertheless, if Jul us spoke the truth, and
there seemed no reason to doubt but what he
was candid in his statement, Dick could but ad-
mire the perhaps one no.l H trait of the jail-bird
he was im rsonatin .

Very lit le more was said until the two reach-
ed an abode in the southwestern part of the city,
in order to reach which, they had to take sev-
eral lines of street-cars. ’ ,

The abode in question, was un'ordinary-look-
ing four—story brick house, with marble steps,
a peculiarity for which the Quaker City is fa—
mous.

Inside, however, all was dill‘erent, particu-
larly in the grand parlor, into which Dick was
conducted.

Here was literally all that mono and art
could procure, in the ‘way magni cent and
luxurious furnishings, and el nt adornment/S.

It was akin to a wonderlan to Dick, and he
really felt somewhat awed, at the superb sur-
roundings. -

He and Julius became seated at a table, and
the latter touched a silver call-bell, in response
to which, a nattily-attired colored waiter made
his a pearance. '

“ bottle of Piper Sec.” ordered Julius. It
was soon bro ht, opened, and then the two
men were aga 1: alone, With two glassess of
sparkling champagne in front of them.

“ Now, we will talki” Julius remarked. “ My
name is not Julius Ba-uman, at all. Whatever
my real name may be, you can call me Ca tain
Fisk. This house belongs to my wife, an is a

.resort for all cultured gentlemen who like to
In this business,
however, I have no interest. I’m leader of a
part of men, who are engaged—and very
pro tab] , too—in an entirely different line of
trade. saw you, two cars ago, in Chicago,
when you were sentenced. to imprisonment for
two years at Joli-at, for bur larizing old Payn’s
house. I observed, at the t me, how coolly you

your dose, and says I to myself— That
fellow will never die oi? grief through being
locked u l I afterward made inquiries about
you, an learned that you were one of the most
expert cracksmen west of New York. I never
for at you, on account of your dark complexion,
an funny red mustache.

I “ Well, last night, while I was up-town, I met
one of my boys, and he showed me an article is
an evening paper, containing your capture, an
said: ‘Cap, 0 get that man out. He’s sharper
than chain- ightning. and the verv man we
want, for a certain jobl’

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5

“Ihad no need to be told this, for Iknew
your record like a book. So I went topolice
court, this morning, prepared to bail you out, if
it cost a thousand dollars. So there you have -.
it all in a nutshell, and here we are!”

And then the handsome captain took time to
swallow his champagne, at a gulp, in the mean
time eying; Dick, triumphantly.

While as for Richard, he looked highl elated.

“ You’re acorker!” he declared. “T ere’s no
porous—plasters on you, I’ll swear! and you can
bet I appreciate your kindness. But, say, how
about that Bauman card?” .

The ca tain smiled. n"

“The aculty—that’s what we call ourselves,”
he said, “own a printing press, as it often boo
comes necessary to have various sorts of busi-
ness cards, letter-heads, and so forth, as a mat-
ter of introduction. In an hour’s time you can
baVe a letter of recommendation on the letter-
head of almost any prominent business man in
the country, as we keep a printer and engraver
for that purpose. For instancc, supposing y
were to want a job in any particular‘part of
jewelry business, a recommend on one of the
etter-heads of Tiffany and Co., New ,Yprk,
would go far toward getting you an 
situation, whereby you mi ht do comet ing
profitable for The Faculty. 1”

Although reallv amazed at the cleverness of
this accomplished rascal, Dick betrayed no sur-
prise.

“ Well, you’re a dandy!” he said. “ I thought
I wasn’t over slow, but you knock me silly. But
don’t you have some difficulty about the correct.
ness of signatures?’

“ Oh no! A letter of casual inquiry about
mme matter will generally bring back the sigo
nature of the party addressed, after which a
dulplicate is easily made.”

ick bowed acknowledgment; then there was
a brief silence, broken by the detective.

“ Do I understand that your object in getting
me out of hock was to secure my services?” he
asked.

“ Well, yes—to secure—both co—operation and
services. Your varied and checkered experi-
ence ought to make you the very man we want.-
You have, with a couple of cxoeptions, been
very successful in the biz, and ought to be rich."

“ But I am not. Sporting life has reduced me
to a pretty low financial status. Still, I am able
to keep my head above water. I must say, how-
ever, that I have not yet quite tumbled to your
business Vcry possibly, it may be somewhat
out of my line.”

“Oh! no, not all. It hits you to the queen’s

. Have you been in town long?”

“ Several days.”

“ Do you read the newspapers?"

“ Thoroughly.”

“Perhaps, then, you may have noticed an
article in one of the papers concerning the oper-
ations of a certain party of gents in the north
western part of the city?” '

“ You refer to the burglaries?”

it Yes ’7

“ I read the article.”

“ Then, enough said. Are you prepared to
join us!”

“ Well, I don’t know but I might. if there‘s
any money in it. The fact is, I’m getting pretty
well down toward hardpan, and must scare up
some money somehow.”

“ All right. We shall be only too glad to get
you as a member," the captain declared. “ I can- '
not say h0w long we shall remain in this city.
We are liable to have to light out at any min-
ute, for, between the cops and the infe al news-

upers, it’s getting tty hot for us. f we do
eave here, we sheila-aprobably swoop down on
New York or Brooklyn.”

f‘ How many are there of you?”

“ You will make six. Now. in regard to your
joining us, it will be necessary tor on mchagg
your apiwarance: at least. you wi l have to
pcnse With that mustache.”

“ Oh! I can fix that. all right.” _

“ Well. then, be ready by tc~monow nigf“ .
at nine’o’clock. At the corner of, Sixteenth
Mount Vernon streets. you oiliiind a beacon

waiting. Approach the driver. and say ‘

ty;’ then get in the conveyance, and you ll be
brought to our place of rendezvous. » on
the door six times, at intervals 0 t two

seconds apart, and we will know :- at you are
Number Six. Then, follow your guide.
prompt as to what time you reach the beam,
as we gauge our operations. We shall to-
morrow night hold a pow-Wow, ho to speak
discuss a Ijob which must be done at once.
“ Correct. ’ll be on time,” Dick assented.
They remained but a short time longer, and
then the detective beds the handsome Captain

  

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Fisk good-day, and took his departure, not for-
gettin to note that the house he had visited,
was 0. —, Gray’s Ferry Road, not far from the
Schuylkill River.

CHAPTER VIII.
RATS runsuns AN INVESTIGATION.

IN the meantime, where was Rats?

Deadwood Dick had, before leaving him,
given specific directions that he make an efi'ort
to find his mother, Mercedes, the queen rag-
picker.

Just how to go about it, was nota parent,
but the boy made up his mind to do his est.

“’Spec might as well look for needle in a
haystack!” he mused. “This Philadelphia
kiVers a big space, I’ve hearn say, and I reckon
it would take me a year ter go all over it.
However, as the boss wants the s’arch made,
I’m nominated walkin’ deligate, and I’ll see the
matter through. Can’t say I’m purtic’ler ’bout
drummin’ up acquaintances wi’ mom again,

rwidin’ she‘s crazy, fer I ain’t sorter got over

eelin’ sore, ’cause she bound me out to that old
French ripl”

Makin his way down-town, he tramped
through nsom street as, judging by the grimy
appearance of the houses, they were tenements,
peopled by folks in the lower walks of life,
among whom Rats hoped to find some one who
could give him information about the well-
known rag-picker.

And he was not disappointed, in this. He
had gone but a couple of blocks, when he
espied a rag and junk—man trundling a two-
wheeled push-cart through the street.

Overtaking him, the following conversation
ensued:

“Sa , mister,” Rats began, “may I ax you
for a little information ’bout the rag business?”

“ Vot you want to know f” was the gruff de-
mand, the Teuton eying the boy, suspiciously.
“ V'y you want to know apoud dot rag piznessf
You haf some ‘old clothes you want to sell?"

“ Well, no, I reckon not. This heippens to be
the only set 0’ togs I’ve got, and can’t ver
well spare ’em, this kind 0’ weather. What
want to know is this: I am lookin’ for a woman
rag-picker who has come into some money. She
isa relative of mine, and I would like to find
her, and it occurred to me you might "know
something about her. If you can give any idea
where I can find her, I will give you a dollar.”
th'I‘he Dutchman’s eyes snapped, when he heard

is.

" Id vas a vimmens, he ?” be queried.

“Yes. Her'n'ame is ercedes, and she ain’t

Igouite right up here?” And 'Rats touched his
reheat .

“ Oh! I see! She vas end her head mit her
prains ofi’. Yaw! I know dot vomans!”

“ Then you’re the very man I want to see.
Where does she livai”

“ I gif 'dot up!”

“You must-have some idea where she hangs

out!” -
“ No, I don’t vas know anyt’ings a ut dot. I
vas afraid mit. dot voman, und I eep oud of

where she vas in my way. She vas grazy like
(101' tuyfel l” > '

“Pshaw! She is harmless. Well, if that’s
all the news you’ve got, good-day!” and Rats
turned to depart.

“But, see here, mine frient!" interposed the ’

anxious merchant.
dollar, yet!”

“ And I don’d was goin’ to, Dutchy, till you
pan out some more information. What you’ve
told don’t amount to a cent, and if on want
the dollar, you have got to tell me w era 1 am
mast likely find the woman!”

“ Yaw. Put I can’t not dells you vat I don’d
vas know.” ,

“ Where do most of the rag-pickers dispose of
Lhelr rags?” Rats demanded, an idea occurring to

“ You don’d vas gif me dot

to.
“ Vel. der vas blenty of blaces,” Dutchy re-
.33.’ “ I does mine izness mit dot Misder Stein,
n py dot Secon and Market street. He do
von v-pizness. Maybe you find oud there. I
haf seen her around dot neighborhood, alretty,

sonnet .” .

Seeing itwas practically useless to try to get
anything more out of the Dutchman, Rats gave
him the dollar, and then hurried away, to hunt

.np Mr. Stein’s place of business.

It was easily found, on Second streeta few
ket, and as his informant
had explained, it was an establishment of large
proportions. Owing to its immense factory in-
terests, Philadelphia is a great center of trade
for the pa rurag business.

By making inquiry at the office, Rats was re-

 

ferred to the purchasing foreman, a pleasant-
faced man, named Stern.

As soon as the lad made known his business,
the foreman smiled.

“ Oh! yes, I know her,” he admitted, “ and
she’s an expert at her business, too. She brings
in double the amount of stuff any of the others
do, and she’s mighty sha on a argain, if she
ain’t exactly right in t e cupola. Her one
hobby is, that she is a discarded daughter of
Queen Victoria, and will soon succeed to the
throne.”

“ Yes; that’s the Woman 1” Rats said, eagerly.
“Now, can you tell me where she lives?”

The foreman shook his head.

“ No; I am sorry to say I can’t. I never
asked her. It is likely, however, that she lives
in some bleak garret, where she has to pay little
or no rent, for she’s too stingy to pay much for
a room.”

“Don’t you know of some one that does know
where she lives?” Rats queried.

Stern reflected a moment, and then called a
rough—looking boy who was engaged in sorting
ra 

5 Say, Duffy, d’ye know where old crazy Mer-
cedes lives?”

“ Reckon I do!” Duffy replied. “She’s got a
dandy place down in St. Mary street. No fear
0’ her not goin’ ter heaven. She can darn near
reach up thur now, fer, ye see, she lives in the
sky parlor in dad’s tenement.
up three stairs and a ladder to git thar, an’ go
thr’u’ a trap door. She likes the place ’cause she
kin sleep over the trap o’ a night, an’ no one
can't git in the room. In winter time she hes to
sleep on the floor wid her legs drawed up, ’cause
ther room ain’t big ’nuff fer to stretch ’em out.
In summer she makes her bed on a box, an let’s
her feet hang out the windy.”

And after vouching this piece of remarkable
information, Mr. Duffy turned to go back to his
work.

“Hold up, there!” Rats cried, checking him.
“ What's the number of your house?”

“ What der ye want ter know fur?”

“ I wish to see this Mercedes.”

“ Well, yoxmg feller, the place is jest above
Seventh street. Any bloke kin tell ye which is
Duffy’s. But, let me give ye a tip on one thing.
If ye don’t wanter everlastin’ly et scalded,
don’t go nosin’ ’round that loft. he old hen
allus keeps a kettle o’ scaldin’ water to entertain
her callers with, an’ she never fails to use it.
That’s her!” =

And then Mr. Dufly walked away.

CHAPTER VIII.
run BURGLARS’ "BUREAU."

THAT night, the appointed hour found Dead-
wood Dick at the place Fisk had announced that
a hansom would await his appearance.

The weather had changed within a few hours,
and the rain was comin steadily down.

Fortunately Dick h donned a rubber coat
and cap, and so the weather had no terrors for

 

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What with the wate roof exterior, and a red
head of hair and smoot Celticelooking face, his
disguise was so‘complete that his most intimate

uaintance would not have known him.

“drum he reached the corner where the ban-
som was to be in waiting for him, it was not
there.

“I wonder what this means?” he muttered.
“ Can it be that I have been suspected of being
a fraud, and this job has been put up, to test the
mutter? Well, I‘ll wait and see!”

The idea gave him adeal of uneasiness, but
not for more than a few minutes, for soon a
vehicle came tearing along over the cobble—
stones, and halted at the corner where Dick was
standing underneath the gas-lamp.

“Hello! That you?” demanded the man on
the box.

It Yes !”

“What’s the word?”

“ Faculty.”

“ All right. Hump yourself in out o’ the rain,
an’ let me be of! l” _

Dick lost no time entering the hansom, and
with the glass doors closed in front, was all
secure from the rain.

It unfortunately so happened, however. that
the wind blew from pretty nearly every point of
the compass, and dashed a ainst the windows
with such Violence that ch' was unable to see
out, or form any accurate idea in which direc-
tion he was being carried. '

He knew, however, that the streets ran east
and west, and north and south, and from the
direction the vehicle had been headed, when he
entered it, he concluded, by the changing from
one street to another, that he was being taken to

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a southwsstern section of the city—the same di-
rection he had accompanied Fisk.

Still, on further study, there was no particular
certainty about this, for the vehicle kept turn.
ing corners every few minutes, now in seemingly
one direction, and now in another

“ Blamed if I wouldn’t rather know where I
am goingl” Dick mused. “ Ah! I have an idea,
now.” .

At the next turn made by the cab, he partly
opened one of the doors, and gazed out.

For ten minutes he watched the lamp-posts on
the corners as he passed, and finally came to the
conclusion that the hansom was going down.
Broad street, the widest thoroughfare in the

cit . .

'leent minutes sufficed to bring the journey
to an en , and Dick disembarked in an extreme
lower section, familiarly known to Philadel-
ghians, as “ The Neck.” It is inhabited chiefly

y the poorer class of laboring men. a large pro-
portion of whom are employed by the railroads
that enter the cits.

“ Of this fact ick of course knew nothing;
but when he alighted from the hansom in the
rain, and was pointed out a door by the driver,
he found himself in front of a house that had
none too inviting an appearance.

A tap on the door and the password admitted
him to a narrow hall, dark as the shades of
Egypt.

Of the person who admitted him he was only
able to gain an instant’s glance ere the door was
slammed shut and locked. .

“Come on," a coarse voice ordered, “and
keep your hand on my shoulder. When I say
‘ steps’ be careful.

Then they proceeded.

Not onlz one pair of steps did they descend
through t e darkness, but three, by which time
Dick concluded that they must be Journeying to
the innermost parts of terrafirma.

