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AUTHOR OF “FRESH or “FRISCO,” £743.;

CHAPTER I.
ON THE BEACH A'I‘ DONG BRANCH.

It is of Long Branch that We writ-x
“Long Branch-by-the—Sea,” not the vil~
lage proper. which is a mile or so inland,
bug of the hotel and cottage city, cigstm-
ing by the side of the sad w-u waves.

It was in early spring :md the season
had not yet opened; the .u‘ miner visitors
had not made their amwm mow, I

It was a fine night. air balmy and,

 

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pleasant, and with just breeze enough stirring l
to make one feel comfortable, for the day ha
been quite warm.

The boulevard along the beach cliff, the grand
ocean drive, the one t attraction of the
“ Branch,” was almost eserted, for the hour of
nine had come, and despite the pleasantness of
the night, nearly all the inmates of the hoases
along the street were preparing to retire.

The drive runs by the side of the beach from
Seabright to the \Vest End Hotel, there makes
an abrupt turn inland, for a few hundred yards,
and then, though turning again to its original
course, is separated from the beach by a line of
cottage estates. -

Right op site to the West End Hotel, on the
top of the b uff, is a. little carefull -tended lawn
where the open summer- ouses o the hotel are
placed, and a wooden stairway leads to the
bathing-booths below.

But at the time of which we write neither
summer-houses nor bathing-booths were in place,
for the first, very much the worse for wear after
the winter campaign, were over on their sides
against the fence, and the bathing-cabins, all
taken apart, were piled up in heaps by the side
of the summer-houses.

The only thing in readiness for the opening

season was the weather—beaten wooden stair-
way.
And upon this stairway, seated about half-
way down it, so as to be concealed from the
view of any one passing along the drive above,
was a oung man, gazing with a sober face out
upon he moonlit waste of waters, and putting
listless] at a cigar. He was of medium height
and we l-built; had regular features, deep blue
eyes and golden, crispy curling brown hair; a
small full beard concealed his chin, but his up-
per lip was cleanly shaven. This gave rather
an odd appearance to the handsome face, par-
ticularly as the hair had been allowed to grow
long after the careless artist fashion.

He was dressed poorly; all his attire from his
boots to his but gave evident si us of long wear,
and there was an anxious loo upon his face
which plainly told of inward care.

‘.‘ Wh don’t she come?”he muttered, draw-
in fort a little silver watch and consulting it.
“ t is after time, and I want to get out of this
by that late train to-night; the p ace is gettin
too deuced hot too hold me. 1 mustn’t wait unt
to morrow. If-I miss that train to-night, I’ll
foot it up to Seabri ht, cross the brid e to the
Highlands and take he New York fre ght-boat
w.h ch goes up the thing in the morning.
Ithink that will give my inquiring friends the
slip in the most ingenious manner. But I must
have a parting word with my sweet girl.”

And as he came to this pomt in his soliloquy,
the sound of footste reached his ears—short,

and sharp—a woman s footsteps evidently.
The youn man rose an tossed awa his
cigar, and I face lit up so that he look like

another person.

A woman appeared at the to of the stair-
way, and at once descended, smil ugly, to greet
the watcher. ,

She was eighteen, apparentl , not little nor
yet e in stature, and been fully formed; a
round, nglish-like face, rosy with the hues of
health, lit up by reat brown eyes—thoughtful
eyes and with re her a sad expression. Her
hair was blue-black in color, and grew in re-
fusion. She was dressed plainly, poorly in act,
for, althou h everything she wore was tastefully
and becom nglty made, yet the stuff was of the
commonest an cheapest material.

“You are late,” he said, as she descended to
his side; and he ssed his arm around her as
he spoke, imprin ng a loving kiss upon her not
unwillin lips. '

*‘ Yes, have along way to come, you know,
and I could not leave home 'until after dark
without excitin suspicion.”

fi‘Ah, my daring, the time will come, and
soon,  hope, when you will be with , me all
the time. ’

Slowly they descended the steps until they
reached the beach. Above shbne the bright
moon, along the shore the surf poured in with
its restless roar; his arm was around her waist,
her head pillowed upon his bosom, while her
eyes were fixed upon his face, full of love.

“ Oh, I hope so." she replied, in fervent ac-
cents. “The life Ilead now is misery. All is
so dark and dreary; the only 00nsolation I have
is to think of you.” . ,

“’ Bear it for awhile, the end will soon come.”

" I will strive to do my best, but it is a. dread-
ful life; all that keeps me up are these blissful
secret meetings With you. If it was not for the
courage that you give me—the remembrance of
your caresses, I feel that I should never b0 able
to endure it. I should go mad, I am sure I
should.” 5

A shade passed over the young man’s fan), I
and involuntarily his arms tightened around I
her and drew her i till closer to him. ;

“My own dear Helen if I could only express '
hapnv your words make me, and l

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to you how

Yd: they ,~_-;..~,.r in» 'niserahie,1oo. fire "l'ili‘l

fortune dccrets t!” .t ior 'l time-We, mth separ-

ate.” ~ ‘ . _
“Separate!” (ill-l the cry came like it Will. of

anguish ’.ii‘:.‘.3lit i‘mh ti c 3 mung girl’s heart.

. simple

“ Yes; Heaven knows I would spare you this
blow if Icould,”he said hurriedly, evidently
much troubled, “but it is impossible, and we
must bow to the will of fate. Trust me, have
confidence in me, and believe that all will be
well. You do trust me, do you not?” .

“Can you ask that questioni”she re lied, a
little touch of reproach in her tones. “ ave I
not given you the best roof of it in the world?
You have my love, al that I can give, and yet
you are almost a stranger to me.”

“Helen, dear, I am almost a stranger to all
the world. You know as much of me as any
one does, with two or three exceptions. I am
called Roland Reade,a Bohemian, a man. who
makes his living by his wits, a J ack»of-all-
trades, and a master of none, a rolling stone
who thus far has gone throu h the world
gathering no moss; in a ha py, b issful hour, I
came here to the side 0 old ocean and en-
countered you, a Jersey lily blooming amid
these barren sands, flourishing in the shadow of
the stunted pines; the moment I saw you I felt
conscious that you would change all my future
life. [sought to win the priceless treasure of
your love, and I succeeded. I have lingered in
one lon
of awa ening has come and I cannot linger
longer. The nets of adversity are gathering
around me, and I must away ere I am caught
in the toils of the spoiler.”

“ You are in danger 4” and she clung still more
tightly to him.

‘I am, but do not press me for an ex lana—
tion, for I am so situated that I cannot to 1 you
all that I would under other circumstances.
All I ask is for on to trust and love me—be-
lieve me true! elieve me when 1 say that I
love you more than all the world besides, and
that as soon as I can 1 will return and make you
mine, 0 enly before all the world.”

“ An this is our last meeting, then?” the girl
gasped, her eyes filled with tears.

“ For the present, yes; but do not weep; I
will come again to on as soon as I can.”

“ But I may not e here; my position is grow-
ing so absolutely unbearable that at any mo-
ment I may have to run away to seek my for-
tune out in the cold, cruel world.”

“ Yes, I remember on told me something of
this on our last meet u , butI entreat you not
to go if you can possib y avoid it: but in case

ou do have to leave home, you will go to New

ork. I presume!”

u Yes. i

“I have prepared this letter for you; do not
open it until you arrive in the city on any ac-
count,” and he put _a sealed envelope in her
hand. “In it you will find instructio . And
now, one farewell kiss and then - y. No
matter what ha pens—no matter ow much ap-
pearances ma 0 against me, belieye and trust
mg; 'm on'l'i all th 1d t

y" t oug e wor may urn against
you?’ she cried, impulsively.
A fond embrace, lips to 1i in lover’s pas-
sionate kisses and tha -—he hurrying
along the beach, for he 0 ht that road woul
be safer than to trust to t e avenue, and she
sinking down in a flood of tears at the foot of
the stairwa , the‘dreadfal thought upon her
that she mig t never see him again.

CHAPTER II.
A DRIADFUL DISCOVERY.

“ GONE, gone, perhaps forever-1” she mur-
mutedt her tears falling thick and fast.

But he more violent the grief the quicker it
is over, and after a, few minutes the girl recov-
ered her composure, wiped away the tear-drops
and with slow steps, mournful reflections and
a heav heart she reascended the stairway.

Stra ght along the'avenue she went, past the
West End Hotel, and around the turn until she
came to Cedar avenue into which she turned,
her backgron the sea, and proceeded up the de-
sorted ro . ,

There were signs of life along the avenue
though, if the girl was the only one who seemed
to be abroad. . ,

Holly wood, the great Hoey Mansion, was
ablaze with light and in the “ actors’ quarter,”
as it is termed, the inmates of Mary Anderson’s,
Chanfrau’s, Johnny Albaugh’s, Maggie Mitch-
ell’s and Manager Henderson’s cottages were all

u .

pA sigh came from the sweet lips of the girl
as she trudged past the abodes of these Thespian
celebrities and peering in through the windows
saw the merry players enjoying the delights of
home after their long professional tours.

The girl was a born aristocrat, and when she
COmpfiI‘t d the cornforts of the life, of which she
nowraught' a glimpse, With the miserable ex-
istence which she was compelled to endure, her
heart fairly grew sick within her. '

She hurried forward, for the sight of these
happy people only made her more miserable;
and as she trod along the weary road all the
events of her life came back to her

One unceasing round of toil that life had been.
Ever since she could remember she had dwelt
with old Daddy Waybit. on a little farm in the
“ pines,” a couple of miles from Branchburg—a
little sandy patch, right in the middle of the
forest of ’scrulr by pines, ten or twelve acres in

extent, with a small story-and-a-half farm-"house
and a dilapidated little barn.

The neighbors were all negroes, who occupied
similar patches reclaimed from the pines, and
who managed to getaliving by raising “ truck ”
and fruit, principally berries.

Way bit was an eccentric sort of a man, who
had not changed a rticle in all the years the
girl had known him. Her earliest remem-

rances of him was as a mihapen, cross old
man, very much given to drink, and who sel-
dom went to bed sober if he could procure
liquor. He was, though, a person of education,
head and shoulders above any of the neighbor-
ing country people, despite his vices and slovenly

 

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o Jerse man was Waybit. He had bought
the misera 1e little farm some fourteen years
ago, coming from no one knew where, accom-
panied b an old woman, whom he called his
wife, an the girl, then a child of four ears,
whom all supposed to be his dau hter. e was
a mystery to the neighbors, for hough he cul-

j tivated the farm after a fashion, yet he never

dream of happiness, but now the hour ;

raised enough to support himself and family,
but, as he always had money enough to pay his
bills, it was plain that he had something to de-

‘ pend upon besides the land.

Waybit was gruff, surly, and repelled all
familiarity, so that at first the neighbors be—
lieved him to be all that was bad, a rascal hid-
ing from an outraged law, and procuring his
money by foul deeds, but in fourteen years a
man will live down many an idle rumor, and
longr ago the talk had ceased; Daddy Waybit,
as he was commonly called, was regarded as a
pretty good citizen by all, and the explanation
which, when in his cups one day, he had vouch-
safed to give, that he had a small income, en-
ou h to live on, was accepted.

'Ehe child, whose name was Helen, although
made to work around the farm exactly the
same as though she was a boy, was educated by
the old man in the most careful manner, and as
both he and his wife were scholars, always speak-
ing correctly, the girl grew up ladylike and re-
flned, for she had never been allowed toasso-
ciate with the coarse, common children of the
uni hborhood. .

e only luxury that old Waybit aflorded
liquor excepted, was reading matter, books an
newspapers. Of these there was always plenty.
so the girl did not grow up entirely in ignorance
of the great world. ‘

When Helen was fourteen years old Mrs.
waybit died after a short illness, and her last
words ere her t took flight were to the child
who, weeping, begged her mother not to
leave her.

“I am not your mother, child,” she mur-
mured, and then she had clasped her husband’s
hand and cried, wildly:

“ See that justice is done this cruelly-treated
girl or I will come back. from the other world
and haunt you b niglllit, you villain i” and ex-
hausted by the orts 0 had sunk back and ex-

pired. ,

The next day Daddy Waybit prlall‘l‘ed: .

“ You are not my child, he said; my .wife
found you in the street. cue cold winter’s mght,
in a basket, deserted by your inhuman parents,
and she resolved to care or you and she has al-
ways been anxiout to have me tell you the
truth about your ntage and many a time.
has called mea vi ' because I refused. But
you know all now and the poor woman can rest
eat in her grave.” . _

Byut, did she know all? There was a lurkin
suspicion in the girl’s mind which strengthen
as year grew into year that she did not know
the whole truth.

She kept this to herself, though, for she knew
Daddy Waybit well enough to understand that
it would not profit her for him to know she
doubted his words.

A weary life of drudgery Helen led after the
death of Mrs. Waybit; not only all the cares of
the house but the farm also came upon her
shoulders, for the old man became more and
more addicted to liquor. , , .

Then across her desolate life. like a glorious
a dull and drear December day,

sun lighting up It was 3

came the wanderer, Roland Reed.
case of love at first si ht. _ _

And while she was ifted to the very skies in
Iove’s young dream. 01:1 Daddy Waybit sudden—
ly took it into his head to persecute the girl With
his attentions, telling her that he would make

her his second W1 e. ‘
And the old man was so obstinate—so deter-

. mined upon this point, that Helen feared unless

some favorable accident occurred to cause him
to change his mind, she would be compelled to
seek refuge in flight.

Her lover’s departure, the old man’spersecu-
tion, the mystery surrounding her birth, her
aspirations for a higher, nobler existence than
the one she was now leading—with all'these

ioomy thou bts and conditions pressing upon
get agitated irain. was it any wonder that the
way seemed long and dreary! '

At last, emerging from the pines, sne came in
sight of the old farm-house, but to her astonish-

 

ment a light shone through the curtain of the

i kitchen window. '
Thin was strange, for Daddy Waybit had

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been drinkingl hard all the afternoon, and had
laid down rig t after supper, and after he had
once gone to bed in such a condition she had
never known him to rise until the next mom—

in .

i sudden im ulse came to her to advance
cautiously, peer nto the kitchen through a crack
in the rear wall, and discover the meaning of
this unusual occurrence.

It was a happy thought, and Helen at once
executed it, to iscover a stranger within-41
well-dressed, big, burly man, with a smoothly-
shaven, fat face, short-cropped sand hair, and
a loud coarse voice. Daddy Waybi sat oppo-
site to him, an ugly look upon his hard. wrink ed
face, and his eyes blinking like those of an owl
brought suddenly into the light. Evidently he
had been roused from his slumbers andhe didn’t

‘ relish it.

The two were in the midst of a hot discus-
sion, and the girl could plainly hear every
word.

“ It’s no use for you to beat about the bush 1”
the stranger declared, bringing his hand down
upon the table with 3'- heavy whack. “ I wa t
you to understand I’ve come here for the gal
and I am going to have her, and that is the kind
of a bird 1‘ am! Gayaway Muttlebud is my
name, and the man that once has me put my
flippers onto his shoulder is never anxious for a
second spoonful oi the soup. It’s none of your
business what; want her for! Mebbe it’s for
arson, mebbe for murder,” and the stranger
leaned over and hissed the word at the old
man.

Helen’s heart fairly rose in her throat; what
did this coarse and brutal stranger mean by
such horrid words?

“ You. are playing a bluff ame. but you
cilin’l’: frighten me. Murder, ha i” Waybit re-

19( .

“What do you know about the girl? What
do you know ’bout what she has been up to?”
the man cried. “ You can’t keep track of her
all the time. Perhaps I should astonish our
weak nerves it‘ I told you that the gal h got
a fellow whom she meets on the beach in secret,
and you can bet all you’ve got in the world that
that is where she has gone to now, and that is
what is detaining her.’

“ It’s a lie 1” exclaimed Waybit, furiously.

“ Nary time; but I’m not surprised that she
succeeded in pulling the wool over your eyes,
but she wasn't smart enough to fool me. I have
been in the detective business too long; but now,
to-return to our mutton I’ve got to have the
girl; whatI want with her is no business of

ours. I'mlgoing totake her and you cannot

elp yourse . but asIallers lieve in doing
things on the quiet, I don’t want to kick up any
fuss bout the matter. I want on to introduce
me to her, to—morrow as an oh? friend of yours
whom you have sent for to take her to the city,
so that she can see a little of life. She won’t
have any suspicions, of course, and she’ll come
ri ht alon with me as docile as a lamb. And
w on the t ing is fixed I will make a fair divvy
with you for your trouble.”

“ Eh? I don’t understand you l”

“Why, I will give 'you a fair share of the
cash that l corral—the reward offered for her
capture, you know,” and then the speaker ut
his tongue in his cheek and winked in a pec iar
way at Waybit. .

‘ Reward for her capture!” repeated the other,
whose brains were sti I so upset by liquor as to
be incapable of reasoning clearly.

“ That’s what I said, and don‘t flatter yourself
you can get her out of the way, for it can’t be
done! I ve ot everyroadcovered in this nei h-
borhood, an if you should attempt to run er
of! to any railroad station she would be nabbed
the instant she set foot upon theplatform. Now,
you fix it, as I suggested,so that she will go with
me quietl and I Will let you in for a share. Re-
fuse, and .W1“ go to the nearest magistrate the
first thing in the morning, Svear out a warrant
for her arrest, come here With the officers and
take her by main force!”

The girl waited to hear no more, for she was
filled with a terrible fear. What if this burly
stranger should take it into his head to Walk to
the door look out and discover her?

At all hazards she must escape! but the roads
were guarded! ‘

The simple child never dreamed that this guard
was nothing but the idle vaunt of a man whose
chief stock in trade was brass and brag.

There was a path through the pines which led
to a small back-countryroad. By keepingto the
back roads, avoiding the turnpikcs, she t ought
she would be able to reach the county seat,
Freehold, Some sixteen miles away; and once
there, in the morning, she could take a train
to New.York. No one would be apt to think
ofplacmg a spy on the watch at that distant

int.

She knew every foot of the way, for she had
been to Freehold with Daddy VVaybit a half-
dozcn times, and as the old man had a decided
aversion to paying tolls. which in SnuthJersey
is no small item, he always avoided the turn-
pikne 'm'l went l‘)’ the back roads.

Fortune favored her too, ii: one respect; she
ind sold sonwsyming chickens of herown raising
at Long lienc-l: village that very afternoon, and

 

 

had the money in her pocket—six dollars] That
would pay her fare to the city and enable her to
live for a few days until she could find some-
thin to do, for in the innocence of her heart
she id not think it would be a hard matter for
a young, strong and willing girl, like herself, to
prrocli‘ire employment in great overgrown New

or .

She crossed the little field—stopped just for a
moment on the edge of the pines to take a fare-
well look at the humble cottage which had shel-
tered her so long, waved her hands toward it
bidding it a mute ood-by, while the tears stood
in her eyes, then D tinged into the recesses of the
wood, and it would have been a skillful tracker
indeed who could have followed the trail of the
girl that night. - '

Ou she went with steady, resolute ate 5; she
reached the back road, then struck off ward
Eatontown, keeping a wary look around, fearing
a spy in ever dark covert.

Not a. sing e soul did she encounter on her
journey that night, and about two in the mom-
in she came to the depot in Freehold. l

The morning train for the city was standing 2
on the track, ready for the engine. One of the
cars was open; she entered it, stretched herself
upon a seat, and slept soundly until the dayligéit
coming in at the window awakened her. 0
one noticed her particularly. She slipped out,
bought her ticket and the train started. She
had escaped the toils.

 

CHAPTER III.
THE PLANTAGENETS.

ON Fifth avenue, in the city of New York, op- ‘
posite Central Park, and above Sixtieth street,
stands a mansion so palace-like in appearance
that it commands the attention of even the most
careless passer-by: .

Without and Within it was a palace, fit for a
king,and yet it was only the private dwellin of
the widow of a rivate gentleman but he ad ‘
been reall a ing among his fellows, and
when he led left his disconsolate widow five
million of dollars, all well and, securely in-
vested.

An odd genius he had been too, in his life-
time. He was an Englishman b birth, named
Gloster lantagenet, or at least t is what he
called hi self, although before he got tobe a
rich man there were scoflers in abundance who
sneered at this high-sounding appellation, but
after he “ made his pile,” and was able to draw
his check for a million or two without feeling it,
the man bold enough to suggest that Planta-
genet was a humbu and no more descended
from the ancient Eng ish house of Plantagenet
than from Julius Caesar. would have stood a

ood chance of being mobbed by all the money
Eing’s acquaintances.

Plantagenet Was well in years and rather bad-
ly of! for money when he landed upon our shores,
and how he got his first start no one exactly
knew; but, after he did get started, he went
ahead with wonderful rap dity. Ever hing be
touched seemed to turn into gold, an his luck
became proverbial.

And a ter he arrived at the eminence of being
one of the “ kings” of New York, as he was a
widower, the match-makers of society set them-
selves at work to find a wife for him, but he had
been on the lookout himself. and the fashionable
world Were surprised one fine morning with the
news that Gloster Plantagenet and Matilda
Livingstone, the widow of Judge Livingstone,
were aboutto be married. ~

Against the lady nothin could be said on the
score of birth, for she had n aVan Tromp be-
fore marrying the judge, a belle and a beauty,
and even age and the fact that she had a son of
sixteen did not diminish her charms. !

But as far as money went, she was not well '
off. From her father she had inherited very 1
little, from her husband scarcely anything, for |
the judge was one of those men who lived up to i
every cent of his income, no matter whether it
was five thousand or fifty.

Rumor, that sharp-tongued jade,declared that
the‘widow had married the railroad king for his
money, and the world answered the aspersion
by saying that, if it was true, Matilda Living-
stone was the chea st thing Gloster Planta-
genet had ever boug t.

Between the widOW’s son, Denb Livingstone,
and the Englishman, the best of eeling did not
exist. There had been no quarrel, for Planta-
genet was one of those polished men who seem to
glide through the world Without friction, and
the young) man, too, was reserved and quiet,
aithough is intimate associates declared that
he could be as stubborn as a mule and aswarlike
as a lion, at times.

There was a lack of sympathy between the
two, from the first, and the wife and other
although she had perceived it and had ( one all
she could to remove it, at last gave up the task,
satisfied that as long as the two existed the feel-
ing would continue.

A year or two before his death Plantagenet
sent to England for his only living relatives-so a
he said—Richard Plantagenet, his nephew. and ‘
Viola- Plantagenet. his nieces cousins, not bro- i
ther and sister. The wife, although at first ‘
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would supplant her boy, soon grew to like the
pair. 0

And the girl, particularly, was such a capti-
vating creature, that she completely won the
wife’s heart. ,

Plantagenet’s acquaintances had a shrewd
suspicion that the railroad king intended to
make one of the two his heir, but when he died
all his vast estate was left by will to his widow,
neither Viola, Richard nor Denby being men-
.ti0ned.

Mrs. Matilda Plantagenet was a peculiar wo-
man: when she made up her mind to anything,
ith was almost an impossibility to get her to
c ange.

She had looked upon Viola as calculated to
make her son a ood Wife, and although she did
everythin in er power to throw them into
each other 8 society, yet she did not speak open-
ly about the matter, ut a year or so after the
death of her husband theidea seemed to develop

r son, but the young man, now twen-
ty—four years old, did not receive it favorabl ,
much to his mother’s disnleasure, and the resu t
was they quarreled and Denby quitted the house

‘ in an er.

He ad been gone a year, and now on this eve-
nin of which we write had just returned in
obegience to his mother’s pressing request.

The two were seated in Mrs. Plantagenet’s
private parlor, which was a front room on the
second floor. '

Mrs. Plants genet was a woman of command-
ing fi ure and of dignified aspect, and still
beauti 111, although there were the cold, hard
lines around the mouth and eyes which always
indicate an iron will.

Denby.the son, was a well- roportioned young
man, with regular, clear-cu features, pleasing
expression, and the unmistakable stamp which
a life of ease and luxury, free from care and toil,
almost invariably gives.

His hair was cut short, cropped, in fact,
after the idiotic fashion common to the fashion-
able young men of the day. his chin was smooth-
ly shayen, and a small mustache shaded his
u r ip.

p e had his mother’s dark-blue eyes, and the
look which came from them was equallyas reso-
lute as the light which shone irom hers.

And new mother and son wmzing upon
each other like two enemies me g strength
before engaging in mortal combat.

The lady was the first to speak.

“ You have returned at last,” she said.

“Yes, because you sent for me; otherwise I
should not have come.” ‘

“ And are you ready now to comply with my
wishes?”

“ No more thanwhen I departed.”

“ And when will you be ready?”

“ Never 1”

Mrs. Plantagenet stamped her foot angrily.

“ligenby, you are a willful, disobedient
son

“.And’you, mother, are unreasonable and im;

‘1‘1 What obj ti bl ha 1

ec on can on £0311 vo o
Viola? Is she not everythihg at a gen oculd
desire'il Where in this world can you find a girl
more suitable for a wife!” ‘

“ I grant that she is perfection, but I do not
.care for her.” '

“ And will you let a foolish whim stand in the
way of my happiness?” she cried imperiously.
“ Denby,if I couldsee you marri to thatsweet

, girl I should be content to die, for my cup of

appiness Would be full to overflowing. I tell
you it is necessary that this union should take
place; it is for your own sake more than mine
that I urge it. Why will you not confide in my
su rior judgment and yield to my wishes in
this matter?"

“ What are the reasons why this union should
take place, and why for my sake? There must
be no half-confidences, mother, if you expect
me to yield up the happiness of my life by com-
pl ng with your wishes.”

‘ I have alread explained.”

“ All that you ave said merely goes to show
that it is your whim that I should wed Viola,
but you have not yet given a single reason why
the union should take place, except that you
fanc the match.”

“ nd I am determined that it shall be made!”

3.

i into a regular mania; she then broached the .
1matctei'to e

Mrs. Plantagenet cried,quickly, her countenance .

flushed with anger.
“And I am equally determined that it shall

‘ not be consummated.”

“If you refuse to comply with‘my Wishes, I
will disinherit you! Not one single penny of
my money shall you touch! You shall go forth
into the world a beggar!”

The son laughed in scorn.

“And what, think you, do I care for your
money? If I can survive the loss of your es-
teem and love, do you for a moment imagine
that I care for the gold? 1 have a good educa-
tion, and have a certain talent for some things,
so the world says, and if I am not able to
get my daily bread then I am content to
starve.”

The lady rose majestically.

“ You shall have until low ’fl'r-Jv» .i-"ll‘. i” ,2; 2.0
decide,”she said,  :;  ,If E~; :‘;.l 1. might

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that you shall ever spend under this roof if you
refuse.”

“ Mother, there isn‘t thb least use in waiting
until the morning; I can give you my answer
to-night as well.” he replied, also rising. “It is
no! and it will be no for all time to come.”

“ Miserable, misguided boy!” she cried turn-
ing upon him with a sudden fury, “ and do you
think I do not know why it is that you are so
firm in this matter? When you firstref used and
quitted this house it was because your pride Nas
piqued that I, your mother, dared to choose for
you, but now you have another reason for refus-
ing. Do not think that I am speaking idly or at
random, for I am Well informed concerning all
your movements since you left this house; de-
tectives have been upon your track and you have
been constantly watched.

“ If you hold firm in your resolve, you will be
no son of nine, and think not that you will be
able to enjoy the life which ou have chosen in
preference to the one which selected, for I will
use all my wealth and influence to baffle you in
your designs, and although I will not strike at
you, disobedient boy, yet I will at the one who

as come between me and my long-cherished
lans.”

“ Do not threaten,motherl” he cried, indig-
nantly; “it is useless and I defy you to harm
me or those for whom I care. i thank you for
the caution, though, for forewarned is forearm-
ed and now thatl know what is before me, I
will do my best to check you in every move. I
understand, too, to whom I am indebted for this
griendly interest in my aflairs. Mr. Richard

lautagenet no doubt has been not only your
adviser, but your confidential agentaswell; and
in this struggle which is to come, as you Will
not strike at me,so I will notaim a blow at you,
but as for this interloper who has come betWeen
us, let him bawarel he will have need of all the
courage and skill of the doughty warrior whose
name he bears to win in this contest. As for
you, mother, you will live to repent the day
when you for ot that [was your son and for-
bade me your ouse.”

Then the young man quitted the room, and
hardly had the door closed behind him when
Richard Plantagenet came from a closet where
he had been concealed.

“ Did you hear him, Richard!" she cried, ex-
citedly; ‘he will not yield an inch, and he dares
to threaten me; but he shall do an will, or else
I will crush him and this wretch girl who has
come between us to the very dust!”

“ My dear aunt, for his own sake it must be
done, and now let me suggest a plan.”

The two sat down and conferred together.

CHAPTER IV.
us run nanx.

Mmmon'r had come and gone, and the “ woe,
ama’ hours ” of the morning were at hand.

Mrs. Plantagenet had not retired to rest until
late and it was after one o'clock before she got
whales-a.“

A r on ng her a i'tment which was a
back room on the recon story in the rear of her

lor, she been careful to lock and bolt all

0 doors beh nd her, and undressingaud putgrig
on her night-robes, had gone to her private e

-an ornamental piece of furniture, gotten up
after the fashion of a small bureau, so that one
notacquainted with it would never, have been
apt to s t what it was—unlocked it, cast a
hurried nce around, as though she feared
notwithsanding the doors were all locked and
bolted, that some one mi ht be playing the spy
uplon her, then drew on a little secret drawer
w ich contained two large, folded,legal-lookingf
documents.

“1‘:  flnédhsomo safer lags,” as dmust-laur-

o n e papers n or n , n
thoughtfulg upon t o superscriptions, but no
attempting to open them.

“ Some-afar place,”she repeated, in a mechan-
ical sortof tone; “ but where—where! Ah! that
will uiro some thought. Chance might lead
to a d some? here, and if Denby know, what
would he say ’

With a deep sigh, she returned the papers to
the secret drawer, shut it up, closed the safe and
locked it carefully.

“ To-morrOw—ay, to-morrow will do; to-mor-
row“ will see about it; it shall not remain here
ano or night,” she murmured, her mind ovi-
don lg far away.

An turning down the gas so that there was
just t enough to distinguish objects in the
room I wont to bed.

The clocks in the city had struck three—that

 

' hourwhen human sleep is said to be the deepest,
a the

when there came a low cautious knock
massive door which led from the hall into Mrs.
Plantagenet's apartment - but the mistress of the
mansion, firmly wrapped in slumber’s chains,
heard it not.

A second, a third time, the knock was repeat-
ad but the lady’s sleep was unbroken.

Then the knockor satisfied that the inmate of
the room was not likely to be easily disturbed,

ed to action. -

“as applied a pair of “ nippers”—a burglar’s

used for turning a key in the lock from the

outside of a door by ruling the end of the key.
filowly the keyturned, the bolt oftho lock

 

moved back without a sound. The door now
was fastened only by the heavy bolt on the in—
side.

From his pocket the man took a hood of black
crape, arranged to covu‘ both head and facc,
but with eye—holes, so that the wearer could dis-
tinguish what he was about.

This he drew on, and then, cautiously turning
the knob, opened thc door, the strong bolt with
in yielding immediately to the pressure without
resistance—showing that it had previously been
tampered with.

The door open, the intruder cautiously looked
into the room; then with noiseless steps he ad—
vanced directly to the bedside, and—like one
Well ac uainted with Mrs. Plantagenet’s habits
—drew rom under the pillow her pocketbook,
from which he abstracted the key of the safe,
disdaining to help himself to three one-hundred-
dollar bills which were also in the same recep-
tac e.

Strai; ht to the safe he went and unlocked it
without trouble, evidently being familiar with
it, but the location of the secret drawer puzzled
him for some time, for that was what he was
after. He found it at last, opened it, and took
out the two documents Mrs. Plantagenet had
examined before retirin to rest.

“ Aha l” he muttered in a fierce chuckle, as he

pod the paper. “ ow, Denby, we will see
who will triumph l”

Therewas a rustling of the bed-clothes, and he
sprung to his feet in alarm.

Mrs. Plantagenet was wide awake and sitting
up in thebedl

He had thrust the papers inside his breast at
the first alarm, and now, perceiving that he was
discovered, he made a dash for the door, but on
the way was intercepted by Mrs. Plan enet,
who, with rare courage, sprung at him ike a
tigress.

“ Help, help, murder l”'she cried.

The two grappled ' soon assistance would come,

for the woman's shriek had run shrilly through
the house. Understanding th s the intruder
exerted all his strength tore himself loose from
her graslpégnd hurled her violently backward,
then das through the door, closing it after
him.
The woman, thrown backward with such vio-
lence, struck her beads ainst the marbletopped
tableinthe center of t e apartment and was
stunned b the shock.

When he frightened servants entered the
room, headed by Miss Viola, they found Mrs,
Plantagenet senseless and bleeding. .

As quickly as possible she was «placed ugon the
bed and a messenger dispatch for a octor.
He soon arrived, is residence being near at

hand.

Under his care she ially revived, but her
senses seemed to be a acted b the shock which
she had received, for onlyw d and whirling
w~ Irds came from her lips.

“Oh, Denby, Denby my boy 1” she moaned,
“ how could you woun your poor mother, who
would have gladly given her life to save you
from harm l"

“ Her mind wanders; she does not know what
she issaying,” the doctor observed, and imme-
diately he ve orders to have the apartment
cleared of but the nurse.

But the mischief had been done, and grave
suspicions were excited.

CHAPTER V.
o w 1' a r: r a A I N .

FULL of anxiety was the heart of the girl u
the train went on its way to the city. The
boasting words of the burly stran or were fresh
in her memory. and, for the fl six 0: 913“;
stations, she trembled with apprehension every
time a pa-enger entered the car, but as she
journeyed further and further away from her
startin -point and found that no one took any
parti notice of her, she began to regain her
courage.

Her purluors would surely never think of
looking for her so far away.

After about half the distance to the cit had
been acoomglishod, Helen suddenly remem
the letter w ich her lover had given her on the
previous evening.

Surely the time had now come to open it!

Acting u the im loo, she did so.

Inclosed n the save ope was a ton-dollar hill,
and a brief note, which ran as follows: l

“ If on are compelled to leave home and go so sh.
city, I’lnclose on ten dollars which will lupport you
for a week or wo, and in that time you can find ma,
1 cannot give you an ve definite directions, bug,
after ou arrive in - ow ork, go daily at twelve
o‘cloc , noon, to tho obelisk ln Centr Park, W
Fifth avenue and opposite Elghtleth street. The
obelisk is ona little mound. main on the hill in
front of tho obelisk and facing the avenue for ion or
fifteen minutes, then descend. cross the drive and
takoa seat on one of the benches opposite: wait a
half-hour or so, and, if I do not come return home
and repeat the same thing the next day. All this.
I know seems very m storious. but more are
reasons for it Have slth in my honesty, an be-
lieve me when 1 ea that I am truly yours until death
puts an end to he love and life.

Then followed the bold signature:
" Bonn Buns.”

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a strong love-light shone from her brilliant eyes;
she was resolved to obey the instructions to the
letter.

At the next station a benevolent. countrifiod
old gentleman, with a round, ruddy face, fringed
by iron-gray hair, and ornamented with a short’
heard of the same hue. came into the car. He
was plainly and comfortably dressed, looking
like a well-to—do farmer.

There was a vacant seat by the side of the
girl, about the only one in the car, and the old
gentleman asked if it was engaged.

Helen, suspicious of danger, had taken a good
look at him, afraid at first that he might be an
agent of the burly stranger who had talked so
freely of hunting her down, but the apprehen-
sion vanished almost as quickly as it had arisen
for in such a mild-looking, honestappearing old
gentleman, there could surely be no guile, so she
answered that the seat was at his service.

He sat down beside her, and the two speedily
got into conversation, the old gentleman being
naturally talkative.

“Going to the city, hey, miss?" he had in-
quired.

Helen answered in the afiirmativr, and then
he stated that he was also bound for “ York,”
and immediate] proceeded to give a full history-
of himself and study.

He used to live in the city but his health
wasn’t ve good, so he had gone into farming
in a smal way: his health had improved, but;
his pocket had suffered, for his fnrming opera-
tions had been anything butiroiitable, so hi;
wife and daughter and son,all of whom mor-
tally hated the Country, as he confidentially in-
formed his com mice, had returned to New
York and open a small lotel on South Fifth
avenue. '

Fifth avenue was of course well known to the
girl as being the great street of Gotham, and
she formed a ve favorable impression of the
old entleman an his relatives.

'1‘ en, after the fashion of the country 1
actuated by that dev0uring curiosity which
seems to be natural to all rural denizens, the
old fellow put the girl through a regular cm
examination.

“ Live down in the country, I s’posez”

If she had not felt so sure that her companion
was exactly what he looked to be, an i uisi-
tive old countryman, she would have hesi ted
to answer, but as it was, she saw no harm in
satisfying his curiosity, so endeavored to reply
freel , and yet at the same time keep in reserve
po culars which might lead to her being traced
and a prehended.

" es, sir, I have lived in the country.”

“ Freehold, mebbe?”

“ Well, not exactly at Freehold.”

“Yas, near it, I reckon; pretty lace; I ain’t
much acquainted in that neighbor ood, though.
Don’t you live in the country now?”

“ No, sir.” ,

“ Oh, I see; folks moved to the cit l"

“ I haven’t any folks; I am an orp an."
“Bakes alive you don't tell me so! Well
well, now that is too bed. A nice, likely g‘ai
rich as you are and no folks to take care on
her. I s‘poee you’ve got friends in the city,

tho hf"

“ es, sir,” and a slight flush appeared u is
her innocent young face; she thought of or
lover, Roland—he was in the city somewhere,
and such a friend as he was worth a hundred of
the common kind.

The shrewd old man had keen eyes; he no-
ticed the color which his question had called up
and easily guessed the reason.

“ I s’pose you are oing to your friends now?"
not appearing to not ce what he so plainly mw.
“l—no, sir, I do not know the addre- an
I suppose it will take me some time to find it.”

“ ike as not,” he observed; “ I tell you those
pesky big cities are awful hard genes to find
anybody n unless you have got street and
number right down, so you kin go M“ to
the house. You’ll excusem axin youwmy
gusstions, you r know, but am or III 01d

ogy ’bout some things, and when I I0“ 5 like]?
youn gal like you trawling all alone, I kinder
git in rested in her, “on if “10 W“ my 0"
darter; I’ve got a galup to 0th M ’bOW Your
agekilou know.”