Finally, however, a door opened, and the de-
tective spy was ushered into a room about twenty
feet square.

Barring the lights, of which there were two—
candles, with their holders—the only furniture
was a long pine table, with stools surrounding

it.

Seated at this table were four men, three of
whom were roughly dressed and repulsive—look-
ing, whose faces bu too plainly reflected the in-
temperate and criminal lives they had led.

The fourth man was the handsome, immacu-
late Captain Fisk.

  

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fill-lewd to be a negro, large, ugly, and power-

Fisk immediately arose upon Dick’s entrance.

“ Ah, is that you, Plummer? .Glad you have
come so punctually. Boys. this is our new ally,
Pete Plummer, of Chicago!” . l.

The four tough-looking citizens arose and
shook hands with Dick. and were separately in-
troduced as Ike Hoon, Pat McCarty, Ben Galer,
and Hutch Higgins.

The five men then sat down at the table, and
indul ed in a dose of alleged Wine, although
to Die it seemed nothing more than sweetened
water. \ .

“ One of the boys hasn’t arrived yet,” Fisk
said, “and so we will not proceed to business
until he does come. Thunder! but you’ve made
a bi change in your appearance, Pete."

“ hink so? Well, perhaps you.» are right,
But, do you think were I to walk into a po ice
court, I would not be recognized?”

“ I’m ositive of it. But for the peculiar bril-
liancy 0 your eyes, I should [10,13 have recognized
you, on our arrival just now. '

“ Welly: it’s the first time I ever bothered my-
self so much to change my appearance. How-
ever. I suppose the change was necessary.”

“ What was your last JOb before striking
Phila?” asked Hutch Higgins. who. by the way,
was the largest and most ruflianly—looking Cus-
tomer of the lot. .

“ “'ell. nothing in particular, to tell the
truth l” the detective answered. “You. see, I
was watched so close that I really got no chance

'to plan any job. or if 1 Planned it t’would have

been extremely bad to have executed it. That’s
what drove me out of Chicago.”

“ Well, if we make success of two jobs we
have in view, I allow we won’t have a lack 0’
money to live on, for some months to come!”
Captain Fisk declared“ “And you’re just the
chap. we want for an assistant, Plummer. How
are you fixed for. tools?”

“Ohl I’ve a daisy 30% but I did "not bring
them along. presuming there would be home
for them, tonight.” , t , f3

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all yet perfected, and it will not do to move,
until all is in readiness.”  . g

“ I believe you made reference to a missmg
member of The Faculty?” Dick observed. _

“ Yes, and a valuable one, too. it is partially
through him that we hope to capture a big
boodle. He will be here, soon!”

“ What is his name?”

“ Well, we know him as Ham, although he’s
no Ham-fatter!” Fisk racetiously replied.

“ Kinder strikes me ileou’re purty curious, for
a. new member!” Hutc Higgins observed, sus-
piciously. '

“What is more natural than that I should
be?” Dick asked. “ What more natural than
that I should want to know with whom I am to
associate in this matter?”

‘-‘ Well, we ain’t been given the oath, yet, sn’
by jingo! I don’t believe in givin’ too much
slack ter the rope ’til yer takes the oath!”

“ Oh! suit yourselves about that, I’m not par-
ticular. If I am not entitled to the full con-
fidence of those I’m to mate with, why I’m will-
ing to withdraw l”

‘ Well, not much you won’t. You’ve got to
go the hull hog, or die, now thet Fisk has been
fool enough to take ye on!”

“Oh! pshaw! Shut up, Higgins!” the cap-
tain commanded. “ Whos in command, hcre,
anyhow? You’re too cussed suspicious. Plum-
mer is all ri ht, haven’t I said so!”

“ If you nd him wanting, he is at your dis-
osal, to do with, as you please!” the bogus
lummer declared.

Higgins made no reply, ab0ve a grunt, ex-
presswe of his dissatisfaction: but it was
patent he did not view Dick with anything like
favor. As for the detective, he was evidently
quite at case, a fact that tended toquiet any
suspicions the others might have entertained.

He chatted voluny about his Chicago ex-
ploits and life in the Joliet Penitentiary, and
soon . d all his listeners interested, barring
H1 gins, who drew sullenly at his grimy pipe.

ii an hour’s time there was the jin le of a
bell, and the negro went to answer t 9 sum-

‘mons, soon returning with a tall, slim young

man, with spindling legs, and a cadaverous

countenance, lit up by ferret-like black eyes.
“Mr. Plummer, Mr. Ham!” Fisk said, by

way of introduction. “You’re late, to-night,

" “ No wonder i” Ham growled. “The devil’s
If'uling high to-night, and I couldn’t get here be.
()l‘e.
. “ What’s the matter?” Fisk quickly demanded.
Ham glanced apprehensively at the new mem-

1‘.
:19 kg initiated?” was the query.

“ Then I'll keep my trap closed until he is!”
was the blunt retort. ,

“-Very- well. It won’t take long to attend to
that matter 1” Fisk added, leasantly. “ Are
youready to take the oath, r. Plummeri”

“ Quite,” Dick briefl replied. .

“Stand up then an fod your arms across
your breast. ’

The order was promptly obeyed; then four of
the members of “ The Faculty” arose, and the
muzzles of as many revolvers were placed
a inst the detective’s head. '

isk, sanding a f w paces oil', then said:

“I will now admi ister the oath, the terms of
which are that, whoever breaks it, shall come to
a sud Jen and violent death. Peter Plunzmer,
hold up your right hand, and distinctly repeat
aft! .' me the words I utter.”

l" p went Dick’s right hand" d the oath was
ad' ninistered—an oath so star ling, that it will
no a beer re tition here.

Neverthe ess, Dick made the necessary re-
agonses With that coolness and nerve character.
istic of the man. '

v, The oath administered, Dick founda decided
change in the demeanor of his new acquain-
tances.

All surrounded him, shook him b the hand.
and bade him welcome as a mem r of The
Faculty, after which all reseated themselves at

he ta le.

“Now,” said Fisk, “ we will hear from you,
Mr. Ham. What is the trouble? Have the po-
lice nosed up a clew. or what?”

‘ “ Bah! for them I” Ham said, contemptuously.
' They are a set of idiots. No, the trouble is in

- another direction. The crib where there are so

The bank job can wait.”
“ e ? Go on i”

,lt’s this way i” Ham proceeded. “The old
man and his dutiful son had a devil of a row,.

may precious jewels must be attended to with
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covery that his sister was en god to a lackey
who goes under the name of onald Da. Costa!"

This information was received by whistles of
surprise by all except Deadwood Dick, who
manifested no particular interest, outwardly.

Hutch Higgins appeared the most agitated,
for an oath escaped his lips.

Mr. Ham went on:

“Well, the row between the father and son
resulted in the former’s getting a black eye, and
the latter’s getting thrown headlong into the
street, with the order never to darken his door
again. The enraged parent furthermore as—
serted that he should make a new will, giving
all to his daughter and prospective son-1n-
law!’

“ That’s tough on you, Ham!” Fisk said, con-
solingly.

“ athcr!” the other growled, “but it serves
me right for not fixing that accursed coachman,
long ago. I’d ’a’ done it, too, only I didn’t want
to get into the papers."

‘* Well, what are you going to do about it?”

“There’s on! one thing to do, and that is
seek revenge. ut, wait! you have not heard
all. After I was put out the house, I hung
around the neighborhood to watch develoyzments
awhile. I knew the old man was in earnest,
and naturally I was somewhat interested.

“Within an hour‘s time, no less than four
messenger boys visited and left the house. I
waylaid several of them, and tried to pump
them, but to no use. Finally, Jim Ford, the
old man’s lawyer, visited the house, and re-
mained there for upward of two hours. Later
in the‘day, the old man and Haidee appeared on
the street. in the family barouche, and were
driven to Fairmonnt Park.

“ Iwaitcd. In an hour they returned—Haidec
in the barouche; the old man in an ambulance.
The horses had run away, thrown him out, and
so injured him that the doctor says he cannot
possibly live more than a few days at the fur-
thest, and death is to be expected at any mo-
ment!”

.Here Ham paused, and gazed inquiringly at
his com nions.

“ We 1, that’s bad!” Fisk declared. “I sup-
pose, according to your tell, you’re left out in
the cold!”

“ That’s about the size of it. There’s no doubt
but what the old man has changed his will, and
if he flunks, every penny he’s got, not to men-
tion the diamonds, will go to Haidee and her
cussed coachman. I tell you, something has got
to be done i”

“ Yes, you’re right. But, when and how?
Those jewals we have so diligently been plotting
to gain possession of must not. escape us. w
much money has your father got, besides the
diamonds?” .

’“ I’ll give that up!” Ham replied. “ He’s got
a boodle, but just how much I do not know.
tHe 'o’ught to be able to buy up a railroad or

we.

“ And he keeps it all on the premises?”

“Cert. The money and the jewels are all in
the big safe, which experts say is burglar-proof.
The old man is shy of banks, since he got nipped
in that Ward-Grant fiasco.”

At this Deadwood Dick laughed.

“ Y0n’ve got a big; old knowledge of safes!”
he observed. “That safe never was made that
I can’t open. let me get near enough to it!
Why, even a time—lock safe is easy manipulated,
once you,know how to go to work at it!’

This remark caused the other members of The
Faculty to survey him with something akin to
admiration. .

“ Then, it that’s the case. you’re. just the man
we want to boss the job!” Ham Hylton asserted.

“Of course he is!” added Fisk. “ That’s one
reason I admitted him to The Faculty. He’s
the right man in the right place, and we’re in
luck to make so valuable an acquisition, I can
tell you!”

Even Hutch Higgins now condescended to
look upon the new member with favor.

“Well, let’s get ready and go to work at
once,” Ham insisted. “ We must get possession
of at least the diamonds before the old man dies,
or we may not get another chance. Once Haidee
gets her clutches on them, the chances are that
she w1ll put them away in some Safety Deposit
Vault.”

“ I don’t see that we shall be able to act on the
matter tonight.” suggested Fisk. “ If your

father is so badly hurt as you intimate, it is
more than likely that the whole household will
be up and stirring all night, which would make
it next to impossible to proceed with our work.
Were you still a member of the household, it
would be dime“, but under the circumstances
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“ Devilish badl” growled Hi gins. “ The job
has been put off too long alrea y.” V

“ Well, there’s no use of crying over spilt
milk," Ham said philosophically. “If the job
ain’t attended to to—night, I won’t be surprised
if the jewels elude us yet. What do you think
about it, Plummer?”

“ Oh! I don’t believe there is reasonable cause
for immediate alarm!” Dick replied, “and as
no preparations have been made for the at-
tempt, I should say it would be highly incon—
sistent with your usual caution, to make the
trial without due deliberation.”

“ You’re sensible there!” Fisk declared admir-
ingly. “I for one don’t want to be caught in
any trap.”

“ Have ye got a key to yer old man’s house?”
demanded Hutch Higgins of young Hylton.

“ Nary key!” was the reply. “ There’s always
a bellboy on duty at the door, so there was no
need of my carrying a key.”

“ And you say every dOor and window is pro-
vided with a burglar-alarm?”

fit Yes. 7? ~

“ That makes it bad then. It will be difllcnlt-
to get into the house.”

“ How did on get in before when the silver.
ware was sto en?” queried Dick. "
“ They didn’t get in. It was me who chucked
the stuff out,” and young Hylton chuckled, at

which his comrades lau hed loudly.

This disclosure as we 1 as the other discov-
eries he had made, gave the spy no little sur-

prise.

Hamlet Hylton was a thief and a burglar,
and a consort of thieves and burglars.

So was Hutch Higgins, the man, who, accord-
ing to Mrs. Fielding’s stor , had brought Col—
onel Delos Da Costa’s wi to America and
placed it in the hands of Hoyt Hylton.

And now, there was a conspiracy afoot to rob
Hyltmn, senior, of the Da Costadiamonds, the
possession of which he had fraudulently ob-
tained. l

The uestion that arose was:

Shou d be interfere, or should he assist in the
burglary?

If be caused or permitted an interference to
bemade, the chances were that he would get
very little thanks for his pains from Hy’lton. If,
on the other hand, he assisted in the urglary,
he would be carrying out his scheme, and at
the same time stand a chance of gaining
sion of the jewels himself, and restoring them
to their rightful owner. -  ‘

After that, he could cause the arrest of the
burglars. , .

Which should he do? fit- 3

There was no need for deliberation in the mat-
ter. He would remain hand in hand with the
burglars, temporarily, and trust to luck to get
possession of the Da Costa diamonds.

In the mean time the burglars had been
further discussing the situation, without com-
ing to any practical determination what to do.

“ I think I have a plan that will work,” Dick
now remarked.

“ Then, let’s have it!” urged Fisk. “Any
plan is better than none.”

.“Well, here it is: We will put the job down
for to-morrow night. after midnight. To—mor-
row, in the guise of a detective, I will pay a
Visit to Ho t Hylton, and state that I have
reason to be ieve that his house is to be broken
into and robbed, and I shall ask permission to
remain in the house over night in order to nab
the burglars!”

“ Bullv for you! The plan’s a good one!” cried
young ylton.

“ Right, it is!” assented Fisk. v

“ Of course your father won‘t refuse my re-
quest?" Dick went on, seeing how he already has
suffered.”

“ Of course not!”

“ Well. then. I’ll do guard duty around the in-
terior ( f the house, until everything is quiet,
and tl'en I’ll admit yen, and then,wc’ll go for
the safe. I may be able to study out the combi-
nation by the time you arrive.”

“Better not mcnkey with the safe ’til we all
git there!” Higgins gruntcd.

“ Why not?”

“ Waal, because ef ye happened to git the
thing open, you’d gobble On to the contents, and
light out!”

“ Thank you for nothin’!” Dick retorted.
“ Always look to home before suspecting others
of sneaking treachery. It happens I ain’t built
that way, my man!”

"' D’ye mean to intimate that I’m a sneak?”
roared the ruman, glaring at Dick as if he would
like to eat him. '

“ No, I did not say so in so many words. but
if the shoe fits you, why, wear'iti”

  

   

 

“ Cuss your impudence, I’ve a mind to smash
your head for you!“

“ So? Now, maybe you’d find it something of
a job to do that, my friend. I don’t, as a rule,
loan my head out as a punching machine. When
I do, Ill invite you around, to take the first
crack at it!"

“Here! here! stop your growling!” ordered
Captain Fisk. “Theres no sense in it, and
I’ll not have it! Hutch, you Owe Plummer an
apology.”

“Oho! do 1? Well, now, I’m bettin’ he’ll
wait a while ’til he gits it!” was the surly re-

p .
here the matter dropped, and the conversation
tOok a turn.

It was agreed that Plummer should visit Hoyt
Hylton, as he had suggested, and that the bur-
glars were to be at the rear of the mansion the
following midnight, prepared to crack the safe
as soon as they were admitted.

The meeting in the sub-cellar then broke up,
and all hands made their way up-stairs and out
into the street, whence they scattered in various
directions, Dick going back up-town.

He had to foot it, as the cab which had
brought him was nowhere to be seen.

Fortunately, it had stopped raining, so that
he did not mind walking.

In due time he reached his and Rats’s lodgings,
and found the young sleuth still up and reading.

Rats related his experience in searching for
Mercedes, after which Dick said:

“Very Well. That’s all there will be for you
to do for the present so you can amuse yourself
as you choose until Ineed you again. Should
you meet your mother go up and speak to her,
for I’d like to know just how crazy she is.”

They then went to bed. Early the next morn-
ing Dick was up and stirrin , and making pre-
parations for a new and nove adventure.

How it would terminate he was not prepared
to decide.

CHAPTER IX.
DICK’s VISIT 'ro HYLTON.

DEADWOOD DiCK’s first action was plain. He
must first visit the Hylton mansion.

So, changing his dress to that worn when he
first met the man of wealth, he set forth, and a
ring of the bell at the mansion door was an-
swered by a colored boy in livery, to whom
Dick gave his card, and a few minutes later the
detective was ushered into the sick chamber on
the first floor.

Hylton was in bed and bolstered up with the
pillows. His face was pale, almost haggard.

By the bedside sat a remarkably pretty young
maiden with hazel eyes and sunny hair, and a
figure that was the perfection of symmetrical
grace.

Hylton‘s face brightened perceptibly as the
detective entered.

“ Ah! Mr. Bristol, I am very glad to see you,”
he said. “ Although your visit is unexpected, it
is none the less welcome. Haidee, give Mr.
Bristol a chair. My daughter, Mr. Bristol.”

After acknowledging the introduction Dick
became seated.

“ Yes; I heard that you had met with a seri-
ous acoldent, and thought I’d call and see if I
could be of service to you,” Dick said. \

“ Alas! I fear not. My family pllySlClan has
diagnosed my case, and says I cannot possibly
recover from the severe internal injuries I have
sustained. The only thing he can do is to keep
me under the influence of anaesthetics, until such
a time as the good Lord may see fit to take me
off "

 

Dick wondered if this man, who had robbed
and abused his next of kin, really expected
clemenc from the Divine Powvr.

“ Well, I am sorry to hear this,” Dick an-
ewered. “ But I hope you may yet recover.”
He might have added, “ so that the law can
take its Course with you.” He did not, however,
but went on: “I did not call to offer medical
aid. but as an officer of the law.”

‘-'--Ah I" and Hylton looked startled. “ How do
you mean. sir?”

I mean that, as you are helpless, you need
official protection.”

" I do not understand. Pray explain.”

“ Well, you see, there is a plot against you.
From what I have learned you have a fortune
in diamonds, as well as a large sum of money
locked up in your safe."

“ Yes, yes! What of it?”

“ \Vell,I am led to believe that an attempt
will be made to-ni ht to rob the safe, and by the
same gang who r0 bed you before.”

“ Good heavens! you don’t really mean it?”
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Deadwood Dick, Jr., in Philadelphia.

“ But I do. You know I have undertaken to
hunt d0wn these burglars. Well, I have suc-
ceeded in so far that I am aware of their lan to
rob you. Learning of your helpless condition, I
came to see you, for two reasons, namely: First.
to protect your property, and, second, to sur-
prise the burglars at their work, and capture
them, and thereb secure the promised reward
for my services. herefore, if you have no ob-
jections, I would like to remain in your house
over night. ”

"It shall be as you wish, young man, and vou
shall be well rewarded for your kindness. ut,
you will need outside help, will you not?”

“On the contrary, no. I‘ can manage it all
myself.”

“ But I do not see how the burglars are to ef—
fect an entrance without creating an alarm.
Every door and window in the houseis equip ed
with a burglar alarm, which connects, by e ec-
tricity, with the signal alarm at the nearest 0-
lice station. After the alarm is set, at nig t,
the olice would be here before the robbers
couk secure their plunder.”

“The alarm is set at night?”

“ Yes, every night.”

“ 5' whom i”

“ sually by me, but now Haidee will have to
attend to it.”

“ About what hour has it been customary for
you to set this alarm?”

“ At bedtime.”

“ It therefore is not in use during the day-
time?”

‘ “  for we must use the doors and windows

“ Well, Mr. Hylton, the alarm will not have
the effect to keep the burglars out of the house:
nor will they attem )t to force an entrance.”

“ Indeed? Then, ow can they get in?”

“Easy enough. They have a confederate in
your houSehold. This confederate, when the
proper hour arrives for the attempt, will shut
off the alarm, and admit the burglars!”

Hylton looked thunderstruck.

“A confederate I” he gasped. “ Im ossiblel
there is no one whom I cannot implicit y trust,
in my employ!”

“There must be some one, nevertheless. You
have a son, I believe?”

“ Yes—a sort of one!” Hylton answered bitter-
ly, his brow darkenin .

“ You had a falling out with this son, yester-
day, threw_ him out of the house, and threatened
to dismherit him, and later on, sent for your
lawyer and made your will in favor of your
daughter and her aflianced husband, Don Da
Costa. Am I not ri ht?” . ~

“ You are right. ’ut, how in the name of all
that is wonderful, did you learn this?”

“ By accident, I heard your son say so. He
is greatly incensed at on, and threatens re-
venge. This revenge wil be conmmmatedehen
your safe is rifled. I may further add, your son
is a member of the burglar gang!”

Both father and daughter uttered ejaculations
of incredulous astonishment.

“ By Heaven! I cannot believe this!” Hylton
gasped. “ My son a burglar ? Impossible,
sir!”

“ It is true. It was your son who assisted in
robbing you of your silver plate 1”

f The stricken man sunk back, whiter than be-
ore.

“ Brandy! brandy!” he cried in tremulous
tones.

The liquor was administered by Haidee, and
directly, he rallied.

“ This is the worst blow of my life !” he added.
“ I have known that Hamlet has been wild, but
never had an idea that he had descended to
the level of a thief. But, if what you say be
true, detective, why have you not arrested the
scound rel ?"

“ Because I want to bag the whole gang at
one swoop!” Dick replied. “ If I were to pull one
the others would take alarm, and cscape’l’

“ This all seems incredible to me!” Hylton de-
clared, still doubtingly. “ I cannot understand
how you, a stranger in the city, should have
learned so much in so short a time. I beg par—
don,”but I am almost inclined to disbelieve

ou.

“Suit yourself, about that!” Dick answered.
“ I presumed you would appreciate the interest
I have taken in protecting your interests, else I
should not have called.”

“ I do appreciate it if What you say is true.
But, I cannot 898 how you have found out so
much!”

“ Listen, then, and I will enlighten you, on
the promise of yourself and daughter that not
a vvlord of my confidence shall pass beyond
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“Certainly we promise!” Hylton returned, _

and Haidee nodded acquiescence.

Dick then proceeded to disclose the method
used to get into the burglars’ den, and the results
of his scheme thus far.

Both Hylton and Haidee listened in unfeigned
amazement.

“ Well, on are a shrewd one!” the former de-
clared. “ To tell the truth. I took but little stock
in you on the occasion of our first meeting, but
n0w I see my mistake. I wouldn’t like to be a
criminal and have you on my trail! There is
one thing I can’t understand, however, concern-
ing the confederate of the burglars, who, you
say, is in my house. As my son is forbidden
here, it cannot be be!”

“No. But, he has lived here, and you have.
servants, and you know a glittering offer of
money is often a source of temptation.
of many men who are to-day Wealthy and re-
spected citizens, yet secured their riches in ways
they would not like exposed!”

his shot caused Hylton to level a sha , in-
quiring, even startled glance at Deadwoodrfiick
but the detective‘s face betrayed absolutely
nothing to show that his remark was meant to
be personal.

“Well, perhaps you are right,” Hylton con-
fessed, after a brief pause. “ I know it was not
the case with me, and so I don’t bother myself
about others’ faults. I hope to live to see you
capture thcse burglars, even if my son is one of
them. And, as for your interest in protecting
my property, rest assured I thank you heartily,
and you shall be well rewarded—if not by me,
by my daughter.

“ My safe is in my study, which is the adjoin-
ing room—a rear parlor that looks out upon the
back lawn. Haidee, you can show the gentle
man the room, as he will probably want to s lend
the night there. Also give him the key 0 the
door opening from the study into the hall, and
instruct the hall boy to admit Mr. Bristol, when-
ever he comes again.”

Haidee bowed, and arose to obey directions.

Dick also arose, but paused a moment, before
following his fair guide.

“ When did you last open your safe, Mr.
Hylton l” he asked.

“ Day before yesterday, I believe.”

“ You know that everything was all right at
that time, eh i”

“ Certain] . Why do you ask?”

“ Simply because I’d like to know if all is
right, now. In assuming guard duty over the
room, I would be in an unpleasant fix if any-
thing should turn 11 ,missin ”

. rue. Still, “I ’8 'no anger but'what all y
is right.

To make doubly sure. Haidee can
open the safe, so you can see for yourself.”

Accordingly, Dick accompanied the maiden ‘

into the adjoming room, which communicated
with the bedroom by folding doors.

The study was an elegantly furnished apart-
ment, one of the most conspicuous features being
a huge MarVIn’s safe, which stood in one corner.

There were two rear windows locking out into
a back yard. There was also a door opening in-
to the hall.

The windows were without either shutters or
blinds, inside or out.

An easy matter it would be for burglars to
force an entrance, thought the spy.

After he had taken a good look about the
place, Haidee went to the safe, and proceeded to
slowly turn the combination knob of the door,
three times backward and then carefully for-
ward, to a given number on the dial.

Dick watched the turns narrowly, and when
at last she swung the door open, he was of the
opinion that he could master the combination,
himself.

Once the door was open, H aidee took a barrel-
shaped casket from the safe, and glanced into
it: then closed and replaced it.

“ The diamonds are all right,” she remarked.

She then pulled open a drawer, which was
packed full of bank—notes, of large denomina-
tions.

“And the money is all right,” she added, '

closing and locking the safe.

They returned, then, to the sick room.

“ Well?" Hylton demanded, interro atively.

“ All’s right!” Dick assured. “ 1’] go, hay,
and return toward night.”

He took his departure, and _as he left the
room, he fancied he heard a peculiar chuckle, but

did not look around to see whether or no he was‘“ 

mistaken. _

Leaving the house, he did not immediately
quit the premises, but went/around to the
stable, where he found a rather good-looking
young man sitting upon a stool, in the doorwrv.
smoking. .

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“This is Donald Da Costa, I believe?” Dick
queried, pausing iii front of the young man.

“Yes, sir, that is my name, I don’t think I
kn0w yours, however?”

“Perhaps not. My name is Bristol. I am a
detective!’ ,

“ Indeed!” The young man looked surprised,
but made no further remark.

“ I chanced to call on Hylton, and so I
thought I’d run around and see you," Dick con-
tinued, in a sociable manner. “ You have a
brother, I believe?” . _

“Yes; that is, if he is livmg. I haven’t seen,
or heard of him, in a  “(11:19.”

“ Oh! he‘s alive an kicking. and as my pro—
tege, is making his mark as a detective. I pre-
sumed on would like to hear from him?”

“ So I would. So he didn’t stay With Madame
Lagrange, eh?”

‘ No. He ran away, and I picked him up on
the streets of New York.”

“ I thought he wouldn’t stay bound out, long.
He always had a will of his own. Does he
know where I am?”

it Yes.”

“ Is be here in the city?”

6‘ Yes.”

“Then, why the dickens don’t he come and
see me?”

“Well, I told him he'd better come but he
didn’t seem to be inclined that way. He said he
and you used to have a good many spats, and
that ou used to feel above him, somewhat; so,
consi ering that he had entered into a legiti-
mate profession, he considers himself a peg or
two higher than you!”

At this Da Costa lau hed, heartily.

“ That’s Royal to a l” he said. "He was al-
ways as independent as a hog on ice. However,
tell him I would really like to see him.”

“I will do so. Seems to me you ought to be
in a better position than acting as coachman to
Hoyt Hylton, your own uncle.”

‘ So I ought, but, then. you kn0w, it’s hard
work to get a job in the winter time, and a bird
in the hand is worth two in the bush. Then,

Here Donald hesitated, the color in his cheeks
changin .

“ I uii erstand,” Dick at once added, “there’s
another obstacle in the way of your leaving
here—a very pretty obstacle. too—and her name
isHaidee. Is ,there any truth in it that you are

flu, and that Hylton has changed
‘_ r of on and Haidee?”

, treat astonished.
“it is “that aidee and I are engaged,”
b t it is not with my uncle’s approval.

‘ t - ively forbids such a thing, and
. i ‘ ‘he sent me my wages and noti—
, r A uld consider myself dismissed

. -. .l, ‘fi, if Hylton has changed his
' i  . . ' ii bet he did not_do it in my favor.
If he dies, Haidee shall be mine, anyhow! But,
pray, sir, how did you find out so much?”

Dick smiled. .

“We detective have ways of finding out a
great many things,” he said, evasively. “When
did you see your mother last?”

“ Not since she sent me of! to school. While
I was there the poor afflicted woman went crazy,
and they ut her in an insane asylum. I never
have had the heart to go and see her.”

“ But, did you not know that she is no longer
in the asylum?”

“ Indeed, I did not!”

“Well, such is the case. Hers was only a
mild case of dementia, and she is even now wan-
dering about the streets of the city as a rag-
picker.” 0

Da Costa held up his hands in horror.

“Good heavens! you do not mean it!” he
ejaculated. “ M mother a rag-picker?”

“ It is true. ere is her address, and you’d
better hunt her 11‘. Perhaps the sight of you
might have the e ect to clear away the cloud
from her bewildered brain.”

“Gad only knows, I b so!” Donald said,
fervently. “ I shall lose no time in hunting her
up, rest assured, and I am deeply grateful for
the information you have given me, for I had
no idea but- what my poor mother was still in
the asylum. Please to send Royal to me, and
together we will try and find our suffering
parent.”

This Dick promised to donand then, bidding
Da Costa adieu, he turned his steps toward the
office of the chief of police.

CHAPTER X.
HIGGINS as A BULLDoan. ' .
Amn visiting the office of the police chief,
Dick secured some cartridges at a gun store,
some strong leather straps at aharness shop,

   
  
  

 
     

 

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3nd then once more started for the Hylwn resi-
ence.

When he came in sight of it he saw something
that caused him considerable sur rise.

A man was about entering the ouse whom he
at once. recognized. «

It was Hutch Higgins.

“ Humph! I wonder what the blazes he is doing
here,” the detective muttered. “ I must over‘
hear this interview. It may open up some im-
important develo merits.”

Recognizing him, the hall-boy admitted him,
so that there was no necessity for him to ring.

Dick then hastened cautiously along the hall,
and admitted himself to the study, ma the hall

oor.

A moment later he was seated by the door
that communicated with Hilton’s room, with
his ear applied to the crac between the fold-
ing~doors. '

“ I thoiight you were in South America,” the
invalid was saying.

The other laughed, rather sneeringly, it seemed
to the s y listener.

“ We 1, maybe you did; but I changed my
mind, and didn’t go to South America at all.”

“ IVhy. you gave me your word of honor that
you would, and never return.”

“ Huinph! What of that? Didn’t I just tell
you I changed my mind? I found Philadelphia
enough sight better a place to live in than Rio,
and so I stayed here.”

“ lVell, what do you want? I am not aware
that ‘you were sent an invitation to pay me a
visit. ’

“ Of course not. But then, you know, I am
not a man who 'bothers my head about cere-
mony, so I overlOoked your neglect, and hear—
ing that you were in a fair way to shuffle off this
mortal coil soon, I thought I’d call and settle

y”

“ Settle up? IVhat do you mean?”

“ thy, I mean that I want my share of
youi; boodle. There isn’t anything mean about
me.

“Well, you’ll get no money out of me, and
don't you forget it!" Hylton declared. “ I’ve
paid you the last cent I ever shall.”

“ Think so?”