“ , sir I do not feel at all offended at your
questions.”
i “ ‘ ngtt;htbat's the riggt way to look .t
t, but some t o gab nowa ays are so
stuck- that it is ’bout what a man’s Hail;
worth or to say a civil word tothem. Well
now, you see, we have jest got to talking, jest
by accident, and I’ll bet a cocky I know how
you are situated. I will be able to he of some
amistanco to you, seeing as how you ain’t very
well acquahited with the city. Awful bad place
I tell yer, New York, for a young gal what
ain‘t How might I call your name, my

For a moment the l hesitated. She had al—
bosn called elen Waybit, but when the
old man revealed to her that she was not his
child, he also said he did not know whose child
she was. Helen, though, had a suspicion, which
she could not rid of, although there was
absolutely no oundation for it, that the old
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chose to keep her in ignorance. Her right name
was not Helen Waybit; why give it, then, and
so expose herself to the risk of being traced and
ca tured?

oi Henceforth she must be known by an-
other appellation, and so she gave the first that
came into her head. She had no home, and
:therefore Helen Home should be her name.

“ Well, { swovv! Helen Home!” observed the
old gentleman, repeating the name; “ why, that
is a right pretty name, and you seem to be a
real nice kind of a gal; it’s kinder of a shame
that you shouldn’t know exactly where your
friends live in the city so as to be able to go
right to them. What do you expect to do in
York—work at something, maybe?"

“Yes, sir; I SupINNB there will be no diffi-
culty about getting employment?” she asked, a
little anxtously.

“Sakes alive. no! I reckon there is allers
plenty of wirk in York for anybody at all \\ ill-
iug to Work, but, it may take some leetle time
to hunt it up. you know: work ain’t a-running
gonna on the streets begging people to take
. 0111."

“ Oh. I do not expect to get it right away."

“ And you will want some place to stop, too,
while you are looking? Have you got any
trade’i‘

“ N o, sir, but I am a good seamstress and can
run almost any kind of a sewing-machine; and
I am also used to housework."

“ You’ll be all right then; you’ll get enough
to do and you Won‘t have to wait very long for
it, either; and if you are willing to do house—
work, why York is full of good places for tidy
American girls, ’cos they are hard to get, and
at good wages too; but \ hat I was going to
say, if you don’t know of any lace to stop, you
might come to my wife’s hote where you will
be right comforts I do.”

Now the idea of goin to a hotel on Fifth ave—
nue rather frightened t 0 girl, for she thought ‘1
it would surely be a very expensive lace, and in i
her simple, honest way explained t at she was ‘
not very well provided with money and must
husband her means.

“Oh, my wife won’t charge you much and ‘
you can take some of it out in work, if you ,
ike,”the old gentleman replied, his face glow- I
ingwith benevolent-e.

silent prayer to Heaven rose from the rl’s '
heart. Surely Providence was indeed watc ing 3
over h. r foot~teps that thus, at the very be in-
ning of her j urney, a friend had appear to
aid her.

” Have you any baggage, my dear!" the old 3
man asked, as too train rolled into the depOt at ‘
Jers» City. '

u U, sir.”

In her mad haste to get away from the burly 3

stranger who was threatening to arrest and im- 1 H l

risou her, she had fled without taking anything ‘
but the clothes which she wore.

“ Neither have I, so we will take a street-car.”

The crossed the ferry together, and as they
pfinerfthrou h the fei'ry gates gu this New Yor
s 0, two po cemen, ounging y t e entrance,
noticed them.

“Hallo,"ssid one. “has Papa Canary icked
up a fresh bird, or .s that some decoy due 1"

“ One of the old gang, of course; looks don‘t
count with that fami . Why, twig the old
buffer! Who weald tb nk he had a tongue fit
to whsodle a bird notofatreeorcharma‘ stake’
out of the shrowdesv. banker alive!"

Strange words in regard to the benevolent-
looking old gentleman, but in this world ap.
pearanoes are often deceptive.

 

CHAPTER VI.
msxsnnn.

On South Fifth avenue, not far from can!
street is a narrow, dingy two-story-and-attic
brick house; on the ground floor is a saloon “,1
over the saloon door a small sign reads;

OLD Town. or Loxmou Hour.

The saloon was not an inviting-looking one,
and ya it had a certain run of custom, as the
oscould testify and the lodging-rooms over
, he saloon, althoug meanly furnished and not
at all calculated to attract a casual customer a
sacral:i time, were generally pretty well pat-
ton I
To the Old Tower of London Hotel, Mr. Ca-
nary—Mr. William Canary as he had informed
the girl was his name-éalthough if he had been
inclined to be oonflden al, he would have said
he was much more often called “ Papa ” Canary
than anything else)—conductsd the girl.
Th0 B Durance of South Fifth avenue, as
well as hotel itself, completely astonished the

id.
8 She had been to the cit with Daddy Waybit
a half-dozen times in the act few years, and so
was accustomed to the looks of the lower part
of New York, but of the rest she only knew~
throu h the papers and books, and the disre-

putab appearance of what she innocently
zuppossd was Gotham‘s great street astounded
er.

But having perfect faith in her ids she en-
tered the house “ ituout hesitation?u ’

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arlor, she was introduced by Mr. Canary to
is family.

First, there was Mrs. Canary—Betsy, as the

1 old gentleman called her, fondly—a ta 1, broad-

shouldered, hard-featured, determined-looking

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woman, middle-rig: d and grav-haired; then the .
daughter. Kathleen, a copy of her mother, ex- ,
‘ cept that she was not so stout and had fiery red

hair; and the son, a slightly-built, consumptive-
looking youth, not particularly prepossessing
in face, and his appearance rendered still more
ugly by the fact that his hair was cropped close
to his head.

Joseph was the name under which his father
introduced him to the country girl, and as she
clasped his cold and clammy hand, which was
more like the hand of the dead than the living,
Helen instinctively felt the same sort of a re-
pulsion which she had once before experienced
in her life. and that was when after berries in a
huckleberry patch in a swamp amid the ines,
she had almost trodden upon an ugly lack
snake, as long as her arm, and the horrid crea-
ture for a moment seemed to design making an
attack upon her, coilin its slimy folds together
and hissing in menace, ut the girl had a little
stick in her hand, and the snake, after a short
pause, had glided away as if awed by the wea—

n.

The old man, whose shrewd eyes seemed to
see everything, immediately perceived that his
hopeful had not made a favorable impression,
and hastened to counteract it.

“Joe, run down-stairs like a good fellow and
tell the gal to git us a little snack; I’m as hun-
gry as can be, and Ireckon. Miss Helen, you
wouldn’t object to pick a bit.”

The young man took himself oi? at once, and
then the old chap, in his bustling way, ex-
plained that he had brought Miss Home to stop
with them.

The girl, though innocent and unsuspecting,
was not lackin in that keen tion natural
to her sex, an when the ol gentleman made
the announcement, she fancied she could discern
a peculiar look upon the faces of the mother and
daughter which indicated that the were not
exactly pleased at the idea of her g up her
quarters with them.

And on her part she was not impressed with
their appearance. Mr. Canary seemed to be a
nice old gentleman, but she could not say she
liked the ooks of the rest of the family; still,
she reflected, that might be because she was so
ignorant of the world.

“ And, Kitty, can’t you take Miss Home to a
room where she will be able to lay aside her
things while breakfast is being prepared l” the

| master of the house continued.

“Oh, yes,” replied the girl, looking at her
father in a peculiar way, as it appeared to

e en.

“Take her right into my room. Kitty,” ob-

t served the old lady; “it is on this floor, so that

you won’t have to go u stairs.”

“ And I do declare, iss Home, if you don't
look all best out i“ the old gentleman exclaimed,
sympathetically. “ Say, mother. s'pose you
bring up a cup of codes, and a bit of toast. and
a leetle piece of steak or a couple of nice fresh
eggs for our guest, and save her the trouble of
go n into the dining-room.

He en protested immediately that not for the
world could she think of putting them to such
laconvenience, but Mr. Canary laughed at the

ca.

“ Sakss alive, child! it won't be any trouble!
Make her a nice, stro cup- of h coffee,
mother; have it good an strongfiso that it will
tons her right up—thst extra nd of codes,
mother, tha you make.”

Again the girl fancied she saw that liar
expression upon the faces of mother an daugh-
ter, but when she looked again it had vanished.

“ Well, I s‘poss, then, I had better show Mi-
Bome to the room that she will occupy while
she remains with us," Mrs. Canary remarked.

“ Yes, I reckon that will be best.”

“ I am sorry to put
the rl began, but the old man intertupted:

“ o trouble in the world, we want to make
on feel right to home here- just like as if you
ad lived with us all your life. you know.”

And so she was conducted up-stairs to a small
back room tolerably well furnished. .

" There, 1 think you will becomfortablo here,”
Mrs. Canary remarked. trying to appear as kind
and motherly as his, “ and if there is any-
thing you want, on’t hesitate to ask for it, just
the same as if you were in your own home, my
dear. And now, if you will excuse me, I will so
32d get the coffee ready.” Then the old la y

‘Shall I help you of! with our thins-Who
daughter asked- she had acconyipanied her mo-
ther and Miss ome u stairs.

“ 0b. 110. thank you; I will not put you to so
much trouble.”

“ No trouble at all; of course '0 Wlnt ‘50 do
everything we can to make you comfortable.
You will find this to be quite a pleasant room,
nice and quiet—”

And just hers there came the sound of terrific

 

Within the hotel, in a dingy, shabby little

thum on the side wall of the afartment.
He en jumped to her feet, or she had sat
down, and even Miss Canary started, for it real-

2‘.
ii

you to so much trouble,”.

- he! limbs were powerlem, her brain st

 

1y seemed as if the whole wall was about to
tumble in.

“ My sakes! how that frightened me! But it
isn’t anything but the workmen next door: they
are tearing dawn the building in order to put
up a new one; that’s all; but before the com—
menced it was nice and quiet, and it wil be so
again after they get through, so you mustn’t-
mind it,” the gi"l explained.

Then she said she would go and help her mo~
ther to bring the things up, and withdrew.

Left alone, Helen removed her hat and cloak
attended to her toilet, and. then looked out of
the one solitary window to note the surround-
in s.

ismal enough they were, too, for of all ugly
sights the back yards of the overcrowded houses
in the poor quarters of a great city can hardly
be surpassed.

A sigh escaped from the ’irl’s lips as she
looked out upon the miserab e view, where all
the surroundings seemed to denote poverty and
degradation.

This was not the picture of New York that
her fancy had painted!

Someway, although she had been received in
so friendly a manner, she felt melancholy; bar
spirits were depressed; a foreboding of misfor-
tune seemed to hang Over her; and yet there
did not appear to be the slightest cause for it,
except that there was something.r about the m0-
ther, daughter and son which she did not like,
yet the old gentleman certainly was goodne-
personified.

“ It is foolish for me to harbor these gloomy
thoughts, when there is so slight reason,” she
murmured, turning away from the window and
resuming her seat by the table. “ It is because
I have left the place where I was reared, and
plunged out into the busy, bustling stream of
life, and now I must either swim or sink.”

It was some fifteen minutes before the refresh-
ments were brought, so Helen had plant of time
for reflection. but her thoughts were isturbed
half a dozen times at least by the violent pound-
ing of the work men in the next building on the
wall of her a; artment.

The old gentleman and his daughter brought
up the coffee and steak, all nicely prepared, and
looking very inviting.

“There,” said Mr. Canary, arrangin the
dishes on the table, “now, if you don’t in nd, I
will sit down and pick a bit with you myself.”

Of course Helen was glad of his companv, so
the father ured the coffee and pro
steak, pr ng the girl to eat all the w e.

“ I don’t know how the coffee will suit on,”
he added; ” it’s pretty strong; but we a1 like
it strong, and it won’t do you a mite of hurt, if
you Can drink it ;—fact, it will be the best thing
you can take; it will brace you right :5!”

“It is ve strong,”I-Ielen remark , as tho
sipped it, an it had an odd taste, too.

“ You ain‘t used to the genuine article, mob-
bs.” Canary remarked. “ Take a good swig; it
will give on new life!”

The gir obeyed, but instead of giving her new
life, the potent draught seemed to sap theold.
Soon the room swam around her; all control of
herself gradually passed away, and she seemed
to have fallen into a swoon, and .ye though
worked
steadily, and she was conscious of all that trans-
pired around her.

' CHAPTER vn.
AN UNIXPICTlD In”.

ALL that could be done for Mrs. Plantagenet
was done, but the lady had received a dreadful .
shock and the doctor shook his head when ho
memmmomingandmado acarefulexam—

on.

Mrs. Plantagenet was a wom and
as she had been thrown beefing-g withaginsid-
arable force, by the midnight intruder, the cor-
ner of the marble table, against which she had
fallen, truly had inflicted a wound to make the
old fam doctor look anxious.

She ha lingered in a swoon, too, despite all
the efforts of the doctor and nurse to revive
her, until about ‘sight o’clook in the morning,
jusdt after the physician had arrived for his sec-
on on .

Speculation naturally had been at work in re-
gard to how the lady had been hurt, and some

ark rumors were in circulation among the saw.
vants in the house.

All the members of the family were gathered
by the bedside of the sufferer when the doctor
arrived. There was her son, Denby, with his
handsome. noble face; Richard Plantagenet,
tall, dark-brewed and with shifting. uncertain ’
gray eyes that rarely looked any one straight
in t e face; Viola Plantagenet, with her ligh
yellow hair, roguish blue eyes, and fair red a
white complexion—good type of Anglo-Saxon
beauty, andso different appearance from
Richard that a stranger would never have
guessed there was any relationship between the

two.

In addition'to those three there were a coup is
of the servants, old and trust servitors who had
been with Mrs. Plantagenet or years.

“ What do you think, doctor?” asked Denby,

 

.1 man kneeling before it.

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after the physician had made his examination
:nd sat looking at the patient with a very grave
ace.

The sick woman opened her eyes, and a thrill
went through the group at the unexpected sight.

“ Oh, aunt i” cried Viola, im ulsively.

“ I am very ill, doctor,” rs. Plantagenet
murmured, in feeble accents.

The doctor had a delicate question to put, he ,

feared, from what little he knew of the circum-
stances, but it was his duty to learn all he could
in re ard to her wound.

“ Egon must be careful and not excite yourself,
my dear madam,” he remarked, soothing] y, after
the fashion of his kind.

“ I do not think it will hurt me to talk a
little.”

“ Oh, no, if you will be careful.
receive your injury ?"

“ There was a robber in this room—”

All the listeners started in surprise at this in-
telli ence.

“ had retired to rest, but I am a very light
sleeper, and was awakened by some one 0 en-
ing the safe yonder.

How did you

the consequences— instead of attemptingI to
alarm the house at first, as I ought to ave
done, I sprung up and endeavored to detain the
intruder. He was masked and evidently re-
pared to take life rather than be captur , so
when I seized him he pushed meover backward;
in falling I struck against the table, the shock
stunning me. ”

“ The safe should be instantly examined, then
in order to see what has been taken,” Richard
su . ested.

‘ do not think the robber had time to secure
anything,” the lady observed, faintly, her

strength evidently failing. “ I awoke too uick-
ly, but let the matter alone; this hurt wi 1 not
amount to anything; do not attem t to discover
who the intruder is. There must e no scandal
—it would be too dreadful—too awful,” and then
her eyes closed wearily.

The doctor looked around upon the white faces
which were at the bedside, for each and every
one felt that the shadow of a dreadful suspicion
him over that ill-fated household.

“ or mind wanders, I fear,” the doctor re-
marked; “it is natural in all such cases as this,
where the head is affected.”

“ Do you think there is any real danger that
this may prove serious?” Richard asked.

“ It is impossible to say at resent, but we
must hope for the best,” respon ed the cautious
ph sician.

ut from that time forth, despite the care that

I looked, and behe d a ;
Without a thought of '

 

was so freely lavished upon the sufferer, shesunk ,

slowly into the grave, never again regaining
sensibili .

And w en the doctor saw there was very little
chance of Mrs. Plantagenet’s surviving, he con-
suited the two young men.

“ Mrs. Plantagenet will die," he said, “and I
fear we have been criminally neglectful in not
bringing the matter before the pro rauthori-
ties. I hesitated, in accordance wi h her wish
that the matter should not be touched, but now
that she is almost certain to die, I think it is
high time the detectives are put upon the track
of the midnight rufilan who committed this fiend-
ish assaul .”

“ agree with you, Doctor Fosdike and I fear
that too much time already has been lost,” Den-
b exclaimed, warmlv, for now in the hour of

mother’speril all thoughtsof the coldnessand
misunderstanding which had existed between
them had vanished like the dewdrops before the
ravs of the morning sun. -

“I regret allowing ourselves to be influenced
by her wishes that this matter be ke t secret,”
Richard observed, regretfully. “ fear we
have permitted too much time to elapse, and
that i will not be possible now to trace the
scoundrel who has committed this atrocious act.”

“ I did not for amoment ima ethecasewould
have a fatal ending,” the doctor admitted.
“ Mrs. Plantagenet was so full of life and health
I would have staked my reputation,almost, that
she would haverecovsred inaweek. But'human
life is a frail thing, and sometimes yields to the
slightest jar.” .

The authorities had better be informed im-
mediately, I presume?” Denby remarked.

“ Yes, and I will take that task upon myself.
The superintendent of lice and I are old ac-
quaintances, and since his affair so far has not
created any talk, everybody ardin it as an
accident, it is just as well that shou d be kept
quiet, for by so the interests of justice
can be conserved. will go directly to the
chief and ex lain the matter to him; he will

t some men on the case, and the first in-

imation the world at large will_ have of the

matter will be the news of the arrest of the
acoundre ”

l.
“ It is a pity we have not got a list of the con-
tents of the safe, in 0rd

“Vt
thedoctor finished. .

“It was not my mother’s habit to keep as);
money in it.so far as I know,” Denbyexplain .
“She used it almost exclusively for jewelry and
private papers.”

“ I suppose of course you would know, upon

 

er to discover whether ;
hing is missing,” Richard observed, when ‘

examination, if anything had been taken?”
Richard queried.

“ Alas! I fear not,” Denby replied, shaking his
head sadly. “ There has been a cloud between
my mother and myself during the last six or
eight months, and she has not intrusted to me
the particulars of any of her business afiairs.
But you—you have been her confidant, more of
a son to her than I—do you not know what the
safe contained?”

“ Oh, no; you are mistaken l” the other ex-
claimed. “ i _e never confided any of herafi‘airs
to me, except her wishes in regard to a certain ‘
marriage.” 1

“ Don’t speak of it!” Denby cried. “ If it had
not been for that, the estrangement would not
have existed l”

“ Well, gentlemen, I will lay the matter be- ,
fore the proper authorities, and you may rest 1
assureld the affair shall be managed as quietlyas

ib 6.

And thus the conference ended.

True to his word, the doctor went at once to the
oflice of the superintendent of police and laid
bierfore him all the particulars of the mysterious
a air.

The chief listened attentively.

“ It is a strange case,” he confessed. “ I regret
that you did not let me know of it before.”

“ Yes, yes, I am sorry myself; it was an error
on my part, I admit, but Mrs. Plantagenet was
so anxious that the matter should not be made
public; and then, really, I had no fears in regard
to her life ; she had received a pretty severe shock,
but as she was in the best of health, a strong,
robust woman, there wasn’t, in my judgment,
hardly one chance out of a hundred against her
recovery.”

“ And you say now she is certain to die?“

“ Yes, she cannot possibly survive many
hours; her death may be looked for at any mo—
ment.”

“ A deal of valuable time has been lost,” the
ofiicial murmured, refiectively, speaking more
to himself than to the doctor.

“ I regret it, I assure you, from the very bot-
tom of my heart, for, of course, I understand
this delay will render it difficult for dyou to trace
and capture the fugitive; he has ha time to put
the ocean between himself and the scene of his
crime.” ‘

“ Oh, not a bit of it!" the superintendent ex-
claimed, decidedly. “The man is no common
rascal, and, from what you as , it is evident he
didn’t intend to hurt the old la y; that was prob-
ably an accident. You see, he didn’t use a wea-
pon—only broke from her grasp, and flung her
of! so that he could get away. The man who
di the trick is right at hand, but it will bea dif-
ficult matter, I am afraid, to bring the assault
home to him. These family affairs are the deuce
and all sometimes.”

.The doctor departed, much puzzled, and very
much disturbed.

CHAPTER VIII.
rill: ACCUSATION.

ON the hi ht of the day of the interview be-
tween Dr. oadike and the Superintendent of
police, Mrs. Plantagenet breathed her.last.

The doctor had come in before retiring for the
night, and his experienced eye noticed that the
end was near at hand.

All the family were summoned immediately,

for the doctor had a hope that. in the last con-
vulsive throes of life, the afilicted woman might
revive sufficiently to speak. .
' But it was not so fated; “whiny, with hard-
lya last Kai-ting asp, she pa away—soquiet-
ly that t e watc are by the bedside were hardly
conscious of the fact. .

And now that death had come it was necessary
to call in the coroner.

A jur was got together, and, as often hap-

ns an or like circumstances, all the evidence

ring upon the case was not brou ht before
them. In fact, the affair was shrou ed in the
deepest mystery, and had it not been for the in-
ured woman’s declaration no one would have
s pected that any intruder had been in her
apartment, althou h the testimony roved that
when the househol were roused by rs. Planta-
genet’s screams, and came in haste to her mist.
sees, the door of her room was unlocked, and
the door of the safe was open, while one of the
maids who attended the lady, and auisted her
to disrobe for the hi ht, testified that, after-leav-
ing the a meat, s e distinctly heard her mis-
tress bo lock and bolt the door after she—the
maid—had quittod the room; but not a particle
of evidence was produced to show that an one
within the mansion knew of the presence any

ntruder within its walls that night. '

Then, too, as far as could be ascertained, no
valuables had been abstracted from the room or
saf

e.

The mid further testified that, after {hitting
some valuable jewelr of her mistress nto the
safe, Mrs. Plan one had locked it and put the
key into her w at, which, in accordance with
her usual custom she had put under the head of
her bed. in this wallet. too. were some three
hundred dollars, for Mrs. Plantagenet had count-
ed the money before her. This had not been

 

touched.
There were stupid heads on the jury, of

course, and one of them reasoned that no one
had been in the room, as assumed, but that Mrs.
Plantagenet, in a sort of delirium, had got up,
unlocked the safe and the room door, and then
had fallen, and in falling had struck her head
against the table ; but the verdict was that
“ Mrs. Plantagenet had died from injuries re—
ceived at the hands of a party or parties un-
known.”

True ttz his promise to the doctor, the super-
intenden detailed two of his best detectives to
look into the matter, expressly cautioning them
to keep their business to themselves and not to
reveal, even to their brother detectives, that
they were employed on the case; for, as in
all such peculiar and difficult cases, the first
thing to be done was to throw the guilty party
off his guard by getting him to believe that the
search had been given up. Thus lulled into
fancied security, the culprit would be less cau-
tions, and by some word or not give the detec—
tives a clew.

The first point in the game was to find out what
had been taken from the safe, for the chief was
satisfied that the masked man had secured what
he came after before being disturbed by the
waking of the old lady.

No valuables evidently, for the jewelry in the
lock~up had not been touched ; there must have
been, therefore, some other motive for the intru-
sion. What was it?

Papers l—some important documents, no doubt,
and yet no one seemed to miss anything.

After the death of Mrs. Plantagenet, Denby,
as her 0111 heir, With the assistance of the legal
firm who ad always attended to her buxiness,
made a careful search among the effects of the
dead woman for a will, although the lawyers, in
the beginning, told the young _man that they did
not think any such thing existed, for they had
never drawn any out, and most certainly the
lady would never have gone to any one else for
such a service.

Billcock & Billcock was the name of the legal
firm now, but gears ago it had been Billcmk,
Livingstone& illcock, forthe judge, Mrs. Plan-
tagenet’s first husband, had been one of the part-
ners at the time of his marriage.

The brothers Billcock, Joshua and Josiah
were two old bachelors, sharp, shrewd pieces of
Connecticut hardware, keen as razors, close as
grindstones, but as honest as the da .

To the young man, the elder ner, who al-
ways did all the talking, prim, ormal, ramrod—
like Joshua, frankly said:

“ My dear Mr. Denby, there isn’t any will but
of course, as a mere matter of form, we wil ex—
amine all the papers left by your lamented mo-
ther, but 1 know that we shall not find a will
among them. I speak thuspositively for I know
exact y what I am talking about. bu the very
morning of the day on which she received the
injur w hich led to her death, she came down to
the o co and had a long interview with me.and
the main thing for which she had come was to
consult me in regard to a will which shedemgned
making. She spoke v'ery freely about the mat-
ter, and I then learned for the  time that.
there was a misunderstanding cristing between

on and her. I will not conceal from you, Mr.
enby that she ke ver bitterly in regard to
curse . She h set her eart uponamurria e
tween you and Miss Viola, and she said she
had summoned you home to learn your final an—
swei‘.”

“ Yes, it is true.”

“. And, furthermore, she declared that if you
did not consent to the marriage, she was re—
solved that you should no lon er be as a son to
her, but she would make a wil bequeathing to
gin only the interest on fifty thousand dol are,

vested in Chemical Bank stock, so that you
would not starve as long as you lived, but the
balance of her property she would dividebetween
the on] two livin relatiVes of her dead hus-
band, ichard an Viola Plantagenet, giv ing
nine-tenths to Viola, with the exception 0 a few
small bequests.

“ I remonstrated with her as strongly as pw
sible against such an un ‘ust will for so I consid—
ered it, and as an old fariend of the family, as

well as her legal adviser for years, I did not hesi— l

tate to express my opinion and pretty Openly,
too. contrar to my usuai custom. She was
firm-set in t is par , though, and all that I
could succeed in do n was to obtain from, her a
promise that she won d not do anything rasth
—that she Would take time and meditate over
the matter before executing the document, for
she did you justice, Denby, my boy, and freely
0'11“ you bld been. a! good a son in every re-
spect as an mother needed to have, with the
exception 0 this one thing, but that to her was
all-important.

“Now you seewhyI feel so sure that your
mother did not leave any will.”

Audit seemed as if the lawyer was right, for
not the slightest trace of any such document.
could be discovered.

As her solo heir, then, it was plain that Denby
would inherit all, and the lawyers, acting un-
der the young man’s orders, immediately took
the proper steps to put him in possession of the
u I

Two ‘weeks more went by.

The detectives had been working untiringly,

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butsofar with little success; and so carefully 1 brought a carriage along; it is outside at_ the l _ “Well, go light on it, captain, for he don’t
had they managed matters that, with the ex- i door, and if you care to pay for the use of it, it 1 like the record to be du up. ’

ception of the superintendent, not a soul sus-
pected their game, although in various dis-
guises the had penetrated into the very man-
sion itsel and cunnineg cross-examined the
servants.

When satisfied that there was no barrier be-
tween himself and the fortune left by his mo-
ther, Denby sought an interview with Viola.

Not a word had been exchanged between
Denby and Viola and Richard in' regard to
money matters since the untimely death. The
two met in the grand parlor.

“Viola,” he said, and as he addressed the

beautiful girl he took her soft, white hands in ,

his, ‘if my mother had lived, I am satisfied
your future would have been provided for. As
my mother‘s son I intend to do no less. This
house is your home, of course,as long as you
choose to remain, but I shall, in time, give it a
mistress, and then it may not be agreeable for
you to remain, although you will be as welcome
as the sun. All barriers are removed, now, be-
tween myself and the girl I loved. She gave
her affection, when she thought me only a poor
wanderin artist, a Bohemian, hardly able to
gain his aily bread, but now I can place my
country pear in a setting that will we 1 become
her beauty, in a station that she will adorn.
But in order to render both you and our
cousin Richard inde ndent,I intend, as am
sure my mother wou d have done had she lived,
to settle upon each of you a hundred thousand
dollarsl” '

“Oh!” cried the girl, her bright blue eyes
beaming with gratitude, “Denby, you are the
most noble of men, and if the woman whom you
love does not worship you, it is because she is ig-
norant of your true worth.”

“I hope she will,” he replied smiling at the
girl’s enthusiasm. “ The future has been black
enough; but now, thank Heaven, the clouds
have cleared away!”

The door opened and two stalwart policemen
came stalking into the parlor while a group of
frightened servants gathered in the doorway.

‘ Mr. Denby Livingstone!” said the foremost.

“ That is my name!”

“ 1 arrest you for murder!” the man cried, lay-
ing his hand upon Denby’s shoulder and produc-
ingva pair of handcuffs with the other.

ith a wild cry Viola started back.
“ Murder! Oh, no, it is imDossible!”
CHAPTER IX.
IN CHARGE.

“ Aaansr me i” cried Denby, utterly astounded
by this unexpected event.

“ That is what I said, sir,” responded the
officer, respectfully, but firmly. " If you
are lgr. Denby Livingstone, you are my pris-
oner.

“There must be some mistake!” the young
man exclaimed, much more amazed than

 

ed.

“ No, sir, there is no mistake; here is the war-
rant ” and the policeman put the legal document
into is hands. “You are charged with mur-
der, sir.”

“ Oh, this is too absurd! With the murder of
whom, pray '

“ Mrs. Matilda Plantagenet,” replied the ofli-
cer, in a business-like way.

A loud shriek came from the white lips of the

l at this terrible announcement; then she
ainted dead away, while Denby was so horri-
fied he could .only stare at the policeman in a
dazed sort of way, like a man who had been
stunned by a heavy blow.

“ I ace of murdering my dear mother?”
he stammered, at last, as if unable to believe
that he had heard aright.

“ Your motheri’breEchoed the officer, who
wasi orant of this fact. and much astonished
now t at he knew the truth.

The servants, rushing to the assistance of the
faintin girl, raised her from the floor and
placed her upon the sofa.

H You see, sir, there must be some in take,
for this accusation is horribly ridiculous.”

it Here’s the warrant, and that is all we know
about it, of course.” replied the 0150913 ‘

“You understand, we have gotto obe orders,
sir,” put in the other policeman. ", 0 don’t
know anythi but that. At the court things
will probably

charge, what you as to us may be used against
you. So you had tercome along uietly,sir,
and the judge will straighten the hul thing out
when you at before him."

“But to _ paraded through the streets, hand-
cuffed like a felon i” cried Denby, all the blood
within his veins boiling at the revolting indig-

nit .

This first policeman looked at the second, and
he, understanding what his comrade meant,
shook his head.

“Well, sir, if you will give us our word as a
entleman to come along y, without sin
savoring to escape, we not put the brace-

lets on you, and as to going through the streets,
we thought it likely that a gentleman like your-
self wouldn’t like that sort of thing, and so we

straightened out, but if I were ;
you, sir, I wouldn’t make any talk about the '
matter, because if there is anything in this '

l is at your service.”
' “Thank you, sir: I will see that you shall
not lose anything by this kindness,” the young

l man observed, gratefully. “ Where am I to be
. taken?"

“ Before Judge Himmilstein, in Fifty-fourth
street.”

“ 1 do not know him.”

“ Easiest man in the world to get ac uainted

‘ with.” replied the officer, jocosely. “ e’s one
i of the boys.”

1' “I presume I had better send for my law-
yers.”

, “Yes, sir, it would be as well, for this is a

, pretty serious charge.”

I Denby called one of the sen ants and desired

1 him to “wire” Billtock and Billtock to come to

i the Fifty—fourth street police court immediate-
l

y“I beg your pardon, sir,”said the officer, in
t the young man‘s ear, evidently disposed to be
; very friendly, “ but I know Billtock and Billtock
1 like a book, and though they are nice men and
3 good lawyers, and all that sort of thing, they
1‘ ain’t the party you want in this hyer case; you
1‘ want a man that’s got some ‘pull’ with the
; judge, you know. Kissing goes by favor, and
E so does law sometimes in a police court. Now,
I if you will let me recommend a friend, I can
| put you onto the best man in the city. This is
' crinnial business, you know, and you don’t
want any realvestate lawyers to handle it.”

Denby replied that he would be very much
obli ed indeed.

“ ed Purchase is the man for your money,
then; there’s no sharper criminal lawyer in this
city, and he is square to the backbone, too; you
can depend upon him every timel”

Denby quietly slipped a ten-dollar bill into the
officer’s hand, with the injunction to retain Mr.
“ Ned ” Purchase as soon as possible.

Then, after bidding the servants take the best
of care of the young lady, who was slowly re-
viving from 'her swoon, in company with the
‘ two officers the young man departed.

As the policeman had said. a carriage was at
the door, and as the three descended the steps
toward it, Doctor Fosdike came along.

“ Hallo! what’s the matter?” he inquired,
suspecting at once from the appearance of
thing; that some untoward accident had hap-
pene .

“ I, am arrested, doctor, charged with mur—

er.

“ Murder? Nonsense! What stupid mistake
is this? Who have you been murdering!"

“ My own mother.”

The doctor started as if he had been shot.

“Good heavens! Why, this is absurd: but I
will go with you at once; I am acquainted with
the superintendent of police, gentlemen, and I
am sure I will be able to convince him that this
arrest is a mistake.”

“ The superintendent of police hasn’t anything
to do with it air,” the officer remarked, respect-
fully. “ In fact, he don’t know anything more
about it than you do. The warrant was sworn
out in the Fifty-fourth street court.”

“ B whom? ’

“I couldn’t really say, sir,” the policeman an-
swered; he was a civil and obliging fellow—far
su rior to the common run.

‘ The warrant was given to us to execute,
and that is all we know about it,” explained
the other officer, who was also a decent, civil

man.

“Ah, I see; it is not the work of the detec-
tives.’/’

“ No, sir; I think not, for in that case they
would have made the arrest themselves and
taken the prisoner to the Central Office.”

“Oh, well, it is all right then!” cried the
worthy doctor, with an air of relief, for a
great wei ht indeed had been lifted from his
mind. “ t is some absurd mistake, of
course; an examination will clear the whole
thin 1gp. Who sits in the Fifty-fourth street
co

‘ Jud e Himmilstein.”

“The ’s lucky! I know him—have known
him well for the last twenty years ever since
the time when he first started that little saloon
on Third avenue that the police used to make
, so much fun about. I’ve gone his bail a dozen
times.”

The policemen laughed, and then winked mys-
teriously at each other.

“ I beg your pardon, sir,” said the big
metropolitan, who had proved so obli
and cod-natured, “but, if I was on,
woul n’t say anything about that lee e busi-
ness of the saloon if you want to be of an
use to this gentleman. The judge is a lee e
touchy ’bout those things since he struck lie and
got to the top of the sap, and it won’t do a
mite of good to rake up the old times when the

£31306,de to ‘run him in’ for keeping a low
‘ se.

“ It wasn’t his fault: he did the best he
could to keep his customers quiet, and he
couldn’t help it because he was in an ugly dis-
trict and the tough young fellows of the neigh-
borhood used to select his saloon for a battle-
ground.”

 

 

“ Much obliged; I wi be overned by your

, advice,” the doctor remark . “ Will the ex-
; amination take place immediately?”
| “ No, sir; the judge is not on the bench now,
and will have to be sent for; and that will
1 probably take a couple of hours at the least.”
‘ “ That Will give me time to see the superin~
, tendent, then: I know he will be annoyed at
l this. Don’t be downcast, Denby, my boy; you
will come out all right: these little mistakes
will happen once in a while, you know. I will
be on hand for the examination,’ and then,
with a partin shake of the hand, the good old
doctor hum away.

“That boy commit the murder?” he mue-
tered, as he strode down the street-—“ pooh, non-
sense! As well might I myself be accused of
the deed.”

The officers with their prisoner got into the
carriage, and away they went for the Fifty—
fourth street court.

As the officer had stated, the court was not in
session when the party arrived there, so the
prisoner was consigned to a cell until his Honor
could be summoned.

The policeman had made a shrewd guess in
regard to the opening of the court, for it was
fully tWo hours before the magistrate arrived.
He came lumbering into the court, very much
out of breath.

Judge Himmilstein was one of those pro-
ducts which can only grow up and flourish in
the free air of such a glorious republic as our
own.

As a poor German lad he had come to this
country, without a second shirt to his back;
had graduated in a grocery store, then opened
a saloon; from that to the proprietorship or a
brewery was an easy step; made a fortune;
then got into political life and studied for a.
lawyer, so as to wipe out the score on the slate
of his ear! occupations.

He had n admitted to the bar, but had
never practiced, nor wanted to; but, on the
strength of being a “ lawyer,” he had managed
to get elected to 'a police-Judgeship.

He was a well-meaning old man, though woe-
fully ignorant in many cis, yet Wonder—
fully shrewd in others, an , despite the fact
that he had been in this country since boyhood,
he still spoke with a strong accent.

He took his seat upon the bench, looking, for
all the world, With his jolly red face, flaxen hair
and heard, like a god of ager, who had wan—
dered by some mistake from the signboard of a
saloon into the court-room.

“ Order in der gourt!” he cried.

 

CHAPTER X.
CANARY’S IDEA.

A irons: dreadful position for a human being
to be placed in can hardly be imagined. The
girl was apparently in a state of total insensi-
bility, unable to move either hand or foot body
and brain alike affected by the powerfu nar-
cotic administered in the cofiee, yet, in reality,
she was conscious of all that was going on
around her, and, despite her innocence and want
of knowledge of city ways, she understood what
had transpired. She had been" drugged; the
tenevolent-looking old man was one of those
human wolves who prowl through the world dis-

' as lambs.

But why‘had she been selected for a victim!
What was the object of this fiendish plot?

She was soon to learn.

As we have said, although apparently uncon-
scious, she had a complete understanding of all
that was said and done—could even see all that
was passing around her. 0

As she sunk back in her chair, and relapsed
slowly into the statue-like state produced by the
drug, the benevolent look upon the face of the
old man changed to a fiendish grin.

“ Aha Katy~didl I never saw your dear
mammas little drink work so beautiqu be-
fore!”he exclaimed to the daughter. “ 'hy
it is really miraculous! I hope that she hasn’t
made the dose so strong as to kill the girl,
though. If sucha thing as that were to hep
pen, it would be mighty ugly for us. These
nfernal policemen haven’t the highest possible
0 inion of me, and it would be just nuts to
3 an, to lay me by the heels on a charge of mur—

er.

“ Oh, you needn’t be afraid of that, daddy!”
the girl remarked. “ You leave Mother Canary
alone to at up the ri ,ht does. it isn’t the first
time she fixed a s eeping drau ht.” ‘

And then the two looked at eac other and
laughed, the cruel sound seemin to sear the
very brain of the young girl, so he pics: in their

wer.

po" Well, well, I suppose it is all right, but the
girl weakened under it so quick I was afraid
mebbe it was too stron ."'

“ Shall I call mother

“ Yes, tell her that ev is O. K.”

The daughter soon returned with the old wo-
man, and the hangdog-looking young man came
slinking in behind her

“Pretty quick work,” the woman observed,
with a fiendish smile, “ but I reckoned that. as

 

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she was young, strong and tough, she would
need an extra dose, so I put in about half as
much again as I usually do.”

“ But isn’t there danger that on have given ,
her too strong a dose?” inquired] the old man, -
unvasily. l

“Oh, no, not the slightest; in six or eight 1
hours she will be all right a sin and none the ‘
Worse for her soothing; draug t.”

"' But I say, fatlicr, what are you up to, any— 3
way i" demanded the young man, stepping for
ward, an‘ with a grin of admiration on his
ugly fe ,tures surwying the beautiful face of
the \'i_:tim.

“lid 1*) something that concerns you more
near yi ion anybody," the father answered.

“ .011, l reckoned 3 0'1 had Same game afoot
thll y ill gave no the signal 1201100118 the gal,” ,
remarked the (1d woman, “ out I don’t exactly I
undirs'and what you are rriving at, for she.
don’t look like a pigeon who would pay much
for the plucking.”

“ Oh, you are right there, mother; I don‘t be- i
lieve the girl has got many valuables; but I
say, she’s a beauty, mn'r. : he?"

‘ Yes, she’s good-looking enough.”

“Nothing to brag on.”ndded the daughter,
spitefully, \rith asideway glance in the mirror
at her own homely lace.

“Ain’t got quite so handsome hair as yours,
you pretty gazelle: and you beat her all to
death on freckles,” was the son’s sarcastic
sally.

The young lady favored him with a vicious
look as she retortcd:

“ It" I had such lzair as you’ve not, I would go
and dr0wn myself, and as for freckles, you had
better look at your own face."

“My lambs, you must not quarrel,” inter-

the elder Canary, “ and least of all about
this girl, who from this time forth will b) one
of our little family.”

A iruntcf surprise escaped the mother, and
the son and dang ter echoed it.

“It is a grand idea.”l ld Canary continued,
"and it came intoiny lwnl when 1 got into
conversation with her, on tha train. Just think
how useful we can make a yothr and beauti-
ful girl like this, with llu‘ innocent look and
ways.” v

“ h, that is all foolishness!” Mother Canary
exclaimed. “ You will never be able to get such
a girl as this to act as a decoy duck.”

“ My dear mother, I have accomplished some
pretty diflicult feats in my time, as the police
records of three counrri-s will testify, and l
have thought of a little plan by which we can
make this bird do our bidding, although of
course it will take time. Our hopeful, here,
'needs a wife; he hasn’t been the same man
at all since he lost his girl by her being sent
to State Prison for ten years, and from all ac-
counts I i'eckon she will never come out alive,
for they say she is dying of consumption.
Now my litt 9 game is to call in our esteemed
friend, the renowned Mr. Otieiliah Ketterwall
who is undera cloud just now,on account of
some little money matters C(iunf'cted with his
late occupation as justice of the peace, and
have him tie the knot betnern our boy and
this girl; then, when she is Joe’s Wife, it won’t
takeussbvery great while to break her into

“Yes, yes but isn’t it taking a big risk?"
asked the old woman, cautious and suspicious in
all things.

“ How so? Even if she does try to kick up a ‘
Iow after the thin is done, u'Iiat good will it do
her? Can‘t we a “Vicar tout the fell in love
with our charming son at iii st sight, and wasn’t ,
contei t until a minister w: -i summoned to unite l
them in the holy bonds of wedlock, and won‘t
Ketterwall, in his sleek, butter-won’t-melt-in-
my-mouth way, take his oath that she did not '
object v hen be united her in marriage to this
‘estims' lie young mani’ ” and here the speaker
imitated th ) ranting tone of the disgraced miu- l
later of the law so cleverly that the rest could ,
not avoid laughing. I

“Yin, but won t her folks be apt to take up I
the matter and make it hot for us?"

"Not the :1 htest danger of that. mother,” .
assur.d the o scamp with a sly chuckle.
“She is fin Orphan, and bain't any relatives. .
‘ You st 0, put her through her paces on the 5
cars in regard to that, and us was so close- ‘4
mouthed about it, too, that I have got the idea ;
there is somt thing wrong about her. She didn‘t
have any baggage, not even a hand-bag, and
that's a very suspicious circumstance, for girls ,
as well-dressed and ladylike-looking as this one i
don‘t generally go out into the World to seek '
their fortune absoluter emptyohanded. I have
an idea that she is running away' and, muy- =
be, there is some good reason for her gettin
out. If that is so. she will not kicx up much 0
a fuss when she lines we have got‘ her in our
clutches.”

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mg.

“ S‘ I go through her pockets, father?”
‘the girl suggested. “Perhaps she may have
acme, letter, or someth ng that will tell us about

or .

“ You are my on n :enrle child 1” the old ru-

. ca} responded, pathetically ; “ that suggestion to

 

‘ go through her ’ proves that you are a chip of
the old block."

“Hel me put her on the bed, Slinky,” or-
dered the girl. By this Well-befitting appella-
tion the young man was known among his asso-
ciates.

H e obeyed, and after the insensible form was
placed upon the bed, with skill born of experi-
enc —for the girl, despite her youth, was a
pickpocket of the first degree—~this notorious
daughter of a still more notorious sire exam—
ined the victim’s person and produced her treas-
ures.

From the pocket in her dress came the well- *

word wallet,end from her bosom the letter from
her] m r u llli'h She cherished so carefully.

“ Not much of a haul,”’the old man observed,
as he (xamincd the contents of the valid; and
displayed upon the table the scanty store of
money which it contained. “She was honest
with me, though, for she gave me to under-
stand that she was not well fixed, finuncmlly.
Well, we don‘t want tiiai; it isn’t worth tak—
ing,”and he commenced to put the money back
into the wallet again, but the daughter interrupt-
ed him.

“Say, father, what do you want to do that
for?" she prUtOrth.

“ Well,why not?”

“S’poso she cuts up ugly when she finds out
she is in a trap and goes to walk her chalks,
won’t it be mighty handy to have that little
change in her pocket?”

“ Exactly—exactly: you are quite right, and
I will take care of it, although I reckon she ain’t
going to have a chance to get out, if I know
myself,” the old man remarked, pocketing the
money.

The letter was then examined; it was the
brief note which the girl had received from
her lover, and this at once gave this precious
family an idea of why she had come to New
York.

“I’ll take care of this," said the old man;
“ there is no telling but what it will prove useful
one of these days,‘ and he carefully stowed the
letter away in 1: Is capacious pocketbook.

“And n0w, EOUDV," he continued, “run for
the justice and we'll have you jomed to this
lIieauty in no time, and that is the kind of man

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CHAPTER XI.
A. MIRACLE.

THE young man, after a gloating look at the
beautiful girl who was so soon to become hisvic-
tiin, departed.

“ We'll darken the room by closing the blinds
when the justice comes, and you two can hold
the girl up between you, so that if our dear
brother ever has to give any ev1dence about the
matter, hecsn do so with a clear conscience,”
old Canary observed. “ And now, since the girl
is all right and won’t need any attention until
Slinky and the justice get back, I’ll trouble you
two to carry those thin s down-stairs, so that I
can make a decent brea fast.”

The women proceeded to comply with the re-
quest, when there was a crash and a bang
against the wall that fairly seemed to shake the

ouse.

“Confound the fellowsl” exclaimed Cans ,
“they’ll knock the whole side of the house n
with their carelessness. I think they are all
drunk two-thirds of the time. ” '

The three a t oncequitted the apartment, never
even taking the trouble to cast a parting) glance
at the girl,so complete] satisfied were t ey that
the potent drug would ind her as though she
was lettered b an iron chain.

And poor elen, in her enforced slumber,
comprehended all that had passed. She under-
stood thst she was in the hands of wretchcs as
cruel and merciless as any painted save as of
the Western wilds. A miracle alone coul gave
her.

And the miracle camel
The very precaution which Mother Canary
taken to increase the dose which she usually
gave, defeated the purpOse for which it was in-
tended; instead of throwing the girl into adeeg,
stupor-like sleep, to continue seven or ei
hours, it induced a sort of cutalepsy, wh ch
a violent exertion of the will, and the excite-
ment of her perilous position quickly began to

con uer.

Little by little she recovarsd consciousness;
the color came back to her lips and cheeks, the
brightness to her eyes, and t c strength to her
limbs.

She rose, with feeble action to a sitting p0...
ture, then gained the floor and half-staggered to
a chair. She was still weak and her stops uncer-
tain. ,

What was she to do!

The terrible vampires, intowhose hands she had
fallen, were liable to return at any moment, and
how could she esca them?

In agony of min she pressed her hands to her
throbbing temples, her head aching unit it would
burst.

“ The door is unlocked but if i attempt to
reach the street will I not be discovered before I

can do so?”

Her heart sunk as shereflected thstthese mon-
sters had robbed her of all her scanty store of

1
money, and that, if she succeeded in getting out
she could only roam the streets, penniless and
friendless.
But anything was better than remaining to be-
! come their victim, and evpry time she thought of
being made the bl‘lUH of the evil-looking, snake-
like son of the old man-si;ark,.a chill of horror
[ pervaded her frame.
I “ At any risk I must try it!” she excl: imed
i rising to her feet, and putting on her hat and
c oak.

So confident had been the vultures that their
victim was completely in their pow”, they had
not taken the trouble to remove her outward
garments, ( r even to lock the door.

Two ideas only weie in the girl’s mind; first
to get out of the house as soon as osszble, and
then t ) make her way to the meeting-place ap-
pointi d by her lover in his letter.

‘- i will find the obelisk and wait there until
ho corms,” slieninrmured, as she opened thedoor
and poured out into the e1 try.

All was still; as far as noise was concerned
there did But seem to ho a soul in line house.

“ I must \ enture,”she decided.

But just as she s‘epped over the threshold—
ignorant of the fact that not only was the front
door lvelow Securely locked and the keys in Mrs.
Cunary’s pocket, but the old woman’s pet dog al-
ways was roaming about the lower part of the
house, and the moment she set fOot upon the

there wasa terrible crash, and near] one-half
of the side-wall, against which the ed from
which she had just arisen, was placed, came
tumbling in upon that piece of furniture, crush-
ing it to the floor!

A shudder passed throcgb the girl’s frame as
she reflected upon the horrible death which she
most surelv would have met i the had remained
upon the bed. '

The careless workmen had loo<ened the hen
oldlfashioned chimne Y. and in is fall it had
crushed through the sid’i of the house.

Here Was on menoe of escape open, and like
a flush the thought came to her mind that a kind
HeaVen in as watching over her.

Sue closed the door quickly; ran to the great
hole in the wall, and passed through into the
other house.

“They will surely believe that I am buried

under the bricks with the ruins of the bed.” she
murmured, as she descended to the street ” and
will never dream that I usvo escaped until the
mass is removed.”
' And the surmise was correct. The shock of
the fallin wall of course alarmed the Canary
family, who all came rushing up—stairs, eager to
see w at damage had been done, and when they
entered the room and beheld the nature of the
calamity they immediate] dectded that the girl
was underneath the bric s and at once set to
work to dig btr out, but w ith little expectation
that she w I lbe found alive.

It can be surmised that rest were the r maze-
mint and disgust of these uman birds of prey
when, after half an hour‘s hard work, they dis—
covered that their victim had escaped an awful
death, and was not to be seen.

The girl’s escape seemed miraculous, but none
the less theydid not waste time in meditating
over the matter, but at once set out to trace the
fu itivo.

n this, however, they were not fortunate; the
girl had gained the street without attracting no-
tice, and not the slightest clew to her course was
discovered; and baffled and apprehensive, the
Canary tribe returned to their thieves’ den to
curse their ill-luck. '

Once in the street, Helen had turned to the
right, and hurried along, at the first corner she
went into the cross street; he t on that for three
blocks and then turned 11, thus hoping to
evade pulrsuit; h M f d in

tots stranger to t is o the t 
had no idea wh- re she was going, but can? no!
for that so long as she could get  a”
reach of partners: that once assured 0W0“
inquire her way to the obelisk, and
3n the hope of meeting the man she 070d an

ear y.

From the first policeman she met she inquired
her way. He happened to be a civil fellow,
and although rather amused at the inquiv y, as
being proo of “ nest.” tack the trouble to
direct her so that she could not possibly missthg
way. -

"The next street is Broadway; turn to om
left hand when yOu get there and go axon i! for
forty midutes’ walk until on come to Ft havo-
nue; that will be at M ison uare where it
crosses Broadway; than oup ith avenue till
you cometo thoobeli~k , w ich is in Centre I Park.

don’t exactly remember what stret tit is near,
but it is some-where around E-ghtieth. l behave.
Anyhow, anybody will tell you when \ on get to
the Park. it sa  long walk, miss, four or
five miles, at the east,”

“Thank cu, sir; I am used to walking and
shall not nd it.”

Then she hurried on and at last. reached the

t, terribly tired and almost mdyto fsirt, for
t e powerful drugwhichshc had taker ' sonsiv
bl affected her general strength

t had taken her so long a ‘umo, in her weak
state. tomchtboobelisthstludidmt hove

 

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many minutes to wait until the noon hour ar—
rived.

She climbed the little mound upon which stands
the grim old Egyptian column—which for cen-
turies huslookeddownupou poor, in: l humanity
with subli ne indifference and stony scorna

ssed aro 1nd to its tront,and going.r to the edge

Pa
of the elevation looked down upon the drive be- -

heath and then over at Fifth avenue.

“ I an ianment of the charge,and the accuse
tion i s perfectly ridiculous."

“ Ah, yes; inein gracmus, yes; dat ish w’at
dey all say. Vell, we will broceed in der regu»
lar crdl r.'n

The-.1 the name, age, etc., of the prisoner were
asked, and the examination began.

The witnvss wh ) had sworn out the warrant

: upon Which the young man had been arrested

But no signs ot the munly form of the liand- ‘

some fellow who had won her heart could she
see

not yet built up, and the view is n -t inviting.

llifth avenue in the vicinity of the obelisk is .

About the onlything in the neighborhood orth 3

looking at was a magnificent mansion a few
blocksdown the street, which so far surpassed
any house which she had ever sen that poor

Helen could not resist gazing upon it wuh (-uri- ,

ous eyes, and speculating how happy the fortun-
ate people must be who ived within, at]: 10 en-
jo such luxury.

me tn minutes she remained moiunless,
engaged in these idle speculations; thrn retrac-

ing her sto- s she followed the winding path ;

d0wn the si e of the mound, through the tunnel
under the driveway; then up again to the level
of the road,and on until she came around to the
front of the obelisk, where, for the accommoda-
tioséetéf visitors, some half a dozen benches are

Tired and faip't the girl sunk upon one of the
beaches. This as the place where she was to
w t.

And wait there she did until the afternoon wore
away and the duskineas of twilight was suc-

. cesdcd by the gloom of the night.

Yet her lover came not.

Some of tho passers-by regarded her with curi-
ous eyes, for she was so beautiiul and yet looking
so ill; bunger's pang was now gna at her
vimls, and she was so faint that the con d hard-
ly stanzl or sit.

One of the park policemen, too, bad had his
eyes upon her for some time but she was so
aziret, so lady-like, that he hesitated to question

The moon cams u and shone out bright, bath-

thc relic of a ar-ofi! age with its mellow

lig t, care-ling it with its beams as it had done

for years in the mystic land of the old, old East,
the cradle of civilisation.

Helen felt that she must make an attempt to
shake of! this funtncm that wasc ing over
her and sappin the vigorof ovarylim ; but she
wassofaint th has or and exhaustion that
when she arose she hardly stand and was
obliged tognspthcback of the bench to keep
from falling.

“Conny heavens! I believe that I am dy-

l” she cried in agony. “ I must have food or
I ifainté lhavsno b t 
robba me everything u mu vc i
mammalian—bedrooms.» -by
andaskforafswccnb to keep the c within
my body? on, mother in heaven! thou dear,
dead mother whom I have never known,
who psi-hm Eve her life for me, look down
aha?” yobildinharunforimnatc ax-

But nanswsrtothispraycr instead ofa white-
mbod spiritdcscsndingtbs cu stairs from the
otherworld. thmamsarudcand rough mor-
talz a gray-coated park policeman.

‘ 800D“. what on earth is the matter with
m?' be asked, mghlhmdy, after the fashion of his
lb , his upon the shoulder of the

 

rl while the old comrades,thc moon
andthso ',sssmsdtolookdown incmioslty
upon the picture.
CHAPTER XII.

mind run coups-noon,
“ (Janna or ourt repeated sh. '
bringing his fat il‘st down with an emjpm
whack upon the desk before him, for which there
was no necessity for the apartment was as mu
.1 a graveyard, but this was his Honor’s way to
impru- tbe bystanders with a proper ssnseot
hisoourt’sdlgnity. b “in bt “b.
prisoner was roug u , as
neither his law or, “ch ” Purchase, agr-
doctor had arriv .

" What is dsr charge?” asked the udgo, beam-
lug mild] on the when he iscovsred he
was a w gsatlsmanly-lookins man; a
good suit of clothes and a r us appear-
anccwont a lou ways wig: immelstcin, who,
like most men w have had the fortuncto
rise from a very low condition of ifs, never for-

tho early respect which had been instilled
nto him for those born with golden spoons in
their months.
the oflcer.

“Humor,”

Tbsja pric cdu hiscars.

“Aha! ishass ous matter. Who ishit
dathasbcenmnrdcrodi”

“Hrs. Matilda Plantagenet, of Fifth avo-

nus.”
“AhMyss, yes, I read dat over in dcr noos-
bapcrs, and now the judge scowlcd at the pris-

onor.

The idea of anyonsdaring tomurderawoman
worth four or five millions of dollars was per-
fectlv horrible.

“ V'at have you to say, my mans, hey?”

 

to .k the stand, and, t ) Douby’s intense surprise,
he oi'acovered that the fellow Was his late ino-
th: r’s coaciman~a man whom he had never
liked {i r his appearance was not pi'ep- -ssessing.
He was an Englishman, middle-aged, hull-head-
91', a .41 wit 1 a sober, s-inctimonious air, which
Bad always prejudiced the young man against
1m.

After the usual formalities he proceeded to tell
his story, which Was as follows:

“I was Mrs. Plantagenet’s coachman, and
being \\ ell aware that a bad feeling bad for
some ,time existed between the lady and her
son—’

Here the judge broke in; what had “ der son ”
got to do with the mutter? The Witness must
not bring in “ der whole family .”

" Wu , Mr. Denby Livingstone is Mrs. Plan—
tagmie? 3 son I” the man blurted out.

I - JLl-lge fairly gasped with amazement.

. ' ilcr tuyfel !” he muttered, under the shade of
his h-nre and bristly mustache. This wasamur-
der mass with a vengeance!

Tue witnos continued:

“i knew that they were not on good terms,
and on the night of the murder, early in the
evening as I passed the parlor, goingu stairs to
my room, the door being ajar, I over card the
prisoner threaten his mother-”

tion.

u Order in der gourt l" tail-“1in howled the judge, i
6

who alwa s became fearf y excited when
imagined e decorum of his court was infringed
upon. ~

“ Order: order 1” repelated the policemen.

“Thisisa ourt o aw, young mans. You

make noisean disturb der gourt again I fine you ,

ten tollars.”

At this moment Dr. Fosdike and the superin-
tendent (if police entered.

The jud e recognised the two immediately,
s13: iuvi them to a seat uponthc bench by his
a) e.

“ Murder case,” he said to the su ntend-
ent. “' Uis young mansis charged mit illing his
mother.”

” Not much l” observed the superintendent, in
his blunt way.

“The charge is absurd; that young man is
worth five millions of dollars,” remarked the
doctor, who, shrewdly gau ing the judge by
what he knew of him of o , rightly calculated
that the announcement would astound Himmil-

stein.

And it did; he was worth fifty or sixty thou-
sand dollars himself, and be it as a co-
lossal sum, but the idea of flvemillionscomplcto-
ly took his breath away.

“ Five million! der tuyvel l” he muttered.

Just then Ned Purchase entered the court-
room and the emcer, who had shown himself so
friend] to the prisoner the moment he caught
sight 0 olaurchase leaned over toward Dcnbyand
w .

“gel-13’s Ned now- you’re all right! He’ll turn
this fellow inside out in a twinkling.”

The lawyer advanced directly to the risoncr
and Denby surveyed him with considers le curi-

osit .

Hid Purchase was one of the noted characters

of rest Gotham.
man about fort , a little above the medium

size, and splendidly uilt, his story is worth tell-
ing. Asa young man he had been thrown by
the chance of fortune among a rough clam, had
become a boxer and fought some of the lo
and meat severe battles known to the rise- n ;
then, aspiring to better things stu ed for 0
law, graduated with honor and had built in one
of the best criminal practices in New ork.
godly afman of great naturals?1 lcnts, speakin

res or our languages, use an easy -
ishcd style of oratory—who had tgot been 3'32.
cially talented he never would have risen from
the 1;: com!P imtionsfif hi1:l sairiy life. ”

‘ . urc , r. v ngstone introduced
the friendly iceman. “ I sent or you, Ned,
at the rogue of this gentleman, whoisina little
trouble, the ofilcer explained.

The lawyer shook hands with his alien , when
his e mum” at once detected be a

"'9 ." up his pleasure at making his
acquaintance and asked about the trouble.

Something serious, I presunm'fOT I '00 the

su rintendcnt on the bench With the judge,” he '

Thcbificer ina few words hastened to place the
history of the case before him.
“ Hum h l” ejaculated the lawyer, when he had

learned t e particulars; “ rather a serious thing A
, man as was every one else in the house, and did
cod, he had witnessed the murder with his ‘
ual weight. ‘

to o ahead on the evidaice of one man, unless,

f of
take he] of himand

own eyes or has some other
When he etsthrough I w
see what is made of.”

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And, although he did not say so, yet in ink~
mind was the idea that, if the Witness dhl know
anything about the murder, more than likely l is
knowledge came from being eithera prim ipal ii:
the c ime (-1‘ an accessory.

Meanwhile, on the bench, the superintendent
had been giving the judge his views of the mat-
ter.

“ Thedoctor came down for me u hen he heard
of this arrest, lmcau~e he l new I “as interested
in the Case,” tho Lllllf (Xi'lallllPd. “ Y( n su-
l’ve hall I \o ( i'my best n.eu working on lblSJui
ever ilhi'e the murder timk plat e, and from the
way lLiu, s ltrcx now I ite pretty well satrfied
that this genth-n an l ml‘u‘t anything to do v.1ih
it. I was aunt yeo, first, when l heard (1' this
arrest, but now that 1 think the matter ever
carefully, I don‘t knmv but what it will work to

‘my ad vanta r.”

“ Ya, ya,‘ muttl rel the judge, in an absent
sort of way. “Five millions! oh, dat ish big
monish,” be continued to himself, hardly able to
take his e) 984 if l --;e prisvner.

“ Please your Honor, I appear for the prison
oner,” announced the law y( r. perceiving that af~
fairs wo re now in a train to move forward.

’l‘hgljudge nodded, and the examination pro~

eed

in substance the witness testified that he had
heard loud words betvwen the prisrner and his
mother, and threats made by the former against
the latter, although his memory was not good
enough for him to repeat» tLe words, or tell ex-

‘ actly what they were, but the language was

threatening, he was tui e t i that ; then, meditat-
ing over the matter, he had gone up—stairs and
retired to rest. He bml been an akened by the

‘2 shrieks of the Illlfl‘ 3. red wv man, although, be-
“That is an internal liel” cried the young ‘
man, unable to restrain his righteous indigna- .

fore be perceived the drill; of the lawyer’s ues-
tions, he had admitted that his mom was way
up at thetop of the h.,2use,and that he had closed

down-stairs, as he pa ly Mr. Deliby’s
the dusky loom which enshronried the

co
room,

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and locked the door before 1:233:12 lto bed; and in ‘

entry, he fancied t t he saw a dark form,a -

man apparent] , dsrt into the s pertinent and
close the door. n regard to the figure he would
not liketo swear positively, [or the entry was
so dark that his eyes might have du-eived him,

but there was one thing of which he was cer- ‘

tain and that was. as he 1 as‘ed the door of Mr.
Denb ’s apartment- he distinctly heard the key
turn n the lock wit in,and.thinkir.g the gentle'
man was about to come cut, be halted so as to
have company l‘gping down-stairs, but M r. Denby
did not make appearance, so, arriving: t the
conclusion that the c be had seen, entering
the room, was that of r. Livingstone, and the
sound ho had heard was the key turnin in the
look as be fastened the door after him, e went
on his way and was one of the first to come to
the aid of the wounded woman.

'

He had been present when the doctor arrived, .

and when she revived under his care the words
she uttered remiled to his mind the mvstericas
figure in the entry vhic’i l ad fled into Mr. Den-
by’s room with noiseless steps. \

To the direct question as to what these words
were the man was unable to say, for, as he (x-
plaincd, he had a vcrynpoor memory, and he
could not carry such th gs in his head, but the
purport of the . h wasthat it was Mr. Dsnby
who had hurt
could do it, seeing that she was his mother, and
that she had never injured him.

Then the doctt-r had ordered the room to be
cleared, sa ing that Mrs. Plantagenet was be-
comin de incur, but, for his part, he didn’t put
any f thin that statement, and he thought he
doctor, anxious to screen the oung man, was

.r to get the witnesses out o the room before
iii; injured woman could still further denounce

son.
When he heard the story told by Mrs. Planta-
genet in x to how she came by her injuries,
of the ed man who had entered the apart-
ment and Opened the safe, then made his eaca
after gra ling with her, particularly when
was said, t neither money nor jewelry
been taken, he felt perfectly sure that t we;
.st’s son who was the intruder,
and that he come in search of some private
men‘s, a will pu'haps, disinbnriting him, as be
heard Mrs. Planhgenet threaten early is

a sl remark in
amount 0 knowledge

the evening.

The lawyer here in
regard to the wonder!
fined by the witness of the vato aitairs of

house whose head he ssrv .

“ I onl ksgomy eyes and ears 9 n, that‘g
.11,” ed witncm, sulleniy. e didn’t
relish the lawyer’s questions; he was evidentl
afraid of g into some trap, and he weigh
every word carefully before he uttered it. in
fact, he seemed entirely too much on his guard
for an honest witnem who only desired to tell
the truth.

From that time forth, continued the man, he
had suspected that Mr. Denby wastbc masked
intruder; and then, too, the y man had not
been alarmed by the screams of t 0 injured wo-

not leave his room until summi D! d on account
of his mother’s illness.

The man said, frankly, he hud "ride up his
mind that Mr. Livingstone “as the guilty man,

er, and she wondered how be

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and he had determined to fasten the crime upon
him if possible and so avenge the death of his
mistress. He was certain c this when it was
ascertained that Mrs. Plantagenet had not made
any will, because be distinct y heard her say to
Mr. Denby, when they wore quarreling, that she
had made a will and cut him oil! with a few hun-
dred d illars.

Here was a motive for the crime; to get at
and destroy the will which made him a beg-

ar.

,Now, to the rather obtuse mind of the judge
this didn’t seem to be much evidence against a
man worth five millions, and when the lawyer,
after reviewing the mat r, claimed that the
evidence did not warran the holding of the
prisoner, but still was willing to give bonds to
any amount until the papers could be sent to
the grand jury, the judge, with due gravity,
thought that a bond for five thousand would be
sufficient; a thousand to each million, you'll ob-

serve.
And, to the disgust of the witness, the lawyer
ggnanded that he be detained or find surety for
appearance.

"So the witness was held on a thousand dollars
bail, and not being able to furnish it, was
fiarched off to the House of Detention, while

euby left the court with his friends in triumph;
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CHAPTER XIII.
AN AGREEMENT.

Tm: inmates of the Plantagenet Mansion had
Wu terribly excited by the arrest of the young

r.

r. Richard Plantagenet had been absent

n the arrest had taken place, but came in
ten minutes after the carriage which con-

ed the officers and their prisoner had driven

away.

Viola, in great I.filtation, informed him of
what had transpi , but he made light of the
myter as a good joke.

. My dear girl, you must ‘not worrgezourself
a at it.” he observed comfortany towing

, self in an easy-chair and draw ng it up to

window so that he could look out on the

t. .

fine twain were in the front arlor.

‘ Not worry myself?” cried t e young lady, in
a. I out, pacing up and down the room, like
a‘ red wild animal, so excited that she could

kee still. “ It is easy enough to give such
vice, ut not so easy to follow it. But you
an a r lar icicle; nothing seems to affect

. ; I be ieve that if an earthquake were to de-
fiy half the city you wouldn’t be astonished by

That depeilids upon which half it was,” he re-

Plir‘: “not I

I , can i: keep quiet and poor dear Denb
timid! b those horrid brutesl” y

, dd they drag him off! He should

hx've known better than resist theotiicers; under
slip circumstances, if the had come for me, I
sfi'fluld have gone as uiet y as a lamb." ‘

Oh you are per ectly' horrid! You know
m mean. Of course they didn‘t actually

. him, and l supqose they acted as entic-
inme as they could; believe they didn t even
ushhandcufl's." »

.“Probably not; they rarely handcufl.’ men of
the Denby stamp, even when charged with so
anions a crime as murder. It is onlynyour poor
dev1l,,without friends, who knows w t it s to
feel the touch of the bracelets.”

J“ How easy you seem to feel about the mat-
ipr; but still, I might have expected it would not
trouble you, for know there never was any
love lost between you two.”

_“ And .1 great deal lost between you and him,
d1!” Richard retorted. .

A slight flush rose in the girl‘s cheeks.

“ It isn’t any one's business whether there is or"

not, ani if I am obliged to seek a father confess-
cr‘you are not the man whom I shall choose for
fiat-flies.”
“Niw, in answer to your insinuation, I will
that [do not bear the least ileili to Mr.
gnhy Livingstone. and. although I know he
does not like me, that is his fault and not'mine.
I have never injured him in any way, ande
challenge you todispute that statement, sweet
wxsini ’. '
Well, as far as I know you never have,”
girl admitted. “ But denby had an idea
t t y’ou interfered between his mother and

R) And that was on our account. so he be-
lfeved. and therefore f I was the agent you
w e the principal."

gain the girl's face reddened and she stamped

‘ little foo impatiently. -

I’m sure I never asked you to interfere.”
“No, nor anybody else, nor did I interfere;
'at was all pure imagination on Denby; part.
6 is nothiu but a boy, willful and o inate
equarrel with his mother because she pro—
mod to dare to find a wife for him, and after

quarrel took’ place, naturally, the menace-

mt of M; s. Plantagenet's aflairs fell into my
hands, as more want any one else tolook after

, , That irritated mv gentleman,and he did

to make things disagreeable for me, but

I I went calmly on in my way, without paying
9 the slightest attention to him. And when, in a
l passion, he quitted the house, at his mother’s re-
: quest, I put private detectiVes on his track so as
) to see what he was up to. By the by, did Mrs.

Plantagenet ever tel you what the detectives
, discovered?”

The girl shook her head.

l “They were cunning fellows, and they fol-
; lowed him like bloodhounds. At last they
< tracked him to a certain little town, and there
‘ discovered that he had a love affair with a com-
: mon, low kind of a girl, who lived in a miser-
lable shanty, with an old drunken father, a

Couple of miles from the village. And even
i this girl he was deceiving, for he was passing
. under a false n:imé.disgmsel as a sort of adven-
1 turer or artist, so the girl hadn’t the slightest
' suspicion as to who he really was. That was
I honorable, wasn’t it? luring tnisgiriintoa fool’s

awn a toy when wearied of it!“

i
l “ Ii, no, iiol"cricd Viola,impetuously. “He

i truly loves this girl, I am sure of it! for he told ‘

F me only to-da that now he was free to marry
the woman he oved ; and he further said he had
won her when she thought he was 01in a poor
wandering artist. but now he could place his

those were his VPl‘y words.”

“ Well, it is possible, of course, that he meant
to be honest with his ‘ pearl’ all the time, and if
so, he is a bigger t' 01 than I took him to be, for
the girl is one of these common, ignorant, crea-
turrs, though rather good-looking, I believe,
who is only fit to be the wife of a day laborer,
whOSe sole ambition in this world is to at
‘ enough to eat and drink. But, just after he
detectives got on his track, b some incautious
m0vement on their part, he d scovered that he
was being watched, and coming in contact with
one of them he allowed his temper to get the
better of his jud ment, after his usual fashion
and gave the fa ow a sound thrashing. 0
course the detective,smarting over his bruises,
swore out a W..an for him, and Mr. Denby
was obliged to run away, and just how he man-
aged to escape the officers, who were searching
for him, is a wonder. Anyway, in some mys-
terious manner, he evaded the search, disap-
peared, and the girl also quitted her home that
same evening, and has not been either seenor
heard of since. The supposition is that they
went off to ether, although, in spite of a dil -

out watch, have not been ab e to discover
m at she is in the city or in communication with

m. -

“ He did not speak as if she was here.”

“ Well, she ma have only been fooling with
him and gone 0 with some other lover. But
now, in regard to my taking this arrest so
calmly, since I am put upon the defensive and
driven to explain my acts—Denby is not in the
slightest den er, even thou h be is the criminal;
aman with ve millions 0 dollars at his back
cannot be very easil convicted of murder in
New York to-day, un ess the proofs against him
are so strong that there is nota shadow of a
doubt about the case. In this matter, from the
circumstances of the affair, there cannot be any
absolute proofs, so you may rest easy; he isn t
in any danger, althou h it may cost him a small
fortune to get out of t e scrape.”

“ Why should it?" the ir ‘asked, annoyed.
“Surely he ought to be a 10 to make his inno-
cence manifest at once.”

“ That is not always so easily accomplished.
You must remember that circumstances bear
strongly against him. ” '

“ I do not com rehend how that can be.”

And the girl rew up a chair and sat down,
facing her cousin.

“ It is ~fectly plain when you come to look
into it. o onein this world had any interest
in Mrs. Plantagenet‘s death but her son, no one
had any reason to go to that safe, abstract

spare and leave the valuables but . Denby Liv-
ngstone. He inherited his mother‘s property;
as there was no will lefr. by her he was her sole
heir. But, there was a will—a Will made by
Mrs. Plantagenet when she I -arncd that her son
had disgraced himself with this country girl,

 

and in that will, after having : ne-half her for-.

tune to various charitable s'icmfi- s, therost was
divided betwoen you and me, with th iexception

of flftv thousand [dollarfl worth of Chemical -
‘ she hard] knew what she was sayiu . ‘

Bank stock. which was bequeathed in. trust to
Denby‘s grandchildren, he and his children to
have the interest only: she tied the money up as
long as the law would allow. That Will was
duly executed on the very afteruOOn of the day
on which she was wcunded. and that will is not
to he found! Now then. who had any interest,
biting Denby Livingstone, in suppressing this
w

The girl was astounded, but she felt sure there
must be some mistake about the matter; she
could not bring herself to believe that Denby
could be guilty of such a crime.

“ You 0 not believe that he had anything to
do with the affair?” he remarked, reading her
then hts in her face. ‘

"' -.o, I cannot bring myself to believe it.”

“ Mind, I do not sa that Denby himself com-
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risk being caught, but I do believe be employed
s0me one else.’

“ I do not—I will not believe it! Why,
Richard, Denby is too noble and generous to
commit such a base act. He told me only to-
day that he had determined to do for us as he
felt sure his mother would have done had she
lived.”

“ And what was that, pray ?” '

“ Make us a present of one hundred thousand
apiece.”

" He is generous!” the other remarked, with a
slight sneer.
would have had a million apiece and he nothing
but the interest on fifty thousand, about enough
to keep from starving.”

“Oh, I don’t kn0w what tothink; I do love
this beautiful home so dearly,” she confessed.
“ And that was the reason why I was willing to
marry Denby when his mother asked me for I

paradise, meaning all the time'to desert her I didn‘t care anything for.him ina fond, loving
when he got tired of her, just as a child casts l way. In fact, [don’t believe I shall ever fall in

love with anybody—the kind of love, you know,
that we read about.” .

“ And if I had a fortune, say a million or so,
would you marr me?” asked Richard, leaning
forward and tak ng her hand.

“ Yes; if you wanted me, for I like you
as well as I do anybody; but you are only
jokin l”

" ever was more earnest in mylife, for I love
you, 10% you dearly, and years ago I deter-
mined to win you, and now tell you before a
year is over I’ll be rich, Denby Will be ruined,
and on shall be my bride if you are willing. Is
its argaini”

She smiled consent, and he sealed the compact
with a kiss. __

CHAPTER XIV.’
HnLnN Films a Fania).

Tar: gin shrunk in terror from the burly
policeman, although the man’s tones were not
unkind; but he was a great, gruff fellow, and
COl‘l‘gin’t appear amiable, no matter how hard be

He had had his eyes upon the
tim'i,for she had attracted his a ntion by re-
mainin so quietly in the one spot, and every
now an then gazing around her with a wistful
look as though she expected some one.

At first the officer had taken it to be one of
those little romantic episodes so common to all

ublic parks; a girl who is not able to receive

or lover at her own home by reason of -
hearted parents, or some 0 er obstacle of a like
nature, makes an ap intmcnt to meet him at a
certain place in the ark, and while waiting is
on pins and needles, figuratively spanking, until
he a pears

O course's it isn’t an businea of the Park of- 

flcials to interfere as o as the pair behave
themselves, nor can 'any _ be said, with a
good grace, if a visitor takes t into his or her

end to remain in one place for five or six hours,
provided that they are decent and regpectabls

and do not disturb an one else. > .
But the signs of suff‘eri so visible in the face.
of the it] interested the. car, and he had been

watch ng for some time, determined to speak to
her if he got a goal chance '

Sowhen besaw her rise, and then stag er, ,

weak through faintness, he came up to her m-
mediate '

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At a fines Helen caught sight ofliis "uniform, '
clclimpiget entdatli h; wins an ofllcer,l;ind, instantly, .
t on s o e ur yssranger w ohhad  , .



ened er so loudlydown in the country
across her mind. '

She was about to be arrested, and up doubt   '

lurked somewhere in the background.

“ Oh. for Heaven's sake let me-‘gol" she ex-
claimed, wildly. “ I have never injured any one
in all my life!" .

She assayed to step forward, but she was so
weak unnerved and trembling with excitement
that, had it not been for the support which the
policeman instantly afforded her with his
arm, she would most surely have’ fallento the
ground. ' ‘

“Don’t be alarmed miss; I ain’t u-soing to] ,
hurt you ' but I say, what on mm is the matter

with youi Why, you ain’t hardly got strength
to stand I” a _

“ You won’t arrest mel" the girl asked, with
trembling li , sounnerved h , thoughts of the
danger who she thought threatened her that

“ Lord ove yer heart. my dear, I guilt got no "

call to arrest you that 1 knows on; but‘what is
the matter? Are you sick?" ‘ ‘

" I am not well. . V I h _
. “ No, I reckon you ain’t: you are as whiteasa
ghost! I’ve had 'my peepers on you for. some
time, seeing ‘you sitting here all alone, and I was
a-thinking o

ain’t a very forward (map, .nd 1 never 1 kl“,th

interfere in other psi ple’s business, but when 1

seed that {con could liarleV walk I thought it
’bout time put my car in.

“ I think I am better now.”

And she made an effort to walk with the sup-
grt of his arm,,but had not the strength she
h ought, and he was obliged again to steady

or

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“ If the will had come to light we '

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strength—you’re sick—I kin see lain enou h in
your face that on are sick, ut, Lord less
,vouil" you don’t ook half as sick as you really
are

“ No, no: I am not reallysick; I am only weak
and faint for lack of food,” she murmured, the
confe~sion escaping from her almo t before she
knew it.