“ I am positive. I paid your price once, and
that’s all you’ll get.”

“ Oh, I guess not. I’ve got you in my power,
and if you don’t come to terms I can make it
hot for you.”

“Oh, on can, eh? IVell, how are you going
to do it?”

“ By having you arrested for conspiracy, and
by snatching the Da Costa diamonds away from
you and restoring them to their rightful
owners.”

“Bah! The diamonds belong to me.
prove it by the will.”

Hutch Higgins laughed scornfully.

“A fig for that will,” he sneered. “ Do you
suppose I was so big a fool as to sell you Delos
Da Costa’s real and genuine will? Not much!
The will you hold, I counterfeited myself. The
will I' hold is the genuine one which Da Costa
executed.”

Despite the fact that the family physician had
advised Hylton that he had not long to live, the
man swore furiously.

“ Curses seize you!” he cried, angrily. “ You
are lying to me!”

“Oh, no!” Higgins retorted, triumphantly.
“ Don’t let any such idea as that run away with

on. I’m no fool. The will you hold is not
worth the paper it is drawn upon. Moreover,
you have never’had it proved or recorded. The
genuine will was drawn and signed in Mel-
bourne, and witnessed by three men!”

Hylton swore again.

“And so'you exvpect to bleed me again, do
YOU?" he Cried. “ ellz you’ll not succeed. I
h01d the diamonds. and intend to, as long as I
live, no matter how many wills you possess. I
have not long to live. and I defy you !”

“ You’re a fool!” Higgins said, emphaticallv.
“ I saw your physician, to—day, and be said.
judging by your present symptoms, you would
linger along at least a number of days. and he
was hopeful of your ultimate recovery. So, if
you die at all. it will he in jail, providing you
do not come. to in terms.”

“ Indeed? We 1, out of sheer curiosity, allow
me to ask, what are your terms?"

“ Five thousand dollars: upon receipt of
which, I wifl never trouble you again!”

“ I suppose not. ngl. I shall not give you a
cent. I am not afraid of what you can do. I
am a well-known business man and generally
respected. You are a low-bred loafer, and no
one would believe you under oath!” .

“ I’ll risk that. Now, look here, Hylton,

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there’s no use whatever of dilly-dell ing about
this matter. I mean business, and ere’s what
I intend to do, if the five thousand dollars ain’t
forthcoming: I shall go before the proper au-
thorities, and make afiidavit as follows:

“ That I, Hutchinson Higgins, was for a num-
ber of years the traveling companion of Colonel
Delos Da Costa, during his tour of exploration;
that Da Costa acquired a fortune in diamonds,
and arranged to send them home to his wife, in
care of her brother, one Hoyt Hylton. Later,
said Higgins and Da Costa went to Australia,
with a view of starting for America. There Da
Costa was taken ill, and his life being despaired
of, he made his last w ill and testament, be-
queathing his all in equal parts to his wife and
two sons. This will he gave to Higgins, to bring
to the United States. and give to the wife, in
case he, Da COsm. should not recover. Higgins,
during Da Costa’s long illneSs, telegraphed to
Hoyt Hylton:

“ ‘ Da Costa sick, must die.
“That say '?’

“ He received in reply the following:

“ ‘ Bring me will, making me sole ieir, I will
give you five thousand dollars!’ I answered,
‘ All right!’

“ I copied the will, word for word, except
that it made Hoyt Hylton sole heir instead of
the Da Costas, and being an expert penman, the
counterfeit was an excellent imitation.

“ Da Costa did not die, and soon was well
enough to be helped aboard a ship bound for
San Franciseo. It was his one desire, if he died at
all, to die on American soil. Assisted by an ac—
quaintance of mine. Ike Hoon, by name, I at-
tended faithfully to Mr. Da Costa, but gradually
he grew delirious, and one night when the ship
was becalmed off the Solomon group, Da Costa
was found miSSing. and it was sumiose-d that, in
one of his fits of delirium, he had jumped over-
board and was drowned.

“Higgins came to San Francisco: Delos Da
Costa, if he survived, was left on one of the is-
lands of Melanesia.

“ On his arrival in ’Frisco, Higgins mailed
two letters. One was to Mercedes Da Costa. the
wife. the other was to Hoyt Hvlton. instructing
Hylton to come at once to ’ risco. He came
and I returned with him. He showed the
widow the will, and the shook of the blow drove
her insane. You caused her to be incarcerated
in a mud-house, and then settled ( own to enjoy
your ill-gotten jewels. Your bUsiness career
was eventful, but when you got short of money,
you could always raise enough money on the
jewels to give you a fresh start in life. When
prosperity smi ed on you, you would redeem the
jewels. Thus you kept along, until you made a
big stock speculation that made you rich enough
to retire.

“ This matter laid before the authorities, and
sworn to by myself and Hoon, will cause your
arrest, and you will be dragged from your com—
fortable quarters, here, to die in a prison cell.

“ Now, then, Hoyt Hylton, what do you think
of the situation?”

“I have nothing to say, except that Idefy
you,” Hylton replied, grimly. “ You dare not
prefer such a charge against me, for, if you did,
you would be giving yourself dead away, and
you would be arrested in my stead l”

“Not if We turn State 3 evidence!” Higgins
declared.

“The fact is, Hylton, we’ve got you by the
horns, and there’s no use of your trying to dis-
pute the fact, for we’ve even got more sub-
stantial proof of our charge, than you dream of.
I f you will glance over this list of hotel arrivals,
you will see, for yourself.”

A moment later, the listener in the next room
heard Hoyt Hylton utter an astonished ejacula-
tion.

“ Delos Da Costa alive, and back in Philadel-
pln'a !” he ejaculated. “ 1 do not believe it!”

“ It is true,” Higgins declared. “ He arrived
from Australia on the steamship Breton. I
chanced to be at the wharf when he landed, but
I didn’t speak to him. He has changed a good
deal, his hair being as white as snow; but bail
still strong and vigorous, and the set expres-
sion of his countenance is that of a man who has
been nuising vengeance in his heart. for many
a day. Yes! yes! Hoyt Hylton, Colonel Da
Costa has come back to life, and I wouldn’t like
to stand in your shoes.

“ So. now, you understand the matter as it is.
and I give you ten minutes to come to time. If
you do not, you shall spend to-night in jail, so
sure as my name is Higgins !”

There was a brief silence. The invalid was
evidently considering what was best to do.

“ Even were I inclined to bargain with you,”
he said, at length, “ what good would it do me!

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If Da Costa has really returned, he will be
likely to make me even as much trouble as you
can, and I would be five thousand dollars out,
for nothing.”

“Never fear for that!” Higgins exclaimed.
“ You give me my price and 1’] uarantee never
to disturb you again, nor shall gelos Da Costa.
I swear to that!”

“ You swore before, but didn’t stick to your
oath l”

“ True; but it’s different, this time. It is ab-
solutely necessary that I get out of the city at
once. To-morrow will not be time enough! I
must have money, and you must furnish it,
either willingly, or otherwise. I am desperate,
and if you do not satisfy my demands, I shall
take it upon myself to help myself. Sonow,
and for the last time, what is your answer?”

Again Hylton was silent, for the space of a
couple of minutes, when he answered:

“ Well, I suppose there’s no other way of
averting the dis race, except by acceding to
your demands. It will be impossible, however,
for inc to give you the money before this even-
in

“How so?”

“Because I am unable to stir from my bed,
and there is no one else who knows the combina-
tion of the lock of my safe, except my daugh-
ter. She is now absent from the house, and will
not be back until after dark l”

“ Humphl that’s only an excuse to put me
off!” Higgins growled. .

“It is not," Hylton replied. “It would be
no object for me to try to deceive. Come again
at half-past six. and youshall have the money.”

“ I won’t wait!” the radian cried. “Give me
the combination, and I’ll open the safe, myself!"

“ Oh not I’d submit to a dozen arrests, be-
fore I’d let you get into that safe. So take your
choice. If you really want the money had,
come after six o’clock. If not, do the next best
thing!”

Higgins was silent for a minute, then evi-
dently coming to the Conclusion that the easiest
way was the best, he put on his hat, and arose
to de art.

“ er well; ,I’ll be here at the appointed
hour 1” 9 said “ and if the money ain’t forth-
coming, then, it will be the worse for you, mark
mylword!” .

8 left the room and the house in evident sav-
age humor.

 

CHAPTER XI.
A BLOW IN THE DARK.

0!” course every word of the foregoing con-
versation had reached the ears of the eager Dick,
and as may be supposed, it proved of interest to
him, especialéysthat part relating to the return
of Delos Da ta.

“I must see this gentleman at once!” he de-
cided. “ But first, another matter must be at-
tended to. I-I’iggins will return at six o’clock
for his hush, but he must not have an rtu-
nity to get the Da COSta diamonds. r the
time being, the must belon to me!’

He stole soft y to the an e and began to ex-

ment with the combination-knOb. Recall-

ng as nearly as possible the moves Haidee had

made, he turned the knob three times backward
and then forward; but at the end of ten min-
utes he had accomplished nothing, for the door
was still un ieldtienf.

Nothing aun , however, the dectective pur—
sued his attempt, and at last, much to his oy,
the massive barrier that had stood between im
and so much wealth, swung o n.

A moment more and Dic : had the silver-
bound ebony casket in his hands, and was gaz~
alga]? the glittering little heap of diamonds

at

There were perhaps eighteen of the jewels, all
handsomely cut, but unset. The majority of
them were of large size, and very brilliant.

“ By Jovel they’re beauties, every one of
them l” he muttered. “ If I’m any judge, their
value has not been overrated. Now, let me see:
I don’t want the casket. I’ll remove the dia-
monds and return the receptacle to the safe.”

This hedid, carefully stowing the jewels away
in one of his pocketn.

He then closed the safe, turned the knob, and
silently passed from the house.

Going down-town, he examined that morn-
ing’s pers, and found Delos Da Costa’s name

.ment ned among the arrivals at the Lafayette,

on Broad street, and thither took his way.
Inquiry at the oflce elicited the information

fit, although Da Costa was registered there, he

not been seen since earlyin the day.
As it wagettintgoldusk Dick concluded not to
32.3% cut ' his lodgings, hoping to find

 

But in this he was disappointed.
Rats had been there, but had one, leaving a
note on the table, which read as ollows:

“i Am goin’ to St. mary street. If yure fit time
yu cum 2. rs.”

Dick glanced at his watch reflectively.

“' It’s nearly six o’clock,” he mused,“ and I can-
not get back to Hylton’s in time to catch Hig-
gins there, it is likely, so there’s no need of bein
in a particular hurry. This St. Mary street is a
tough locality, they say, and there’s no tellin
but what Rats may get into some trouble.
guess about the best thing for me to do is to

unt him up.”

“First, however, he procured supper at a
restaurant; then he made a few inquiries and
set out in search of his little pan-d.

The night was intensely dark, and the gas
lam 8 gave out but a feeble, flickering light.

“Phen Dick finally reached the entrance to
St. Mary street, he found it to be a dark, nar-
row, forbidding thoroughfare, lined on either
side by rim brick tenements, in the basements
of near y every other one of which was a dive
or gin-mill.

The sidewalks Were narrow and broken, the
gutters reeked with filth, and the denizens of

this ill—favored locality, who appeared to skulk'

along like wolves of the night, were the hardest
looking wretches to be found in the city.

“ By jingo! this is atough looking quarter!”
Dick muttered, pausing before entering the
street. “I reckon a stranger stands a good
chance of getting knocked over the head, who
goes cavorting around here. If Rats has bad
the grit to go on an exploring expedition,
through here, he’s got more grit than I gave
him credit for having.”

Among other armaments which Dick had
equipped himself with, that day, was a black-
jack. and this he now drew. ready for business,
lfllnd made his wayinto the gloomy thorough-
are.

The further be advanced, the darker it grew,
and the more stifling became the odors arising
from the gutters an i alleys.

From the basement dives floated snatches of
ribald song, and pcals of boisterous laughter,
intermingled with profanity. Here, a bar-room
brawl, and further on a dance, in which the
revelers seemed vying with each other, to see
who could make the most noise.

Not a policeman was to be seen, for it is a
well known fact that the blue-coated guardians
of the ace have no more liking for St. Mary
street t an the “nobility” of St. Mary street
base fiogatllie blue coats. b0 , “M

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out the stregt without discovering atDuffy’s
saloon, when he suddenly stumbled over a dark
object that was lyin on the sidewalk, and fell
for ward to the groun .

As he gathered himself up, he heard a groan,
and bending forward mate out that it was
a ilnan, covered with blood, over whom he had
fal en.

“Hello! who are on and what are you
doin here, man?” Dic asked.

“ ’ve been assaulted, and robbed!” the man
replied. faintly. “ For God’s sake go have a
policeman send for an ambulance, so I can be
taken to a hospital.”

“ Are you badly hurt?”

“ Yes. I have a terrible scalp wound, a
broken arm, and I fear one of my ribs too, is
fractured.” ,

“Indeed? Then you must be gotten out of
this dangerous neighborhood. Can you not.
with my assistance, Walk to the next corner? I
will then hunt up an officer, and send for an
ambulance.”

“I will try, tho' I am very weak from loss
of blood.”

The man was large and powerful, but Dick
managed, at last, to get him on his feet, and to-
gether they moved s Owly toward the adjacent
corner, but every step caused the stranger to
flinch with pain.

“What is your name?” Dick asked, noting
that the man’s hair was quite white.

“ Delos Da Costa.” was the reply.

" Delos Da Costa?” ejaculated Dick, in’ aston-
ishment.

“ Exactly. You seem surprised?”

“I am surprised.”

“And why? You do not know me, or at
least I do not know you.” '

“I know of you as Colonel Da Costa, the
African diamond—hunter, who has long been re‘
garded as dead. But, tell me, sir, how came
you in the sorry pli ht _I found you in, and
especially in such a vi e neighborhood?”

‘I am rather short of breath, but I will tell

I you in as few words as possible. I arrived from
Australia yesterday, put 11 at the Hotel Lafay-
ette. Late this afternoon was waited upon by
a young man who claimed to be the son of my
brother-in-law, Hoyt Hylton. This young man,
whose name is Hamlet, appeared to be ver
glad to see me, and when I asked after my wi e
and children, he said they were very poor and
lived in an obscure part of the city. He also
volunteered to show n.e the way, and by the
time we reached the Western entrance to this
street it was quite dark. My gurde said our
destination was midway in the street,and so we
entered it and groped our way along.

“ When we had reached the pomt where on
found me, oung Hylton hit me a fearful b ow
on the head, with some heavy object, and I fell
to the ground, partially stunned and qiute help-
less. Then my aSsailant went through my
pockets, taking my watch and chain and my
pocketbook. He then gave me a kick In the
ribs and another on the left arm, and ran away
just before on came up. That’s all I can tell

on now. ‘- fyou will get an ambulance I will

e very much obliged to you, for I am suffering
excruciating pain.’ ,

“ I will have a vehicle, with all possible
speed,” Dick replied, they having by this time
reached the street‘s upper end. “ You lean
against this wall while I hunt up a police-
man.

Leaving Da Costa braced up against a dead.
wall, he hastened away. 

He had to go several blocks ere he could find
an officer, to whom he gave the story of his,
“find.”

The “ cop” at once rung an alarm for an em-
bulance from one of the lice telegraph boxes,
and then accompanied Dick back to the corner
of St. Mary street.