“ What, hungryl”exclaimed the officer, in pro-
found asmnism. out, for as the gill was well-
dressed and refined-looking,he had never thought
of any such thing.

“ h es, sir; I have not tasted food since morn-
ing. ’

“ Blaz‘ s you haven’t!”

The, policeman was so amazed that he could
hardly find words toexpress his feelings.

“ And, then, I only had about half a cup of
COlfi" ."

“ Nu-e, solid kind of food that is to wrestle
with lul‘ a whole day!”

“ I felt taint while sitting on the bench, but I
had no idea 1 “as so weak until I got up and
tried to walk.”

“ The gal will die before I can get her down
to the arsenal unless I can give hersomething to
brace her up a leetle,” the policeman thought,
taking a good look around.

“ There ain't a soul in sight, and I reckon [can
risk it,” be c intinued.

Then he took a small flask from his pocket.

“ Say. miss, I’ve got a leetle drop of whisk
here, and if you takeaswallow or two it wifi
help yr u to keep up for awhile. Don’t say any—
thing, you know, to anybody that I give it to
you, 'i-os it might make trouble for me.”

Haidlv knowing what she did, the girl took a
good swallow of the potent liquor from the flask
of the kind-hearted policeman, and the stimu-
lant seemed to put new life into her upon the
instant.

“ Aha!" exclaimed the ofiicer, perceiving that
the cordial had been of use, “ that is the kind of
stqu to make a man’s hair curl l"

And he took ad“: of the whisky himself,
then returned the to his pocket with an-
other meml’glance around.

“ Whisky the right kind is as good as meat
and drink sometimes, with a suit of clothes
threwn in.”

" It seems to make me feel better.”

it gum be able to get home now, miss, I sup-

.“ Home!” ' '
And melanchol indeed was the way in which
she nounced t a word.

“ 110,1 have not.”

“ Well, that’s rough! But you‘ve got
friends?" - ' -

“ Only one, and I have been waidng here all
day expecting to see him, for he was to com. to
me here in front of the obelisk.” .

Sofaint and dispirited was the girl that she.

did not attempt concealment of the motive
which had induced her to remain in the Park
alldaylongl. . ' '

A law w istle escaped from the lips of the
hind officer, who had become ‘deeply interested
in the unfortunate maiden. -. v '

It was the same old story, he then htr-the
tale which begins with vows of love an eternal
fidelity, and winds up with doertion, disgrace
anddeath. ~   .-

“ And he didn’t come?" thema asked, gentlv,
a suspicious huskiness in his voice. . ' ' ‘

He was a married man with a" little family,

and his eldest, a girl about ten years old, was.
beginning to show signs of- blouoming into a‘

veritable beauty: in his. imagimtldn he thought
that is the event of anything happening to him,
his child might some gdaycome and wander
around the Park, waiting with a sick "heart to:-
the lover who newr tomes. - '- "

as No, 81]..” . O ‘

“ What time did you expect to meet him!" ‘ ~

“Betw ‘ ntwelve and one.” . ~ v -‘

“ And 193- ’bont eightlnow 1” cried the “ cop,”
with a guttnral exclamation—a cross‘between
an oath and a groan. “ Don’t you know where
he lives!” V

f‘ No, sir."

“ Well, do you live in the city?”

“ £10, sir; have just come from tlm coun-

he officer was sure now that his surmise was
correct, and that the maid was one who had
loved “ not wisely, but too well.” '

country!” - ..

Go backl thought Helm—go back to fall into
the hands of that coarse and brutal stranger
who was pursuing her as though she was a
gimbal, guilty of murder! No, she had rather

e. . ‘ ' i

“ I have no friends m whom to go; I am all
alone in the world l”

“ This is about as rough as they make ’em 1”
.10 policeman muttered. “ Mighty bard lines
min, but if you’ve got a laetle money, you will
heable to find shelter somewhere until you kin
get time to turn ’round.”

“ I have not a penny in the world; I fell into
the heart (1 some wretched people this morning

try that ag‘in; you can’t do it; you ain’t got the I

- the gruff tones struck a chi

'tirely.

 

 

when I came to the city, and they robbed me of
everything I had ; it was not much, but it would
have kept me fora week or two until I could
have found employment.”

“ No home, no friends and no money l” the
Stile,“ murmured. “ What on earth is she to

o?’

And then, as he pondered over the sad story,
an idea came into his head. The girl had spok-
en in such a dull, listless way—due t - the poten-
cy (f the strong liquor which she had swall0wed
—that it seemed as if her mind was affected,
and the policeman had come to the conclusion
that her troubles had upset her mental balance;
so his thoughts ran:

“ A leetle cif‘ lier nut, I reckon, and perhaps
the best thin i can do for her is to ‘ run her in,’
where she WI 1 be taken care of; it won’t do to
let her wander round the city in this hyer con-
dition, ’cos it she don't fall into bad hands and
isn’t taken to some den, she will be mighty a t
to find her way to the river and make a hole in
tile water; then there’ll be another item for the
newspapers ‘ Beautiful girl found drowned, and
nobody knows nothing about her.’

“ Say, miss,” he said, to the girl, “ I guessyou
had better come along with me. I’ll take you
down to the arsenal to the sergeant and he Will
be able to do something for you. You can’t
stav here all night, you know, and if you haven't
any place to go, I don’t see what else you can
do. And you have got to have someihing to eat,
you know, or you Will die; you can’t go on in
this way.”

“ No, I suppose not,”she replied, hardly know-
ing what she was saying, for the fumes of the
liquor had now mounted to her head and her
brain was terribly confused.

“ Take my arm and come along; the quicker
younget a good square meal into you the bet-
ter.

Helen went with the man willingly enough,
for she did not for an instant imagine that she
was under arrest.

But such was the fact, and the policeman took
her straight to his head-quarters, the arsenal,
where, behind a desk, at an officer whose

eneral appearance was extremely unprepossees-

n .
5‘ Hallo, what's this!” he exclaimed, as the
policeman conducted the girl to the front of the
oak and then retired to one side.
Helen surveyed the serfieant anxiously, for
to her hegrt.‘ .

CHAPTER XV.
Barons: run Jones.

It! in the Park liceman the unfortunate girl
had found a f end the. man at the arsenal
turned out to be a different sort of fellow on.
,He was not the officer usual] -in
char _,hut a stranger put in his place or a
few ys. . ».

“ A knave dressed up in brief authority."

To him the beautiful country girl was but a'
common creature. a little the worse for liquor,
and, perhaps somewhat weak in mind, who was
to be dis of as soon .as ble. ._ '

To the officer’s kindly ta e be turned a. deaf
ear. .He, could not be imposed upop any 1m-
probable’story. “ Nothing to eat,’ w on it was
plainly'to be months]; she had had sbmething to
drink, and the unhappy officer did not dare con»
fees that he had given the girl a sup of liquor for
fear she might faint on his hands. '

“ Take" her over to the Fifty-seventh street
court and give her in charge as a v_ rant found
wandering‘about the Park!” cried he oflicial,

 

, sternly, and as the harsh sentence dld 'not seem

to affect her the self-important man in authority
was satisfied his impression of her character and

‘ condition'wasquite correct.

There. was no helg'for it and with a muttered
imprecation upon't e h of the oficial brute,
the oficer departed with his prisoner, and took
her to the Fi tyeseventh street court, but tarried
on the way at a little eating-saloon, where he in-
sisted upon his charge taking an oysterstew and
drinking. a cup‘ of codes: a proceeding which
wonderfully revived her. ' ‘ -- -'

He tried to soften the matter down as much
as possible. '

“ The boss was rather cranky to-night,” be ex-

lained. “ I'don’t know much about him, but
om what I’ve seen I think he is the most ob-

stinate man when he gets an idea into his head

that I ever ran across. But. after all,

_ rha
it is the best thing for yon. You won’t p8

ve to

I * 'Sloe out in the at t '
u Cm“ you so back to you friends in the I. ree s, and when morningcomes

you ll feel all right. Here’s a couple ,of dellars
to help you along. You’d be welcome to more,
but it s all I’ve got.”

The girl’s heart was touched by this kimi-
nesa, and she protested she could not take the
money.

“ 0, it’s all right! Call‘it a loan, yep know,
and when on get your p again you kin pay
it back. he Judge wi ' be pretty sure to dis-
charge you in the morning, if you tell your
story all right and say that you have money to
take care owourself, as you have you know:

two dollars ii a good way in ew York if
on know how use it. T ere’s some lace
;hout town somewherss, Friendless Girls’ ome,

or something of that sort, I think they call it,

I
I Ft Would be a lovely old World if each man went

l parted, his la~t Words being one of cheer and en-

'the box; she had been looking for the friendly ‘

‘while the irl looked at him understandinga, .f'.»
little what meant as thong ghehad, Wendi: '
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where they take girls in who are looking for
work and give ’em meals an’ lodgings for five
cents apiece. I’ll find out where it is tonight
and come down to the court in the morning and
let you knovV.”

“i never, sir, shall be able to repay you for
this kindness!” the girl stemmered. affected to
tears by the goodne~s of this u'tei' stranger.

“Oh, that is all 0. K.; that is w: at we are

ut in this world for, to help eat-l1 other along.

into paddle his own canoe and let l he or her fel-
low sink. I’ll be ’round in the niorn-ng; don’t
be afraid: keep a stiff upper lip; you’ll come out
all right.”

The man performed his mission and then de-

couragement. But fate had not yet vented all
her spite upon the head of the forlorn girl.

To anticipate : the good-hearted policeman
was not able to return in the morning, for on
his way back to the Park be came upon a couple
of footpads, who had waylaid a drunken gen—
tleman, and were endeavori‘ng to secure his
valuables.

The ofiicer sprung to the rescue, and the ruf-
fians. being cornered. shewed fight; they were
armed, and did not hesitate to use their weep
pone.

A desperate encounter ensued; the officer was
game to the backbone and clung to his prisoners
until assistance arriVed , but mceived such severe
wounds as to necessitate his being carried to the
hospital, and so he did not appear in the morn—
ing as he had promised.

Judge Himmelstein was on the bench; the
reader has already made the acquaintance of
this rather peculiar Dutchman, but it must bere-
membered that the events detailed in a preced-
ingchapter which took lace in the judge scourt,
occurred some two wee s later, for it was on the
very evenin of the robbery of Mrs. Planta-
genet’s safe t at Helen Home slept in durance
vile, locked up like a felon in a cell. We have
retraced our store in order to take up the for-
tunes of the gir .

The judge was not in a very good hulhor that ‘
morning. He had been taking a “ ii er " in
Wall street—acting u u some “relia le” in-
formation that a stock- roker friend had kindly
given him—and upon looki over his morning
paper had beendisgusted to ver that hewas -
on the side of the market and about a
thousand d rs out of pocket.

Small mercy had he thht day for any of the
unfortunate wretches brought before his august

tribunal! .
Helen was sent lastof all and his Honor the .
ju , with his nd on Wall street, cud ing
his rains as to how he should retrieve his
barely more than noticed that shewas a girl and
tolerably well-dressed. » . ,,
“ V’at ish der shargei”, 1 , l 
“ agranc ,found wandering in Central Park, .
intoxicated, responded an officer. I; ,
“Oh, no, no, sirl” cried Helen,startledinto 

speech atrthe horrid alienation. ,, , .

“ Silence in der gdu'rtl” thundered the. judge,

glaring at her with wrath in his judicialéyp. _.
The girl shrunk timidiy back in one cern'er of

face of the honest Park policeman,and failing,
to discover him amid the motley crowd __tha '
lounged in the court-room, felt as t "ough shewas . 1
without a friend in the world. ' ' ' . ,

The judge, satisfied with the impression, which '
he had made, relaxed his frown and condernd-__
ed‘t({7allk:t t" to i”  ' "

‘e gesomeings sa .. , 

“ I! Ho, sir," responded HZlen, timidl‘y... She‘
had been so sternly rebuked before for ventnri ‘ ,_ =
todeclare her innocence she thought itbettern :
to t the offense. , -, v, .   ’

“ all, ten tollars.” -  ' . ' ' . 1 '

_ “ Ten dollars! what does he mean, sir!” ‘asked'
the girl of the policeman, bewildered. . r~

“ Wh , you are fined ten dollars.”

“ An will I have to pay: it?”

is You bet!” ‘ ‘ _,_ r; ,

“ But I hav’n’t ten dollars in the‘yvorldl' . . , ' "

“Can’t ante, and passes 12min ' “5670615133 :-

i-'> u:

M 4‘3,  +l?1";x a .. .‘ fr'J‘“.
dge had his eyflvmjhenlgl’DarM‘norn
ticed t econversation.":""<:«;  ;: 2. Me.   

:2?“ ish it?’:‘h38 asked. '  r _.

o mone u even!!! _. - tighten. ’

“ Oh, vell, {en days und dflsf‘and, den.”.

“ What does hemean hythat, sir?”

“ Why. you are sent up“ to the. Island for. ten.
dan_B]“kwell’s, you know, where the prison 4‘
is. Ain’t youfi f” I 3,. .3 ,

“ A prison-l" muttered the unfortunate  v ,
with white lips and a terrible terror tagging, .,
her heart. ‘ w

“ But I haven’t done anything, sirl" die
pleaded. ‘ _ N,

“ In course you have—drunk and disorderly; ‘_,
you’re fortqu that he didn‘t send you up her

six months,” responded the officer, coarsely. ,  ;
“ It’s «sky for you that the jud is in a m} f ,'
humor this morning, or you have gets, ., - _ I:

10%  e . . . u ..
e $1 only stared blanklg, for the words... .
seemed eahollow mockery her. ' " .

tie

‘-

-, The Hawks and W’olves of  Yor1 .

 

To prison—she, so young, so innocent of all
wrong-doing! It did not seem possible!

Wim '- eVi! star satin her house of life?

Ju~t a: this moment a short, thickset and very
fat man, with a. fiery red face, iron—gray hair and
heard, who had been standing at the rear of the
court i oom, came to tuc front. .

“ H. llli 0n, judge, a moment,” he said, nodding
familiarly to the justice, like an old acquaint.-
anCe. “ l tllan I know this young woman, and
I Will piy her fine.”

“ How you vash,senator? You settlesder line,
ch?" said the judge, snaking hands with the old
gentleman wi' o greut Cordiality.

“ Yes, I know her; nice girl; gets a little off
once in a while. You See, a. few glasses of beer
gces rig-st t ) her head and upsets her.”

“ i) .i. 15h so; feefty or sixty glasses fixes nw!
How i~h all dul‘ po 8?”

" Lively; we‘ll clean things next election.”

“Lo k you out for me at der Albany, you
know, eh?" whispered the judge.

“ All right ; if anythin fat comes along,I will
throw it in your way. fiere‘s your ten.”

“ Dat iah all ri ,vht,” res nded thejudge. push-
ing the bill back, yet w th a sort of a wolfish
glare at the roll of notes that the politician dis-
played. “ I remit der flue.”

“Thank you: l will do as much for on one
of these days.” The “senator” nodd to the

'dge, th~~n beckoned to Helen to Come out.

lien she did so, he placed her arm within his
own and left the court-room. She went blindly,
“resistingly. not knowin what else to do.

“I tell you! it is lucky recognized you!” he
remarked, after they got into the street.

CHAPTER XVI.
ran DETECTIVE’S Masrnn.

In a pleasant front room of the Bravoort
Home, the New York hotel so much favored
by our English cousins, sat 'a portly, well-
proaervod, middle-aged gentleman, whose gon-
oral appearance indicated that he was a son of
Albion.

He was dressed with scrupulous care, had a
pleasant face, and yet there were some ugly lines
a nit which indicated that ho had had hissharo

caroand toil and had not passed unscathed
through the world.

In his hand he hold a telegraph dispatch, and
ho had read it over again and again with a
thoughtful air.

“Lona Bianca Nsw Jana-r, 1
Tuesday atternoon. l
“ '1'. tin. Marnnw Gannowcaorr. Basvoon‘r Housn,
law Yoax m:-- ,

_“ I l';aV;)rlll:}t‘I‘le unc t: earth; at“!!! f’lloscli‘ixgd
MIG -ll . X me n W O

' rrow noon at thgelftos’t. £18151; (1) p y

“ mama."

" The doucod ass !” tho gentleman muttered, at-
(a' he ha-i road the telegram for tuo fourth time.
“ Takes twenty odd words to say what he could
have easil put in ton. ‘ Up tomorrow noon at
to htost, and that was throo days ago, and not
a of the rascal havo I soon. Not only that.
but can’t reach him, for whsn ho didn 1: come
I wirod him in ordor to soo what was tho mat—
tsr, and tho tamph is notified ms that
figcan’t find ha can have happened
to o idiot!”

At this mcmont thsro came a knock at the
door, and in answer to tho tleman‘s sum-
mons a servant ontorsd, boar a card on a
diver.

“Gentleman to see you, sir.”

Hr. Garrowcrofl took up thocard and on it
road tho name of tho veryman whom ho had
had in his thou ht . ~

“Gayaway uttlcbud—ohow him up, it you

so.

Yivs minutes later the burl stranger who had
as ailrightod the country gir with his arrogant
firsats entered tno apartment. .

“flow :3: do?"t “gang‘s; yr. Hatfnogud,
grinning co ; ‘ on ex-

tosoo mo. will bota hat!" y

“Woll, sir, would lose your hat,” ro-

mmiod tho er, with chilling tones, “for I

expect to soc ou—havs boon waiting for
you for three who days and wondering what
on earth had become of on."

“ Tho ht I was lost, reckon.” and than this
load- gentleman ind ad in a vociferous
“Ha! hai"asit ho thou ht twasagood joke

under cover of his he helped himself
to a chair.

“ I do not soo any cause for morrimont, sir!"
achimsd tho Englishman, sharply. “I ro-
cdvod your dispatc throo days ago; boro it is'
and I have boon sxpocting you ever since, an

new that have come, whore is tho priao
whose ca you so confidently predict in
fills?” the speaker tapped the telegram with

his finger.

“ Wail, you soo, my lord—”

“I am not a lord. sirl” interrupted tho other
impatiently, “and I wish to Heaven you would

calling mo my iordl"

‘ OI coursol Oh, I undorstsudl"and Mattie-
bnd put his to e in his check, then winkod,
mysbriously. ‘ It’s all right- a wink is as
good as a nod to a blind horse. I sha’n’t forgot
again h’ut it jest slips out by accident, once in
.a w

‘0

 

“Will you stop your nonsense and go ahead?
You have failed, I presume?"

" Fdlii‘dl No, sir! ’ cried Muttlebud, theatri-
cally. “ As the felier in the lay says——‘ in the
bright lexicon of (layaway uttlebud thar’s no
sich word as fail? ”

“ The fellow in the play, as you elegantly ut
it, doesn’t say a Word about any Muttlebud; ut

et on.”

“ 1 will; I have succeeded at every p’int
’i-ept one. Let me show you, ’cording to the iii-
structions.”

Then with a flu rurish he drew from his breast—
pocket a large memorandum-book, upon one of
the Covers of “him, in bright gold letters. was
the inscription, "Gai away Mutllebud, Private
Detective,” opened the book and read aloud:

“ ‘ )londay»~' well the date don’t signify. ‘ En-
gaged by Mr. Mathew Garrowcroit on a secret mis-
siou. A girl wanted, snout 8]}? wet. eais old, de-
sc lptiou. (guessed at. not cer air) rai er tall, light
broiin halr, blue ev es. roll and wblt~ camplexion,
looks l. . can Enrllsliglrl. Name. Hrlei , other name
unknown. and not material. Su pos d to b - living
With a farmer somewnere near rung Branch New
Jerse Name of farmer uiicerlain,but something
like \ aylsnd or Way band.‘

“ That is all correct, isn’t it?”
“ It is."

“ ‘ I found the gal—ham , Helen—blue eyes. but
dark brown hair lnsii ad of llxht brown—led and
white complexion all right; does look like an Eng-
lish girl Bromht u.- i y a farmer i arm-d Timothy
W iybit always been ca lei Iii—l nWsybit and so -
p041 (1 by ih inei hoors [0 be the old man's dang -
ter. but a short t me ago the farmer let out that she
wasn‘t his da hter; some little mystery about the
child apparent y. Old man‘s story is that he found
her when a baby in New York in a bass e1. evidently
deserted by her parents, and ms! is all he knows
snout her. The neignbois, how ver‘ a! e not satis-
fied with the explanation, and bias the old coat is
not telling the mth. Mystvr 'bout the old man;
poor farmer, mean, mlsv rable arm, vet he manages
to get along and pay his debts: cvorybodytzdnks he
has an income indepr ndent of the farm. and a good

many poo lc think he eta money on account of
the chi d rom some y who is paying him tor
keeping it.‘

" How’s that, governor? Didn’t I strike tho
right gal first lick oh?”

‘Yes, yes, no doubt about it!" the English-
man exclaimod, ovidently excited and nervous.
“ It is tho tfir! for a thousand pounds.”

“Ean y what I said; my mutton for a
million I”

“But how was it that you wore going to
bring her and yet have not? I resume you
haven‘t, or you would havo sai something
about it.”

“ No, I haven’t got hor " tho datootivo ad-
mitted, with rather a shaop air.

“ Well, that doosn’t matter; 1 did not instruct
you to brin tho girl. 02 courss l have no
authority in a romisss at t; that will
take timo. It is a right as long as I know when
she is, so that I can put my hands upon bar at
any momont.”

“ Was]. the fact is, govornor. you can‘t do it,
exact]u d,” tho man rejoined.

so

1”
Thou r. Huttlsbudhadto lain. Bo had
formodanicolittloplanto sgiritoooms

to New York with him, an things soomsdtobs
workin allrig'ht when ono night tho 1 sad-

donl d mound. Bhs had on inths
av had novor 

“ At .” said tho dotactivs, in sonclw
“ I had an idea that old Waybis had just h
her out of my way and I want {or him rod-hot,
but artor awhile loans to tho conclusion that
ho was honostabout tho mattoranddidn‘tknow
a?! moro about tho girl's disappsaranco than I

“And thonlgotonthotrackotsomovillaga
gomip,’bout how sho hada “Bananas stran-
gor chap from tho oity,akindol soody tailor
rdin toanaccounmwhomshsusedtomoot

acco

on tho bs‘ach, andputtingihisand that other
’bout sv body was of opinion that bad
sl wi thochap."

o En lishman covorod his taco with his
hands groanod aloud, much to tho sun
prise of Muttlobud, who stared at him open-
mouthed.

“ Oh, this terrible pain!” murmured Hr. Gar-

mwmoltaftsramomont,taki°?his hands
from his taco, which had fiush vary rod, a
h habit,

fig of great excitement in man ct
w l glonorally turn rod when other man become
in 0:

o prossod one hand to his aids and hoavod

a dog sigh. “ I am subject to those attacks,

but oy do notlastloug. So all traca of tho
girl is lost!"~

“ Governor, I toll yer. it ain’t often that I am

fiabbe stodl" tho dotoctive exclaimed, im-
gromgnly, “ but I will have to own up host this
mo.

“ Whore would the rl and her lovor be apt
to fly” quostioned tho nglishman.

“ ow, that requires some head-work.”

" Not at all;th olso would they go but to
this ritv 1”

“ That was just what I was a-goin to say.”

" It is certain it they feared psrsu t."

u on, tho did, or the fellor did, anywa . for
he had got nto a row in the village and po ad
oi! his man like a prisevfigbtor. Thoro was a

 

warrant out ag’iii’ him, and that wuss. the reason
he gave leg bail.”

“ And what hope i< there of lilldll ;: this one
girl amid the nzilh: n souls who lrl‘lple this
great melropolis!‘ mind the Englishman, de-

7 spondently.
“ Why. governor, H van lm done: you jest give
me the job, and we u. i «Mi retch it as nicely

as I did the country all ilr. Didn’t I do that-
right I p to the bench 

“Yes, you did very well in all but the one
iiuportiintihing; ~you let the girl slip through
your fingers.”

“ HUW cmild I help it? Wasn’t I working un—
der difficulties anyway! I didn‘t know whatyou
, wanted of the girl. Even if i knew that she
' was going I couldn’t liuve stopp: d her by law,
, you know. You see, govvrnor. you ain‘t acting
i according to Hoyle in this matter. You haven’t
i told me what you want of the girl; Iain com-
, pletely in the dark.
| “ I went for the old cuss with the yarn that
3 there was a big reward out, and all that sort of
talk, but he was a tough old Sinner and wouldn’t
have it for a cent. Now, jest let. me know h0w
the thing is, and I’m sure I kin fix it as easy as
rolling of! a lo 1”

But the En shman didn’t are it in that light;
he merely said it made no difference. unc- then
fell to discussing lens to ascertain the where-
abouts of the lest elen.

Energetic measures were at once taken; ad-
vertisements inserted in the papers, the police
notified, and all the machinery possible put in
motion.

And the adVertisemeuts appeared on the very
morning that Helen Home left the court OI-
corted y Senator Buinblobig.

CHAPTER XVII.
nuamnmo run annex.

As we stated in a former chapter. at the clone
of the examination in Judge Himmilstoin’n
court, Dent y Livingstone departed in trcsdom
sitar givin bail, while the accuser, in default of
any one w ing to give a thousand dollars bond
as security for his appearance, was carried 0!
to the Houssoi' Detention—aprocaution adopted
b the court to insure tho witnem’s presence
w on tho trial day came. ‘

Now to the two sharpest men in the court
room t day the same idea had occurred, and
those two were tho Superintendent of Policoand
Ned Purchase, the lawyer, neither of whom bo-
lievoi that you Livingstone had anything to
do with the uifair, but the fact of the coachman
swearing out the warrant when he failed at tho
inqusst to coma forward, seemed to them a db
cumstanco that rsquired explanation, and when
they met in the street after the case was over,
brisfiy they discussed the matter.

:‘ gdd can,” laughs lawyeit'm t

' cry, ropiisd o superin on .

“gov mon havo boon working at it, I sup-

“ Yss, on tho quist, svsr sinco it accnrrd.”

“ Any headway!”

“ Nous at all.”

“Vo’rygood trick, but it wasn‘t this young

“ Oh, no; although ho appears to boys profited
mon‘gynit than anhycbody else. I think thorn is
soms g hack w b has not coino out yet, and
which may show that somebody also
th to gain by robbing tho sais.”

“ s murdor was an accident, clearly; that
was not on the programme.” I

“ No; the follow “‘8 trying to get awa‘nand
had no intsntion oi seriously injuring old

lad .”

“’How about this coachman: isn't this accu-
tiona dovicc to throw suspicion m
an innocent man,and so screen thorsal
lugs asked Purchaso, shgowdly.

own idoa sxactl .

“ Bu’t, like some othorysmart man, hswould ho
better 0!! if he wasn’t so smart.”

“You are right there! I havo had about
ovorybody connected with tho houss s dowod
this fellow among the rest; it didn amount
to on g. but now I think I have got .
clow.

had“.-

had held his tongue.”

at N mt”

“ Hm oithor the man who did the trick, or
also he knows who did do it.”

H My am;andnowthat I find on aroot tho
am. oprnion, Ned, it makes ms t ink I am on
tho truo trail.”

Then, with friendly the two parted.

The police chief wasnct s ow in acti . When
the coachman arrived at the House 0 Deton-
tion, another risonor entered at the same timo,
an undersi man. who said he v- as a tailor,
a ctr-angst in the city, who had had his pockst
flicked, and was locked u: as a witness againt

a man who had robbed im.

“ Wo‘ro full here now.” mid tho grufl
ofiicial in c a ., “so I gue- wo’ll havo to put
you two chaps ono ”

mom.
Tho mon growled a little at this, but thorn
wasn't any help tor it. so away they went.
alono tog

 

When they were other tho two 1011
into mnvsrsation.

“ Which you wouldn’t have had it this (show

'w

M

.——..-- >..- r. ,_ . ,,
.__._— ,v

“Just think! they wanted me to give two
hundred dollars bail l" declared the tailor.

" I’ve got to ive a. thousand."

“ Then there is nothing for us to do buttogrin
and bear it.”

“ Not much !” responded the other. “ I’m not
going t) stay here.’

" Can you raise a thousand dollars?"

“ l've g to. friend that will have to raise it;
he don’tda cio refuse; but if he does, it won’t
be has (by for him."

The tailur’s curiosity excited, he tried to get
his companion to explain, but the Coachman
suddenly became dumb, as if he had already
said too much; and he had, for the sup sed
tailor was in reality one of the keenest (footw-
tivur in the city, and had been put with the

prisoner for the express purpose of entrapping
‘ 11

im.

But the coachman was a suspicious chap, and
after this episode either held his tongue or else
he t a careful watch on it.

nough had been learned. tho 1:, to set the
chief to keeping a good lockout or the man
who “ dared not ” refuse to hail the coach-
man.

The next day the man a peered—a wealthy
saloon-Lower; he went bai for the coachman,
and thrn the detectives “ went ” for him; bus
the affair Lad been cunningly managed for the
saloon-keeper knew nothing cf the coachman at
all, but had been paid byacertainlawyer,whose
reputation was none of the best, to go bail for
the detained witness.

At the lawyer the search for the moment
stopped, for the su rintendent kfiew the slip-
pery linb of the w would never reveal the
name of a client, particularly if there was any-
thin “ crooked ’ in the case.

“ I ut I’ll have the man who is behind the law-
yer if it takes til i” the police chief cried.

A d from that ime forth. night and day a
perpetu- 1 watch was kept upon the le al gent 0-
man, and much t) his annoyance, for e wasteo
sharp not t J discover that he was under surveil-
lance, and as he had been mixed up in numerous
transactions, more or less questionable, he was
in considerablehgpubt in regard to the precise
matter which brou ht upon him such un-
welcome attentions bu never for an instant
ascribed it to the s ple fact that he had ar-
ranged to bail a witness out of the House of De-
teiitioai. f

n t is gameo cross- with the detec-
tives on the watch for evilclence,’ and the lawyer

‘ alarmed and suspicious, it was a doubtful mat-

ter as to who would come out ahead in the long

run.

Plot and counterplot in this quarter, and
while the struggle was i.) program, another he-
gan right in the Plantagenet mansion.

Richard Plantagenet. after coming to an un-
derstanding with Viola. had surveyed the field
of Mann with careful eyes, and formed a plan
of operations which he now proceeded to carry

out.

He had been in the court-room during the ex-
amination. but keeping well in the background,
so as not to be observed, and when it was over
he lEras tihe fill-list to leave. “d

on» n t e superinte ent of lice Rich-
ard's first fdea was that the chief regs ori hand
ready to weave a web around the accused, but
when the affair ended and the doctor introduced
the pris her to the officer. and the judge, super-
intendent, lawyi-r, doctor and Livingstone all
indulged in a friendly chat. the on mancom.
prehended that none of them believgd there was
angthlng in the accusation.

it is apretty hard fact to make the world
believe theta man yorth four or five millions
could possibly put his neck in ril by commit-
ting s i vulw II cum u mu er."he muttered
” he pmergod from the halls of justice. “ if I
had been unlucky enough to have been ar-
rayed on this charge, I would not have t off
:90 said] . He has tried his th the
luv an won the wrestle without a hard breath;
now, he will have to measure wits with me,
and we shall see if he comes oi! with such flying
colors."

le‘bll‘d Plantagenet. for ‘11 bl! quiet ways,
we: a daring, desperate fellow when roused to
act. on. ‘

He had studied over his plan of attack and
Mali not discover‘a weak point ii. it. ,

“The sooner I get to work the better,” was
his muttered observation as he entered the Plan—
tagenet mansion

80 like a spider waitin for an ill-fated fly to
walk into hisweb. Richar sat down by the win—
dow and waited for Danby‘s return.

He came at last, accompanied by the doctor,
who shook hands with him warmly as they part-
ed on the steps of the mansion.

Denby entered the beans; Richard met him
in the hall and asked if he could be favored with
a few minutes’ conversation.

“ Certainly; let us step into the library,”Den-
by replied.

New, although the young man had a suspicion
that Richardwas n i l‘ wad of his and had acted
$0111] and in an undurl-and manner cversince
he had cut. red the H utugt net household, yethe
always treatid huu politely, and, since the
death of his mother, had endeavored to forget

 

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13

 

( the sentiments which he had entertained. Den-

by was of a noble, generous nature and scorned
to harbor resentment without great cause.

He had no actual proof that the other had en-
deavored to prejudice his mother against him,
and although be strongly suspected that it was
Richard who had put the detectives on his track
while he was wandering in disguise, yet he was
not sure.

Knowing his mother’s disposition, be under-
stood that she was quite capable of doing this
herself without hint or suggestion from anyone.
And if Richard had but obeyed her orders in
that business, he was hardly to blame, dependent
as he was on her bounty.

After they entered the library, Richard took
particmar care to close the door carefully be-
hinzl him.

“As I wish to talk to you upon some impor-
tant- business, 1 consider it necessary to be sure
that what we say shall not be overheard by curi-
ous ears,” be explained.

Denby looked a little surprised at this extreme
precaution, and observed:

“ I do not think there is much danger of any
one pla ing the eavesdropper within the walls
of this once; if I detected them so doing they
would not remain here long.”

“ No doubt, but when a man comes to talk on
business that involves a fortune of four or five
millions of dollars, he is not prudent if he is not
cautious.”

Denby stared at this strange beginning.

CHAPTER XVII.
A STRANGE PROPOSAL.
LIVINGSTONE, considerably mystified, helped
himself to a chair, and motioned Richard to be

seated.
, “ it is a ratherawkwardmatter to talk about,
but, business is business.”

And, with a slight pause, he continued:

“ A month 0 you were in disgrace—in exile,
so to speak, an now, within the short space of
thirty days, on are your own master and the
possessor o a colossal fortune—a wonderful
change, you'll grant.”

“ It is not so wonderful that I should inherit
my mother‘s fortune; it is but following out the
natural order of events.”

“ Ah, yes; but just look how improbable it
seemed only a short time 0, that such a thing
should have happened! ow, I am not a bet
ting man, but, i I was, a year ago to-day I
would have been willing to wager ten ears of
my life against a lass of wine—no smalyl odds—-
that you stood a otter chance of being made
emperor over the United States than of getting
hold of the fortune of which you are now in
possemion."

There was someth in the manner of the
speaker in the tone 0 his voice which warned
young Livingstone that something unpleasant
was in reserve.

“ One year age.” he went on “Gloster Plan-
tagenet was alive, and on an he were not on
good terms; he fanci . too, that he had good

ounds for disliking you. You did not pay

mtherespect whicbwas due fromason to a
father.”

“ lie was no father of mine!” exclaimed Den-
by, his face fiushlng. “ My father was a gentle-
man in every, respect, and so the [fly W
that he died a poor man, when by. mply shut-
ting his eyes at certain times, , too mi ht
have gained thousands, and in time swelled
sum total to millions.”

Richard‘s lip curled a trifle; he had no sympa-
thy with the man who neglected to take money
when it was within his reach sim ly because
there might hea doubt in regardto emeralin
of the transaction. _

Denby did not notice the look. but ke t on, for
this was one of the subjects upon whic he was

sensitiv
no, and I will en-

 

e.

“The man is dead and
deavor not to wrong him a the least. There
was a dislike existing between us from the be-
ginning. Lad thou h I was, I thought my
mother was crazy w on she married him. I did
not then understand,» I came to in after years,
how she was fascinated by the wealth of this ad-
venturer—for he was nothin more, and if he
had failed instead of succeeding, all the world
would have said so; but a golden mantle covers
a multitude of sins, and Gloster Plantagenet’s
money blinded the world to Gloster Plantagen-
et’s faults. What was the meaning of the mys-
tery that shrouded all his early ifel Do you
know aught of him in England?”

Richard shook his head.
“ “ N0; nor an body else.” Denby resumed;

His life before e came to this country was all
a blank; no one eVer heard him speak of it, and
when questioned—some inquisitive people will
question even millionaires—he always evaded
81x10 a direct answer.

‘ on’t talk of England,’he would say, ‘ I
have lived so long in this country and prospered
so greatly thati want toforget 1 ever lived any-
where else. lam an American, heart and soul,
and I do not wish to remember that I was o'er
unfortunate enough to have been born in an-
other muntry.’

“Most men, particularly those who rise up
from nothing, after they acquire wealth are

anxious to return to the place of their birth. or,

at any rate, Where they spent their early year s
' in poverty and toil, so as to be able with tLe
pride that comes from success, to dazzle the c yes
of the ple who knew them when they had
I nothing, with the show of their wealth. (Homer
] Plantagenet never returned to England even for
a a visit, and I always had a thought that he
. dared not go.
I “ I may wrong him in this; itis but athought,
‘ and I will frankly own that there is no founda-
. tion for it, beyond the imaginations of my brain.
My mother was charmed by his oily via) 8; and
then, too, his wealth replaced her in the position
from which she was gradually falling for lack
of means. He wanted her tograce his triumph,
as the old Roman victors used to dl ag the cap
tive barbarian lungs at their chariot wheels to
makea Roman holiday. Mone be had won; he
was a great man among the all street kings,
but his position in society was not so well as-
sured ; there was a certain circle in which he de—
sired to shine, but to which even his million
could not gain him free access.

“ When he married my mother he accomplish—
ed his purpose, fer the daughter of aVon Tromp
and the wife and widow of a Livingstone had cit-
tre‘e everywhere. His gold bought my mother,
harsh as it may seem to say it, but itis the truth,
for if he had been r the union would never
have taken place. ut it did not buy me, and.
from the beginning he knew that I both dis-
liked and distrusted him, and despite all his ef—
forts, he never was able to change my opinion
in the least.”

“ And that is why I say the chances were
great against your inheriting his money l" Rich-
ard remarked, a very perceptible sneer on his
face.

“ Not his money, Mr. Richard Plantagenet,
but my mother’s money, the bribe for which she
sold herself to this man who came across theseas
with a dead past to which he was afraid to re-
fer,” Denby rotor-ted.

“ A lucky chance for you that there was a
child born of that union, so that the wife could
inherit all, failing the child; lucky chance, too,
the death of that little girl in infancy,» that in
the anbsence of a will all the property came to
you.

“ Heaven works in wondrous ways; it gives
and it takes away; it'is our kismet—our fate—.
that we are as we are.”

“ It wasa and blow to both Viola and myself,
for we had always been led to expect that on
the death of our uncle we would be handsomely
remembered.”

“ His death came so sudden that he had no
time to am his earthly matters.”

“That was ucky for you again. for he most
certainly would have done his best to have fixed
the money so that you would never have got
any of it.’

‘ He would have found it a diflcult matter to
have arranged it without wrongiu his wife, and
our courts are severe on unjust wi s. ”

" And then your mother’s sudden death, too——
how strange! She had no time to arrange her
affairs,” Richard remarked, flxin his eyes
searchineg upon Denby’s face, w 0 did not
shrink from the scrutiny, although irritated by
it. “ There was another wonderful piece of
luck for you, for there isn’t any doubt in in
mind that if she had been able to attend to -
fairs matters would be diflerent from what they
are now.” -

“ It is pomible, for my mother was irritated,
and most unjustly, against me.”

“That, of- course. is a mere matter of opin-
ion; she believed that she was acting for the
best. And new, Denby, to come right down to
business, on behalf of Viola and n yself—but
without her sanction or any consultation with
her, you understand—I thought 1 would see
what your views are in regard to her and my-
self. We were brought from England b our
uncle; we were told that at his death we a cult!
be provided for, and when his sudden taking of
prevented the fulfillment of that promise, your
moth was kind enough to us and true enough
to th memory of her dead husband to re-
peat the pledge: but a second time the sickle of
the grim destroyer sets at naught human calcu—
lations, and we now have no one to look 'to but
you.

“I have thought ever the matter. Richard,
and I know that my mother would have he that
word had not death come upon her so qu ckly;
and altho h I do not think, since your sojourn
beneath this roof, on have ever been a true
friend to me, yet am Willing 'to let the past
rest ; you are free to make this house your home
as ion as you choose so to do, both yourself
and V ola, and I will give to each of you, in
ash, one hundred thousand dollars—a free gift
without any conditions and with which you can
doasyou like.” ,

“Two hundred thousand dollars out of four
or five million is a mere drop in the bucket l” the
other retorted, scornfully. “ Sup our
mother had executed the will whic she ew
out before her death. in which she gave half her
property to charity and all the rest to Viola and

 

 

myself, with the exception of a fifty-thousand-
dollar nestto be held in trust for you and
yourchil run?”

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“ But no such will was executed.”

“ Don’t you be too sure of that; don’t make
me try to hunt it u . Come, Denby, give
Viola and myself a mi lion between us; you'll
never,- miss it, and it will be better than a con-

“ That sounds like a threat, and I refuse!” ex-
claimed the other, rising in heat.

“ I won’t do anything rashly, but when I get
the will you shall see it; then we may come to
terms.”

And Richard bowed himself out.

CHAPTER XIX.
A LIBERAL OFFER.

“ YES, yes,” continued the elderly gentleman
who had so kindly interested himself in Helen‘s
behalf as they walked down the street together,
“it was really fortunate that I should be we hap—
pened to stroll into the oeurt-room just as I did;
and tortunate, too, that I recollected your face;
but I have really a remarkable memory, and
after I have onre s< r n a fat 6 I seldom forget it,
although the nnme may escape me.”

The gentleman spoke so confidently the girl
did not know what to make of it. She stole a
sly glance at him as she asked herself whether
it was possible she had met him and had forgot-
ten the circumstance; but upon reflection she
was positive it could not be.

His peculiar figure could not be easily forgot-
ten; she was certain she had never seen him be-
fore, and it was plain he was laboring under
some misappre ension.

“ Now, though I knew ou the instant I saw
you—and so much astonis ed I was to see you in
such’a hole—I couldn’t recall your name to save

 

“.Helen Home.” the girl confessed, thinking
its utterance would shew the stranger his mis-

ke.

But it didn’t; he only nodded his head in a
satisfied way.

“ Ah,yes; I was'sure it wasa short and Home]
name, and that was the reason perhaps why

forgot it.”

And the “ senator” laughed at his feeble at—
tempt at a joke.

“ knew you, though, for all that. Why, I

was just thinking about you the other day and
wondering where you was; do you know I never
had anybody since you left who attended to my
correspondence as well as you?”

It was now plain enou h the man was labor-
{anti under a mistake, an Helen must undeceive

“ Pardon me, sir, but you have made a mis-
tak; and confounded me with some one else,” she

“ The deuce I have! Why, it isn’t pomible!”

“ Oh, but it is, air, because I am sure we have
never met before—i never was an amanuensis
for anybody.”

“Quite impossible that I could have made a
mistake!” he persisted. “ Never forget a face,
you know, never! 1 may be a little Weak on
names, but on faces, oh, no l”

“But it is the truth, sir; I have on] been in
the city three or four timn in my e, having
alwa s lived in the country.”

“’ on my life! if I havo made amistaks it
would be the most remarkable thin ! mOst won-
derful resemblance, you know. ut, are you
tive about it? Isn’t your memory a httle

herons? Just try and think now - didn’t
Eon act as a sort of secre to me, nator
nmblebig—J. J. Bumblebig— eflerson Jackson
Bumblebig—at my house just above Tarrytown,
0n the Hudson, about two years ago?"

“ No, sir' ever since I was a little girl I have
lived on a farm in New J ersey, and have never
been away from it ex ,t to come to New York
three or four times, an then I always returned
home the same day.”

" I am really astonished!” the senator ex-
claimed, in a tone of profound amazement. “ I
would not have been willing to believe there
$uld be two people in this world so much alike.

on are the very image of the young lady who
acted as my secretary for a couple of months
about two years ago.

“ She was taken ill and had to go awa ; she

romised to return as soon as she was ab 0, but
never heard a word from her. I can’t explain
toyon how much I missed her, and I have been
on the lookout ever since; she was worth dou-
ble any secretary I ever had, and when I saw
you this mornin I wassnre on were she, but

now I come to t nk of it, it rikes me thdt her
mine was Ellen instead of Helen. Well, well,
I'm sorr .”

y
“ It was not my fault, sir,” said the girl, tim-

id! .

"Certainly not, and, on the whole, I am very
glad the in take occurred for it has been the
means of getting you out ofa nasty position; so
itis all right, anyws . Danced funny. though,
when you come to hink of it, and you must
have had an idea I was ,a little cracked in the
upper storv when I claimed acquaintance with

you so 1 y.

“ did not understand it, and I presume I did
not act rightly in not trying to nudeceiye you,
but} was in such a position I knew not what to

“ii

'That i4 all right, my dear young lady, and I

'out with me.”

“he remarked.

 

am glad the mistake occurred, as it was of ser—
vice to you; and I must say that, since you look
so like the lady I knew, I wish )ou were able to

come and be my secretary in her place. I i

don’t know, of course, how you are situated,
but the salary is liberul— twenty dollars a
month ; you will be an inmate of my household,
up on the Hudson, and you will nd the duty
ogltne position light, and, I think, very agree-
a e.

Had the ground opened before the young girl
she could not have been more astonished than
she was at this unexpected offer.

Here she “us, alone and friendless-a stran-
ger in a great city, not knowin which way to
turn, wrth only enough money in her pocket to
keep her for a'couple of days, and now, like a
good spirit from another world, this stranger
came!

All she feared was that she would not be equal
to the duties of the situation. although she had
received an excellent education and wrote a
beautiful hand.

And this she diflidently expressed, but the sen-
ator, who seemed to be a jolly fellow, laughed
at the idea.

“Oh, I do not think there will be any diffi-
culty on that score,” and then he put a few
questions to her in regard to her handwriting
and kindred matters, all of which she answered
to his apparent satisfaction.

“ You’ll shit, i guess,” he decnied. “Now,
all you haveto do is to let your folks know of
your engagement, and then I will take you right

“ I haven’t any folks in the city, noracqnaint—
ances either; I have inst come from the coun-
try and am like one 10st in lhlS wilderness of
houses.” And she briefly related the strange
experience through which she had passed since
landing in New York. p

The gentleman listened with great attention,
and when she had finished expressed his wonder
at her strange adVenlures.

“ I have heard of that Canary family before,”
“ ’I be old man is a colossal rogue
and socunning that he generally manages to slip
through the meshes of the law, but your trials
are over new; so, if you please, we will go to
the de (St and take the train.”

W it a light heart our P001 Girl went.

The clouds which had enshrouded her ever
since her arrival in the city seemed to be clear-
ing awe and the bright sun of fortune shone
clearly orth.

f Ah, if she could only have looked into the near
uture!

At the depOt the senator insisted upon the
girl g of some refreshments, remarking
that no doubt she needed them.

Helen would have declined, for her heart was
so full of joy at the brilliant prospect which
had so unexpectedly opened before her, that she
had not the least longing for food, but the
“ senator "insisted and she yielded.

Before they started he telegraphed for his
coachmsn to meet the train, and so, when they
arrived at their destination, the carriage was in
waiting. -

“ 1 think you will like Oak Hall,”he said, af-
ter they were in the carria e and on their way.
“ It is a fine lace, so co derod b every one;
it has cost a ortune; but I didn’t not the b
though; the man that did was ruined by it a
I bought the property for a quarter of its real
value. By the way, I never thought about your

e

gag .

b.Helen looked confused, for she had begun to
comprehend now how strange it looked for a
young girl to be traveling without any h.“ e
whatever, and she was just about to expls n
that she had come away in such a bur? that she
left every one of her possessions behin , when he
saved her the tranhle by saying:

“ But, that doesn’t matter; as long as it is
safe where it is, it isn't hardly worth while
sending for it. I will advance you aquartsr's
salary; you can make out a list of what you
want, and my housekeeper will get them for

on. - ,
y Helen was so confused by this kind ofler that
all she could do was to stammer forth her thanks
while tears rose in her-brilliant eyes.

“ My dear, don’t say a word ' t doesn’t make
any difference to me,’ he said, in reply. “ You
might just as well have the mono ‘in advance
as any other way; but here we are ’

As the senator had said, Oak Hall was indeed
a ma iflcent place. The house wasamamive
man on, built out of stone and WM combined,
after the fashion common to England in the
time of the Cavaliers. The estate com rised the
whole of a point jutting out into he river,
about ten acres in extent, and all access to the
mainland was cut of! h a massive stone wall,
pierced in the center wit ponderous iron gates.
A stone poster’s lodge stood by the gates and the
porter, a stout, rather ill icokin German,re-
ceived the “master” with servile umility.

“ This is my housekeeper. Mrs. Sparrow,” the ‘ keeper she could not he]

 

and in a very cold, calm wa remarked that she
would do her best to make e young lady com—
fortnble.

“ Let me see! I guess you had better ut Miss
Home in the lust room in the north ng; and
Miss Home requires some few articles to be pur-
chased. Ge’ the list and come to me for the
money."

The girl was conducted to her apartment by
Mrs. Sparrow,who as Helen thought, looked at
her in a strange way every now and then.

CHAPTER XX.
A nnw Lira.

THE apartment :0 whicu Helen was conducted
was on the top floor of the house, at the extreme
end of the extension known as the north wing,
and from the windows a really beautiful view
of the river and the opposite shore could be ob-
tained.

It was furnished in the most luxurious man-
ner, and Helen, who had never been used to
any luxury in her his, could not iesist an ex—
clamation (f surprise upon being ushered into
the room, which more resembled the chamber
of a princess than the sleeping apartment of a
servant.

“ A fine room, isn‘t it, miss?”

“ Oh, yes; l-eautilull”

And it was, indeed; for not only were the
carpet and furniture of the most costly and
elaborate description, but the walls were
adorned with elegant paintings and hung with
silklen draperies after the old-fashioned tapestry
stv e.

“ Is thergnot some mistake?" Helen queried.
“ It is not possible that this can be the apartment
designed for me!"

“No mistake. miss; this is the room; the
senator new r makes a mistake, and you mustn’t
even hint that he does, or else you will make him
frightfully angry.” responded the woman, in her
cold. hard. dry tones.

“I would much prefer a plainer room. I
have never been used to such luxurious sur-
roundings, and I fear that it will take me along
time to get nm (1 to them.”

“ Humph l” grunted the woman; “ you will be
a great deal difl’erent from the rest. if you do not
only et used to the room, but complain because
it isn finer.”

“The restl—I do not understand.”

“ The rest. of your sex, of course ' I don’t count
myself a woman new, because I am old and
have got through with all kinds of nonsense.
You will get used to it; time enough. It‘s
gnu room, anyway, and you must make out

he contented with it. Now, it you will make
me out the list of the things on want, I will
see that they are got; an on't shut your—
self; money is no more to the senator than so
mucéh”wator when he takes a notion into his
hes .

This seemed all very strange to the country
girl; she could not understand it; but there

was somethin so harsh and r llent about the
houseikeeper t tshe did not] e to ask her to
ex la n.

he wrote out the list and when Mrs. Spar»
row lanced over it her lip curled in contempt.

“ ell, you are modest in your re nirements l"
and then she checked the articles 0 iapidly on
her fingers;- “ Why the, things put down here
won't cost fifteen do rs!”

“ But it is all I can afford, at resent!”

“ Nonsense! You can have a nndred dollars’
worth if you like, and you haven’t got any
dressesdown. You don't su peso you can wear
that one dress all the time, c you!”

Helen Icoked dov n at her garb in dismay.
It was a pretty dress, fashionably made, Hel-
en’s own handiwork, and fitted her superb fig:
fl lilke a glove, though composed of cheap ina-
t a s.

“ I presume I ought to have another dress for
house wear, but I have always been so t
that I have never been able to afford more hsn‘
one good dress at a time,” the girl replied, with
perfect slm licity.

A puszl expression crept over Mrs. Spar-
row’s face, and for a moment she stared hard at
Helen, much to her astonishment.

“ Well, miss, I must say. you are a strange
kind' of a girl, as girls go nowadays. Don’t you
know that it is a crime and a disgrace to be

r, and that no one ever ought to own up to it?

by don’t you tell me that you have got silks

and satlns and allsorts of pretty things at home,

and that you forgot to bring your trunks with
you or some other stupid lie?”

"but it isn’t the truth, madam,” the girl

ed, in her sweet way; “ and lease don’t
speak of home. for there is no such t n in the
wide world for me. I am alone, utter y alone,
and I do not possess a single article beyond
what 1 have upon my ,” and as she made
the confession Helen could not prevent the hot
“ugh-om welling u into her eyes.

Despite the so dis tion of the home-
ing touched by this

senator said. as they entered the house and a l speech,so plaintive-.y de vered_

large, middle aged woman with a stern, hard
face advanced to receive them. “Miss Helen
Home, Mrs. B
the duties of t e secretaryshw.” _
Tn~ woman inclined ler head in salutation

rrow: she is: houtto undertake , thought truth and honesty,and all it-

“ Well, miss, all I have to say is that you are
the strangest young woman I have ever s. eh. i
s-vri. (le
thing, had diet! 4 nt long ago, but u m i. I listen‘
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some left in the world yet. And now,
as for the things you need, you must have a
couple of drones, one for mornin wear and one
for dinner and evening. You wi l dine with the
senat0r—”

” Oh, no!”

“ Oh, yes; that is his rule; you are more than

a servant, you know; you answer to a COD'.

fldential man of business, and you will dine re-
gularly with the senator, so you must have the
dresses.”

“I suppose I must if you say so; you know 3

best, but I cannot afford much for I am only to
receive twenty dollars a month.”

“ Oh, don’t let that trouble you; the senator ‘

is good for a.hundred or maybe two if you feel
inclined to be extravagant.”

“But i do not want to be extravagant. I
want to be as prudent ns sible!"the girl (is.
clared. ” W by, just thin , Mrs. Sparrow, how
long it will take me to save up a hundred col—
lars, to say nothing of two hundred !"

Again the woman indulged in her peculiar
grunt. the meaning of which Helen could not
com rehend. .

“ ell, I will do the best I can. Perhaps on
are right in being prudent, for there’s no tel ing
what will happen. I will get twu dresses for
you and I will take care to see that while they
are nice they shall not be expensive ones.”

Mrs. Sparrow departed, sought the senator,
and told him that fifty dollars would purchase
all the lady required.

“She is moderate in her ideas, isn‘t shel’he
remarked, as be handed over the money.
“ Something wonderful in a woman. I should I fit
be surprised if this one turned out to have more
sense than all the rest of them put together.”

And so desirous was the pro rietor of Oak
Hall that his secretary should ave her things
promptly and properly selected that he desired

he housekeeper to go down to New York in
person and procure the articles. '

So expeditious was Mrs. Sparrow that she was
back by five o’clock, bringing with her quite a
neat little wardrobe.

Add when Helen was dressed for dinner, in
the really pretty dark evening dress which the
housekeeper had selected with excellent taste,
she looked like another creature from the hag-
gard, frightened irl who trembled within the
prisoner‘s box in t a police court. ‘

“Here’s some jewelry the senator said you
might wear,” the housekeeper observed, after
she had flnishedrobing the girl, for she had in-
sisted upon aiding her to dress, despite Helen’s
rsmonstrances.

Then Mrs. Sparrow produced a pair of brace-
lets, a necklace and a pair of earrings, and the
lone country girl could not repress the natural
womanly exclamation of delight that rose to her
lips as she looked upon the s arklin gems:

“ 0h, are they not beaugfull P never saw
anything so beautiful before in my life! Why,
they sparkle as if they were diamonds!”

' Yes, they are very good imitations of dia-
monds, the houses r observed, a peculiar
expression upon her ace. “Not many people
would be able to tell them from diamonds.”

4‘ But they are far too beautiful for me to
think of wearin .”

“ Oh no: just let me try them on and see how

"the will set gm 08. Beauty unadorned is all

we 1 enou h talk about. but it is such orna-
ments as t ass as make women beautiful 1"

And with dextsrous fingers she adjusted the
gems.

The efl'sct was surprising.

“I hardly know myss !” Helen exclaimed,
with a beaming face. " But, someway, it does
not seem ht that I should wear these costly
things, for know they! must be worth a great
deal of money, even theyaro not the real

ems.
-‘ You had better wear them; it is a whim of
the senator: you see he would not be satisfied if
you did not make a 800d I pearance at his
table. You will have to presi overit, rogulnr-
1 , you know, and then, when he gives his am.
by... as he has a great many prominent men
in public Ii 9 as gnu“, and of course it wouldn’t
do not to have on all fixed 115..”
Helen look amazed at in' rare] y never
wasa humble secretary so treated before.
But since the senator was s: kind and gener-
ons, Helen felt that she ought to comply with
his willie. II much as poulblO. find so wore the

0
fix: the table Bumblebig complimented her'

tly upon her improved BDptI= ance,snd, in
is livelv. chatty way, soon at the young gm
completely at her case, and though she had no
sx risnce In t‘ -s rate, yet bei a natural-born
, she presided over the tab e as though she
and; been usedk to it all hvihluifs.
wo weespa swi yawa,tw0 ha
weeks, for Helen’s position was aypleasant :15:
and the work was very light. but. as the senator
explained, the political campaign had not be-
gun yet and until that commenced the real
work did not begin.

All that Helen regretted was that she was not
able to go to the obelisk so as to be able to meet
her lover as per agreement.

A half dos-u times she had spoken to the sena-
tor about going to the city, but each time he

i had something for her to do, so she could not go.
iShe was annoyed, but did not know how to help
i t.
One evening, while she was meditating and
, wondering how she would be able to get to the
r city,t the housekeeper abruptly entered her apart-
‘ men .

“Miss Home, I cannot carry this load upon
my conscience any longer!” she cried. “ You
are walking blindly to destruction, and I cannot

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1 CHAPTER XXI.
THE iiOUSEKEaPER 5 STORY.

HELEN was Sitting by the Window , and as she
had been planning and planning how to be able
to meet the noble, manly lovu' whose image was
eVer before her, her g_.ze had been fixed upon the
moonlit service of the majestic l'lVel', and it
was with a start that she turned and faced the
housekeeper, who, in her ixeitenxnt, Lad en-
tered the room without knocking.

“ What did you say Mrs. SparrOu‘ ?" she
asked, hardly able to beilCVe that she had heard
aright.

“ it is a shame, so it is, and, cold and cruel as
I am, 1 cannot stand tamer by and see you fall
into this old inonster’s pewer Without making
an effort to save you."

“ But I do not understand—what is the
matter?”
“ hush! Let me be sure first that I have not

been followed, and that there is no spy lurking
Without, annous to hear what 1 have to say.
In such a case as this he is very suspicious, and
1 am not certain that he trusts me thoroughly."

She glided to the door, opened it, slomy and
quietly, then posted out mm the hall. be one
was near, so she closed the door again, returned,
took a chair and drew it up close to where
Helen was seated.

H My dear child, haven’t you any idea of the
danger that threatens you?” she asked, her
vaice soft and gentle, and a tender look upon
her face, u~ually so stern.

“ Danger?” repeated Helen, unconsciously
using the same cautious tone that the other had
ado ted.

“ es, s. m0st terrible danger and so near that
I shudder when I think of it, and blame myself
that I have not had the courage to warn you
before. No (10th you haVo thought me a cold.
hard, stern woman—a woman Without pity—~
little charity for any of her sex; and so, too, I
believed I was, but someway you, With your

, little, simple ways, so dev0id of all guile, have
touched a chord in my heart and causod no to
feel as I have nOt felt for years. You are so
young, so innocent and unsuspecting! I have
watched you closely ever since you came into

i this house, and it has been in my mind to warn
you half-a-dozen times, but the demon of in-

, (imprence was in my heart, and I saidto my-

' self—what though she is you

I innocent? Others as young, as

, innocent have been dragged into the dreadful

v ulf; whi should I risk my worldly prosperity

; or the as e of savuig her? But this afternoon
I was tired and laid myself down for a little
sleep, and in that restless slumber I dreamed. I
thought my sister appean to me, my dear dead
sister who fled from this world of sin and sor-
row over twent years 38°. dying wh~n she
was no older’t n YOU. ,dfiing right on ihe
verge of womanhood, in the ash of her bright

; yod beauty. I dreamed that she came to me

an
and said, ‘Martha. have you forgotten your
sister who was torn so rudely away from
on and hurled into an untimely ve?
hink what you would have thou h of a
woman who could have stood cofidly by
and watched me descend to my awful doom
without stretching forth a hand to save me!’
and in my sleep, to the vision, I murmured:

‘ I could have found it in my be.“ to

have killed her.’ ‘Yes,’ she answered, ‘but
what are {on doing now? Will you see
this poor c ild, Helen Home sacrificed, and

make no effort tosave heri’ And then with a

start I awoke. Miss Home, I am not a religious
woman; I don't real] know as I believe in any-
thing at all; but a messa e straight from

Heaven did not come to me th s afternoon, then

no spirit word was ever given and received in
this world. ”
Helen was speechless with astonishment.
“The story of my sister is soon told; it hap-
mnsd twenty years ago; but that vision to-day
s brought the tragedy up as fresh in my
memory as though it was onlyyesterday." Mn.

Sparrow spoke rapidly, on ently laboring un-

der grgat excitement. “My sister and l were
orphans, and Vi 0 came to this country to seek our

fortunes when but little more than children. I

wassevsnteen, and she a year younger. W e went

out to service, i as a seamstress, and she as a

nurse-girl, in the same family ; a walth “11111.7.

the head of which was a great man then and is
so today. There was a son, a handsome fellow
of twenty-five. After a time I saw that there
was a familiarity existing beween my sister
and this young gentleman that their d flerent

positions did not warrant, und I warned m

sister, Rose, against him, and she, poor foo

, beautiful and ‘
utiful and as ‘

issed my check in her old, cunning way '

.his likin

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child, cried and confessed that they were em
gaged tobemarriedl I doubted his honesty.
ut she had perfect fai h and fled with him one
day. He was su pose to have gone on a leak
sure trip to the est, and no one connec the
disappearance of my sister with his absence at
myself. In six months he returned, alone. I,
desperate, in secret asked him for an expiafia—
tion, when to my amaZement he denied in w—
ing anything about my poor child. Ab ed
and humbled I crept from his presence, for Few
could I tell that note. word of his deinal was
true? A week after that I received a letter
from Rose. She was in Chicago, whither she
had gone with this villain, and she “‘15 sifig
and dying. He had married her there, an
then, whv n tired of her, bad eiolly told htrme

[marriage was a false one, and inhunianly de—

serted her. Mad With rage I flew v~i1n ihe lair
ter to his father, and lie—laughed in i. yiace,
and asked What better l, or my f< oh. [1 sister,
could eXpect? Did I think that the son (in.
United States Senator would marry a ti rvaqt
girl merely because she had a pretty lam l and
then, unceremonipusly, 1 was turned out of the
house. I went ti Chicago and arriVed them
just in time to have my sister die in i. y arms.
1 had a. little money which i had saved up, and
I tried to find out about the marriage, and as
near as I could discover it was a luwlnl mar-
riage,thoughcelebratenunderlalscnames. This
was done, he pretended, to evade pursuit; the
lawyer, whom I employ ed, said it Would have
been a very d.flicult matter for my sister to have

row [that s owns really married to this vil—
uin if he had chosen to deny it and had won y
to block the wheels of justice. Thatis my 5»
ter’s story, briefly told, and now I am deter—
mined tnat you shall not be lured to that self—
sanie ruin.”

“ But no such danger threatens mel” Helen
exclaimed, and as she spoke, thoughts of her
mysterious lover were in her mind, but she
could not bring herself to believe that he was
anything but good and true.

“ Why, you foolish child l” Mrs. Sparrow ex-
claimed, “ is it possible that you have been
berg two weeks and yet have no smpicionsjt

‘ N o! What should I suspect!” '

“ Do you not see that this old monsterjs
treating you as he would never treat any young
woman whom he had engaged merely as a ne—
retary f"

" He has been very kind, but I did not beliPNe
there was any evil in it!" replied Helen, now
thoroughly alarmed. ‘

“ If you were not such an innocent you
would have suspected him lon ago. Doesjie
not y you all sorts of comp ' cuts and tell
you ow glad he is that he happened by acci—
dent to make your acquaintance, and then those
magnificent diamonds that he insists upon your

wearing—

“ And are they really diamonds, then!" ,

“Of course they are, and I supposed you
knew it. I thought that you were only pro
tending when you spoke of them so lightly..,_ I
thought you were an adventuress who was per-
fectly satisfied to become this old monster’s
slave, to appear as his wife when he has one
already living and. from whom he cannot get
freei, ,though he has tried and tried, time and

n. . . .

“l, the senator’s wife!” and her
countenance fully revealed how disgusted 1%?)
was at the bare idea.

“ Of course; that is what he brought you here
far, although, as 1 havs told you, he cannot
legally marry, but he can arrange that, ford!

ou pretended lobe scrupulous on that point,

6 would easily find some willing tool to y
the part of a minister or a justice of the  ,
and the farce of performing the marriage s..-
vice would be gone throu h. Then, as lungas
lasted, you eon d reign as mistress
here, an when the fancy passed away you
would be unceremoniously shown to the door
and told to go about your business.” -

“This is horrible l’ exclaimed Helen, in 
agitation. -

Again the wheel of fortune had turned, and
from peace and happiness, at one plungefilm
was hurled to and dessair!

"At first I believed the you wasawi
victim, and not until I saw the precau
which were being taken, did I get the idea

on were an innocent about to be sacrifl _

' room is than at lonely one in all the bug

‘ .

use"

there isn't an occupied apartment near it.
windows are all f oOWn so that
cannot be opened. You might scream at to
top of your lunfi hero and no one Would hus-
Kou. You have reality been agrisonerinthis

cuss ever since you entered i Do yump
member the door in the cos you m
from the main house into is l" .

Helen nodded. _

" That dot r has been locked every night since
you have been hereafter you have retired.»
rest, sothatif you had she ted thetrs you
were in and had attemgt toescape a in
had gone to sleep at nig‘ t, you could not e
got out of this wing. hat circumstance
excited in suspicion, and then m—night, after
you re from the table the old man drank

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more deeply than usual and, for a wonder, got

‘ his brains muddled wrh liquor; it is hard

twice a year that he gels so. ‘ Wren then ine is
in the wit is out,’an«l the senator is nocx ep-
tion to the rule, so he told me bluntly that he
had made up his mind to marry you—and th' n
he laughed, the vile boast! for he knows very
well that I know he cannot legally marry any

, one; and he further Said he thought tomorrow

would be as gooi a time for the ceremony as
any day, and that I must have an extra dinner
prepared so as to do honor to the wedding; so,
to- morrow, my child, he Wlii force you to accept
his suit.”

“ Never] I will die first!”

JUrU then the clang of a closing door came
faintly to their ear.» ,

“ That was in the entry— some one is coming!”
cried Mrs. Sparrow, starting to her feet.

CHAPTER XXII.
THE SENATOR EXPLAINS.

“ 11' must be the senatt l ; Lu one else would
dare to come!” the housekeeper Continued, and
flien she glided to the Cu .or, carefully unlatched
it and peered out. “ It is the Senator, and he is
locking the door that leads into the entry; that
is a bad si n; he is deeply steeped in liquor, too
——-I can tel that by the way he is fumbling With
the lock. He means mischief, but do not be
alarmed; heshail not harm you. I would srrau-
gle him with my own llanos first! ’ and the air
of fierce determination with wt ich she spoke
showed her u and her courage.

She cl the door and then 1 .oked around
for a place of concealment. Tue large ward
robe, a massive piece of furniture placed against
(heal the walls of the apartment, caught her

a e.

y“ This will do,” she said. opening the door and
stepping inside. “ He will nevor dream that
there has been any one in the room and will not
think of searching for a listener. Keep up a
bold heart, and pay no attention to his threats;
defy him to do is worst, and before morning
comes you shall be free from this place.”

Mrs. Sparrow closed the door of the ward-

robe,and as she did so a knock sounded through 1

the'a artment.

He en was dreadfully agitated and excited, 3 himself back in the chair and stared.

hut exerted all her efforts to appear calm, as she
bade the applicant enter.

The door opened and the senator appeared,
butjih an altogether different guise from what
the girl had ever seen.

His face was unnaturally red, his steps un-

steady, and his eyes had the expression which band!”

an;overdose of liquor generally gives.
He came rolling into the room and closing the

’ door, planted his back against it and surveyed

the occupant with what. was intended to be a
genial smile, but the effects of the liquor turned
it into a horrible grin.

“ How'y do?” he ejaculated, with a thickened
umrance; “ ot kinder lonely down stairs, so I
thoughtl won (1 come u and see you for a while,
sans to pass an agree’b e evening. Sit down—
sit down, my dear, anti make yourself com-
fort’ble."

The girl sunk into a chair at the command;
like the most of her sex she had a horrible aver-
sion to a drunken man.

With a laughable endeavor to walk straight

and a pear all right the senator made his way!

ton. air in the center cf the a tment and
succeeded in sitting down upon t, announcing
the fact with a grunt of satisfaction; but,
though so much under the influence of liquor,
his cunning was not impaired.

“ Mus’ be lonesome up here, all ’lone,”te re-

marked; “ guess] will have to come up and sit l

with you once in awhile, kee you company,
you know; fact is, Helen, my ear, I’ve taken a
monstrous fancy to you; never sawa girl be-
fore in thewhols courseof m’ life that I thought
soimuch of on short ’quaintance. Helen, m’
darling, I am in’ to make a confession—an
honest con! on, you know. l’ve taken a
leetle too much wine an’ m’ heart has got the
better of m’ jud ment. I’ve been thinking
'bont s‘ayin’ some in’ to you long time' ever
sence ’most the first time I met you. lzleleu
you’re monstrous fine girl! I think a deal oi
you, Helen; in fact, I think th t it would
trpubl - me to tell you h0w much I think of you.
Now, I’m all ‘lone in the world, my own mu.
ter, you knew—ho folks to interfere, and poke
their noses into my business, and I’ve made up
my mind I DVO you more‘n any woman I ever
saw. Helen. nl’ darlin , how would you like to
be Mrs. Senator Bum llehi ’! How does that
strike you, boy? That woul he a little better
than going in the island for ten days l” and the
old rascal chuckled hclarsely.

Now the girl, uns4 phisticated in the ways of
the world, gave utterance to the first thing that

0 into her mind.

_‘ How can on marry me, sir, when you
already have a ving wife?”
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“An‘ u ho tol-i you that i” be fairly howled.
“I bet a ten dollar note I lgmml It‘s that mis-
er’bleoulhag, Mrs. Sparrow l l’vellani nl’ doubts
’bout that u onlan ever Since you came into this
house. She said then that you didn’t seem to be
like the lest, but was like u reg’lar lady, au’ as
innom-ht us a lamb. An innocent lamb in a
police court, beiu’ sent to the Island—ten days—-
drunk and dim derly l" and he laughed derisive-
ly, while the face of the poor girl grew red with
shame as she thought of the awful trial through
which she had passed.

” Guess l-ho w. ulll have opened thoSe old cat’s
eyes of hers if I i all told her that, hey i” llccon-
tinut d. " But. I didn’t say u. word, ’eos I made
up my mlnri the first time I saw you that you
were] ‘st the kind of girl I Wanted, and when I
saw that ._\'cu wth to play innocent, you
khOW, I tumbled to the little game right away.
’cos I always huh- ve in letting everybody tell .
their Own story; but you didn‘t foo me, you
know—seen tco many girls in m’ time to be
fooled. Now, new-r you mind what t at old
cat says; she’s only jealous, ’cos she thinks that
if you comein hereas my wife maybeyou ll turn
her« ut; but I‘ll h’ist her,though,for this; ought i
to be ashamed of herself, interfering in her mas-
ter's affairs?

Helen felt thet she ought to try and lift the
blnn e from the shoulders of the housekeeper,
lult she was so unused to falsehood, that for her
life she could not bring herself to the task.

" I‘ll g;t rill 0’ that old cat; been here too
long,” he continued. “Thinks 1 can’t go t along
without her, but I’ll show Ill-l ; won’t have any
strikers in my camp. W’at difference dors it
make b) you, anyway! Ill fix things up all i
nice, you klow: have reg‘lar justice 0’ peace,
min‘stel', alderman, or some (-tnrr chop in, y ou
know; tie the knot all right. I say, it’s all
right—he says it’s all rig:t— y-' u say it’s all
right, w’at’s anybody clse’s businlss, hey? I
call you Mrs. Senator Bulnbleblg, introduce
you to all my friends as m’ wife, nobody
’sputes it; it’s all right, ain’t it! Who says
’tain’ti”

“ No no, I can never consent to such a
thin l”

“ ever consent l” and the senator straightened

” No, no! it is impossible!”
“ Blazes! w’at’s impossible?” he cried, rough-

ly.

“ I could not bring myself to become your
wife even if you were a free man; i do not feel
the affection that a wife should feel for her hus-

“ ’Fection be blowedi Don’t care two cents
for ’fection; I’m goln to have on whether
yeti like it or not, an’ t at is all are is ’bout
t!

This was a revelation with a vengeance.

“ You do not know what you are doing, or
you would never dare to say such a thing to
me!” the rl cried, indignahtly, all the hot
blood with n her form leaping in wrath at the
indi nity.

“ on t I know w’at I’m doin‘? Well, I guess
I do!" he retorted. “ You needn’t think because
I have at a bottle or two of wine on board that
I am of? my balance, ’cos if you do you never
madea greater mistake in your life. I know
w’at I’m ’hout. an’ I know who you are,_too,
Helen Waybit I” -

The girl started in amazement as the senator
mnounced the name by which she had so long

n known.

" Aha l" he cried, in drunken glee; “ I fetched
the bull‘s-eye first time, I reckon! See here,
now, my gentle gazelle! You mus’n't ut on
any airs with me, ’cos I know on. hy, if
you had a bit of the right spirit ’ at you you
would go down on your marrow-bones and thank
me for giving you the chance to come in here.
You’ll be safe here for no one would dream of
looking for Helen Waybit in the palatial man-
sion o’ Senator Bumblehig. Biggest chance on
record for you, and all the Herald advertise-
ments in the world wouldn’t set anybody on the
ri ht scent. ’

- my the irl understood how the senator had
guessed at er name. She had been advertised,
and the description was accurate enough, com-
bined with the knowledge he had gained from
her. {)0 (nable him to guess she was the person
so t.

t‘1‘8’I‘ake it easv, my dear,” he continued. “I
don’t want to now what you’ve done—don’t
care two cents whether it’s robbery, murder, or
what. It‘s all right; you're safe here—perfec’ly I
safe, au’if tho detectives should hunt you up. I
I’ll buy ’«m elf; nothin’ short of an army can
take you out o’here. You shall be a queen—
reg’lar queen, an’ all I ask, m’dear little darling
duck, is for you to love me ges‘ a little”,

And wivh considerable rouble he rose to _
1331 feet, as with the idea of approaching the l

r

She was quick to take the alarm.

 

“Do not come near me,” she cried, in an l

*—

didn’t think you would be fool enough to refuse
my lfl’er, but i am allers prepared for the
worst ; an’ now, since you are oing to be ugly
I will jt-s’snow you how 11le can be when I
get r. y mad up. From this time forth you shall
be a prismler in this ’dentical room; an’ you
sha’n’t have anything to eat or drink until you
make up your mind to acoept my offer. I’ll
starve the devil out 0’ you. In three days
you’ll be glad enough to do anything. Jes’ you
put that in )our pipe and smoke it!’

Then, with uDSIPutiV steps, the old rascal re
treated, passed out into the hull and locked tin
door behind hiln, leaving Helen a prey to th .
wildest apprehensions.

CHAP ER XXIII.
'rwo WILLS.

IN a sumptuously-lurnisnell oifie on Broad
street, near Market, in the city of Philadelphia,
sat a Massive-framed gray-haired gentleman
whose appearance deciared him to be a man of
power and pt sltn n.

It is not nweg-ssary for the purpose of our
story to gi s e his pane in full, for Wlt'l a single
slight enluxe only M 116 connected, to we will
simply on [him Mr. D , and say that both as a
lawyer and u statesman he has a national repu-
tation.

He had just arrived at the ofl‘l-‘e and was

 

1 looking Over his morning mail when the n

in attendance broughtin a card with the state-
ment that thehgentleman desired a personal in-
terview With r. D. on important business

The great In wyer‘s time was so taken up that
it was not an easy 1: atter to gain access to him,
as ordinarv clients were always received by his
partnels in the outer ofilces.

“ Edmund Mordauht, M. D.,” said the law-
yer, reading the inscription upon the card.
‘ Merv aunt? Mordauntl I don‘t remember
any one by that name. Are you sure, Joe, that
he wants to see me in personl Hasn’t be con-
founded me with the firm?"

“ No, sah, I gues: not; for when he said he
wanted to see you in ’ticular, I done ax him if
one ob de odder emmens wouldn’t do, and he
said dnt de-y wou dn’t—dat it was Mister D. he
wanted for to see.”

“ Show him in; it looks like business.”

In a few moments the negro ushered in the
applicant.

‘ Mr. Mordaunt"was a youn gentleman of
good a pearance, faultlesst a red, and with a
shrew , intelligent look.

“ Mr. D., yn-u will pardon me, I trust, for my
urgent requestwsee you in person, but I am
interested in some legal matters u n which I
diesirg to obtain the best possib 0 legal ad-
v ce.

The law or bowed at the im lied compliment,
and wav the visitor to 8. ch 1'.

The gentleman set down. drew out his pocket-
book and selected a fifty-dollar bill from among
some other notes.