When they arrived there, however, Da Costa
was not there. Nothing remained where he had
been left standing but a pool of blood. _

A search of the neighborhood, and particularly
of St. Mary street was made, but all to no
avail. Da Costa had diappeared as though the
earth had opened 11 and Swallowed him, and no
trace or track coul be found. ,

So when the ambulance came it had to go
away without its patient. 5

The officer, too, soon gave up the search, and
went off patrollin his beat. _ ,

Not so with Dic ,. He scoured the nagging-k-
hood until nearly midnight, when, . «3:: m r1, -
he was wanted elsewhere, he so > "  I '
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terrible blow he had received, caused his : ad
to swim, and his fractured arm made him faint,
and Deadwood Dick had hardly got around. the
corner, when the colonel gave a groan, and sunk
to the pavement in a swoon.

At that moment two persons came hurrying
along, from the western end of the street:

One was a woman, tall, with gray hair, and
sunken eyes. She was dressed in a coarse and
welloworn dress, and an equally Well-worn hon.
net and carried a lighted lantern in one hand,
and a stout hickory cane iii the .other. _

Her companion was a well-built lad of Sixteen,
with a ood—natured face, bright eyes, and a
mouth 0 waggish expression. _

As the two reached Da Costa’s Side, they
paused in astonishment. .

“ Hey! what’s thh ?” the woman cried. “A
man covered with blood? Foul play has been
done, here. nick. boy. run back to the fourth
door to the rig t, and tell the Jones men to come
here at once!” , , , ,

The boy hurried away, but soon returned, ac-

men.

“ Hello, Mercedes, what’s this?” one man
asked.

“There’s been another assault,” was the reply.
“ The poor man has been knocked on”the head,
and his left arm appears to be broken.

“ Is be dead?” . _

“No! he has on] , fainted. Pick him up and
carry him in? ya: r house, and we Will see what

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men, of a far better class than the other inhabit-

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to make an examination of his injuries. This
they were capable of doing, as both had been
' hospital nurses in the late war.

“ Is be seriously hurt?” Mercedes asked, with

seeming anxiety.

“ Oh! no,” Sam Jones, the elder brother, re-
lied. “ He’s got a pretty bad scalp wound, but
is skull is not fracrured. His arm Will be easy

to set, and he has no other injury of any account.
We’ll have him comfortable in a Jiffy. We’ll
set his arm while he is in a faint, and then the
worst is over.”

While the brothers are at work, we may as

well add that the boy companion of old Mercedes
was none other than the young New York sleuth,

ts.

Durin the day he had hunted up his mother
and ma e known to her who he was. He had
rather expected to find her a raving maniac, but
was agreeablydisappointed.

At sight of him, and the sound of his voice,
she recognized him, and the cloud that had so
long encompassed her mind, seemed to lift like a
fogiafter an April shower.

. 0 longer could she rightfully be called Crazy
Mercedes, and she at once announced her inten-
tion of giving up the life of rag-picker.

She had laid aside a snug little sum of money,
she said, and her only future hope was to live
with her two children, and  them grow up to
an honorable and prosperous life.

The Jones Brothers proved that they were no
mean surgeons, for in a surprisingly short time
they had Da Costa’s arm correctly set, and in
splints and sling.

The operators brought the. patient to his
senses. but he stood the pain of setting the limb
and dressing the scalp—wound with good nerve,
and afterward, when he had partaken of a.
stimulant, announced that he felt comparatively
comfortable.

“Well, stranger, we’ve did what We could for
ye,” Sam Jones Said, “ an’ I reckon ye could ’a’

ct no better treatment if you had went to a
ospital. We’re poor folks, but if ye can get
alon with what we’ve got, ye’r’ welcome.”

“ bank you. I am very greatful for your
kindness, and will ay you well for what time I
may have to stay ere," Da Costa replied. “I
hope to be about in a couple of days.’

“ .D’ye know who slugged ye?”

“ Yes, I know, but prefer to say nothing about
the matter until I get a chance to lay the affair
before the police.”

“ I s’pose, then, yer don’t wanter give your
name. Ours is Jones—8am and Bill.”

“ Oh, I’ve no objections to giving my name,
sir. It is Da Costa—Colonel Delos Da Costa,
.formerly of this city, but latterly of Australia.”
‘ At the utterance of these words there was a

iercing scream, and the next instant Mercedes
Bad flung herself upon her. knees beside the
couch, and seizing his uninjured right hand,
covered it with kisses. ’

“Delos, Delos! my husband. whom I have so
long mourned as dead l" she sobbed.

“ Good God! can it be possible, or am [dream-
ing?” the colonel cried, sitting bolt upright on
the lounge. ‘fMercudes. this is not you—you,
my wife, and in all these rags!”

‘ Yes, it is I, but oh, so changed by sorrow
and verty. Oh! I know you will tiirn‘from
me u disgust at my helpless condition but I
loved you, and could not restrain my feelings.”

“ He’d better not turn from you, mom,” cried
Rats, energetically; “but if he does I kin sup-

porthycu.” .

“ y God! is that my son, Royal, Mercedes?”
“ That’s about the size of the diorama,” Rats
quickly responded, “tho’ I’m blowed if I know
whether I’m articular proud 0’ the fac’ or not.
Any husban as will go galivantin’ round the
country, an’ leave his wife and young-’unsto
hoe their own I‘OW._I don’t think much of, ’spe-
ci ”when he WlllS all his boodle to other

H Royal Royal !” cried Mercedes, im lori l .

“What’de the boy mean?” demii’nded’gtll’e
colonel.

it He refers to your making your will in favor

of Hoyt Hylton. my brother. and leaving my

children and myself destitute,” Mercedes tre-

Pbdeake my will in favor of Hoyt Hylton?”
ejaculated Da Costa, 1n astonishment, £ Good
vens! woman, are you crazy?”
it Not at all. Do you mean‘to say that you did
not make such a Will, De 051’
“Most assuredly not; why should 1;»
. 9‘ Then, it is as I have belieVed, all along. The
will was a forgery. Just before you were to
start for home, dear, you were taken sick, in

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"You had as an attendant, a man called
Hig 'ns?’

“ es, Hutch Higgins. He was my traveling
companion throughout South Africa and Aus-
tralia.”

“ While sick in Melbourne, your life was des-
paired of, was it not?”

“ It was.”

“And you made your will, and gave it to
Higgins to bring to America, in case you should
not survive.”

“ I did.”

“ Well, Higgins brought the will to America,
after you had, as he reported, died on ship—
board. When he arrived in San Francisco, he
Sent 9. letter to me, announcing his arrival and
your death; also a letter to Hoyt. I never
knew what was in that, but Hoyt went away,
and when he returned, Hutch Higgins came
with him. ‘

“ The will was opened and read, and by its
terms ,Hoyt Hylton was made sole legatee of the
diamonds, and such money as you had on your
person, at the time of your death.

“Well, the blow was so great that I went
crazy, and was put in an asylum. I did not
remain there long, however, for mine was only
a mild case of derangement, and as there was
no one to pay for my keeping, I was released.

“But my mind was blank, so far as the past
was concerned. To keep from starving, I drifted
into business as a rag- icker, and that has been
my vocation since. t was not until to-day,
when I met my boy for the first in several years,
that the cloud lifted from my mind, and the
past became perfectly clear.”

Colonel Da COSta had listened withontinter-
ruption, but his bosom heaved with emotion.

“ Thank God! it is no worsel” he said, revere
ently. “Through His divine agency, my dear
wife and son, I have been restored you, and as
soon as I am strong enough, shall. take steps to
obtain redress for the wrongs you have suf-
fered. So Hoyt Hylton conspired to defraud
you out of the diamonds, through the agency of
a forged will, eh?”

“ It appears so.”

“ But, why did you give them 11 l”

“I never had p0ssession of t em. You re-
member you sent them in his care. When he
got possession of them, after he had paid the
duty on them, he refused to surrender them to
me, until you arrived in America, to settle with
him for the dot 1”

“Ah! the vil in! Wait till I’m able tobe
around. and. I’ll make him sweat for his wicked-
ness. Higgins and he must have been conspir-
ing together, ere. the latter left Australia.”

“Yes, it would appear so. But, dear hus-
band, you have not told me of yourself, after
leaving Higgins.”

“True. n listening to our wrongs, I had
dearly for otten my own. here really is but
little to te . I was put ashore one night on one
of the Solomon Islands and there abandoned
but, being kindly cared for by the natives I
soon quite regained myihealth. and then made
my way back again to elbourne, from whence
Isoon sailed by ship to Philadelphia where I
arrived only two days ago.”

 

CHAPTER XIII.
HIGGINS IN LmBo.

LEAVING the vicinity of St. Mar street. Dick
made his way as rapidly as possib e toward the
regidence of Hylton; but. despite his haste, it
was considerably after midnight ere he reached
his destination.

Mounting the steps he rung the door-bell, and
was admitted by the colored servant.

Instead of proceeding to the stud , he rapped
on the door 0 Hylton’s room, and t e summons
was answered by Hairlee.

“ Oh, is it you, Mr. Bristol?” she said. “I am
so glad you have come. We were wondering
where you were.”

“ I was unavoidably detained down-town.”
Dick replied, as he entered the sick-room. “ No
trouble yet. I hope i”

“ Trouble enough!” wled Hylton, from the
bed. “There’s a man in the study whom I want
you to take into custody.”

“A man, eh? Who is hel,”

“A low-bred scoundrel named Higgins. He
came to me during the afternoon and attempted
to blackmail me. He threatened, if I didn’t
pay him five thousand dollars, he and his pals
would accuse me of murder and swear my life
awn .”

“ e1 ?”

“ So I pretended to be very much frightened,
and promised him that if he would call again at
six, when my daughter would be home, she

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would at the money for him. This appearedto
satisfy im, and he went off. But he returned
at six o’clock.

“ In the mean time, I had made arrangem
and when he entered this room he fell into the
hands of three of my men-servants, who quickly
made him a prisoner. He is in the study, bound
hand and foot.”

“ Why didn’t you turn him over to the police!”
Dick demanded.

“I was going to do so, but he let drop are-
mark, after he was captured, that caused me to
change my mind. He said he’d get even with
me, even if I did get a case against him, as his
pals would make a beggarcf me before the week
was out. It occurred to me then that, perhaps,
he was in some way connected with the burg ar
gang, and so I thought it best that you should
see him.”

“Quite right,” Dick replied. “I will go in
and have a talk with him.’

Accordingly, he went into the study and
closed the door after him.

The gas was lighted, and there. lying on the
floor, bound hand and foot, the detective found
Hutch Higgins!

The riifiinn was writhing and endeavoring to
burst his bonds. "

He stopped, however, when he saw Dick.

“ Ha! you cursed traitor! So it’s you, is it?”
he cried. “ I knew you were a cursed spy from
the first!”

“ Did you? Well, I am sure you had no
cause for such extraordinary reasoningJ’ Dick
replied, coolly. “ If your leader recognized me
as Pete Plummer, of Chicago, and let me into
the secrets of The Facult , it isn’t my fault, is it,
because he made a mista e?”

“Curse you! you’re a detective! Fisk might
have known it!”

“You should not blame your estimable cap-
tain for a little oversight like that. Higgins,
when you have been playing traitor, yourself,
in trying to get a slice of the boodle in yonder
safe, ahead of the others. Yes, I am a detec-
tive, and never saw or heard of Pete Plummer,
until a few days ago. I took a contract to hunt
down you bur lars, and I have succeeded very
well, so far. ve ot you in my clutches, and
it won’t be long be ore I have the others!”

“ Then you don’t intend to let them get a
whack at the safe?”

“ Of course not. That proposition was simply
to get them into a compromising position, when
the police will pounce upon them, and run them
in. The rest will be easy, and they’ll get a job
of breaking stones! You see, I’ve got it all cut
and dried!” ,

Higgins uttered a save 9 meditation.

“ I wouldn’t want to in your shoes!” he
declared. “ If the boys get sent up, you can bet
they’ll always remember you, and when they
get free, they’ll hunt you to the further corner
of the earth, but what they’ll kill you 3”

“ They’ll not get free, very soon, and by that
time I may already be six feet under ground!”
Dick declared, grimly. "As for you, Higgins,
there’s a chance for you to escape punishment!”

“ The deuce Eon say! What is it?” and the
rufBan raised imself egaerly to a sitting pos-
tage. “ If there’s any show of escape let’s hear
1 .

“ Well, in the first place, you must turn
State’s evidence!”

“ I’m Willin’ to do that, you bet! But, who is
it a ainst?”

“ our pals, of course!”

Hi gins looked dubious.

“ don’t know ’bout that,” he protested.
“ They’d make it hot for me, when they got

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” Oh! not necessarily. “ They’ll get from five
to ten years apiece, and if you can’t make our-
self scarce in that length of time, you oug t to
be mobbed.”

“But, by turning State’s evidence, would I
be positively sure to get free?”

“Well, yes, pretty sure. At the most, you’d
only get a very slight term of imprisonment,
where. otherwise, if fyou don‘t squeal ‘on'your
pals, you’ll get the ull dose. .But. there’s an-
other thing you will have to do, too.”

“ What is that?”

t Dick bent closer to him, and said, in a low
one:

“ Swear against Hoyt Hylton, concerning the
Da Costa case!”

Higgins started, violentlgb

“ What do you know a utthat matter?” he
demanded. -

“ I know all l” Dick replied. “ I was in this
room when you had the afternoon interview
and overheard every word. I was wele‘osted
about the matter, even before that!”

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“Are you going to arrest Hylton,” Higgins
demanded.

“ Not until I see Da Costa. It shall be his
say about that matter!”

“ D’ye s’pose he’ll push the case?”

“ There’s little doubt of that!”

“ Then, I would stand a poor show, for he
would be just as bitter toward me as against
Hyltonl” '

“ I can fix that all right.”

“ How can you?”

“ Easy enough. Hylton was the greater vil-
lain of you two, because he defrauded his own
sisterand turned her out of doors. Naturally,
the wronged man would most desire to be re-
venged upon him, and, revenged he shall surely
be. But, 1‘ can fix it so on won’t be troubled,
in the least, if you do as propose.”

“ Well, then, I’m your man. I suppose you
will release me?” ‘

“ Oh! no, not until you are used as a witness.
I shall have to keep you under guard, until then,
but you will have a comfortable time of it, as
you will be ke t in a room in this home.”

Dick then sit the prisoner to himself, and
returned to the sick room.”

“ \Vell?” Hylton demanded, interrogatively.

“Your surmise was right; Higgins is one of
the burglars l”

“ Ha! I thought so! “'hat’s to be done?"

“ I have arrested him, and shall hold him in
custody, until the rest of the gang is captured,
when he will turn State’s evidence against
them."

“ And get free?”

“ Most likely!”

“ That must not be!” Hylton cried, with
venomous decision.

“ Why not, pray?”

“ Because, I mean to have him prosecuted for
attempted blackmail i”

“That can be done, afterward!”

“No! no! It must be done first.”

“ I beg to differ with you. Higgins is my
prisoner, and remains such until the proper time
to' use him. The interests of the people are
greater than those ‘of any sin le 1ndividual.
Besides, you could not arrest iggins for at-
tempted blackmail, without a warrant. If you
feel able to go before a justice and swear out a

warrant, you can arrest him, and then it will
be a uestion which case will be called first!”

Hy ton winced, for he saw there was no use
of arguing the point.

“ ell! go your length!” he said, “ but I shall
have my lawyer attend to the case!”

“ Very well. That’s your best plan. By the
way, I want a different room to keep the
prisoner in, over night, and a safe man to stand
guard over him, to prevent any possibility of
escape!”