“ I am not really judge enough of these mat-
ters to be aware or what such advice is worth,
but here are titty dollars to start on, an! if in
your judgment, when you understand the cir-
cu mst’ances, that is not enough, I will gladly pay
more.

The inner nodded iously as he accepted
the hill; great man as e was and Wealthy, still
he dearly loved money. and this prompt way of
doing business pleased him. .

“ Proceed. sir; I shall bepleased to do what
I can for on.” '

_ 'l‘h-l ot er drew a large envelepc from
his breastpocket, took from it a tidal legal-
looking document and handed it to the law-

yer.

“ A will, ehr'Mr. D. observed, as he unfolded
the paper and glanced at it.

The other nodded.

“A copy of the original document. I pre-
sume, as l perceive it is in one handwriting, sig-
natures and all.”

“ Yes, sir.” '

“ Well, what information do you des‘re'i”

“ Is the will all right—executed in due form,
no flaws in it?"

“ I’ll run it over—it seems to b .” Then the
lawyer read aloud skip ing a little hele and
there: “ ‘1, Mary nn rown,’-—not the right
name Ipresumel”

u  ) a.” I

“Uncommon appellation! ‘Bein or pound
mind, etc., etc., last will, etc., etc., u. en l ex-
penses to be pain, 900.; to my son. by my first
marriage, John Sn 1th. Junior, the sum of ten
thousand dollars— Fourth National Bank am
_invested for his benefit—interest to re pr-ill to
him—principal to be dmded among his prelud-
children, u'in the 9WD! of to issue to go to—
Timbuvtm Missionary Society. Belem e 0! my
estate to be turned int: cash and one-quarter of
the sum to my dear oung relutiye by mar-
riage and esteemed f end, Sarah Brown; an.
other quarter to m relative by Harris e and
confidential man 0 business, Thonrar rown'

gazed r..t the girl iora few momen sin speech- agony of fear, “or I will scream for assist-  the remainder to be divided into ten equal
on-

ions astonishment,
stunner.

“Ea. W‘at’s tha‘ ?‘ in stnmmered, at last.

“I asked you how you could marry me when

1001' wife is still living?"

hr the question was aI

l

ance.”

“ Ha, h-l, ha! Well, that’s a good okel” he ‘

replied. in drunken mirth. “ You can d scream
for a week in this room and no one would hear
you; that's the reason you were put up here. I

parts—Home for Ihmnbles—Foreign Mill
a Society, etc., etc.’ Well. I must say th‘
th s is pretty rough on John Smith. Junior.”

“ Is the will all ri hti-will it until—cu
tested!" 8 u

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“ Most certainly! there never lived a lawyer
of: with skill enough to draw a will that couldn’t
be contested.”

“ But successfully, I mean.”

“ That is a horse of another c010i; the docu-
ment is not drawn as carefully as it might have
been, and is somewhat clumsin arranged; still
the meaning is perfectly plain. I presume that
John S nith, Junior, is ik

' H
“'5 as?

“ Well, while the document is, on the face of
it, decidedly unjust, yet the law distinctly holds

thot one has the right to do With his own pretty =

much as he likes, within certain bow-AI. Of
course; the bequest of the ten thousand d liars

to be held in trust arts as an estoppd in John ‘

Smith, J unigr, unless he can prove that his mo-
ther was not of sound mind or was unduly in-
fluenced in the making of this will.”
b: gut is it properly executed—witnessed,

e .

“Two witnesses, I see; the law in this State

uires—”

“ it is not in this State; the propertyis in New

York State.”

“Two witnesses are all that are required. ‘

Did the witnesses know the contents of ihe pa-
per before they affixed their signatures to it, or
was it merely stated to them that it was Mrs.
Brown’s will?”

“ Th’e pape vas read to them at the lady’s re-

-nest

“ That is a strong point in favor of the will,
as it shows that there was no design of keeping
the matter a secret, and they would be able of
com to testify in rzgard to the lady’s con-
dition—that she Was 1 fight and knew what
she was doing.”

“ There is not the slightest doubt in regard to
that. as a hundred witnesses can testify.

“Well, as I said before, it is rough on John
Smith, J unior, but I don‘t see how he can help
himself, and if he should be unwise enough to
show fight, the Timbuctoo Society and the rest
of them would come down on him like a pack of
wildcats.”

“Now here is a second document on whi~h I
want your opinion, but before you examiu-i it
let me t xplaiu in regard to this property. Mrs.
Brown, w ..n Mrs. Smith and a widow with a
good- ized boy, wet and married Brown, then a
vellum. h man. One child, a gil 1. Wu. the issue
of t marriage. but she only lived a few days.
grown died suddenly; no will was found, and

's WlJOW crime ate the roperty—the ropes-t
devied by this will w oh you havepjust exy-
amined.”

M I m."

“ Now look at this,” and the seeker after
knowledge handed the other paper to the law-

yer.

" ‘ Last will and testament of James
Brown,” read the law er. “0110! This is
getting inter. ' , and t is dated two years
previous to the time the will of Mrs. Brown
was executed.”

“ Exactly! About six months before he died.
This paper was hidden away and only came to
light recently."

‘But the estate was settled up in ac-
cordance with the law, in such cases made and

rovidl’d, just as if this will was not in ex-
' nee

“ No one suspected that there was such a pa-

“ A complicated case ; ground enough to
found a romance upon,” commented the law-
yer, as he unfolded the paper and proceeded to
examine it.

“‘To my wife Mary Ann Brewn, all the
etc. ct.c., of whic I die possessed, to have and
hold as long as she lives, and at her death the
entire estate to go to my only child, my da h-
ter ’—the name is blotted so that I cannot ugh

”

" It is so in the original document."

‘“ That‘s stra n89 1"

“Is that paper of any weight in a court of
law 1" '

“ Certainly; it is short, but right to the
point; there could be no quibbling about it.
meaning. It is properly signed and properly
without." '

“ Both the witnesses are dead."

“ Were they well known men, so that their
signir'ur? could be proved!”

At a.

“‘ That is all that is required."

“ What effect does the first will have on the
second i"

‘ it renders it of the same value as a sheet of
waste paper. Mrs. Brown could not convey
the prpperty in which she only had a life in—
tenet '

“ But the daughter, evidently a child by some
former marriage -no one knew that such a girl
was in existence.”

, “ He did, evidertly, or else he would not have
left her his pro ty.”

“ Then the he rs mentioned in the sound will
could not dispute the property with the heir
mentioned in the flrstf'

“ Not with any hope of success, for there
lean ap rauce of fnndonthe face of it. It
looksu malice had kept baokthe first will."

ely to be the contest- :

“Then, when the first will is produced, it is
the duty of the executors to search for the
daughter?"

I “ Precisely! and until the child is discovered,
or her heirs are found, the estate remains in
statu quo.”

“Suppose the girl is dead, leavin
or that no trace of her can be found! ’

“ The widow then inherits, as the heir of her

1 dead child' but let me caution you, my dear
 sir, not to believe that there is any possibility
‘ of that. Experience has taught me that the
l heirs of large estates rarely die, until they come
into their property, or, if they do, they leave a
= lot of heirs behind them.”
i “ Well, sir, that is all,” said the visitor, fold-
ing the documents and carefully replacing them
in his pocket. "‘ Is the fifty sufficient for your
trouble?"

“Yes, sir, quite so; and any; further in-
formation you desire i shall be appy to give
you.

“I am very much obliged,” remarked the
gentleman, bowing himself out.

“A deep chap, muttered the lawyer; “ but
who does he represent in the case? And the
names are real, too—oh, no! not much! If the
estate is abig one, I shouldn’t mind havmg a
fingrr in that pie.”

“Mr. Mordaunt’s” brow was gloomy as he
walked directly to the depbt and took a train
for New York.

“Now, then, what is my game?” he mur-
mured as the iron horse bore him swiftly
toward New York. “And this daughter-is
my guess true? If it is, I hold her in my hand
a trump card, ready to lay at the critical
moment, and what can eep me from win-
mng?” '

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CHAPTER XXIV.
CANARY snoorm’rns.

Mn. GAYAWAY Mun-Lunch sat in his ofiice, a
small a artinent in Fourteenth street, near
Union . quare, his feet elevated upon a table,
and pumng a way vigorously at a huge ci ar.

The private etective was not in up easant
mood and he was giving vent to his thoughts in
words after the semi-theatrical style common to
the man, who. although possessed of a certain
shrewdness, was a great hraggart.

“ Well, now, if this don‘t beat the Dutch you
can take my b otsl" he ejaculated blowing out
a great cloud of ttlbflfimflh'ka. ‘1 Eleven days
._ leven precious days I have been on this
trail, a d nary scent of hide nor hair can I get.
And yet she is here in New York, somewhere.
I would be ready to take my oath that she is;
bu I: where, that is the question before the meet-
ing. Where is she hiding, and why don’t she
come out and show herself, or is she afraid that
there Flu! be trouble on account of her running
away

The blundering booster had little su lcion
that he was entirely to blame for the girl‘s ht,
and that, if he had kept his threats to himself,
he would have had no difficulty in securing the

ame.
‘ “ This is about as m sterious an aflair as I
eve-r got mixed u in,’ he continued. “What
on earth docs the nglishmn want of the girl?
and he’s so darned close-mouthed, too, that a
man can‘t get an idea out of him. It is for
somethin important, of course, or else he
wouldn’t e throwing his money around in this
loose way. It has cost him a retty nny
already, but he don’t seem to min iti ‘ Han
the expmm!’ he saw; ‘flnd the "'1; that is all
I want,’ and I’ve done my low! , but, same-
how I can’t work the trick. I thought the per-
sonal advertisements in the newspapers would
fetch the gal. or, at least, reach somebody that
knew something about her, for if she isiu the
city she must be stayin with somebody, and I

itched it pretty strong): the advertisement of

17 hi mono would paid for reliable in-
format on, bu here’s a good ten days gone and
nary a bite.”

J list then the door opened slewly and a benev-
olent-lookin old gentleman, attired in a well-
worn suit 0 black, peered into the apartment—
snch a man as nine out of ever ten people meet-
ing him in the street would ta e to be a leading
11 ht in some quiet old church.

uttlehud, however, knew the man of old, for
be instantly accosted him.

“ Hallo, Papa Canar , what do you want!
Come in; don’t be frigitened; lain’t (go-t any
of the dc tectives here from the Central co to
DOunce upon you.”

“Oh. mv dear Mr. Muttlebud, on will have
{2m- joke I” the old man replied, c osing the door

hind him. at the same time takin! ‘5 m d
surve of the apartment to make sure that w at
the etective said was correct. “ I am not
afraid of the detectives; why should I bet I am
living on the square, now—have entirely shook
my vile associates."

‘Yes' will a good chance comes tomake a
big haul. You turn honest! Yes, when the
world 0 mes to an end."

“ Ah. You will joke just so much: but 1
have come to see you on a leetle matter of
I War"

. '00; you can’t ro me into an .
Go sing to some other hull): was

 

 

“ You wrong me so much that you make my
heart bleed!” whined the old fellow, trying hard
to ueeze out a tear.

“ )h, stow that gammon! What do you
want?”

“ A little advertisement in the paper attracted
my attention.”

“ Oho!” and the detective tenk his feet from
the tal,i,le; do you know anything about the

t l

“ Vell, I am not exactly sure. I happened to
make the acquaintance of a young girl whose
first name was Helen on a train in J rwv a“-out
a couple of weeks ago when l was coming up to
the City, and she answers to t to description that
you gave in y or advertisement."

“ Two wu‘ks ago! That was the time.”

“ Well, what is there to this thing, anyway!
What do you want of the girl?"

“ Have you got her?"

“ Oh, no.”

“ No use to lie about the matter, you know,”
continued the detective. “ If you have got her
you had better own right up, for if you are in-
clined to be ugly about it, n0w that I have got a
clew, I will be own on you like a thousand of
bricks!"

“ My dear Mr. Muttlebud, you are onl wast-
ing breath by threatenin me,” respon ed the
old man, oilyas ever, an yet with a rust of
snarl showing his teeth, plain proof that he could
ofi’er attle if necessary. “Just look attheinat-
ter ourself; I am no chicken; entire? too old a
bir to be caught with chaff. If had been
mixed up with anythinlg crooked in this busi-
ness do on suppose would have been fool
enough come to you! Do you suppose I
couldn’t have sent somebody else to have found
out what leetle game you was u to? Now, I
propOee to deal honest with you. e giil was
in my hands—in my house, but she isn’t now
although if you can afford to make it an object
to me it is just possible [maybe able to find her
for you ”

“ Canary. if you have harmed that I it will
bethe worst day‘s work 'you ever di in your
life, and you know better than any one else that
you have had some ugly obs recorded against
you in your time!” on uttlebud, in his blue-
terin way.

“ , my dear Mr. Detective, you are not
half so acute a man as you think yourself to
be ” nded the old rogue contein nousl .
“Do you think that if I had uni-m to. i
I would ‘ give myself away’ by ndmi
to anybody that I knew anything about her
:Vhy’} you must think that I am a regular dou-

ey.

“ No, no; the man who pick: you up for a fit
will et badly fooled.”

“ 0 business; for my time is worth too
much to be wasted. What is the informaflon
worth?"

“i ain’t sure that your bird is the one I
want.”

“ She came from South J ersey—somewh-e
luck of Freehold."

“ Blazes!" muttered Muttlehud, to himself;
“ no wonder I missed her. Wasn‘t she a sly one,
though, to cut across the country to Freehold
while I was cooling my heels around the d
at Long Branch?” -

“ The irl excited my suspicions because she
kept me a close month about herself, for I
couldn‘t get a word out of her in regard to her
folks, where she lived, w why she bad‘lefl her
home; but the fact that she was so mun. about
these matters, cou led with the circumstance
that she hadn’t the eastbitof baggage, 11 seems
suspect that she had given leg-ban and was run-
ning away from home. I suspected, too. that
the name she gave me was not her on n. and
from the peculiar wayin which,when we stopped
at a station, she watched the ngers board
the train—a sortof fri htcned ook upon her face
as though she was d that some 0: them were
coming after her—rather led me to think that
she had done something and was afraid of rd“
pursued and captured.

“ Whit; name did she give?”

“ How much is that information WW
3:3” demanded, with a dry chuckle and a

“ Oh, I don’t know that; not much of earth”,
I reckon. All I wanted to know for was to see
if it was the page; I wanted.“ \

“ She answe to the description exact] —-
face, figure and dress: her first name was Bela,
and she was on the train from Freehold in. for
New York, on the morning succocdiilg ihei fl
when, according to your advertise-m ni, she
appeared from her home.

“ Now then, if she fills the bill. and you want
to negotiate, w oil and good, as so, and id!
get to work; if you don‘t mean usiness, spit it
out. and i will shake tl e dust from my feet and
depart.”

Murviehnd looked puzzled for a moment: bet
a quick-u Med man. despite all his brags. bewas
no match for the old scamp who for manyaloug

ear had comfortably supported himself by

‘ trick and device.”

“ Well, how much do you want!"

“ What's your cflerf” ’

“ How can i tell what your informati- is
worth until I know what it is?”

1

l.»

' its“
, ..

. responded Canary, with a grin.

‘ maul”

‘ croft, entered the room.

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“ You are very anxious to seewhat cards I .
hold eh!” 
“ f I have got tobuy your hand it is only fair
I should havoasight at it to be able to tell some-

thin about its value.”

“ can iput van on the track of the girl.”

" That 5 what I want."

“ I in do her acquaintance on the train that ,
morning. as I told you. and when I found out the
suspicnous circumstances that surrounded her, I
came to the conclusion thai she was just the kind
of girl I was looking for; she was fresh-faced, ;
good-lookin , innocent-appearing; one to look I
at her woul never have so .ted the had been 3
up to any mischief, and so reckoned that if I I
could work her into a sort of decoy-duck I would
make a heap of money.”

“ I see; get her into Wealthy families, and
have her find out where the valuables were
kept, so that you and your pals could go for
them.”

“ Ah. Mr. Muttlebud, you must have associa-
ted with very bad men to haw such evil ideas,”

“ On, I know gour favorite game, there’s half
a dozen girls in ‘tate’s Prison now, sent there on
your account, but you always manage to get
clear.”

“ Innocent man. you know! Well, I got the
girl to my home all right, but in an hour or tw0
she contrived to slip through my fingers, and I
tell you she‘s a deep one or else she couldn’t
have done it. I’m a kind of a superstitious man,
and [didn’t try to find her, for I had an idea
she wouldn’t bring me any luck. for she escaped
froma trap that never failed to hold its bird
before; but when lsaw vour advertisement I
thought theremight be a few dollars in the thing,
and so I set out to hunt her up, and I suc-
ceeded. Now, if you want to trade, I’m your

“‘ How much? Name your price.”

“ A thousand dollars, say."

“ Oh. my principal wouldn’t stand that.”

“ That’s the lowest cent.”

“ He won’t give it.”

At that moment the Englishman. Garrow-

CHAPTER XXV.
CATCHING a TARTAR.

Canaan gifted with a scamp’s quick compre-
hension, the moment the Englishman came in
gues ed that the new-comer was the man inter-
ests-d, so he resolved, with instant decision, to
Ignore the detective and do business with the
principel.

“ Ah i this is the entleman, I presume. who is
interested in the elen Waybit matter? How
fortunate it is that I am able to afford him val-
uable information.”

Muttlebud scowled and ave a little gasp; the
owl impudence of the ot or had almost taken
his breath away ; but the unsuspicious English-
man naturally sup that the detective had
spoken of him to t e stranger, so immediately

replied.
‘ Yes. sir; I am the part .”

“ I don’t think we can 0 anything, sir, with
this here cove,” Muttlebud hastened to remark.
aile”wants too steep a price for his informa-

on,

Ca sighed and rolled up his eyes in pro-
test aga nst this insinuation.

“ How much!” demanded Garrowcroft, sharp—

ly.

“ A thousand dollars.”

“Oh. b Jovel Why don’t ou ask for the
bank of ngland, ou know? ow, if you were
to say a hgndred, think you would be deuced
w

“ at for such information as I can give; that
is, of course, if you are interested in the girl and
manxious to recover her. "

" Won’t you take lessi” asked Garrowcroft.

“ Not a pennyl Oh, I could not-I really
could not, in ustiee to in self. for I have been
to conside a trouble an ex use in the mat-
ter. and I can assure on that f you decline to
pay my price and so ve to go without my in-

ormatiou the chances are a hundred to one you
won’t find the girl. even if you spent ten years
in the search.” .

“ Gammon i" cried the detective.

“ Fact 1” Canary replied.

The Englishman had taken a good look at the
old man, as if am to make out what kind of
a customer he to deal with, and now he

e.

“ This tleman may be right ” he said, ad-
dressing uttlebud. “ Perhaps I would save
money and time by graying the thousand. Will
you wait flve minu . while I talk the matter
over with my friend in the inner room?"

the..." we: 

y ted to oblige "replied Ca-
u‘ry,satisiied that is demand would be met.

The Englishman and the detective withdrew
into the little inner office.

“Who is this old rascal. and what don he
know about the girli.” asked Garrowcroft, the 

 

moment they were alone.

Briefly Muttlebud told all he knew of Papa
Canaryand his “ interesting ” family, who spent
more time in jail than they did out o'.‘ it: then he

, .
,. “Whig. ., W  :, n . '

related the story told by the old man in relation
to the girl.

“ How can we be sure that he hasn’t got the

girl in his possession nowi” Garrowcroft que-
ried.
“ Heaven help her then. if she is l” Muttlebud
exclaimed. “if she has been two weeks in the
hands of this old scoundrel and his crew she is a
poor ruined creature l"

The Englishman ground his teeth in a rage.

“ If it is so, may the Lord have mercy on all
of the gang, for 1 11 have the deepest and direst
vengeance that money can buy, and if I can’t
stretch the law far enough to satisfy me, then
I‘ll take the law into my own hands.”

The speaker Wus greatly excited, and the de-
tective marveled at the emotion which he dis-
played.

“ I don’t think, governor, that it is likely. He
wouldn’t have dared to come forward it' he had
harmed the girl.”

“ True, Very true! Oh, I’ll give him his thou-
sand dollars. the atrocious scoundrel! Do you
think he will tell me the same story he told you
show. the girl?”

Muttlebud did not exactly comprehend what
the other was driving at, but he replied that he
had no doubt he would.

T 0 two returned to the outer room.

“Sir, I will not conceal from you that this
gentleinan,”—and he nodded t0 the detective—
“strongly, advises me not to give you the sum
you ask, ut if you convince me that you can
arrange matters so that I can put my hands
upon the girl, I think We can come to a satisfac-
tory agreement.”

“ No d1 lubt, for I can do that.”

“ Proceed, sir; relate to me all the particulars
of the affair, so that I may judge.”

Canary fell immediately into the trap the
Englishman had laid. De-pile his shrewdness
this time he was tricked, for he related in in]
how he had encountered the irl on the train,
how he had carried her to h s house, and how
she had disappeared from the apartment in
which she had been placed, suppressing, of
course, the particulars of ho >v he had drugged
her, intending to make her his slaVe.

“ And when you saw the reward offered for
Helen Waybit, you suspected that it was the
girl whom you had harbored in your house, and
you then hunted her up?”

“ Exactly.”

“ And you can tell us where she is now i”

“ I can, provided you fork over a thousand
dollars.”

“ I think twenty-five will pay you very
well.”

Canary stared; this was a discount with a

van eance.

“ wenty-flve devils i” he cried, in a rage, for
he began to have an idea that the cool English~
man was amusing himself at his ex use. ‘ Say,
Muttlebud, tell this gentleman am not the
kind of a man to be played with."

“ Sir, I assure on you are the very last ar-
ticle in the word I would select for a play-
thin . I am quite in earnest in this matter;
I wil give you twenty-five dollars and no
more.”

“ I refuse—that is all there is about that; I
refuse, and I reckon you won’t be able to find
the girl without my help if you search for a
year I”

Canary made a movement toward the door, .

but the broad shouldered Englishman antici-
pated him and blocked the way.

“Not quite so fast, my friend; I’ve not got
throu h with you yet. ”

“ hat do you mean?” demanded Canary,
much more annoyed, though. than alarmed for
it took a great deal to frig
breaker.

“You are a donkey, sir, for by your own '
confession it is plain you entrapped the girl into ,

going to your house, for if she ad had any idea
of llyour character or the nature of the den over
w oh you preside, she never would have gone.
You have admitted that the girl was with you
two weeks ago, and since that time she has
never been seen, so the inference is clear that
you had something to do with her disa -
anoe; so I ropoee to have you arres on a
char e of a notion. If you haven’t harmed
the l, and know where she is, you can very
easi y get out of the scrape by either reducing
her or glib-in information so that s a can be
found. . uttlebud have the kindness to
ut wolf in communication with the superin-
l’e ent of police with the telephone.”

anary was far too shrewd a rascal not to
comprehend that he was in a tight place. The
chances were a thousand to one that some one
of the nei hbors had seen the girl enter his
house with 1m and would teetif to that eflect
and he well knew his bad character would
wei h heavily against him; so, like a wise man,
r izing that he had caughta Tartar, he sub-
mitted racefull to the inevitable.

“ We gents. he remarked, forcing a sickly
smile, “ I guess you have got me this time. and
seeing that it is you. I will take your offer of
twenty-five for the information.”

“ But we don’t pay the monvv, you see. until
we know that everything is all square!” put in
the detective. eager to how a voice in the mat-

ten this veteran law- '

ter, and rather nettled to think that his princi—
al had devised a scheme which had succeeded
ngetting olii Canary “into a ole” when his
wits had not been equal to the task.

“Of course; I don’t object to anything in
reason.”

And then the old bird of ray related how, af-
ter the advertisement in re ation to the girl had
a peared, he came to the conclusion that the

eleu Home whom he had met on the train was
‘ the youn girl advertised for under the name of

Helen aybit, and thinkin there was some
money in the matter he be gone to work to
hunt her up.
i A single clew only had he—the letter, which
f be explained the girl had left behind when she
‘ had quitted the house— which tale neither of the
l listeners believed, for they had no doubt the
letter had been stolen from the girl. This
letter Canary yielded to Mr. Garr0wcroft. Iu
! this note was an appointment to meet the girl
at the obelisk in Central Park. 80, up to the
Park Canary went, and after careful inquiry he
discovered that a girl answering to the descrip-
tion of Helen Home, or Helen W aybit, had been
arrested in the Park. and was afterward taken
‘ to the cou: t in Fifty-fourth street. To the
lcourt he went, and after a little trouble suc-
ceeded in discovering that she had keen lined,
her flne aid by Senator Bumblebig, an i with
that gent eman she had departed.

Keeping to the track like adetective-hnund.
Canary at length discovered that the girl was
aninmaie of the senator‘s house at Tarrytown,
acting as his secretary.

“ We can decide in regard to the truth of this
story within an hour or i wo. Sir, we will have
to trouble you to accompany us to the heuse of
this senator.”

Canary made no objection, and inside of five
minutes the three were on their way.

CHAPTER XXVI.
A DISCOVERY.

AFTER the interview between the two young
men in relation to the Plantagenet estate. as re—
lated in a preceding chapter, social intercourse
between them was almost entirely br« ken oii’,
for Denby was of that peculiar. open nature
which cannot conceal its ikes and dislike», and
after having offered to make Richard a free
gift of the princely sum of one hundred thou—
sand dollars without conditions, to have him
declare that he thought he ought to have a null-
ion, was the assurance of insolence. and par—
ticularlyso as the young Englishman had in—
sinuated that if his demand was not ci-mplkd
With there would be trouble.

Denby had consulted his lawyers, but, as: be-
fore, they laughed at the idea of Mrs. Plan—
tagenet making a will without their 1.. on i' dge.
and advised the young man not to pay any at-
tention to such a ridiculous surmise.

Under these circumstances there was not much
sociability among the three who now dwolt in
the family mansion. although the giri,_Viola,
tried to be as agreeable as ible, but Wlt‘l her
quick womanly instinct s a saw that. the gulf
between the two young men was growing wider
and wider each day. and understood that it
would be the height of folly for her to attempt
to interiere in the matter.

One day after dinner. just in the dusk of the
evening, all three happened to be in the parlor
I together. It was a purely accidean meetin ,
| {gaggither of the young men courted the other 3
: y,

l Denby was seated close by the window, look-

ing over. one of the evsning papers, when Viola.
had coaxed Richard to come in and turn the
' lane of a new piece of music which she wished
5 to try, and she had got all through with the
laying before either of them disobvered Den-
y’s rescues—or at least so they said.

“ h I’m tired of music !” Viola exclaimed,
' abruptly. “I feel just like reading to-ni m.

Denby, won’t you have the book-cases nuloc ed

so that I can have a book i” I
i “ The book-cases are not locked.”

“Oh, yes they are, for I went for a book this
after-pooh when you were out and couldn’t get
one.

“ Well. I didn’t know it. and I can alums you
it was not by my orders.”

(Emmy said be supposed it was, for you had
t e e .

“I had the ke i What nonsensel” Denby
exclaimed, impa eutly. “Call Larry. please;
he has made some mistake.”

Viola summoned the servant, who was the
waiter of the house, and when he came the
young master questioned him.

“Indeed, sir, I thought that you looked the
book-cases. for I saw the key on the bureau in

your room.”
“Ale Why should I lock the book-

cases
“ ’Deed, sir, I don’t know, but the cases are
locked, sir, and I am certain I saw the key in
one of the vases on your bureau."
“ Well. 1 can’t imagine who looked them—for
I certain) did not, and noone should meddle
with the] arrangements without orders."
“ I didn’t. sir i” protested the servant, quickly.
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is a small matter, though, not worth speaking
about. If you want a book, Viola, Larry can
get’you one as long as he knows where the key
is

“ What shall I send for!”

“ Have you read any of the Waverley novels
lately 1” Richard asked, and she answered with
a shake of the head.

“ l‘r y one of them,” he suggested.

" Which one?” -

“ Oh, it doesn’t matter, let chance decide;
let Larry bring you whichever one he thinks
proper."

“ It will be as good as a lottery, won’t it?
Well, Larry, if you will be good enough to go
to the library and bring me a book; you choose
for me :, it doesn’t matter which one, any of the
Waverley novels.”

“ Yes, miss,” and the man departed.

“Here's u chance to win a pair of gloves!”
crii'd the girl. “~ Richard, I will bet you that
you rannot name the book he will bring.”

“ That is a safe wager, for the chances are all
in your favor, and [beg leave to decline.”

She hantered him about his lack of courage
until the servant returned.

He had chosen “ Rob Roy,” delivered the
book and then retreated.

“Oh, I‘m afraid that I shall not enjoy this
very much!" Viola declared, with the charm-
ing pout which became her beautiful face so
well. "If I remember rightly, it is all about
fighting, and horrid, rough, savage pe0ple who
talk in the most outlandish way.”

. “ You haven’t any Scotch blood in your veins,
it is evident. or you would never dare to asperse
the Highlanddialectafterthntfashion 1” Richard
declared. “ But you can lmk'at the ictures if
you don’t like the dialogue, for the i1 ustrations
are beautiful.”

.The edition was a magnificent one, large in
size and splendidly illustrated.

“ Here goes for the pictures. then!” The girl
openedthe book,and as she did so she exposed
to view a folded paper which had been snugly
hid between the leaves.

1_ “ Oh, my! what‘s this?” burst from Viola’s
l
y,” su gested Richard.

‘31 rise

Denby lock up from is newspaper, big at-

tention attracted by the exclamations.

I: XV?“ is it i" hebasked. /
etter. or a usiness paper of some kind
hidden away in this volume.” ' ’
“ That’s odd!” he remarked.

“Examine it and seewhat it is,” said Rich-

i

ard.

Viola turned the paper over; there was an
inscription on the other side, and she read it
aloud:

“The last will and testament of '

Trump Plantagenet." Mfllld. v.11

There was a dead silence in the room for a
moment, and the three gazed upon each other
with wondering eyes.

The girl was the first to speak.

“ What a strange place to put a will 1”

“Oh, no; I have read of Just such things be-
fore ” observed Richard.

“Yes Ihnve read ‘of such a thing in a ro-
mance. but I thought it was all pure fiction,

I and i never behaved that such things did hap-

pen intreality.”

“ Where else do the writers draw their in-
spiration but. from real life?”

“ Open the paper and read it, Viola, and
then we will know whether it is what it -
ports to be or not,” Denby observed. not a all
ages-ted by this mysterious and unex ted dis-
covery, except that it set him to watc g Rich-
ard’s countenance very intently.

(‘1 your rdon, Denby, for interferin
but 633% you t ink it would be better for ya;
to exnmlDO the paper and make ourself master
of its contents before you no t to the world!
You era the head of the amily, and by ri ht
entitled to examine any Mich Paper as this
fora any one else."

Donby’s lips curled slightly, and there was a

Will look in his e)‘¢'- n
‘fBichard, on are r88 V STOW!“ i-
movhs.” he reymarked. “ 0"”. ow [have
wrongedyoul I never should have been will.
ing to believe that you would yield to any such
neroua sentiments- cu the contrary. I would
va been certain that you would not scrapie
to hka advantage of an and all means to ad-
vance your fortunes. If this :8 my mother’s
will, it is, doubtlem, the pa of which you
gpoko the other day when t we convened
the moot—New of which you knew
something I knew nothing, strange as that
may appear to any “prejudiced observer. If
your statement of the contents of that paper
wascorrect, then both you and Viola have de-
cided] more interest in the matter than I,
therefbre I prefer that one of you should ascer-
what the document really does contain.
5f you place it in my hands and it strikes the
blow at my fortune which you icted, I
mightbecapable, if I were a wic ed man, of
attempting to suppress it altogether.”
not. for shame. Denby, to speak in that
my 1" Via]. exclaimed. her face flushirg. “l
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and myself have the utmost confidence in your
honor.”

“ I echo Viola’s sentiments!” Richard hast-
ened to add. ” I have the most perfect trust in
your integrity, and as I consider you the only
proper person to examine this paper, I must do—
cline to do so first.”

Viola brou ht the document and gave it into
Denb ’s ban a, saying:

“ ou must read it, for no one else will.”

In the last few weeks the experience of years
seemed to have come to the young man. He
had become distrustful, and had learnedto trust
more to the actions of those by whom he was
surrounded than to their words. He was satis-
fied that Riche rd Plantagenet was a crafty
schemer who would not hesitate long lefore
using any means which he thought would attain
the end he sought.

In this mysterious appearance of the will he
sus ected a trap. His mother, of late years,
ha not been much given to reading, and he
thought that a book in the library would be the
most unlikely place in the world for her to de—
pOsit such an important document as her will:
so it was with every sense on the alert to guard
against tricker that he unfolded the paper.

He read it t rough carefully, and then look-
ing up, commanded:

“ Listen, while I read.”

And he proceeded to clearly rehearse the con-
ientsof the paper nloud.

The reader is already familiar with the char-
acter of this paper, for it was the same as the
one the stranger had sut mitted to the Philadel-
phia lawyer as the will of Mrs. Brown.

“ But this will rob you of your fortune,
Denby l” Viola exclaimed, her eyes Opening
wide.

“ Yes, if the document is a genuine one.”

“ ()h, but we can settle the matter among
ourselves, since we alone are interested. We
can pay these sums given to the charitable in-
stitutions, without making the will ublic, and
we can amicably arrange to divide t e remain-
der. I am Sure neither Viola nor myself wish to
reduce you to a bare annuity, Denby,” was
Richu rd ‘3 declaration.

“ The document is not worth the paper upon
which it is written l” and Denby threw the will
disdainfully to Richard. “ Take it! do with it
what you please. It isa fraud, and I will not
be beaten by trickery 11’

And in heat the young man quitted the apart-

ment.

“ It will be war, then. after all !” Richard re-
marked, fr0wningly, “ and war to the bitter end
I will make it. tOO! '

CHAPTER XXVII.
our IN 'ras NIGHT.

Tint housekeeper was pale, but stern resolve
was stomped on her features. when she made her
appearance from the wardrobe after the depart-
ure of the senator.

“You see, m dear. it is exactly as I told
you. The old rute has thrown on the may
now ; he thinks you are completely in his
power, and 'is reckless in regaru to the conse-
quences.”

“ But surely he would never dare to carry on
his three tsi”

“Most certainly he would! You are here,
helpless, a prisoneruin his hat-£3. n0,possible way
ofesca e a ran y,0pen you.

“ But? I nglald never consent to this infamous
marriagr—I would a to the minister who
came to perform the ceremony and denounce
this miserable old wretchl”.

“ On, he won’t have any real minister. It will
only be some rascal dressed up; that is to quiet
you you know, so as tomake you believe ou
are is wife. There'l been many a poor, foo ish
girl lured to her ruin by some rich scoundrel

retending tube in love with her and flattering

er vanity by offering to make her his wife.
It’s an old saying that charity covers a multi-
tude of sins, but if it was said that money
coversa host of crimes it would be far more
true. What chance would a poor, wronged girl,
without money, stand, opposed to this mm,
backed by both wealth and litical influence!
He has entrapged you, and e is confident you
cannot escape im.

“ I will not consent to a marriage, and surely
I cannot be forced into one!" i

“ Why not i”

“ I will resist even unto death.”

“ If he finds you are d to be obstinate,
30 will not use fgil'dcei‘ b’ut cunning. He will

W your food or n .

“ h, horror!” cried the girl. terribly alarmed,
for the manner in which she had been dosed
by the Canary tribe was still fresh in her mom:

 

0".
“ You are a prisoner here and will not be re-'

until you consent to marry Hm.”

“But \ou will aid men—you Will not “00 me
sacrificed bv this inhuman monster?” cried
Helm. In imploring accents. .

“No. ygn shall not fall his Victim if I can
you. '

“ It will cost you your place; I did not think
of that.”

“There i~n’t the lust fear of that; he would
find it'difflcult to get any one to attend to his

 

' houseand keep it intheorder I do, and he knows

it well enough. Besides, I had just assoon go
away as not; I have been a saving, prudent wo-
man, and have put by enough to start me nicely
in some little business from which I can make a
good living. I am sick of this old villain and had
rather go away than not. "

“ But. if the doors are locked, we are both
prisoners!”

“Oh, don’t fear about that; I have the sena-
tor‘s own pass-key, which will open any door in-
the house He dro ped it at dinner to—day and
I found it after he sit the table; it wa< a luck
chance; the hand of Heaven was in it, for if
had not found the key it wruld have been a dif—
ficult matter for me to have arSthGO you to-
night. As it isI can do so, and no one Will be-
the wiser. Now dress yourself, takeiff all the
things bought with his money and put on your
own again; be careful not to take with you a
single article which “as purchas: d by him. for
he lsa mean and petty man despite his wealth
und station, and would be eupanleot’ having you
arresed for theft if he could succeed in overtak«
ing F in.”

" hat would be horrible,” murmured the girl,
as she dist-obed hurriedly, and put on her own
garments again.

“He is a malicious monster when aroused,
but; this time he shall be bullied. Have you any
money?” . ,

“Only a little.”

“You must have mone or else you cannot
get along. Here are ten ollars for you,” and
she took from her pocket some bills and a note
securely sealed. “Do you know how to reach
Jersey City ?”

“ Yes, ma’am.”

“ Here is a note to a lady friend of mine who
lives there; she keeps a few rs, and I
have asked her to ta e you for a week or two,
while you are looking for something to do. Her
address is on the note. and any one will tell you
where the street is after on get over the terrv.
It Will not be necessary or on to explain v hat
has taken place here. or be reason why you
were compelled toleave. Perhaps it would be
better not to mention this house at all. You
can simply say, as I have said in the note, that
you are an acquaintance of mine—that y u have
just come up from the country, and that I have
promised to assist you in getting WOTF : not! ing
more will be necessary. She will receive you
and look to me for her pay.”

Tears of gratitude stood in Helen’s eyes when
the housekeeper finished her speech. Surely
Heaven was good to her to bring such a friend
to her assis' tance in this her hour of mortal
pen .

She stammered forth her thanks, but Mrs.
Spaiérow turned a deaf ear to the heartfelt
wor s. .

“ It is my duty, child—my duty to assist you,
and I am thankful that We met, for I feel like a
Christian woman again." ~

And now Helen, completely drencd,announced
that she was ready;:

“I will 'go on fore and see if the coast is
clear, for it would spoil all if any one ‘saw- you
leave the house. I 0 not think there is much
danger, then b, for at this hour the servants
are either all n their rooms or else congregated
in the kitchen.”

80 the housekeeper went first, unlocked the
door which led into the main building—as she
had anticipated, the senator had secured it so
that the risoner should not escape—then, after
aacerta ng that none of the servants were lin-
gering about in the hall, summoned the girl to

descend.

The reached the front door and out
into t e darkness of the night without seeing—
or being s..en—by any one.

The housekeeper had caught up a light shawl
and thrown it over her head as a protection
against the dews of the night.

“There is very little dang 1‘ now of our being
observed, for the porter’s family are almost al-
ways indoors at this hour,” Mrs. S ow said”
a as)” approached the stone lodge which guard-

ega .

Fortune was favoring Helen on this occasion.
for they passed by the house, and out through
the gate to the road beyond, without detection-

“ Now on are tolerahly safe.” Mrs. Sparrow
remark , drawing a long tresth. “ You must
keep straight on in this road; do not turn either
to t e flarht or left. and it will bring you to the
depOt. There isa train for New Y--rk at half—
past nine, and you will have plenty of time to
catch it. w ten you reach the city take the cab
line 'at the depdt which connects with the idle-
v'ited Railway and tell the conductor to let you
off at the Cortlandt Street F. rr} . You will?
get therein n couple of hours. and you will find
the f In at the boarding-house up forthey keep
late hours. and seldom go to bed heft re twelve.
I will come down and see ycu as soon as it is
ante, for [ am afraid the old demon n ey fill-pa“
that I have had a hand in helping you topscspe,
and if he does, he in quite capable of settirp a
watch upon me with the idea that T will be t pt
to communicate with you after a while: svif vu;
do not either see or hear from me witt iv a W“ k.
or two you need not be slam-ed.
plained in the letter which I gain: you that it.

I have ex-fl

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might not be convenient for me to come to J er-
sey tor some little time. I am determined this
old scoundrel shall not recapture you, but I have
no doubt he will do his best to find out where
you have gone.
you to keep in the house until I come or write
you what to do. He is none too good to put the
police on your track with some trumped-upstory
that you have stolen something from the house,
Of course, from what I heard him sayI know
there isa mys'ery connected with your life, and
he, like all evil-minded. brutes, thinks you would
be air-aid to inv .ke ism assistance of the law to
protect you from his inrsecution; but I cannot
bring in.self tot ink in that way. If you are
not a good girl, without; (2 .use to be ashamed of
an thing you have i ver done, then I am no
ju e of human nature."

“ t isthetruth, Mrs. Sparrow!” replied Helen
earnestly, “and when l hawun opportunity I
will tell you all of my simple story, and you
shall judge for y ou rsell.”

“ 1 am satisfied to take your word for it, my
dear; but go now, und'Heaven bless and watch
over youi Do not be a raid, although the road
does appear so dark and gloomy; there isn‘t the
least dan er, and the annces are that in the
mile or so etween here and the station you will
not meet a single person. I very o' ten 0 down
to the village after nightfal’, and it is 89 dom in-
deed that encounter any one either going or
coming, so you must not b 3 alarmed. Hurry
right along, and when you come to the depOt do
not go inside, for some one may notice you and
sogive the old villain a clew. Remain in the
neighborhood until the train stops; then get on
board and pay your fare to the conductor, and
thus baffle pursuit."

Ag iin Helen thanked Mrs. Sp'irroe' with an
eloquence which plainly showed the wordwame
straight from her heart; there wasa parting em-
brace and the girl hurried i. w: y.

Mrs. 8 new watehed her until her figure
vanished n the darkness which vailed the r all.

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: the door, which was unlocked, and entered the
room.
I

than described.

The unrufiied appearance of the bed, showing
that it had not been occupied, was a clear proof
that the girl had got away during the preceding
evening, yet how she could have succeeded in
passing the locked door was a mystery.

“ Oh, I have it!” he cried, in the most violent
rage; “ there is a traitor in the camp, but who?

Mrs. Sparrowl She is the only one in the house
who would dare to do it, and there is a possi-
bility that she has got a key which will unlock
that outer door.” -

He hurried down-stairs immediately, and had
all the servants summoned, much to their won-
der. '

It 
the night,” he declared. “She ran away to
avoid the consequences of her crimes. I discov-
ered last evening that she has been stealing ever
since she came into this house; she ooiifesse i as
much to me when I charged her with her crime,
and begged me to have mercy upon her. I told
her I would think the matter over, and would
decide this morning, so I locked the door leading
into the win so that she could not escape in
the night. ut she has maua ed to elude my
vigilance. Some one has un ocked that door
and locked it again with a false key, and so
permitted this vile little wretch, who turned to
bite the hand that fed her, to escape. But I
shall pursue her instantly, and give warning to

the ipolice. I am not to be robbed with im-
pun i
As rs. Sparrow had foreseen, the old knave

was going to play the old game of false accusa-
Hull.

“ Now, then,” he continued, “some one of you
people here have helped this girl; somebody has

 

“ Well there's one good deed l have done in ‘

my hfel’lshe exclaimed, in a tens of great satis-
faction. “ I thoughtmy heart had hardened into
stone but I guess it is still flesh and iilo ii, i. n or
all. Now to return and prepare t » face t is ~in
rascal. There will be a precious row kirk. d up
in tie morning. but he will get as good a. lie
sends fro 0 me.” And she retraced her steps to-
ward the in ill”.

As her tail figure vanished amid the gioom
and the sound 0 her footsteps died away in the

I distance, three men all mum-ad up in dark

coarae ove. coats an with slouch hats pulled
down over their foreheads, came from a clump
of bushes by the wayside. They listened for a
moment as if to be certain that the housekeeper
had no intention of returning, and then with
rapid, noiseless steps stole after the girl.

CHAPTER XXVIII.
ran PURSUIT.

Buxsnnnio had made up his mind to use de-
cisive and desperate measures with the girl.
He had studied her intently durin the two
weeks that she had been under his roo , and was
satisfied that she was not to be tricked so easily
“the common. vain, foolish women whom he
had hitherto encountered.

Despite the fact that there seemed to be a
cloud around her when he had encountered her,
and ‘he fact that she was advertised for in a
public journal, gust as if she were a criminal

mm justice, ye he saw that she was not dis-
posed to yield a ready consent to his wishes.

When he awoke the next mornin —tbe one
which one eeileul the night on which‘ e had re-
vealei the name of his plan to Helen—his
first thought was in regard tothe best way to
break the stub'iorn spirit manifested by her.

“A little wholesome starvation will be as

asanyt'wing, I guess,” he murmured, and
hen he happened to glance at the clock. It
was after nine; the senator had evenlept him-
self—a natural result of the violent spree in
which he had indulged on the preceding night.

“I will go and see her the first thing. h
murmured ~“deliver to her my ultimatum.
Perhaps, now that she has had timeto think it
ever, she may be inclined to,be more reason-
able. The female sex are proverbialiy uncer-
tain; I have kn -wn a great number of them to
comm-thee bv saying no,’ when. all the while,
thev intended to wind up by saying ‘ yes)”

The senator was tryin to deceivo himself. for
in truth he did not an icipate that she would
“ weaken.” as he would haVe ex ressed it.

After his toilet was made. umbleblg went
straighttothe young woman’s apartment: the
door leading from the main building into the
wing was looked just as he had left t on the
goosding night, and he chuckled as he turned

okay in the lock. .

“When she attempted to get out this morn~
ing she must have been very much astonished
to find she couldn‘t. Just about that time, I
guess, she came to the conclusion that she had

amanto deal with who meant every word
said, and that is the kind of a man I am!”

He proceeded smilingly along the entry toths
doorof her mom. knocked. then waitel for the
newer. As none came he knocked Iain, an
than. rather mystified by the silence, opened

. got a key to that deorl

I don't want to be hard
on you; all of you have been with me a good
while. and have f iund me a kin laud indulgent
master, and I don’t wish to send any of you to
prison, as I shall have to, unless the guilty party
o was right up. 1 do not suppmo, of course,
that whoever let the girl out had any idea of
what sue had been up to. She may have iold a
pitiful stoi y, and i understand haw such an art-
ful hussy could impose on anv one very easily,
moause she fo-iled me. and 1 fi utter myself I am
not a man who is easily fooled, either. Come.
make a clean breast of it so I can get on the
girl's track, and i will look over the matter this
time and say no moi e about it.”

But not a soul op die; they only gazed at each
other with inquiring faces.

“ I know who it is, now i" shouted the senator,
beginning to get i'rightfully enraged. “ I‘ll ive
the guilty party the minutesto speak!“ an he
took out his watch.

The servants only stared more surprisediy
than before, ve much amalod, but not par-
ticularly alarm , for they were all accustomed
to their master’s violent fits, which-rarely lasted
long or did much damage.

“ Five minutes are upi”

No one stirred.

“ Mrs. S rrow, you are the one who let that
girl on l” he senator cried, shaking his finger
menacineg at the housekeeper.

“ ell, sir, if you believe so, I do not sup-
pose it will be of any use for me to attempt to

me my wages, I will go," r lied the woman, in
a manner possib e, dr0pping a cour-
Yo

“ No, you won‘t! Not until you tell me
:lhgre that girl has gonel" fairly howled Bum-

e .

“i you know, sir, how to make any one tell
what they do not know, it is more than 1 do.”

“ l’ll have you in a police court!”

“ I am ready to o, sir, as soon as you are,”
and the woman di not seem to be in the least
mrwe ‘

Bu mblebig ground his teeth in rage. His
threats were impotent and any one knew it

“ See here, now. Mrs. Sparrow: I don‘t want
to do anythin unpleasant," he remarkedz mak-
ing a great e on to control his temper, ‘ but I
must make an example of that wretched girl.
It isn’t the money she stole; it is the idea of her
doing such’ a thing after I fairly picked her out
of the gutter. I’ll give you fifty dollars if you’ll
tell me where that girl has gone."

And the senator pulled out a big roll of bills to
give due emphasis to the odor.

" Lor’, sir, I’d liketo take the money, but it
i would be only robbing you. How should I know

anything about the girl? She was a kind of a
haughty, proud thing, and never took much no-
tics of anybody."

“ Get out the carriage l" Bumbleb roared,
satisfied that he couldn t extract any nforma.
gourom Mrs. Sparrow by either threats or

ri .

When the coach came the senator hurried
down to the station.

The «master was very civil, indeed, but

 

not the information uld he give in re-
gard to the fu tive. In t, he was quite
certain she b not taken any train the pre-

' His ra e, when he discovered it to be empty— ,

who? Who would dare to brave my anger?.

secretary has absconded, like a thief in l

deny it; so, if you will haVe the kindness in pay .

l
l
l
l

i that the ird had flown, is more easily imagined i

 

l Vious evening unless she had gone before seven

O'clock.

“ No, it was after seven, for I saw her at the
house at about seven.”

“ Then I am certain, sir, that she did not take
a train at this station, for I have noticed every
one who got on and off. I came on duty at
seven.”

“ Ah, but the little wretch, no doubt, was
smart enough not to buy a ticket, and probably
jumped on the car from the opposite side of

' the track just on purpose to escape observa-

tion.”

But the station-agent was positive he would
have noticed her no matter which side of the
track she had been on, so the senator was re-
luctantl y forced to the conclusion that she had
been shrewd enough to go either up or down
the road to the next station, and there had taken
the cars.

“It is rather late but I will do the best I can
to head her ofl',” Bumblebig muttered. as he
proceeded to the telegraph office with the idea
of telegraphing to the police in New York to
be on the lookout for the runaway, and to ar-
rest her the moment she was found, on the
charge of theft. But, when he began to write
the message, it suddenly occurred to him that
he couldn’t givo a very accurate description of
her dress.

So the senator was obliged to return to the
mansion in order to examine the things in the
girl’s room so as to find out what she had worn
aw av.

Bumblebig was a regular old woman in some
particulars, and unlike the most of mankind,
was familiar with the details of a woman’s
wardrobe; therefore he knew exactly what
Helen had worn when she fled.

“The little beast hasn’t taken a thing but
what belongs to her," he growled, in great dis-
satisfaction. “Never mind; l’ll swear that I
dropped ten dollars in the room here, and when
I came back after it. I found that she had gone
and so I knew she had found the money and tied
with it. That will do; if I cannot have who
secretary, I will get square with her, any-
way.”

An hour afterward all the police in New York
were on th - watch for an absconding girl,
named Helen Home, accused of having robbed
Senator Bumblebig of Tarrymwn.

“She can’t escape me very long,” was the
comment of the old sconnilrel after this precious
piece of work was performed, and he was on
the road t) his mansion, hungry for his hmk-
fast, for so absorbed had he been in the wait
that he had not stopped to take a mores to eat
since he had ot out of bed.

But when 0 got to the table he could not
en'oy the food, being so full of rageandoha-

n.
“ Oh, I’ll be even with the jade if it cost me
a thousand dollars!" he fumed. .

 

CHAPTER XXIX.
a s'roainr mrnavrnw.

THE senator got up from the table with the
feeling of a man who had breakfastm upon saw-
dust aud dish-water, and barely had he . at c« an-
i’ortabliva seated for a perusal of the morning
journa when word was brought that son»: gen~
tlemen desired to speak with him.

With a very ill race indeed thesenator went
to ascertain what is visitors wished.

He found three gentlemen in the ball—the
same three who had started that morning from
the private detective’s office on Broadway to
hunt up the girl.

There was Garrowcroft. the Englishman, Hut.
tlebud, the detective, and old Canary—for the
old scamp had been forced to come along," the
Briton had declared he would not pa y him a
cent until he an ertained that the information
which he had given was correct.

Canary bani remonstrated, but the 308'”.
man was 1 kn a rock, and the old confidence-man
was onliged to yield.

Gargowcroiitflacted as kmgi:;lle:nxl;
to niheg was-cum en
mnical calwnl-‘TuSMI disappeared and he was
never more exr .

“ Senator Bumblebig!” he asked.

“ Yes, sir. ”

“ I have come in reference to a young lady
who is now beneath our roof, I be. . v...

The senator 0 his eyes. .

“Miss Helen ome is the name
understand.” .

Bumblebig did not understand this at all. and
rather resented the idea of anybody troubling
themselves about his affairs.

“No such person here,” he responded, short—

1 I

y“I beg our pardon, but are you not mis-
taken!" a ed Garrowcroft, politely. yet with
tr -air of a man indisposed to stand any non-

sense. .
humblebig e loded; he was just in a good
condition to gefln a row with somebody.

“ Great Cmsarl” he exclaimed: “ am in m¥
own house, or am I not! Get out of here. or
will have my servants kick you out.”

Canary commenced to edge toward the door.
but the other two stood firm.

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«'ggl‘he Hawks and

 

" No, you won’t!” cried the Englishman. i

“No, you won’t, hoss flyi” echoed the detec— ‘
tive, never more in his glory than when lie had
achance to bully some one. “I want you to
understand that we came here on business, and
we don’t want any gulf!"

“1).; you know who I am?” roared the sena-
tor, red in the face with rage at the idea of be-
ing defied in his own house.

“ b‘ir, it does not make a farthiniz’s difference
to me who you are l” retorred (lari‘owcrol‘t. “ I
have come here on business, and I do not pro-
pose to go awa without transacting ii. You
brought the gir , Helen Home, from New York,
about two erks ago. I have ascertained in
the village that she was in this house yesterday,
find do not intend going away without seeing

er.‘

“ N i, we don’t! Put that in your pipe and
smoxe it!” added the detective.

Canary, all this while, prudently getting
nearer and nearer the door, for the servants had
commenced to gather in the hall, and the pros-
pects for a row seemed excellent.

“The girl was here—a beggar that I picked
out of the gutter, and she repaid my kindness
by stealing everything that she could lay her
hands on, and last night giving leg-hail.”

“ What! That poor child steal—you infamous
old scoundreli” exclaimed Garrowcroft, white
with passion.

Bumblebig got as red in the face as a boiled
lobster.

“ You villain! Do you dare to come here and
insult me in my own house?”

And the senator, fairly crazy with rage,
made a blow at the other’s face, but the Briton,
like the majority of his rare, was an expert in
the art of self-defense, so, in the easiest manner
possible, be parried thv 4'lll'n9ll7- aimed blow,
and, with a single Well on 0611 stroke, laid the
senator flat upon his back.

Bumblebig struck with u howl of ra e and
a concusinon that seemed to fairly she e the
floor ; but he was on his feet again With
remarkable agility, and like a mad bull again
he rushed at the intruder only to again re-
ache a whack which heeled him over a second

me.
The senator had got enough: the second
stroke, which had materially spoiled the appear-
ance of his countenance, had taken all the fight
ouItIof “11:10.6
e ye to the servants to come and ick
him up, and to put the strangers out. Thexilrst
coininand they obeyed readily enough, but paid
no attention to the second, on all their
mics in conducting their hru and bat-
mastsr to his apartment he groaning and
aw in the most frightful manner. After
the exhi, tion which they had witnessed of the
rs w not one of
aha-wag“ tags); . them had any
n strangers were not disposed to
retire. e housekeeper—who like the rest had
heeuattracted by the noise of the altercation—-

took itupon herselftos lain:
ndesd xIl’iss Home is not here

“ I tlemen,
I

now "shaman “She went away last night so-

and without saying a word to any one,
and . Bumbleb was mmuch annoyed this
moi-sin whonho scov thstshe wasgone.
He has hen the idea into his head that she act-
ed dishonestly, but I hast up and examined
her room. and I have not been able to discover
that she has taken a single article which did not

to her. The senator is very unreasonable
'1... gets a notion into his head, and he in-
m that sho’has stolen something, which is the
reason why she ran away without m ng any-
thing, So impre-ed is he with this saurd sus-
,icion that he has taken the trouble to tele-
m totho police in New York, and inn-act,
d tosrrestthe younglsdyif shocanbo

tonld ’0

“ The infamous old scoundrel i” one
Riglishman, in h in(lililltitlli. “If he had
notshuuglit that poor child was alone and

handles] he would never have dared to sub
her to sue an insult!” M

binned the

“lad sir,shcssunedtobeanice,modosc
Land d not look like a person who would
0 anything wrong,” and the

cast
it Willi”. Iidsws glance at the r
justasif she mediated“ glome more,gut
wasindoubtinregardtot ewisdom of so do.

WEE would not, I am sure, and from what I
have seen of this miserable old wretch, I feel
cox-fire had good reasons for quitting his
law ,

“ It is possible. lit. but of course, under the
olmmstangee, I ought not to say anything

about that.

“And the unfortunate child fled without
lsavi any clew behind by means of which she
could traced!”

“Kr. Bumblebig was not able to discover

an ."

‘y'l'his is the W chapter of accidents;
whenever I getupon t track of this poor child,
something issure to bug)“: to throw me 01!.
Well we must return to ew York and see if we
can dud any clew there.”

 

run their one Canary and the detective
walhdnKout of the house; the Englishman fol.

lowed, but paused just outside the door, the
housekeeper being right behind him.

“ Madam, I take it that you are a friend to
this unfortunate child, who seems to be the prey
of ill»luck,” he said, speaking cautiously, so as
not to be overheard.

“ Indeed, sir, I wish her nothing but good.”

“If any information of her is gained, will
you communicate with me? Here is my name,
and my address is Brevoort House, New
York.”

The housekeeper read the name inscribed
upon the on d aloud, then looked at the
Englishman in a thoughtful way.

“What is the matter—do you mistrust me?”

“ No, sir,” she answered; “you look like a
gentleman, and like a man who would not be ,
apt to harm a friendless, homeless girl.”

“Upon my word, madam, I assure you it
will he the lu<~kiest moment in Helen’s life when
she meet.- me."

“ You seek her for good, then—only for
good ?" .

“ Entirely for good. I pledge you that upon
the honor of an English gentleman.”

Mrs. Sparrow turned the card over and wrote
a line, hurriedly upon the back.

“There 1” she said, giving him the card: “ go
to that address and perhaps you may gain some
information, but do n -t disc ose to any one, not
even to your companions, my agency in this
matter.”

“ Certainly not,” replied Garrowcroft, prompt-
1yz and putting the card carefully awa .

‘Good-by, sir, and may Heaven eal with
you as you deal with her.”

The strangers departed, and Mrs. Sparrow
closed the door after them, feeling thankful that
she had been able to put the Englishman upon
the right track.

On the wa to the depdt, Canary and the de-
tective got to a Violent argument. Muttle-
bud insuted that so long as the girl had not
been found the old man was not entitled to
any rew , while Canary declared that it
wasn’t his fault if the girl had skipped in the

n ht.

lThe Englishman settled the dispute, tin-mg:I
by pa in the money and ofleri a bun
more {yer t e discovery of the fugi ve.

When the city was reached, Garrowcroft

rated from his companions, jumped into a
cab and was driven to the address in Jersey
City which . Sparrow had inscribed upon
the card, but his utter astonishment, for he
had absolute faith that he would receive in-
formation, the people at the house knew noth-
ing whatever of any such person as Helen
Home although well acquainted with Senator
Bumblebig’s housekeeper. ‘

The Englishman was utterly astonished, and
knew not what to make of it.

“ She meant it all right, I am sure T' he mut-
tered, as he was being driven to new
York again. “ Well, theouly thing to he done
is to contrive a secret interview with her so
she can explain.”

CHAPTER XXX.
a Lovnn’s ounsr.

Qm a number of chapters have we trans-
cribed since the one where the dotaik of the
nice between the lovers on the beach at
Long ranch were given.

The forlorn country girl has figured m.
neatly in our tale since then, but the man's
name has not been mentioned {not we judg.
few careful readers have failed gua- M
Roland Beads and Denby Livingstone were one
and the same.

In his in ueradi
turer, with al the wor before him to make a
fortune in, hehad won the love of the country
girl, although at the time he fancied that some
months must clam More he would be in a
condition to claim as his own publicly.

The strange events though which followed his
hisbe “alimw radii”: ":12:

u n on o une w
she hatgnherited from Gloster Plantagenet

>————___——____

 

of a poor adven-

seemed to smooth the th between him and his
love and caused the o tacles which intervened
to melt into thin air.

 

Assoonashe recoveredfromtheshock occa-

sioned by the dreadful y, he wrote a
careful! guarded lettertoiie n, addressing it ,
to the v‘filsge and it Roland Reade. In 1

the letterhetold hertobeof goodheart to
309? up her courage, for the uture looked i
gentler, and he me ,no doubt that all would I
we ,
He did not affix any address to it as he judged

it wisest that the girl should not answer the ' pa

:1 to. ,
Then when affairs were all settled,and every-
thing loomed to be going smoothly, he was an
able to control the fever of im tience which
h‘d upon himtolooksganonthesweet
face of the beautiful girl who had won his heart,
and he wrote agin,
This time he ld her that he thought he would ;
be able to arrange matters so that she could
oometothe citv it sheso desired, and that in a;
very few months now. he would be able to ful- ._
flu 1' promise and make her his bride. ;
This note he also signed Roland Beads, and

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olvs o  

3 unravel

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dim-ted her to ad iress .v i i in care of the gen—
eral p st-i flit-e.

Ten days went by wi :iout his receiving an
ansthr, and, just us he mid about given up all
idea of hearing from Mr, and was meditating
a trip to Long Branch, it ) see What had become
of her. he received a letter, post marked Long
Bunch.

'l‘he handwriting did not seem to he hersr
though, and he opened the envelope it its a ure-
sentiment that be war about to hear llhil news.

The letter was from old Wayhit. and 'riefly
said that he had is 'eived b’ith letter~ w i iiten to

 

 

, Helen, and that he uiilierefuld the trick of writ—
: in letters to her expecting that they would
' fa i into his hands and so lead him to think that

the writer had nothing to do with her flight.

l But he knew better, and unlesa Helen was in-

stantly sent back to him he would apply to the
law to restore his ward and to punish her ab.
ductor.

Denby perused the letter with a grave face,
girl, for a moment, was almost dazed by the

ow.

Helen was gone; she had fled from her home
and yet had not come to him as he had direct-
ed her to do in any such emergency.

Another idea occurred to him: was it true?
had she really fled. or was it only a cunning
trick on the part of the old man to keep him.
from coming after the girl?

Waybit was q-iite capable of such a thing
and so the young lover determined to heard
the lion in his den—the Jersey farmer amid his
pines—and ascertain the truth.

A few hours later Denby was walking in
through the gate of the farmer.

Old Waybit, who had been busy tending to
his crops that morning, was cooling 08 in the
shade of a large locust tree.

Not knowing the young man by sight, the-
old fellow only surveyed mm with the natural
curiosity that the majom y of rural dwellers
feel at the si ht of a stranger.

“Mr. Way it?”

“ That’s m name.”

“ I have a 'ttle b'isinais with you.”

“Sart’in; sit down,” and he kicked an ski
stool, which stood by the rude bench upon wflcb
he reclined, over to the visitor.

“ I desire a little information."

“ Well, I s’pose I can givoiit if there’s no 0hr
jection.”

“ It is in regard to a 09an young lady—”

The old man sat bolt upright.

“Helen who new lives with you.”

“ Oh, I know you now i" cried Waybit, in a
sudden outburst of rage. “I suspicioned you
when I saw you coming up the road. You‘re
arter Helen, are you, and you are the Mister
Roland Reade who has been writing letters from
York to her?”

“You are quite right, sir; Helen knew me
under that name.”

“And what have you done with her! How
dare you come here and take my galuwayff
Don’tyouknowlkintake thelawoo and
I w too. unlessyoubringbackths 1”

“And Helm is not here, theni" Denhy gush
tiousd,ey theoldmsnshsrply,soastshc
certain w ho was truth or not.

“You know in ain't hm! and you can't,
fool me with nding not to know anythin'fi
about her. cu just bring the gal buck, or I
go to law about it. Ain‘t you ashamed of your.
self,a nice young gentleman forte come and
coax a man’s gal to run ed with you! You
have on sway my support, and how am I go-
b! toget my living howl”

You didn’t that the girl would stay
inthis desolate and work all hsrlifo for
you!” demanded by, in indignation. _

“ i didn’t want her to work,” retorted the old
man. “She workedof herownaccord,’cosfie
liked to work, and would rather work than be
idle. But it wasn’t for her work that I wanted
her. Iusedtogstaregularsumofmosis each
month for taking care of her, andwhen ran
away, somehow, the lawyers in New York
heard'pf it, and they stopped the payments dead

Dsnby was amused at this information. and
felt convinced that if the old man would
hecould a clew which would enable him to
mystery enshrouding the birthand
early childhood of his betrothed, although it
seemed robahle from what Daddy Wsybitssid
that he now very little about the matter.

“ I don't exactly understand you.” Denby roe
marked. “Do you mean to sag thstyoure-
ceived a regular amount m n ly for taking
care of Helen, an i that when she left home the

ylnents stopped?”
‘ That law atIsaid and no lieaboutlt,
dther. Ever so many years ago when she was.
only a baby, these lawyers that I spoke of made
an arrangement for me to take cu. 0‘ 30100
and bring her up as my own child. Thishere
farm was deeded over to me.snd I received
twentv~ilve dollars a month cash, and now the
blamed thing has all bu‘st. and I’ve got to work.
for my living, worse luck.”

“ And you never knew anything about the
per-sonar personswho placed the childwith‘

you?"
“No! thtdldlcsretcrthem,soh>ng as I.

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22

 

got the mono all right. I only knew the law-
yers, that’s a! , and i was one of the conditions
of the thing, too, that I shouldn’t try for to find
out anything about the child—whose she was,
you know, and what did I care 'as long as I got
the money i”

“ And now payment is refused because she is

9?”

“Of course that is the reason! What other
reason can there be?”

“ But do the lawyers say that is the reason?"

“No, they don’t; did you ever catch a law- ~

yer to own up to anything or to tell the truth
in hislife? Nobody ever did!”
“ But what do the lawyers say, then?”
“Oh, they lie, as they always do," the old
man snarled. “The money has always come
to hand regularly, on the first of every month,
but when the first of the month came this time
the gal had been gone about a week: of course
I didn’t think that w0uld make any difference,
but it did, for the money didn’t come. I waited
four or five days, and then I wrote up to York
’bout it, and the answer came right back that
there wasn’t an money for me, so I went up
to the city myse f to see about it. The lawyers
were polite enough, but they didn’t give me a
bit of satisfaction. They said that the year
had ended and they had aid me all the money
that had beegflaced in t eir hands. The way
they explain the matter was that the money
for the year was placed in their hands in a
lum , at the he nning of it, and then they
pai it out to me a monthly parts. The money
was gone; no more had been paid in, and they
supposed that the party did not intend to ay
any longer. Of course I said that there ht
be some mistake about the matter and t at
they had better see the~ party, and tell ’im the
money was gone. But no; the said they reck-
oned the thing was all over. an that I had bet-
ter be content with‘what I had at. Then I
asked if I couldn’t see the arty, ut they said
they couldn’t give me any nformation as they
did not know the address now—a blamed lie, of
course. To kinder smooth the matter over I
said that if I had k'own that the party would-
n’t like it, I wouldn’t have let the gal go of! on
a hit, but, anyway, I would fetch her right
home. I thought that would fix things, you
know, but the didn’tseem to pay any atten-
tion. The 01 fellow said that it ,didn t make
any difference where. the gal was, whether she
was away or with me: the money had stopped
and that was the end of it: but they didn’t 001
me for a cent. I knew they had found out that
the girl had run away, and that was why they
had stopped the money.” , , "
It was plain to Denby now that the mystery
surrounding his beloved was even deeper t
he had antici ted. . . » ,
“Suppose go and see the law ers-” . .
yes; you want to catc some of .the
moueyi ’ criedthe old man, angrily; " Just you
bring the girl back, that’s all !’ '
It took a long time for the you

man to 'con-

viaoe the old scamp that he real y knew nothv
but .had: ‘

ing of Helen’spresent Wheresbauts
come in searchof her; but at Inst'oid Waybit
acknowledged. that he might be mistaken, and

then Denb’ astonished him. by so ng he would-

gve him ve hundreddollarsui "he'could-find-

elen_—a proposition whichthe other—accepted

greedily. enough. - '

A heavy heart Denby  bdck with him ,  I
the city; and now there was another man eager
. ‘ - .i v I ml ht‘ do,” he repl

to find Helen Home. . ,3 .

 

- CHAPTERXXXI. _
_ a rscumsa (immerse;

Ricmn Pmraonmtr had not let the 
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grow under his feet-after. Liv ,
rided his ofler for compromise, or it was. then

plain he could only gain the ends he sought by

0903950 ,lifll'o‘ .. ' 

He ha retained, as his counsel,.one of the
most noted of the tribe ,to be found inkNew
York—a noted limb of the law, by name Colo-
nel Baldwin Albany-mores genera l

The colon was a tall, rather lean man, short-

:‘fghted', and disreputable-looking, having one

the mod fieryred nOSes. overseen upon a
mortal. , a _  a =_v : - -
His line of practice was peculiar; he seldom
appeared in a court-room, or argued a case, for
he was not a fluent speaker; his appearance was
very much against him,- and. the odds were
about ten» to one that hawouldvbe under the in-

figence of liquor when must needed. He confined

himself almost entirely to f urnishingadvice, and
of hisclients nine-tenths of them were lawiers,
and some of them men who ranked as leaders
at the New York bar. But, able men as they
were, in subtle legal questions, they were con-
tent todraw in iration from drunken. disrepu-
table Colonel- ldy. No better counsel, no
clearer exponent of the law was there- in the

dty than this same old, and, apparently, worth- -

less drunknrd.
And to Colonel Baldy Richard Plantagenet
went for advice. . '.
Richard brought the will with him
out for the colonel's inspection, and
the Wins in regard to it.

spread it
etailed all

.1

~:,court-room. e j |
how im robable that a lady like Mrs. Planta- '

' about" the"thlng? Throw aside‘
terest in the matter and examine it‘just as

1 known as'
Colonel Bald ,becsuse of hisgbald pate. .~ ~ ,

The Hawks and VWWolves r of York.

 

As it happened, Baldy was sober and in the certain time. and these two men saw her sign,
I and are prepared to swear to it?”

best possible condition for business.

He chuckled over the story of the finding of
the will.

“ Beautiful, me b’ye, beautiful!” he remarked.
The colonel was an Irishman b birth, and his

 

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l

speech was enriched with a slight and melodi- I

ous brogue. “I couldn‘t have arranged the
1 thing better meself. Found in a book, promis-

c’uslike, in the parlor, before all of yees!‘

Beautiful, upon me conscience.”

“ Take a look and see if it is all right. I had
it examined by D., of Philadelphia, and he
said there couldn’t be any question in regard to
. ,.

“ He knows the law, but you see you don’t,

any Jack could tell that; but it’s the circum-
stances connected with it that we must look
into. S’pOse I show Mr. D. a check for ten
thousand dollars, signed by Astor or Vander-
bilt. Wouldn’t he, on the face of it, say it was
good? The signature is there, and either man
is good for the amount, but when it comes to
proving that the man actually did si 11 the
check, begorra ! if he didn’t, wouldn’t we 3 ip up?”

they saw her write it.”

“That is good enough. ‘Jerry Bitters and
Larry Marble.’ Faixl me b’ e. them names are
not illigant ones to tackle a fury with.”

“ Bitters was the coachman and Marble a
waiter in the house. They happened to be near
at hand,and were called into the room to wit-
ness the signature of the old lady.”

“An’ the will swear to thati’

“ They ll.”

“ Did the come high?” whispered the lawyer,
with a drol smile.

Richard‘s face darkened.

all a joke, and I take my whack at it as I go
along,” the colonel explained. “But I say;
this name, Bitters, is familiar to me. Maybe it

“He is the man you procured 11 for the
other day—the House of Detention, don’t you re-
member ’

“ Oh, yes; he’s the man that made the charge
ag’in’ youn Livingstone about murthering his
mother, an he’s one of the tellers to swear to
the will!”

“ You don’t like that.”

“I don’t like this pa at all! Faith! I’d
tear it all to ieces i I got hould of it in a
ewel! see how weak it is!

net 8 ould will away four or five million

ollars in her bedroom without an 1a or to
draw the pa up, and a coupleo the owest
servants in t a house as witneues!”

“ I. drew it out at her request; ' I was familiar
enough with the usual forms.” _ '
“ And you are one of the principal legateesl
0h, me b’ye, you on ht to nave known better
than that, d’ye seel.
'suspicious‘the whole matter‘ isi‘ No wonder
Denby Livingstone laughs at ye, and defies ye
to make avatand on this will.”

“ find is it not good enough to risk a con-
, ,“ If you want to get beat afore ye begin, it

,with true Irish humor.

on’t ye see that there is a sus icious look
1 your in-

if ye knew nothing at all about it. Wouldn't
ye be apt to say, at the first glance, there’s
something wrong about this paper! The book

sucha thing was mighw improbable. Why did
she put it in a book? ‘ hy wasn’t it in the safe,
among the rest of her a rs!"—- and then a sud-
den idea occurred to t e awver, for he knew all
the particulars regarding Mn;
-deat , having posted hiinself‘ when called upon
.to interfere in the case of the tness detained in
the House of Detention. In" hissliarp, 'shrewd
way he looked Richard straight in the e e for a
moment, and the other, understanding an in-
stant what was passing in the mind "of the
law er,-scowled darkly. '

muted, apparently talking more to himsen than
to his client, “ and I don’t think it is- wise to go
into it: it‘s like a man taking hould of a rat b
the tail; there's no telling how the affair w'
end; the man may get more than he bargained
for. And then these two Witnesses—no doubt
they are all cooked and primed and know ex-
actlv what they are to swear to.”
' “ 0", yes, I have seen to that.”
“And they will stand cross-examination l" , '
“ I think'so.”
“ And they won’t let out that you coached
thim in regard to what they were to swear?”
. ‘; Oh’, no; I warned them particularly on that
nt. - '
“ They must be foine witnesses if they are all
fixed beforehand'for a crass-examination. And
now tell me, me. jewel! this will was signed b

 

 Mrs. Plantagenet in her own bed-chamber at a

is beka’se it reminds me of somethin to drink." ’

on’t you' apprehind how 1

 “ ell, well, it’s and business,” he mur—.

“Oh, but there i~n’t anv doubt about Mrs. é
Plantagenet‘s signature! Thero it is; plenty of ;
persons can be found to testify that it is her sig— 1
nature, and the two witnesses can swear that ‘

* tiful.

and that is where you led him into a ditch. On J
the face of it, as an instrument, it is all right; }

 

“Oh, don’t mind my joke, me b’ye! Life is 

(0 

“ And you have got the time, so that one
man won’t say it was four o’clork in the after-
noon, and t’other chap swear it was nine at
night?”

“ Oh, I looked out for that; it was just about
five, for the clock on the mantel-piece struck the
hour while they were in the room.”

“ That’s a fome idea—the clock is really beau-
But here’s another p’int: supposing there
was some mistake about this matter, do you
know where these two men were at five o’clock
on the day in question?”

Richard understood exactly what the lawyer
was driving at~the point was one which had
not occurred to him, carefully as he had plan-
ned all the details of the scheme. He thought
the matter over for a moment, and then shook
his head. .

“Ye don’t know?”

I‘ No.”

“ Suppose these twO men swear that the will
was signed in their presence in the Fith avenue
house, on a certain day, at five in the after-
noon, and some witnesses—who ha\e nothing
to do wid the case, and are not interested in it
at all, swear that at five o’clock on that very
day one man was drinking beer up in Third
avenue and t’other playing billiards down-
town?"

“ But such a thing is very unlikely l”

“ Is it? Begorra! if you had been tripped u
in that ,way in your life as many times as
have, you w! uldn’t say so. Don’t ye know that
it isthe unlikely things that are always happen-

1

5‘ Then it is of no use to think of fighting this
{ill through?” Richard observed, with a gloomy

ace.

“ No use! Ye don’t stand the ghost of a
chance."

“ Look at that l” and Plantagenet tossed an-
other legal-looking document across thetable.

“ ‘ The will of Gloster Plantagenet ’—every-

' thing willed to ‘my only daughter’; executed

 

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usiness was very cute, but for a woman to do ‘

Plantagenet’s '

 

ten years , and witnessed by John Matthews
and James raham—”

“ Then clerks in Plantagenet’s ofil ~e-—” ,

“ And now brokers on their own account in
Wall street. I know both of them. They are
the right kind of men for witnesses. I’ll go all
I'm worth on this paper. ,That isn’t saying
much, thou h, unless ye lump in what I owe
along wid w t I have. I’d be willing to do it,
an’ call it uarc.” _

“ This wi was executed just after the birth,
of his female child; that child died; now is not
the mother, this same Mrs. Plantagenet, while
will the other paper is supposed to be, the helrof
that child?” ' I’

“ Hould on a bit. No doubt he intended to
leave his property to that infant daughter, but
he doesnt say so; he doesn’t mention her by

name: He only says ‘to my oldest daughter.’ :

How do 1you know that he hadn’ta daughter,
or a coup e of dosens of. .for that matter,

across the water? Some oft ' ' forei ers in

the divil'for‘lea'ving theirfamilles be nd when
-’ they emigrate ‘and get

of the water. Of course t is retty certain that
he meant the infant who a , rward died but
he doesn’t say so, and his oldest daughter, ii she
exists, born in lawful wedlock, can, take the

new'cnes. on this'sidb ‘

property in spite of everybod , ,and it don’t; ,

matter the scratch oils 'in .‘w ere she comes Q

from, or who was her mot er.” '

Ric-hard was silent for a moment, as if in,‘

thought.