“Very well. There’s a vacant room on the
attic floor. Its only window is' the sky-light,
and the door is extra heav . Leek your man
in there, with a nerd, an there is no danger
of his esca l . aidee, you call John.”

While ai ee went to do the errand, Dick re-
entered the stud , and spoke a few words. in an
undertone to iggins, and by the time he had
finished, John, the man-servant, appeared.

The bonds were then removed from the pris-
oner’s feet, and he was conducted up-stairs to
the attic-room, where armed with a revolver,
John took up his pesitlon as guard.

Dick then returned to Hylton’s room.

_ By this time it was two o’clock in the morn-
mg.

“ Your burglars don’t seem to materialize,”
Hylton observed.

‘ Maybe they won’t come, although I expect
them before long.”

“ But, how do you expect to cope with them

all, Mr, Bristol?”
_ “ I do not intend to try to. I shall now sta-
tion myself in yonder room; but, first, I want‘
the burglar alarm shut off, so there will be no
trouble in raising a window. Then. when I find
the burglars are outside, I shall quickly raise
the window and fire apistol. This will be the
tip for a number of ofllcers to rush from where
they are now in waiting, and the capture of the
gang is inevitable.”

“ Your lan is a good one, and I certainly ad-
mire you or your nerve and wit,” Hylton said,
heartily.

“ You wouldn’t if you knew you were to fall
a re to them,” Dick thought.

ic then botook himself to the study, while

, Haidee went below stairs to have the electric

current turned off.

' CHAPTER XIV.
m CAPTURE—BBB.“ HAIDEE.
On entering the study Dick drewpan easy-

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chair to one of the windows, then extinguished
the gas, and sat down to watch and wait.

After his eyes became accustomed to the
gloom of the room, he could see quite plainly in
the back ard, dark though it was.

“ I halfy begin to fear the faculty won’t come
after all,” Dick mused. “ Maybe they have
taken alarm at Higgins’s disappearance. If so,
that part of the game is knocked in the head.
There will then be no alternative but to lead the
police down on their rendezvous. Then, the
chances are ten to one that none of the gang
would be found.”

At last the clock on the mantle chimed
“ three.”

By this time Dick was getting pretty well
tired of his monotonous vigil, and he was afraid
the policemen would get disgusted and vacate
the premises; but, just then, his Vigilant eyes
detected four skulking figures.

They came together, and appeared to be bold-
ing a consultation.

The time for action was at hand.

Drawing his revolver the detective cocked it
and waited.

Directly, the burglars approached the window
where Dick was stationed, and one of them
ta )pvd softly on the glass.

be next instant Dick had thrown up the
sash, and thrusting out his weapon he fired into
the air—once, twice, thrice, in rapid succession.

This greeting brought a volley of oaths from
the burglars, and the stentorian cry of “ Scat-
ter, boys!”

But, following this cry. came another, in a
chorus of commanding voices:

“ Bait and surrender, or you’re dead men!”

Then there was a rush, more yelling, and gen-
eral confusion.

Dick closed the window, and leaving the
study, made his way through the hall to the
front door, which he opened just in time to see
the prisoners brought around from the hack
lawn, each in charge, of two burly policemen.
Then came two other officers without a prisoner.

“ W here’s the fourth?" Dick demanded.

“ There wasn’t but three,” was the reply.

“I know better,” retorted Dick. “ I saw four
distinctly before I gave the alarm.”

“ Get out! you looked double! If there’d been
four we’d ’a’ gobbled ’em."

“ gold on! Let me see which three you’ve

ot.
g Dick ran down the steps and gazed into the
faces of the prisonei 8.

“Ike Hoon, Hen Galer, and Ham Hylton, eh?
Fisk, the leader of the gang, has escaped you.”

“ Nonsense! I reckon we cw our business,
owled the leader of the party.
“ Com: along, ya, and let’s proceed to Jug our

ame.

“ And claim the reward,” suggested another.

“That’s the ticket,” added a third. “ We’ll
live fat for the rest of the winter over this
hauL”

Then the party moved off.

Dick gazed after them a moment, grim] .

“ I reckon if there’s to be an rewar 3 dis-
bursed for this night’s work, 1’] be the princi-
pal claimant,” he muttered.

T en he turned his attention toward the back

gar .

It and all the surrounding neighborth were
all enveloped in gloom and silence.

Neither the pistol-shots nor the noise occa-
sioned by the capture, apparently, had served
to arouse the sleeping inmates of the neighbor-
in;r houses.

There were but two ways of entrance to and
egress from the back ard,_viz: through the
dwelling, and by way 0 the side yard.

“It’s mighty queer,” Dick thought. “I am
positive there were four of the burglars. It
stands to reason that Fisk would have accom-
panied the party."

It took several seconds of deliberation before
he made up his mind just what to do.”

“ By Jove!" he decided at last. “ I’m pretty
sure Fisk could not have gotten past the police-
men. He must be hiding back there now.”

This conclusion formed, the detective drew his
revolver, and stealthily made his way tovvard
the back yard.

If Fisk was hiding there he meant to find
and capture him, and thus triumph over the
co )8.

eknew there were several shrub-trees and
bunches of bushes in the back yard, behind
Wbllfgl‘ any person could temporarily be Con-
08

a .
With the stealth of a cat, he stole along, eyes
and ears on the alert. '
When he reached the open stable door, he
paused, peered in, and listened.

h Ongy the breathing of the horses was tobe
ear .

He knew Don Da Costa was not there, for
that young man, having been peremptorin dis-
‘charged from Hylton’s employ, had gone in
search of his mother.

Dick was deliberating whether or not he ha
better venture into the stable, when he receiv
a fearful blow upon the head that laid him out
senseless upon the ground. , '

His assailant was indeed Captain Fisk, chief
of the burglars, who had stolen upon him an-
“ bulldo ” revolver.

“ Hal reckon that settled him i” the villain
muttered. “Unless his head is harder than a
cobblestone, he’ll never play the detective on me
again. Now, then, for the boodlel I’ll have it
i [have to murder every inmate in the house.
Once I get the boodle, America ’11 know me no
more!”

He hurried through the side yard to the front
of the house, and, as expec , , found that, on
leaving the house, Dick had left the front door
aJar.

Sitting'dou‘n on the steps, Fisk took off his
boots: thcn rismg, he pusLed open the door and
entered the hull.

He seemed somewhat familiar with the houSP4
for be advanced at once to the study door.

This stood about an inch njar, and a bar of
light streamed out into thc hall.

Pausing. the burglar chiei‘tuin drew his re-
volwr and listened. "

Some one was moving about within the study.

Nel'vlllfl himself. he pushed the door far
enough open to admit his head.

What he saw gave him a thrill of exultation.

Haidce Hylton was kneeling in front of the
great iron safe!

“ Ila!” the villain thought. “She knows the
combination, and she must open the safe for me.
Now is my golden Opportunity."

The next instant he glided into the room and
“ Cow-red ” the pretty maiden With his revol-
vcr.

“’Qh! not the least outcry, or I will murder
you!” he hissed, HS 4 yrs gleaming wickedly.

Hnidcc arose quickly to l'er leet.

“ What do you nant?" she demanded with re-
markable nerve.

“ I want the money and diamonds that are in
that safe!” Fisk declared.

“ You do, eh? “'ell. get them i”

“ That’s what I want you to do, for me. You
know the combination, and you must unlock the
safe!”

‘ “0h! must I?”

“ You must, and you want to be mighty quick
about it, too i”

“ You don’t say so! Well Mister Villain, I
would not unlock that safe for you, or a dozen
like you l”

“ What! dare you defy me?"

“ Yes, I dare!”

“ Open that safe or I’ll blow your brains all
()VPr this room! Do you hear? I will stand no
trifling. Open that safe!” _

“I won’t! there now, you nasty thief!” and
Hairlee gave a toss of her head. and looked Fisk
exultingly in the eyes, for she ‘ had now seen
some one that the other had not suspected was a
witness of the scene, and therefore was indeed,
jubilant in her defiance.

The handsome captain of the burglars stared
at the. defiant girl in astonished admiration.

“ Well, you’re a cool one i" be finally said.
“ But nothing shall deter me from my purpose-—
not even murder. Once more, and for the last
time—will you 0pm the safe ?”

“ N0, She will not I”

It was not Haidee who spoke. The voice of
the speaker was stern and emphatic. .

At the same instant the cold muzzle Of 6 rev
volver was pressed to .the side of Fisk‘s head.

With an oath he looked around, to find him-
self gazing into the muzzle of the rim!) heid
in the unwavering grasp of Dcadw Dick-—

were besmeared with blood! ' _
“ Fisk, you’re my prisoner!” the dnuntless oe-
tective cried. “The State has more real use for
you than your Faculty: so you Will oblige me
by dropping your revolver on the floor, and
throwing up your hands.” ,

“ Oh, anything to accommodate You, of cmrsei”
Fisk replied. sullenly, as he obeyed and dropped
his weapon on the carpet.

“That is sensible. Now. Miss Hvlton. »
will find two straps in my coat purl-rat.
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ments, the burglar chief was securely a pris-
oner.

One part of the work Dick had undertaken,
was thus accomplished!

'3‘ CHAPTER XVI.
if. CONCLUSION.

THE next day followmg their capture, the
four burglars were arraigned before a police
'ust'ice at the Central Station, but_the chief

actor in their downfall—Deadwood Dick—being
absent owing to illness, the prisoners were re-
manded back to jail, there to await the result
of the daring detective‘s ianries.

Yes, Dick was sick—far sucker, too, than most
peo 1e had any idea of.. .

he blow Fisk had given him was a terrible
one, and that it had not resulted in immediate
death is the marvel.

It was only a few minutes after Dick’s cap-
ture of Fisk at the Hylton residence that the
gallant detective fell to the floor in a spasm,
and one follmved another in rapid succession.

In terror, Haidce rung up a servant, and,
contrary to her father’s wishes, sent for the
family physician.

Now that the burglars were safe in jail, and
Hutch Higgins also a captive and at his mercy,
H lton seemed a chan ed man. He was not at

' al inclined to the notion of dying; he was once

more the tyrant of yore, albeit he was yet liable
to “ kick the bucket.”

“ There‘s nothing more to fear from the bar-
glars,” he argued, “ and Higgins is in a position
where he can’t blah; consequently, the only
ones I have to fear are the detective and Delos
Da Costa. If both were out of the way, I’d
have no further trouble.”

‘When the physician arrived, he managed to
stop the spasms, but announced that Dick was
bound to have a. serious case of brain fever.
and that his non-recovery was a thing to be
looked for.

'Then there was a confidential interview be-
tween Hylton and the physician, and the upshot
of the matter was that an ambulance was order-
ed, and Dick was carted of! to the University

I ' Hospital.

“For!” argued the wily Hylton, “he will
stand a bigger chance of non-recovery there,
where medical students havo a chance to experi-
ment, than elsewheie.”

There was but one pigeon who made a vigor-

ous rotest against t ' action, and that was
Hai ee, but her protest was disregarded, and
Dick Bristol was t-rundled away.

And shortly after he was taken away she ap-
peared before her parent, attired for a summary
departure. ,

“ Father,” she said, “I have always been a
kind and dutiful daughter to you, but things
have come to my notice that have opened my
eyes to the villainous methods you have for years
been practicing—methods that under no extenu-
ating circumstances can I countenance or over—
look. You are aware I am betrothed to Donald,
for whom you cherish intense hatred. _As I love
him truly, I shall go tolhim, and until you re

' form from your evil wéys, you need no longer
consider me your daughter.

“When m mother died. she left me five
thousan do] are, and this I have taken from
the safe 8 my rightful own. With this Donald
and I can start in life, and as you still have a
fortune to carry you through your miserable
life, I have no compunctions about leaving
you'alone.”

Then she took her leave, and Hoyt Hylton
was left alone. ' _,

Days passed slowly by. Hylton grew stronger,
and there was evidence of his ultimate re-

 

cover .
An Dick? .
He was no longer at the hos ital, but tender-
ly cared for at a pretty little est Philadelphia

cottage, whose inmates, besides himself—and
who ave him every attention-rivers Mr. and
Mrs. a Costa, Donald and his lovely wife,
Haidee, and a. very precocious young man nick-

” ‘.

named “ Rats. . .
.Dick was rapidly convalescing, but still in no

‘ V condition to be up and about

One day. he happened to overhear the follow-

' ing conversation. in the adjoining room:
4

Yes, Hoyt Hylton is up and able to be

' roun' ‘ d I shall attend to his case!” It
'lvlvas d, “gang: Costa who spoke. “I have
given in ample time toreoover. and now he

the’diamcndlpr so to jail I”

at him, dear!” asked Mer-

ni“ When will you see

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court, at ten o’clock to-morrow morning. If a
satisfactory settlement is not then effected,
Hylton will be handed over to the lawofllcers
and Higgins detained as a witness in a criminal
prosecution;

 

Promptly at ten o’clock the following day, two
detectives brought Hylton and Higgins to the
new home of the Da Costas, and ushered them
into the parlor where the family group were
assembled.

v Higgins ap aared good-humored and unper-
turbed, but u o with Hylton, whose face grew
pale as death when he was confronted by the
man he had wronged, and his own sister, whom
he had so heartlessly robbed and turned from
his door.

His e es had a wild, frightened look, and in
spite of imself he trembled in every limb.

“ Hylton,” Colonel Da Costa said, “the hour
has arrived when you and I must have a final
settlement. I have put off this matter longer
than I should have done, in order to give you a
chance to, in a measure, re ain your health.
But, now that you are able toil: up and around,
what do you think ought to he done with you?”

“ Oh! I don‘t know,” Hylton replied, with a
feeble attempt at coolness. “I am not aware
that you can do anything!”

“ I can prove all, everything!” the colonel de-
clared. “ There is no use of my going to the
trouble of rehearsing the infamous wrongs you
have done me and mine. You know them ~—we
all know them—others know them. Not only
did your scheming almost wreck my wife and
myself, but it has aged us beyond our years;
not only did it rob us of our rights, but it sep-
arated us for years and caused us intense suffer-
ing. Do you think any mercy ought to be
shown such a despicable wretch as you have
proven yourself?”

“ Certainly. All flesh is weak; all humans
prone to sin 1”

“Pub, you despicable wretch! How I despise
and detest you. But, as you have heaped dis-
grace enough on your beautiful daughter, who
is now my son’s wife, I am not inclined to add
to this disgrace, by putting you in State’s Prison,
which I can easily do. As much as I loathe and
hate you, I am willing to be lenient, for
Huidee’s sake, in case we can come to terms l”

A gleam of how; entered Hylton’s eyes.

“ Terms, eh? hat terms?"

“ First, that you restore to me the diamonds
stol< n from my wife ; secondly, that you deed OVer
all your real estate and rsounlpfotperty. money
excepted. to your danghter;"t ir l , that you
then leave this city, never to retu . The ac-
ceptance of these terms, alone, will keep you out
of State Prison l”

Hylton was eager, nervous, despairing.

“ Da Costa!” he said, “ you are inclined to be
more lenient than I had any reason to ex t.
The latter two of your terms, I can, and w' i be
only too glad to accept. As for the diamonds, I
cannot give them to you I”

“ You cannot? And why, pray I”

“ Because, they are not in my possession!”

“ Don’t lie to me!”

“ As I hope to be forgiven of my sins, I am tell-
ing you the honest truthl When I was able to
leave my sick bed. and go to my safe, the dia-
monds were not there!"

Colonel Da Costa’s face grew stern.

“ Iwill not believe on. Officers, do your duty!
Lock the man up. 9 will see if prison fare
won’t change his tune l"

“God be p me! I am telling the truth!” H lton
moaned. “ Nothing but the truthl Had the
diamonds, I’d surrender them before I‘d go to
Jail Evan for a day.”

ome. 811‘ cu will h ve to a "
the detective him. a mummy m'e!

“ Hold!”

At this moment, Deadwood Dick I -faced
but still handsome, stepped into the
u I can set this matter to rights,” he said:

Hylton has not got the diamonds. but I have.
I extracted them from his safe, prior to the at-
tempted bill‘fllfll‘y. Here they are, colonel, just
as I found them." and he handed the colonel a.
small package:

When It was examined, it was found that the
jewels were indeed all therHvery one of the
precious gems!

Dear render. it needs but a few more words to
bring our story to a close. .
, Glad to escape imprisonment, Hylton ceded
all his property to Haldee, and then. with what
mone he had left, which was no insignificant
aura; e left Philadelphia. forever.
hen the trial of the burglars came off, the
evidence against them was so concluive that

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they each received along sentence, but Higgins,
who turned state’s evidence and testified against
them, was discharged.

Donald and Haidee moved into the Hylton»
residence, while Da Costa, senior, and wife,
were contented in a less pretentious, but just as
hapr home.

ick lingered several weeks in the Quaker
City, and after receiving a satisfactor reward
for his brilliant services. and a valuab e medal,
he started on westward, accompanied by the
best wishes of all good people with whom he had
come in contact.

“ Rats ” did not accompany him, but promised
to join him again as soon as he had improved
his education. He wanted to become better ac—
quainted with his “ dad” and “ mom l” he said.

With his usual impetuosity, he was, in truth,
all eagerness to fit himself for the new and
promising position in life which Richard Bris-
tol’s nerve and true nobility of character had
been the means of bestowmg upon his faithful
little protege.

“ Dick—Mister Bristol 1” he said, in the final
parting at the Broad Street Station, ‘5 I‘m goin’
to shake rfl" the street gamin an‘ do you proud,
see if I don’t!”

“I know you will, Rats, my' boyi” and that
was their adieu.

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Sea-Cat ; w. The Witch of Dorian.
Dumb Pa‘e or, The Dogeifianfltl'.
Darling. t e ony Expreu r.
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Swnrd Hunters; or, The Land ofths II “I.
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Wolfgang. the Robber oltho Rhino.
$11101 Homer, the Animal King; on“. Round the 'orld
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.O65 The TI er Tamer or, The Length «(the lands
1 Black §ick. the Bergen Rider.
. 5 California Joe’s War Trail.

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8 Giant George; or, The Anz’l oftho Range.
5 Arizona Jack 3 or. Giant Goorgo’o Pad.
97 The Tarantula of Taoslx‘ or, Gisnt George’s Revenge.
3 Po Strange Pram: or, lttle Ben‘s Death Hunt.
1 er-whoop. Ker-whoot or, The Tarantula of Two.
27 Creeping Cat, the Cnddo; or,’l‘he Red nodWlnm Pads.
3 Frio Fred: “7, TinI Tonllmvny’s Trust.
‘ ' The Fl hting Trio: or. Rnitlesnnke,the Tannin].
. II tin“ olggxgr,'2ig-Foot “411130410 1h; :rnnii;
0 Inc a or»: or. ie . ege n on, arm
- CO Elan-Shot, the Boy Ranger.
- 375 Chlota, the Greek or, Thu Threw Thunderbola
881 Bandera Bill: or. rlo Frank to the Front.
t 890 Romeo and the Red" or, The Beleoguerod 3‘.
~ 404 ttle Lariat. or Pecan Peie’l Big Ramp-go.
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800 8 " 9'“ Mine .
69 Shasta, the Gold kinrrl 0". or Swen You! Doll.
2.00 {glue Detective’I Apprentice; or. A Boy m 5

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04 Clbuta John: or. Red-Hot Tim. u A... a“
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614 Bron l "- Boodle.
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89'! Bob 0' the Bowerzeteor, The Home: host-
5 The Vagabond De the: 0P,BOV I i" 2.,

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460 The awyer s Shadow: or lung I".

47,9 Jaunty Joe, tho Youn Horn-king.

494 Surly Sim. the Young onynun Dam

504 Five Points Phil.

M9 Jack Jwern, the Butcher Bo m

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BY ALBERT W. AIKEN.

l The Two Detectives; or. The Fortune: ols lav—1 OH.
6 Abe Colt. the Crow-Killer.
79 sol Ginger. the Giant ’l‘rn per.
238 Joe lint-k oi Angels ans His Buy Yard.
447 New York Nat. A Tale of Tricks and Tl‘lpl in Go“
458 New En lnnd‘Nir-k; or. The Fauna-ohm
464 Nimble . 'i - ' he Circuo Prince.
493 'l‘nou Ted, rizonn Sport.
510 Cool 0010 the Hal -Bn-ed Dem
518 Cool Colorado in New York.

BY GEORGE “'ALDO Biiown

BO Dnnd R00 he Mun from Texas.

90 The rend tier: or, The Tenn Duelist.

ii. The Tiger ofTuos: or. Dandy Hook’s And.
:15 The Mad Miner: or, Dandy Rnck’n Doom.

81 The Golden Ilandx or, Dnndv Rook to the Roan.
I64 Dandy Rock’s Pledge. or. Harm-d to Death.
118 Dandy Rock’s Rival. or. The Haunted tandem.

BY CAPT. J. F. O. ADAMS.

84 Oregon Sol: or Nick Wliifliea’s Boy Spy.

4“ Glana.Eye. the Great Shot of the Went.

54 Ned llnzol the Ray Trnprwr.

50 Nick Whi os’n Pet; or, ll‘ The Valle ofDeafi.

60 The White Indian; or. Tho Scout oft .- Yellow“

70 Old Zimn Onhlnz or, The Grernhorn In the \Voodl.

81 lehtn 2 J0. the Terror of the Prairie.

uck liuokram: or, Bonn, the Female Tm my,

247 Old Grizzly and "Is Pet-t or, The Wildem
251 l.{ht-h0lrse Litre: or, 09000 , the Firebrand.
257 T e Lost "nnt‘ors: or. The "flu? und Can.
288 The Scalp King; or, The Human T underbol.

BY~ ROGER STARBUCK,

25 The Boy Captain: or, The Pirate": Dnughtc.
114 The Black Schooner: or, Jib Junk. the Old Tn.
259 The Golden liar mm: or, Lost Among the Hon.
34R Fire-“eels' nr, 0 d Skinfli-vt. the Death-Shadow.
354 mg non. 1i... the run Tramp; or. m on an.
861 The Phantom Light-house.
870 Breaker lien, the Reef-Runner.

BY WILLIAM R. EYSTEB.
190 Dandv Dar-keg or. The Tim of High Hm.
810 Faro Frank. or, Dandy Duke‘s Go-Dorm
BY COLONEL DELLE SARA.
108 The Lion ofthe sm 0-,“. "niied 1.1,.
186 Cool Desmond; or, The Gnmbier’l Big G...
BY HARRY ST. GEORGE.
80 Roaring Ralph Rockwood. the Range.
44 Rattlln Rube; or. The Nighthawk. of”.
59 01‘ "in ‘oryx or, Fundy Eilis’s Seal .
08 During Davy; or. The Trail of the or Wolf.

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160 Hickory llar t or The Tra r-Brirndt'i .
In Thunderbolt on g, or, the oil-Border. M

BY JAMES L. Rom
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110 The Blur-k NEetlvofthc #:al'reies. 
BY C. DI'NNING CLARK.

185 Ca tin Pa ll: or,Ti a Boy Sp «mum
.80} This g’ankele Rajah); or. The at» o! the Bloch“.

BY GEORGE 0. JENKS.
485 Git Thar Owney, the Unknown.
492 Git h 0 ' P d
618 The egongggtor. 1e '0.
BY CAPT. ALFRED B. TAYDOB. U. I. A.
not gird;an Billy, o. Boy 3.1an on It. Ila-d

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194 Bulalo Bill'a Bet; or. 11s. Gambia Both.

BY CHARLES F. mm
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BY JOHN J. IABSHAIJ.
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519 Gag-tam Myster ,
581 Do 193mm path-um.

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810 Redton Rube. oVigliu-t. Prineo.
333 Brimstone Bob, Ind His Lightning Born
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330 Ava anal-e Alf. tin Foothllh Golds.

.90 Jaguar Joe, oftho loontnin

BY EDWARD S. nus.

Bill Biddrm, Tn ,
8 Seth lanes; or, mcwtivos ol the Tron...
:0 Nat Todd: or, Tn. Fate oftho Sioux Captive.
1 The Frontier Angel.
98 The Roy Minor-g or, The Enchanud hr
39 'i‘ e llunied Hunter; mfie Stroll" on...
T e Half-Blood; or, The Panthor of tho Plat.
.11 T 0 "age Hunter; or, Tho Steam Prairie h

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68 The Bed Brother-hood; or. Tho Tutu A“.
a Single llandt or, A Life for a Lila
7. Mad Ton! Weatern, tho Texan Rm
“7 Be. Bird. the Cave King; or, Big Pete’s Goo.

BY JACK FARRAGUI'.

818 led. the Cabin Boy.
.0 The loo ml «.11» lam

BY FRANK ovum.
no The Branded "and! manna-din
19? Wild-Fire. the Boss oi the Band.
140 Blue Blazes; or, The Break o' Day log-d“ h
I71_Ebony Dan| or, The Rival [aim
Ibo Evil Era; or. The antnroo ottbo we“

BY LIEUT. II. D. PERRY. U. I. I.
its The Boy Runawan or, The Buccm out. n.
ISO The Sea Trailer; or, A Vow Well Kept.
I9. Captain Kin or. The Myrusry of Moo” M

BY BARRY HAZARD.
8.8 Arkannaw Jack; or, The Scourge of the lilac.
.29 Red-Skin Tom; or, The Demon’s Trail.
“2 The Mountain Devil; or, Yellow Jumbo“

BY COL. A. F. HOLT.
on Black Back-kin; or. The Masked Men “M”.
‘1. Kenneth. the Knife-King.
“I lam-la Lichti'oot. in Pilotoi the Wood.

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I. The Rival Giant- ofNowhar‘.
d” 0am: Burr. the Man from Han‘i but.
on Q“ We, tho flan Shadow.

BY FREDERICK DEW".
Ill Cinnam- Jaok, the King-Pin or luau-Shots
“8 Tanzemnnd. tho Deoert Detective.
on The Cannon Portia.  ‘

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By Liam-Col. Hmltine.

.8 Robin Hood, the Untinwod Morfl‘ho'orry laden.
wood. By Prof. Gildenloeve. i
105 Old Rube. the Hunter; «.111. a" Captive. 31m ;
Hamilton Holmes. I
11! The Mad Hunter; or,’i‘he¢ow (1M Bylaw“ ;
184 gm”. the Texan: «5m You; 01mph. 3, Goo" .
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188 The Younn: PrivateerI or.“ M m ’0'

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148 Sharp Sam: or, The Adm-Ida Media In. .18.
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.98 Red Claw. the v
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"8 The Sky note h '  '
By Major Mickey V .
.50 Red Ralph. the R var
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.85 Baltimore Ben. the Booth“ Mn. “ ‘- D. H
.74 gold-Dust Tom: or, Bon'o W H“. Dyfii
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418 Billy Bombshell, “MOI-bu. witm’
440 Little Foxfoot, tho Gold loch no. Dyna-a
‘75 The Black Ship. By JOLIE. Wm ,'
‘84 gornam-he Dick and m- Threo [am :

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B” Wizard-Arm, the Dandy Sport. D, A!“ I. u
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Deadwood Dlek Novels.

1 Deadwood Dick, lhe Prince of the led.
20 Double I’llflfl'l'li nr, l):fl(l“0ml ilil-k’n Defiance.
28 Bull’an lien; or. )rullfiutlll Dirk in Diagui-e.
35 “'lld lvan. Um [joy (‘iuude Duvnl.
42 I'hantom Mlner; or, Detultylnvtl llirk‘s i.-mnnza.
49 Domino 0“: or ilendvIuoli Dick in hunger.
5; Deadwood ’li'L'I Eagle” or, The l’nr-is ol Fleml liar.
73 Deadwood Diek on Deek: or. Cninmity June, the Heroine.
‘37 ('ordnroy ('Ilarllc: or, itemlwuod Uitk'l Lilll Act.
100 Deadwood Dirk in Leadvllle.
104 Deadwood Diek‘~ Del lee: er. 'I he Dvuhle Cress Sign.
109 Deadwood Dlek an Deteeth e.
129 Deadwood Dlek‘u Double; or, The Ghost of Gurgon‘l

(whit h. ,
138 Iiiuntlc "ill: or. ileu-iwlmd Ditk‘n limn'e Bone.
1 .\ (Halt-e of Gold: 0". Ilvu-lwurul [lit 31".! Big Strike.
156 Dead wood Melt of Dead wood: ul’. The l’iviu-rl Party.
195 Deadwood Nek‘n Dream; - r, ’l‘tm ‘ti'v-lls 0' the Runli.
201 The lilnek llilin Jelebei; a-r. Il-‘rulwwd D ('k'a \‘n'unl.
205 Deadwood Dlek'n Doom; or, Cullunity June‘s Lust. Ad-
\enlule.
217 (‘aptaln Crack-Shot, lln- Girl lirlganll.
22l Sugar-Coated ‘am: «~r. lltr‘ Him-E. Gown.

8‘! hold-Dun! Iliuk. ,\ it. move ut‘Ruugn umi Tonghl.
:68 Dead“ thl D‘ek'e DI .idtzt lr. 'l‘lm SPILL .d‘Muunp lake.
Bti" Deadwood Dielt'n Deatl. 'l‘rall.
809 Deadwood Dielt'n liig Deal; or, The Gold Bl’lt'k n!

(he on.
321 Dead“ ood Dlek'n Dozen: hr, The Fnklr ul'l‘lmntnm Flute.
34? Deadwood Dick's Duran; --r, Rainy Days in the ill;-
L’lll:.\'. . . ,
851 Deadwood Dick fienteueed: or 'l‘lte Turrihle Vendetta.
862 [Deadwood Biol-“e ('lalm; l-r, ’l‘b Fniry Face of Fan

l‘ lull).
405 Deadwood Diek in Dead City.
410 Deadwood Diek'u Diamondr; tr. The Mystery of Jonu‘
’uriel'. '. I
421 Deadwood nit-kin New Yorlt : vr. .-\ “Cute Cur-e.”
430 Deadwood niek‘e Dust: vr 'i‘lw(ilmiuellilund.
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'_ i 4.6 uquoIdt Harry, the ‘Hllrrll'ane; or. Deadwood D'r" Jr. “73 ,f I;  mull-e blnu‘lt Ind the Sn Cut.
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431 oll .llyutery; or. pm. wood om. Jr. h. mama, 5 t, '1 he-ltlutlulred Mid. :-
491 rt-(tce i‘lntoi, m Klug or a... w...; nr,Deadwo lchk l 5 figgflrhlgiglll‘lfimuanncheShadow-
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gm 9‘“, I1 545 leutenqne'Leo, the Sun of Lafitte.
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. ’ I .  ' '40 "and-«mm Harry, the Boon-lurk Deirttlve.
i Ventvllooi‘, the Ezfilwnnnmn. 47 \‘I'ill \V ldflre, the Thoroughbred.
ob Woolf: or, The Girl Dead-Shot. l, S lat-1‘ l emu. Will Wthl'ile :- inn-er.
 . ,‘utiult‘aee. llulet'tlveznor, Life in New York. . ‘57 MIL-(- “err-y. lh. liml .1 ‘ . \ 1.1;. . _ ‘
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 “ 3 / “"91" , M "*- ntc my "elective. 174 Bob lioekett; ur, .Vl_\'>ivriell of New Yur .
v.’ r 7 ‘fir, singlet. Ned, the K11 ght. 179 Bub “(u-ken. llle llmlh Runner.
'1‘ . ‘ .e I f V line ’ or; Rosalind Bob on "find. 188 1"“, llldqlen IInnd‘ up, “'ill “'lldilM’l Revenge.
 an Ithultrrfl h i’hll; , Run-butt Rolf- Ruulpemuu, 15 [Per llulyurtl. lhe Lit.- ll..nt Butt”. The Smugglers.
_;- 99 1 an. a l' let: or, (lid Anaconda In billing Bull’l Camp. 189 lloh Iioeketii "1‘. Drive“ l" “'3’ “ “ll- '
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1 damaged Dick. the 5p n mmun 219 1.3.1.1.; pun-f m2 Dmniy newt-mo.
I ('lnngmun (fhln, the Grl Sport. $0 'l‘om Tanner: or, The liluck Sheep oi the Flock.
l Bonanza Hill. Miner. 335': Ham Chnreoul llle l’rumlum Dinky.
1 “lull "0b the Kind 0" "Ml-UN“. 285 Rh w sum. the Maneuver Buy.
1 Solid Sam the. no)- Ronni-Agent. 242  wo “ Bloods "5 or, Shenandoah Bill and Hie Gong.
l Oantula ll‘erret, the New York Detective; or Boa Bob’l 252 ' Ianhawnyt or. A Dultoln Buy in Chicago.
Bout lib. , $62 The Young Sharon: or, Rollickiug Mike’s llot Troll.
1 York Nell the 30Y~Glrl Deul'tive. 274 Jolly Jim the llelt-t'llfl’ All mntice.
1 b ' Ni «k 0"*(‘V"1lfl‘ or. The Sierra Scampi. 289 Jolly Jim‘s Job; or. Thu on"! Detective.
1 Trunk, the Huekqhin llru’vo. ‘98 The Wuter.lloundg or, The Young Thorou hbred.

209 Fritz, the liuunli-lioy Detective.

318 Fritz to the Fro It: or, The Ventrtl uiet Hunter.
926 Suoozer. the B. ' l in): ur, 'l’he Arubnigetunu,
286 Apollo Bill, the nut Tornado.

1 240 C elouexKit, the Young Gladiator.

" 24-} S err: Rim lllt Frontier Fem-t.

D43 Sierra 8!: _ secret: or, The Bloody Foot rtntn.
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848 .llan‘llattan Mike, ry Blood.

858 Pint-Clams Fred, he rom Gopher.

868 {fig-elm dial. the Gold met-er; or, The battery of

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879 Yrelm Jlln'e Prize.

,. :38 Kabob Ned s M. The Secret ofSlnll City.
" ,. ,9 (‘ool K! the Kin! 0! Khln; or, A Vllllln‘e Vengeance.
. i l" l 885 YrekaJ In’e Joker; on'i‘heRlvnle of Red No...
’ ‘ 89 Bicycle lien; m. The Lion "(Lightning Lode,

O4 Yre I Jim of Yuhn Inn.

Wrinklen, the NighLWatch Detective.

is“ [link "at "any. the Hm Bull Demure. ,
486 3"-

 
 
 
 

en. the Be gnr'iloy Detective.

4 Jim Beak and Pal. rlvnto Detecting.
/ “8 Santa Fe fill. the Sluhor.
‘ 486 Seal-kl- !ou, the Spukler.

BY BUFFALO BILL (Hon. Wu. F. Cody).

8 Kan-o'- Kingt M. The Red Right Hand.
19 The Phat-to. D I or, 'i he Pilot 0! the Pruirie.
:3 llitany- ye. the nknown Scout.

I BY COLONEL PBENTISS INGRAIIAM.

'4 The Flying- Yankee: or, The Ocean Ontcut.
] {ulph lint , the Buy llut‘fllnrel’; or, The Fugitive Yacht.
24 Hammad Dirk her, The .‘lyekry of the Yellowstone.
«2 The hlmdgw 8 hi; or. The Rival Lieutenant".
75 The Boy 7.6 e‘iiut; or. The Cruise of the Sea-Wolf.

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102 Di 9, the Roy Smut: ler.

Ill The South-n1 l; or, The Midnh punt 5.

“ii The lluuuuv ('3 Iain; or, The Her Hell Gala.
19? Little Grit. For. tie, the Stock-Te Daughter.
:0 1» Gold Plum: or, i‘he Kid-Gloves it

Hi Iii-on Illll the Prime oi the Reine.

222 Grit. the llrnvo Sport; or, Th

229 (‘rim-on Keg: or. The Cowboy'
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23? Lone Star. uwhoy cert-in.
241') Merle til fliddy or, he Freelan lr.

250 The llidehipmun . all-leer; or. ndl. the Bucceneer.
364 'l he Floating: Feather: or, Merle honte‘e Treasure

island.
209 The Gold sh ; or, Merle, the Condemned.
276 .llerie Monte: Cruise; or, The Chase of “The Gold

8 up.
2R0 )irrie Honie‘n Fate; or. l'enrl, the Plrmu‘n Bride.
284 The h‘ea Marauder; or. Merle Monte‘h i'h-llge.
2‘? IN“)- flhu-J'I’ an, the Boy Raver I i' the, Rio tiranlle.
804 The Dead Shot Dandy; or. Benito. the Bey Bugler.
30" K euo Kit; or, lit-mi ! hot ilunliy'e Double.
314 :l'llt“ .\i ynterloun Marauder; or. Tile Boy Bugler’s Lung

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8?? lionodel, the Boy “overt or, The Flu leu Schooner.
3N3 The Indian Pilot; I-r. Thu Search (or P rate lei-ml.
8H7 \\ arpath \l"-ll. ihu Boy Phenlom.
898 Seawall; the liuy Lieutenant.
402 inc-doe. the You”. Con-nirntora or The Fetal League.
40? I‘ he "of lunar u‘; or, The Cuban Vendetta.
-tl2 'l he ll i (l \ tnluunz hr, The Wu-Clouu’e Cruise.
429 Duncan Dane.th Buy Refugee.
438 .\ ('ahln Ho 3- Lat-k; er. Tim Corlfllr-
43? The HenJin der.

l 'I lie Deenn Firefly; or, A )ildlly’n Vet pnnrb.
446 llnphazard Harry; or. The Scnpe mt‘e of the Sol.
450 “'izard “'ill: or. Um “at Ferret 0 New York.

 

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824 Ralph Ready, the Hotel Boy Detective-
84l Tony Thorne, the Vagabond Detective.
858 The Reporter-Detective: or, Fm] Flyer'e Blizzard.
867 Wide-Awake Joe: or, A lhrynl'the Times.
879 Lari-v. the Leveler; or The Blood. oftho Boulevard.
408 Fire y Jae-k. the River» at lletl-l-tive.
428 The Lord. Fin er: or, The l‘lntmpped Cuhier.
428 Fred Fiver. the Reporter Detective.
48$ invincible Lo an. the Pinkerton “mg, ‘
456 Billy lirlek. he Jolly Vagaboul.

466 “'ide-Awuke Jerry, Drum"; or; Entombed Alive.
479 Detective Dodge: 0'. Th0 MY'W’Y 0f "wk Hurli-

483 Wild Diek Rocket. V

501'Il’oo'te, the Boy Fireman t or, Too Sharp be thump“.

BY JOSEPH E. BADGER, .m.

2 Yellowstone Jack; or, The Trapper.
4S Blaek John. the Ruml—Agent; or, The Ouilew'l Rotten!»
65 llnrrienno Bill: or. Mustang Sam and ilb‘l’erd.
119 Mustang Sam 3 or, The King of lhe Plaim.
186 Night-Hawk Kit: or. The DnugMer of the Ranch.
144 Dainty Lance the Boy Sport. A
151 Pant-her Paul: or, Dainty fiance to the Rueue.
160 The “leek Giant; or, Dainty Lance in Jeopardy.
168 Deadly Bush; or, Fighting Fire mth Fina. ;
184 The Boy Trailers; or, Dainty, , we on the War-Pull.
908 The Boy Par-dug or. Dainty Ln Unmuh.
ill Crooked Cole, the Caliban of COlOIllIl City. '
810 The Bel-noon Wolf; or, The meatlan buy.
819 The Black Rider; or, The Monet-hind League.
885 Old Double l'iett or, The Stunt. Guido.

 

er oh I out or The Prairie Rover.
158 Fancy Fran 0 Colorado; or, The Tnppcr’u’l‘net.

- “9 Kit Fox. the Border Boy Detective.

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3 l'ozohond Joe. the Younlx Wondering Jun,
1 The Dumb Spy.
2? Ante-lo e Abe, the Boy Guide. .
3i keen. III (0, the Prince of the l’reirlee.
‘1 Llltlllo Jack. llle Young )luetsnger.
58 The Border Kin ; or. The Secret Foe. ‘
l Delaware Dlek. t e Young ital-aepSpy
7 Hawk-e e "arr the Young Tut” er knflh
88 Roll t 0 lie I an er.
184 Bore hot. 80'. , lh- 1y Ritlenlen.
1 Se r-F‘aee haul. the Silent Hunter.
146 hi ver Star. the Boy Knight.
153 [angle Kit, the lloy Demon.
“‘8 Little Texan, the Young Mustang".
17% "Id Solitary. the Hermit 'i'ru lper.
we Little llurrleane, the Bo captain.
2 Irroafieet Pele; or, The 'oullz Uutlnw llhnten.
he 0; llereuleut or.,'l'he l’miriu 'i'rampe.
Elli 'l iger 'I om. the Tex-e Terror.
291 Dunhin Diek; or. Trapper Tom’e ('Rlllr.
228 Little \ 'ildilre he anng Prairie Nflll-lhl.
Bill-l ’ he Para-on De eetivet or The Little Ranger.
2-1 The Diwali-ed Guide: or. “no Raven, the Rangin-
26 Dare-Devil Dan, the Young i‘ruiriu Ranger.
979 Mlnkultln Mike, the liov Shurp~h00ter.
290 Little Foxfire. the til-y w . ’
800 The filly Demon; (lr.l(>12lllhll,ille Ringer.
354 “' hip-king Joe. the lim- Rancher".
409 Ilereulee or. hull, the Buy iL-luger.‘
4i? “eh? i . one. 1h» Tramp Thu-vii”.
492 nub am. the iioy Giant ol thh Yellowstone.
444 [iii e llneknkin. the Young i'rnirie Centaur.
45? “'iagedi’oot Fred; nr._tlld Polar Foul.
468 ’l‘amarne Tom. the ill: i‘ran-er il ly.
433 Did Tom Rattler, the llt‘ll liver Epidemic.
482 Stonewall Bob, the is..jv,’i'rojnn.

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28 Niel; o’ the Night: or. Thu Boy Spy wt ‘76.

8’? The Hidden Lodge; at The Littlv Hunter.

4? N|zhunggle firm" ur, 'l'ue Fun-st Captains.

64 "and ' Jnek : ‘ '. ‘hr “minus “(the Oregon Tall.
’82 Kit I art-foot. the Wood-Hunk. _

94 Midnight .laeLt ur, Th.- ltoy Trnpper.
106 Dill Fronty, the Guide: or, The White. Queen.

low. Charley the White Mnelnnger.
8 udxe Lynelr, Jra or. The Bw Vigilante.
55 Gold Trix er, the S u-ri; or, The Girl Avenger.
69 Tornado ' ‘om: 4 r, njnn Jilt'k From Red (th78.
8 N ed Temple. the llnnler Boy.
19" Arliannnw: or, The (luw n of Fate’s Revenge.
20? Navajo Nick. the Boy Gold Hunter.
215 (‘aotuln Iiailet : or, Llille Tnpklmth Crnsxlde.
gal l'lneky Phil; or. Rush, the Rel Jezehel.
341 Bill Bravo; or, The Rtmghfi «l' the ltnt-itiee.
.855 (‘apiain A oliv, the Kira i’in ui' Bowie.
1‘ The “lullil In Deter-live.

.?9 incl “'Inchlt or, The iiuekuklll Deeperadoel. I. ~°
$94 Dynamite Ian; or. The linle Mmle of thh 
808 The Mountain lleteetlte: or, The Trlmrgilu Bull).
813 Did Felipee. Trump (‘nnl oi Arimnn.
826 The Ten l'ardu ur. The Terror at Tu - . .
886 "ill Belmont or, he Queen oil
345 Plillelfl Mn“: or, Red Thumle
35" (‘mol Mum and l’nr": 0" The I
866 Velvet Foot, the inuuuu Den—mt ; . "
8x6 (‘notuln l‘lttlau or, 'lhc u. re:
00“ 1.205.143 Roi n tn} larln (‘tt
. e . . . , t omer “
- D5 Texan Trump, the nurdpr Rpttl
486 Phil Flat-h. the New York Fox.
 The City Vam Iron: 07, Red

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470 x or, Felix an'e Hunt.
477 of. Tim- Washlnglon Spain.
499 the \ ed SP4 rt.
502 the Night Ferrel. .
512 Whirl-Spy Detective.
521 Beet no.
528 and the Bowery shadows.
588 Fe ,1.
548 or, The Rival Boy Detectives.

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548 Mari. the leht Express: Detertivn. By J. C. Cowdrick.
549 Deadwood Dick on Ill- Mettle. By E. L.Whe--ler.
550 Laiitte'e Legacy: or. The Avenkmg Son. By co], new“

551 hmhwéme. m. 30 Shadow By .70 Pin...

552 Ariel, the Athlete. y Dlvld D I.

558 Dodter "lek’l Deeper-to “a By T. C. Herhnugh.

554 Deadwood Dick. Jr., in autumn. By E. 1.. Wheeler.

555 The (‘reole Cor-air.  Prentlu ingrahnm.

556 Lariat Lil; or, The (“cut for n Ute. By Philip 9. Warne.

557 Broadway Billy'l Death Rocket. By J. C. Colvdrlqh

558 The flare-Shot Partial. Ry Arthur C. Grluon.

559 llarlem Jack, the Office Boy Detective. By Jo Pier-ch

560 Pawnee Bill, the Pmirle Shedower. By (‘0). P. lop-ham.

581 Deadwood Dick in Horton. ByEdwnrd L. Wheeler.

569 Blunderlnz Ban“, the Hermit Boy Trapper. lly Oil Cntllncl.

568 Dodger Dick. the Boy Vidocq. By T. C. Hnr‘ nugh.

564 Powder Phil, the Boy Miner. By John W. Gabon.

565 Kent Kingdom the Card King. By Col. Punting incl-«bun.

566 The Secret Sen-lee Boy Beta-tire. By Chnrleu Mogflf

567 Deadwood Dick, In, In Philadelphia. Hv Edward L.
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568 The Dandy of Dodge. By Lieut. A. K. Sims.

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510 cnmllle, the Card Queen. By Col. Punt!“ inn-ham.
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