“ I am on her track, and since I can’t make,

terms with Denby'I will with her,” he at length ’

remarked. V. , . .. r
“ Then he had been married before and had ‘

dau hter b that marriage?” I
“ es,” ichard admitted.

“ Then,” assured the enamel, ‘f if you can find, -.

her ou’ll win he 0nd a doabt.’.’.'
" h, I’ve got"
with this assurance be de

oaArrnafxxle
a Discovnar. .

Tm: moment'Denby arrived in the city, after,

his unsatisfactory visit io'the old farm in the
pines, he hurried to the office of Ned Purchase,

the law er, and laid the whole matter before 1

him. 0 thought that the .lawyer,lwith his
"great ex rience in regard to the undercurrents
of New ork’lil’e, Would be able to afford him

some amistance in his endeavor to trace the
girl, for that Helen had come directly to the
city he felt sure. ' ‘

“ Certainly! Deligh t-d to do anythmg I can
for yea,” the lawyer observed, after the young
man had explained the object of his visit»
“Helen Way it,” he murmured, as he jetted
the name down in his notebook; “it seemsts
methat that name is familiar; I’ve heard it be-
fore, and only reoentl , too. Let me see! I’ll
be han ed if it wasn‘ in one of the Herald’s

na , onl a week or so ago, too!” i

“ I did not see it, but then I seldom read the
advertisements." '

“Jump in a car with no and we wil ride
down to the office. ltwas odya wedr or two

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ago, and we can easily find it by looking over a
bio of back pa ”

As the lawyer had said. it was not a difficult
matter to gain the information.

“ And who is this Mr. Muttlebnd who desires
to find out about the girl!" Denby asked.

“He’s a rivate detective who has an ofiice
up—town. am well-acquainted with him, and
I have no doubt that I can easily find out what
he wants of her, and if he has found out any-
thing about her.”

“It may be a device of the old man. We -
bit, to get on her track," Denby suggested. lg’e
:iad explained all the particulars fully to the
SW 61‘.

“ think not; for how would he know that
she had called herself Helen Home after com—
ingtithe city? But it is idle to waste time in
speculation when in half an hour we can find
out all about it."

fl Away then went the pair to Muttlebud‘s of-

ce.
The detective was in and ready to oblige Mr.
Purchase to the extent of his power, but not
the least bit of information could he furnish,
excepting that he was employed by Mr. Gar-
rowcroft, who was an Englishman, and who
had only been a little while in this country, to
hunt up the lost girl; but as to what he wanted
with her, after he found her, was a mystery too
deep for him to solve, although he had been
exerting his gigantic intellect upon the sub-
ject ever since he had been employed in the
search.

“ He‘s a deep old cuss, I tell you, gentlemen !”
the detective declared, in that impressive stvle
which was his chief stock in trade. “Yui
can’t pum him any more than on can pump

00d old ourbon whisky out o; a coal—mine.

’ye tried it. and slipped up on it, and when I
slip u , what chance is there for any other
morta man! Ned can tell on that. But one
thing, gentlemen, I can te you: he has been
spending money like water for to find this gal,
whatever he wants of her; but as to why he

does that. I have given it up as a conundrum l

lion ago.” .

“ on have absolutely no trace then?” ob-
served Denby, rather disco .

“‘Well,'I hath hold of the tail of an idea,
but whether it ll amountto anything or not
is a question," and the detective assumed a wise
look. “ Here's a letter that I've run across and
I may be able to work something out of it,
theses no telling,” and Mnttlebud got out his
pocket-book to show the letter.

“ It's from a teller to the gal, making an a
mntment, and it may be just possible that s e

managed to find him and he has stowed her
away somewheres."

Then he fished out the letter.

"‘ It is signed Roland Reade.” - '

“ That .is my letter!” Denby exclaimed.
“ That is the name under which she knew'me.
When -I made her acquaintance I had good rea~
son for not wishing that she should know my
true name." ‘ ' : '

“ I sec;- it is the old idea—the prince in dis-
; .” Purchase remarked. The lawyer was
inclined to be somewhat iven to romance'at
times: “ You didn’t want er to knOw that n
were Denby Livingstone the heir to four or $3»
millions, but you wan to beloved for your-
self done." ' ‘ ’

“That was my idea precisely}: the other ad-'

mitted. v
Tad detect!" 9'1"“ ul7‘his ears 'at-the men.
'tion of Livingstone’s'wealth.' Hero m ‘ man
to whom 'it‘ was worth his while to‘- twang,
ing, so with the opening remark that be pro.
sumed Mr. Livilafietone would liketo know all
he could in regs to the girl, he “km .1, he
knew about the affair. “ I .
Of ecurse with the knowledge that I,“ ,
obtained from old Canary, it wasoomparguvely
totrace the comer of the girl from the time
she left her home in Jersey‘u tothe per-iodwhen
she fled from the house of nator Bumblebig.
Andtheblood of the oung man fairly boiled
'in his Veins when he earned of the infamou.

accusation which the enmed old rogue had‘

made against her, and when he said as much,
Muttlebud, with great delight. related how
handfisomely the Englishman had polished 08 the
sens r. < ’

“ I will take an early Opportunity to call upon
him and thank him for having thrashed the old

sooun'drei and brute.” ’

H He’s a bad egg.”remarked the lawyer. “ He
has been mixed up in three or fourwomen
scrap“ to my knowledge. but by the liberal use
of money and calling upon his stench political
friends for aid. he easily overcame all roeecu-
tion where a meaaer man in such a tuation
most certainly would have eto Sing Sing.”

“Yes, he’s a bad 'un,” c imed in the detec-
five‘ had, b the by. if {on call upon Mr. Gar-
rowcrof‘t pe aps he wil be willing to tell you
why he is so anxiousto find the i. when he
won why you are so deeply ntereeted in

fl

40' we go for hire at once.”suggested
g. fiuwyer. “There isn't anything like strik-
when the iron is hot."
“5 You'll find him at the Brevoert House.”
Hunting the detective for his kisdnw, the

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23

 

l l
' two withdrew and immediately proceeded to I to throw over her head, Bill: and you, Jack,

seek the Englishman.
I That gentleman was at home, and although
' at first he was somewhat disposed-after the

fashion of his countrymen—to be uncommuni-
‘ cative, (yet, after Denby had introduced him-
, self, an with the generous frankness of youth,
? explained fully how it was he came to take an
,‘ interest in Helen. the Briton‘s reserve vanished.
l “I cannot just at present imitate your can-
? didness and explain to you wh it is that lam
1 so anxious to find the poor old] , but I will say
I

' that you may rest assured I intend her no harm, ,

but, on the contrary, much
i termined that she shall be discovered, no matter
" how much it costs.”

good, and lam de- "

pick her right 12 in lIyour arms and put her in
the wagon, and w' l clap the sponge to her
nose, so as to keep her from making an outcry.
Let me know when we et near the road, if
either of you can, for I’ be hanged if I can
make out anything in this darkness.”

Then in silence they stole along, seeming
with their noiseless steps, like so many spectral
forms.

They had got quite near the fugitive, when
one of them gave the warning that the cross-
road was near.

“Stand ready when I k to her and she
turns, to throw the blanket over her head," the

r leader commanded.

i More than this the gentleman was reluctant :
to say; and so, aftera brief but pleasant inter- 7
1 going right before sh. proceeded.

view, the twain withdrew.

“Suppose we go and see the superintendent ‘

i of police?” the lawyer now proposed. “ He is

i posted about all matters of this kind, and‘he ;
I claimed.

‘ might be able to give us an idea.”

Livingstone thought the suggestion a good
one,fand so away they went to interView the

. chie .

5 The superintendent was in his office and lis-
tened attentively while Purchase told the story
of the missing girl.

“Helen Home!” he said; “ why, I had my at-
tention called to her case esterday morning,
and it cropped up again to ay. Senator Bum-
blebig, who has a place up on the Hudson, was

- after her with a sharp stick; he char ed her
with levanting with some of his valuab es, and
telegraphed a full description of the girl, how
she was dressed, etc, and r nested me to catch
her if I could. I notified a of our men, and
from one of the upper incts, not an hour

ago, I got word that on the river’s bank, near

‘ the rai road, a lot of women’s clothes had been

‘ found. outwar ‘ garments, hat, etc., answering

exactly to the description given of those worn

by the girl. The suppmition is, of course, that

she has committed an cide.” .

For a moment the young lover sat like a man
stunned at this unexpected and heavy blow;
then he roused himself with an efi’ort and
, declatij'led that he could not believe such a thing
‘ e.

. “ Of course it is all mere supposition; it may

; not be her garments at all. Suppose you go up

‘ there and see for yourself!”

The advice was good, and the pair acted upon
it immediately. ~

An hour later they were at the up-town sta-
;. tion-house; the superintendent had givhn them
a note of introduction to the officer in
of the station, so they were received with
honor. /

The garments were produced and Denby,
with a shudder, recognised them immediate) .
They were the same that‘had been worn by t e

rl when he parted With her on the beach at
on Branch!

St 11, Livingstone could not bring himself to
believe she had committed suicide.

The ofilcer who had found the clothes hap-
pened to come in. just then, and. at the sugges-
tion of the ca tain, he conducted Denby and

' garments.
‘ It was a secluded spot, and just such a one as

selected to take the lungs into eternity.

But neither Li histone her the lawyer be-
lieved in the suicide t eory. . o

“ She is alive, depend u n it!” Purchase de-
cla ; “and this clothes nsiness isa cunning
trick, worked either bwr or somebody else, to
throw pursuit of! the .k.”

“ I will not rest until I find her 1” Denby cried,
pith all the fervor of a young and anxious
' ever. ‘ '

And now then, what was the truth in rd
to this matter—what had become of the gu- 9
' ' Once again We will follow on herfi ing foot-
steps as she harried along the dark an lonesome
count road toward the railroad station. never
dream

‘ three fel ows, whose unprepossessing a 0.
would have made even a stout-hearted man apt
to give them a wide berth, if encountered in a
lonely part of the road.

.————

CHAPTER XXXIII.
* srnanon quaarnas.

ALONG the road hurried the girl, eager to
catch the train. She had no fear of being over-
, taken, since her escape would not be discovered
9 until morning. Therefore the Paid but “m.
! attention to her surroundingS. 80 “10 Hummus
‘ men, stealthin creepin after her. were 3b“ w
. approach quite near be ore she discovered their
‘ prgs'ence.

l‘hat’s the girl,” the tallest and Mute“ 0‘
; the men had remarked.

he has come a long distance ” added one of
th: others, “ but she trots along llvell”
It s wonderful the strength some of these
ga‘l‘s have,” the third man observad.
“ The wagon is at the cross road, isn’t m"
“ Yes, it’s at the next road."
We had better 0 tor her just as soon as we
get to the road. ave your blanket In "ad?

 

 

the lawyer to t 9 place where he had found the.

a desperate mortal, tired of life, would have .
" 'upper part, so that any one 'in‘the entry codd I

that hard upon her track followed"

 

outlines of a human form

‘surethat she was awake.
‘ished‘, the eyes of the girl

And just as the girl reached the cross-road,
she hesitated, as if to make sure that she was

The foremost masked man improved the op-
portunity.
“is that you, Miss Cadwaladeri" be ex-

Helen turned, surprised, and a little alarmed
that any one had approached so net-r without
her knowledge, yet somewhat reassured by the
man‘s speaking as if he believed her an ac-
quaintance; but even before she could reply a
dark figure darted forward and threw a blanket
over her head, and despite her struggles and
mufiied screams she was lifted by strong arms
and carried to the covered wagon standing
near.

When she was placed in the vehicle, with a
dexterous hand the leader produced a chloro-
formed s n e. which was quickly applied to
the nostri s o the still struggling girl.

Despite her moans and d rate attempts to
free herself, little by little or senses reeled
until at la>t nature was conquered and the girl
lay senseless, at the‘mercy of the attackers.

“ It’s all right, governor" she has give in,”
observed the man holding the girl in his arms.

“ Prop her up on the back seat between you '

two, and give her fresh air. We don’t want

her to smother now, after all our trouble,” the
“ But if she shows sign ,

leader commanded.
of reviving so as to make an outcry, let me

know: but I don’t think she will, for i gave lu- '

an awful dose.”
Away the wagon went to the southward at

rapéd speed.

hen Helen recovered ooneciouane. she found
herself upon a small, low bed in a little room
plainly furnished. It was a

r_ .
apartment, being long and narrow, with a win-

dow at one end and a door at the other. .
Through the window the moonl ght shone so
surround:

that she could easily distinguish her

he only pieces of furniture in the room we‘re
two beds, upon one of which the girl reclined.

The other stood by the opposite wall of the '

apartment. The heads of both‘b‘eds were to-
ward the window and after a few wondering:
glances around—for Heleu'wa‘s dull and da

at first—she fancied she could distinguish the

othgeoghercouch. , ‘th id h
on ergoserestedupon ewn' owthroug'
which the moonbeams shone and,to her sur-
prise she diseovered‘that: ti)
guarded on the outside by stout iron bars.

‘..‘

 the clothes

e'cas‘ementwas"

Inlthe door, too, was 'a little window, in the ,

look into the room. I
Was it a prison, theni ' ' ‘ ‘
Then the girl looked at herself.' She was ly—

ing on the outside of the bed: her outward

ments had been removed, and she was now  

in a beautiful blue- silk‘ dress. exquisitely madb' "

and trimmed.‘ Upon‘ her wrists were'costly
bracelets, and half a down
merited her fingers. , - .

Helen was so surprised at this metamorpth
that, involuntarily, she rubbed her eyes lobe
The surv‘ey of the room and her
ain turned it!) the
occu t of the other bad.
sl’ ngtheretshewas sure. -. . a , .
noble at last to restrain her guidei and
surprise she arose, determined to, see i he:

jeweled'riags  y"

_ o

personifin- 

hat someone was 

thonghts'were right or wrong; but she put it's! '

feet to the floor only‘to discover “that sh‘e’ was
so weak and dizzy thafishe could hardly keep‘
her feet: the walls of t e apartmentseemed to
fairly spin around her, and it was fully ten
minutes before she was able to,de without
support. , '  '

At last, though, the dizziness passed'away

sufficiently to enable her with slow and ulcer--
tain steps. to cross the narrow floor. to find that ,

her surmise was correct; the bed was Occupied

by a sleeper—e. young and rather prettywoa

man, although, even in her slumbers, thee! was
a strange, wan expression upon her features.
Was this woman, like herself, a
wasshe a guard ,and spy? And w at was the
meaning ‘of all this strange affair! The 31ch
ing woman certainly did not look like one placed
there upon guard, but more like a sick and feeble
girl. who needed care and attention.
“Possibly I can find some one without who
will explain the meaning of all this,” the gt}

murmured as- she advanced to the door. b8 "

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when she tried to open it found that it was
locked.

Through the little window she could look into
the entry Without. It was quite a long passage,
and a. aslight was burning at one end. It
looked fiike a hotel env ry, for it was nicely car-
peted; some easy-chairs and a couple of small
tables were placed along it, at intervals, and
there were no has two (night doors opening into
it, four on each she, and all of them with the
little window in the upper part exactly like the
one in the door of the room u here she was con-
fined, and at each end of the entry was a solid 1
door without the window.

“ What does it nman?” questioned the girl,
after she had thoroughly surveyed this passage
and then ,ieturned and seated herself upon the
ed c of the bed. “ Is it a prison?”

gee pondered long ano painfully over the
strange situation—over her elegant garb—over
the seizure and ab luctlon—over her extraor-
dinary adventures since her advent in the great
city z—pondered, but could not answer one of
the questions which she asked herself.

Happening to glance down the front of her
dream she discovered a gold chain attached by a
hoo~< to a button-hole while the other end went
into a little pocket at the waist.

“ It is a watch,” she wondered. and then drew
out the most elegant time lece her eyes had
ever beheld—a tiny thing, a blazing with dia-
monds! it was running, and the time was ex-
actly four o’clock.

“A few hours more and I shall know what
all fliis moans.”

CHAPTER XXXIV.
run srmenn‘s sroar.

I a short time the chorus of the birds without
began, and the girl, used to count life, under-
stood that this outburst of melody eralded the
coal of the morn.

G will the fumes of the potent drug which
had cloud her brain cleared away, and by the
time the first grog light of the morning mine
shuling in throng the window, he began to
fool somethi like her own self.

When the ht became so strong that she
could distinguish objects without, she went to
t; winrl'lclwvvi and looks-d forth. M k “k

ru ew met or eyes,s e,par - e
on. hemmed in by a high stone wall so

y mas no common man could have scaled it. .
Beyond this wall was a wood which barred the

view.

The grounds wers well-kept, and far more
suited to a walthy gentleman s country house
finntoa p'rison.

“0h,th cannotben jail,und yet, why are
to windows barred? and wherefore the open-

loft in the door!
involuntarily turned to look again at
indoor, whenshe perceived theoocupantof
hoothsrbodsittingupandlookingat war.

He had a t face, which would have

hos-beau had itnot haenmarred hyacnro-

wornund Ind exprs-ion.
“Chad-morning dear! I’msoglad you have
osmol"shosnid with s. courteous nod, perceiv-

ing that the 1’s eyes were fixed upon her.
Thovoloowas ow, sofaandsingulnrly sweet.

“Good-morning!” clan replied mechan-
iosll , for she wus’so amused at this familiar

that she hardly knew what to say.

“I waited up for you everso , lsstnight,
hsmussthe said you werssnpsc ev mo-
msnt,und didnotundressstsll”snd w-
ingssidsthoclothes,sheshowedshewusin mu
house “but madam ed mete
lisdownandrsstsllttls when tgot lsts,and I
presume I was sotired I fell asleep ulmost'im-
msdintsl , for I do not remember anything at
ullafter yingdown. Isu posswhsnyoucams
inyoumundmsaslecpan puttheolothes over
motor four I should take cold. That was real
kindofyou andlknowIshnlllovo O'Cl
somuch, ouwilllovsmoalittle . won’tl

desrffor ’mrenlgood-nntured,if Ido sgl
twhoouhtnotto. Iknowlamsllt!
posvlth at- t mm, but you won’t mind that, will ~
you! bscauss I am a Igreat deal older than you
aromawshssitsp ‘vileges, ou know.”

“hid ,mndam,ldidnot w ouwere
inthoroom untilIswoke,"Helsnro .

“ ‘ ‘d didn’t the profs-or say anything to
yousbout me!”

“I madam.”

0.
“ Ior Hsdnm mam”
“Idongtknowol ofthopersonstowhom

you refer.
“ Why, that is certainly very strange. I do
not midorttund it,” the other remarked, evident-

ly psrplexed.

‘ I beg your pardon, madam, but did you ex—
to see met” Helen asked, roelvlng that ,
was some mistake about he matter, and

hoping by msansof thistotlnd outwhere she
was and why she had been brought thither.

“ Of course I did.”

“ But I am a stranger to you.” »

“Oh, yes; why, don’t even know your

 

 

name.
“ How is it, then, that you were expecting to _
see me!” .
“ Why, both the professor and Madam Mary i
fill me shout you. I have been lonesome for

quite a time, and have begged that a congenial

‘ companion might be procured for me, and the

rofessor promised to comply with my wishes.

e did not set any particular time for your ar—
rival, but in slime way I got the idea into my
head that you were Coming last night. i sup-
pose the professor’s manner toward me gavi-
rise to the suspicion. I questioned Madam
Mary about it, and she admitted that the young
lady who had been s:lecled for my conifauion
would probably til-rive last n'ght, and as i in-
formed you, my dear. I sat up until quite late,
waiting for you to come. Madam Mary spoke
in the highest terms of you, and said that she
was sure i would be highly delighted with you
after 1 became acquainted.”

Helen pressed her hands to her forehead for a
moment, and stared at the other in such a man-
ner that the lady looked amazed.

Was it possible the girl asked herself, that
she had been kilkiapped, and brought to this
place Simply to serve as a companion! Surely
a young lady as a companion was never before
secured in SJ 'h a manner!

“ Why do you look at me so strangely, my
dear?" the other asked. “ Are Eyou ill?’

“ 0h, madam, do you knovv t 9 way in which
[have been treated?" exclaimed Helen, becom-
ing so excited and unnerved when she thought
of her night’s adventure that she could hardly
refrain from bursting into tears.

“ Dear mel no, of course not. I hope that
the Were not rude to y u. I am sure I don’t
uni erstund how any one could have the heart
to be rude to you, for you look so gentle and so
lovable. Won’tyou come and kiss me, dear?”
and with a beseeching look she extended her
thin white hands imploringly toward the girl.

Helen fclt herself irr stibly drawn to the
speaker; something in her face and voice ap«
pealed strange] wthesym athiesof theforlorn
and hunted gir although s e was not one to be-
come intimate onslight a - uaintance.

But she could not resist t 0 impulse to comply
with the lady‘s requvast.

“Knnel down. my child and let me take a
good look at you," the other said, as the girl
came near. '

Hal :1 knelt dawn by the side of the bed: the
lndv passed her this arms around her neck,
took a 14 mg, wistful a at her face, and then,
pressing her to h«r usom, imprinted a long,
affectionate kiss upon he ripe, red lips.

And as mien was bold in the ferventembrace
she became consolous of a powerful, sickening
sort of perfume wit] which the person of the
lad scented to be impregnated; the strangest,
0d est scent that she had «var encountered, evr-
dontly not from a toilet article, but the odor
fmm some powerful medicine with which the
system of the lady had bean saturated.

“I know I shall love vuu door,” said the
lsdy,releasi Hell in from or arms and mak-
inghorsitby ersidoonthe ofthehed.

But, madam, i do not tend this at
all.” the girl remarked, anxious for an expla-
nation. ‘ I hadno idea stallof coming here
until I was here. I do not even know where I
am. I was assaulted last night while walkin
slongacountryrond. Amen came up behind
and spoke to mo—osllcd me by some name. I
ttz‘rneiitotellthim he hadhmnde a mistake—

t wasno thsperson e imagin meto
be, when a blanket was thrown over my head ' I
was forced into a carriage' then some powerful
drug applied to m nostrils until I was thrown
into a stupor, and knew nothing more until I
awoke and found myself here. Oh ,.
what is this place—what is the mean of the
barred window—of this strut. 0 room, so bars
of furniture and that odd he s in the door, so
any one withoutcan look into the room at all
times? Is its risoni”

“My dear c ild, you are feve ,” lied
the lady, soothingly, smoothing Helen’s my
hair ssshe spoke. ‘All this thstlyou speak of
is nothin but a horrid dream. sdam Mary
told me t you had been very illof a fever
and that was why you had not become bef ..
so they took you before you were fairly
w ,sndthstis why allthis delusion seems so

real to you.”
Helen at the s or with amused eyes.
Could it possiblet t it was the truth, and

that all the horrid ha penings which had racked
her soul had no foun tionf Oh, no, it was im-

possiblel

“And the idea of thinking you were in a
prison," and the lady shock or head while a
mournful smile spread over her features.

“ But what kind of a place is this madam!"

“ It I. u sanatorium. conducted by Professor

Muller—one of the most celebrated physicians'

in the country. I have been under his care for
a great number of years, and if I had not been
here I should have been dead long 0. This
room is for the reception of patients boring
under slight visionary attacks, and whom it is
necessa to keep a watch upon until the worst
stages 0 the delirium are over. That is the
reason why the windows are gilinrded by the
iron bars. and also why there s. window in
the door. It ha us to be the onl room
vaos’pt now, and t is why it was good to
you

“ It is not your room, then!” Helen asked, her

 

 

 

mind in a maze, not knowing wrist to lake of
this explanation.

“Oh, no; mine is on the next floor—much
larger than this, and Very nicely furnished.”

“ But this dress that 1 mm: nn-- this costly
jewelry, What does it ill-.au—-they are not
mine.”

“ Not yours? But they must be, or else you
would not wear them."

“ But they were put on me when I was in my
stupor; I kno v nothing at all about them.”

“This is Certainly Very strange,” and then
she took a lon look at lielen, shook her head,
and said: “ y dear,I am afraid the fever still
confuses your mind.”

Helen knew it was useless to argue with her
companion, although convinced that her strange
experience “as reality and no dream.

“ Now, perhaps you would like to know some—
thing about me, my dear,” the lady continued,
“and as you are to be my companion hence-
forth the desire is only natural."

“ If you please, madam.”

“ My story is uite u long one, romantic and
yet very sad. gossibly by looking at my face
you can perceive marks there which seem to
indicate that my life has not been a happy one.”

Helen nodded assent. The signs of carking
care were indeed very perceptible in the wan,
yet still beautiful face.

“lam French by birth,and my name—well,
never mind the name; everybody here knows
me as Mrs. Blank. it is so lung since I have
been called by my own rightful name that I
am not sure I should renegimzu it if it was
spoken in my presence. I was an o nan-—
there were two of us, myself and an 01 or bro-
ther—as noble a man as eier God created. He
was some fifteen years older than myself. and.
ever since the time of the death or' our parents
protected and supported me. He was absent on

usiness the greater part of the tune, and I,
lacking a mother’s lender care, grew up 11):. an
idle weed. In time the tempter came. his was
of noble birth, bad royal blood in hisveinl—o
Come closer to me, child, while I whisper my
secret to on,” and she drew the wondering girl
closerto (r bosom. “The man who swore he
loved me, uni whom I was feel one ii to love
was Philip, Duke of Orleans—the el est son of
the Bourbon line, and the rightful of
France. When he told mewho he was, was
a pulled at the discovery, and tried to make

leave me, but be swore that he lovedmo
better than all the world besides; what were all
the titles in the wurld to him without me! I
wasa young and foolish girl, hare] flit“; I
believed every word he said; I yi ed to his
entreatles, tied with him to London—without a
word to my noble brother—and there I married
my prince. Of course we could not havobcen
married in France. Then came a year of wed-
ded bliss—a fool's adise, th h,’ from which
at last I was ly driven. he pnnoo, my
husband, deserted me and his intent daughter
and fled with a newer beauty who had ht
hisflckle fancy, to America. '1, with In “all...
followed and traced him out. The er wo~
man he had also deserted after landing on these
:3“; more” reams;

, man w w
me sofoully. At iirsthstrembled.andesss ,
by mourn of fair words and smooth
to get me to return either to England or
promising that he would provide sum
money for the support of in self and child. In
uniting himself to me he been mud. and
the mar 000111)?“ nevsr be publicly ackme

, wwith scorn. Thus
tone than ed. and threatende Our

5%
s
5

unlonwasno al one,hssaid,snd,inro-
allty,Ibndnoc uponbim.80mednz;
whenthewheeloffortune turned, howonld

:3“ looked around her tsriousl! M
If my! I
lowered her voice to a whisper. “ 1’07.nt
friends came to myahi. sts placed herein
this scours uncut, where it is Impo-ibl. for
m husband‘s emissariss to reach me. I am his
w e and will be Queen of France once! those
days when the Bourbon! come to their own
again. Of course, if my enemies could kill me,
they would ladlng so, for there are twenty
princesses o the 100d who would be proud to
wed my lord; but here I am safe.”

“ And your child madam?” asked Helen,
who had listened to the stor with great atten-
tion. “ is she here with you

“Oh, no. my dear,” the other re lied, with a
cunning look. “That would not oat all: she
must receive an education befitting a
of France. She is not here, and where she is I
keep a profound secret from every one, for no
one suspects the is alive. That is to insure her
safety. My enemies are bitter enough to strike
even at her youn life.”

At this point the conversation footstopo
were heard in the entry, and Mrs- Blsnk, whose
hearing seemed to be wonderful}; acute, rm to
her feet and remarked:

“ It is the professvr and Madam Mary : break-
fast is ready, I prssums.”

 

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CHAPTER XXXV.
THE LOST HEIR.
IN the Plantagenet mansion. in earnest con-
versation, sat the two cousins, Richard and
Viola, and as the words which passed between
them have an important bearing on our story
we will transcribe them in full.
“ I have made a most important discovery,
Viola,” he said, at the beginning, “and one I
think that will turn to cur advantage.”
“ 1 am glad to hear it. ls it about the will?
for Denby l..ughs at that clumsy trick. as he
calls it, and he says outright it is a f'rgcry
from beginning to end, and he can easily prove
it so if the matter gets into the courts.”
“ That is Something which will admit of con-
siderarle discussion,’ Richard observed. “He
must bea wise man indeed nowadays who can
tell in advance how a lawsuit will turn out.
But, there isn’t much doubt, backed by his
money, that Livingstone w ould succeed in mak-
inga very long and expensive fight even if he
was beaten in the end, while it would undoubt—
edly be a diflicult matter for us to raise money
enough to carry on the contest as it ought to be
prosecuted.”
“ Why not take his offer, then?” Viola in-
quired, after a moment’s thought. “ I’m sure a
hundred thousand dollars is a very handsome
sum. -
“ But n4 it to be com ared to a million.”
“Very true; but t e one you can have for
the asking, while it is very uncertain indeed
about the other."
" What would you say, Viola, if I told on
there was a chance to take all the estate—a1 of
the four or five millions, leaving Denby abso-
lutely penniless?"
“ l suould say you Were joking because it isn’t
possible.”
“ But it is."
d “How can it be?” Viola exclaimed, in won-

er.
" I Will admit that there is considerable doubt
about this paper purporting to be Mrs. Plan—
tagenet‘s will—there are suspicious circum-
stances connected with it which indisputably
lead to the belief that it is not a genuine paper,
but there is another will in existence.”

“ Mrs. Plantagenet’s?”

“No; a will made b Gloster Plantagenet
floats ago; and that wil of course disposes. of

re. Plantagenet‘s claim. She inherited from
him in the aoseuce of a will and blood heirs, but
as there was a will, she had no business with
the property any more than either you or I,
and of course could not will away what did not
belon to her. Neither could Denby inherit
from er. This will, which is properly made
and executed, and the witnesses to which are
still livmg, bequeaths all of Gloster Plantage-
me‘t’s‘yropeirtv ti -h 1': elder daughter.”

‘ by, never new he had one ex '
the infant child that died!” ’ “pang

“This will was made long before that child
was born—long before he married Mrs. Living.
«.stme; so, clearly, it has no reference to that
daughter at all. It is plain to me that this old
will, made yours ago, had entirely from
the memory of our uncle. and when he died I
do not believe he was conscious that he had left
any such paper behind. it was, probably,
mowed away with his old rubbish. After his
death it was found by Mrs. Plantagenet, and
when she disco» ered what it was, she yielded to
the tem itation to suppress ih l document which
:robbed th herself and heirs of the vast for-
tune that Glaster Plantagenet had left. She
knew of no daughter—and never heard of such
a thing, and it was only natural for her to k
the secret to herself; at the same time she had a
suspicion that the daughter lived and fancied
she was not far off.”

“ Richard, you amuse me.”

“Why was she so anxiousto make a match
between you and Denby? You did not care

cularly for him, and he fairly hated the
' den of making you his wife but she was deter-
mined that the union should take place even

0 .0 m- as tothreaten to disinherit him if

on to wed you, and had spoken to her
lawyers in ard to making a will wherein she
left the bulk of her tortunewvw- Why did she
netthus strangely l”

“1 mil cannot tell, but I alwnfl W“ a
pid has and never good at gumnz-"

‘ It was a guilty conscience!” Richard do-
clarod. “She believed that you were Glmter
Plantagenet's daughter. That would ex lain
the fondness which your uncle alwa s disp god
for you. She had so pressed the vi [which' ad
ven all the prope .y to you, and was aunous
atone for it by giving the estate to you at
her death. If a marriage between ourself and
Donb could be arranged, all we] and good
but f he was obstinate she was determined
should have the greater part of your fa-
m‘g wealth.”

“ But I don’t understand! How can it be
sible that I am Gloster Plantaglenet’s child l"

u Yuur supde father was is older brother,
as mine was his younger.”

"Yes."

u am; you never knew either your father or

_ mother or any relatives of your mother. on
I”

ich an Orphan at a tender age, and Glostsr

 

always took care of you. Both your parents
died abroad, so it was said, but no one knew
much about it. Now the truth I believe to be
that your sup father was never married.
At any rate, never heard my father speak of
his wife; he never saw or knew of her, and all
that he ever heard of his brother’s death was
when Gloster returned from some foreign coun-
try bringing you with him, then about three
years old, and told the story of the death of
your parents. Bojy though I Was at the time, I
remember distinct y that my father did not be-
lieve in the story that you were brother Jack’s
child, and said then that it was far more likely
you were Gloster’s chick. And then when my
uncle departed to America right after that,
recollect my father said it was en account of
some girl ix hom he had married and deserted,
and that he fled to avoid the Vengeance of some
relative. Now the Whole matter is clear to me:
the woman he married and afterward deserted
—for Gloster Plantagenet was at heart a Scamp,
despite all his great success in money-getting—
was your mother. For some reason he stole
you away from her, and then, when hotly pur-
sued, fled to America, leaving you behind in
England masquerading as his niece. His wife
pursued him here, and be compromised with her
in some way, promising to make the child his
heir, and then the will was drawn out. He was
a man of considerable property even then. I
gathered these facts from some old letters near-
ly destroyed by the ravages of time, w ich I
found among the rubbish of one of his old desks
stored in the lumber room up stairs.” ‘

“ You have fairly taken my breath away.
It does not seem possible, and yet the story
you "have put together seems a very probable
one.

The girl spoke rather doubtfully. She knew
Richard to e a cunning fellow, and had a sus-
picion that he would not be inclined to be
scrupulous when there was such a prize as four
or five millions of dollars to be had it the cards
in the game were right] played.

; manner.

“ First, rest assured t ere isn’t the least doubt 5

that the Will is genuine. It came into my hands
in a peculiar way. Of course I have a sus
picion of how it was obtainedubut I wanted the

document too much to push inquiries into the i misguided girl, doubtless. wh

matter.
said the countr
him. For five
me on the track of this will. I closed the bar-
aln. The dooument was in this same old desk
n the lumber room up stairs; there I found it,
and of course I am not obliged to tell that any
one suggested the search. That is the first
point. The will is enuine. And can I prove
that you are Gloster lantagenet's eldest daugh-
ter? That’s the second point. If I can, no
power on e rth can keep gou out of the prop
erty. The proofs are in ngland, and in my
mind there is not the sli htest doubt that I can
make out a case, and i a link or two in the
chain is missing a shrewd lawyer will easily
supgl‘y others that will do."
‘ ou’re a darlin fellow, and if you give me

all this money I abs 1 love you ever so much 1“

And so they plotted and planned to fight the
battle for Giotter Plantagenet's gold.

CHAPTER XXXVI.
an ASTOUNDING srnsusx’r.

Tull lady’s guess was correct; it was the pro-
fessor and his principal female assistant, known
as Madam Mary.

The professor was a portly man of forty-five
or thereabouts, with a smoothl -shaven face,
quite fat and ornamented with a cubic chin. A
sort of oily expression to his countenance, a po-
culiar way of sucking in his lips and rolling up
his little cunning eyes strongly suggested the
Aminadab Sleek order of men—fellows loud in
good words, porofuse in their protestations, but
not at all to de nded upon, but yet the very
sort of persons w o, in nine cases out of ten,
will succeed in posing succeufully before the
world as the benefactors of their kind.

Asiother Canary, in fact, only of a higher
gra 0.

Helen, grown wise by experience, distrusted
the man the moment she loo ed at him.

The woman was a tall, stout specimen of hu-
manity, with a stolid face and an iron-like law—
a woman who could be depended u n to exo-
cute all orders ven her by those w opaid for
he}: services, Without remorse or scruple.

The morning repast is ready, Mrs. Blank,”
the man said, with a bow to her, and a similar
sanitation to the girl, “ and if you will have the
kindness to walk down to the refoctory while
1 exchange a few Words with our dear young
friend here. you will oblige me.”

Helen recognized the voice at once. This was
the man who had kc n to her on the country
road ust before the time i f the assault and in-
quire if she was .‘liss—sonwbrdy; the name
had secs (1 from the girl‘s memory.

Mrs. iank bowad grecionsl- , smiled at the
Sgktand With the woman quitted the apart-

The rofessor, who, despite his size and
Weight. had a stealthy, soft, cat-like tread, fol-
lowed them to the door. saw that it was so-
curely closed after them, listened until he

A certain party came to see me and
was getting too hot to hold

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heard the door at the entry shut after them,
then, rubbing his hands softly together, he re-
turned to Where Helen stood, gazing at him in
amazement.

"Sit down my dear,” he said, his tones as
soft and bland as the purring of a pleased cat.
He waved his hand toward the bed as he spoke.
“ You must excuse the furniture of this apart—
ment,” he continued; “it is not as sumptuous
as your own, I kn0w, but after your little es-
capade of yesterday I thought better to put you
in here for the present.”

Helen was astounded. The man spoke in such
a familiar tone, just as if he knew all about
her. Was it possible he was a confederate of
the senator, and that in fleeing from Bumble-
big’s hou~e she had jumped from the frying-pan
into the fire?

She knew not what to say, and so mechanical-
ly sunk upon the edge of the bed.

The professor seated himself upon the other
bed, facing the girl, and surveyed her for a few
moments in silence, as though thinking of what

to say.

“ My dear child,” he began, atlast, “I do not
suppose in your unhappy mental condition that
it is possible to make you comprehend how
much trouble and anxiety you have given me
during the last twenty-four hours. I assure
you I have not had a moment’s peace from the
time I discovered that you were missing until I
encountered you in such a totally unexpected
I will own to you, my child, that you
were cunning enough to almost deceive me, and
I am a man who has had a t deal of experi-
ence in this life, and I thin I have profited by
it. When I discovered your clothes on the
bank of the river, I felt sure that, in your mad-
ness, you had flung yourself into the stream,
and so put an end to your existence, but in the
soft sand leading to the r0ck whereon the
clothes were laced, I found that your foot-
steps not only ed to the rock but away from it
again—a sure proof that on had not thrown
yourself into the water: hen the idea flashed
upon me that, after escapin from this man—
sion, and when you had ma e your wa to the
river, resolved to put an end to your ifs, you
there chanced upon the clothgs of some poor,

had chosen to
find an end to her woes in the dark current of

the noble Hudson. An idea seized upon you—a

undred dollars he would put 1 fantas due to your disordered brain-inst you

could isguise yourself in these casth clothes,
leave your own garments upon the bank of the
river, and’so deceive everybody into the belief
that on had committed suicide, while you wan-
der away, fearless of pursuit. Luckily,thanks
to the foo rints in the sand, lguessed your plan,
and so to lowed you up closely, and at last suc-
ceeded in overtakin you.” .

Helen listened W th 9. face expresswe of the
greatest amazement, but she began to compre-
hdnd now- there was a mistake' the man knew
notbin about her at all, but by]

Iain circumstance had taken er for some-
y else; and now that ‘0 understood this. an
intense feeling of relief came over her.
danger was past._ All she had to do was to
make the entieman understand the mistake un-
der which e labored, and she would be free to
depart. She did not imagine that this would be
a difficult matter, although he so
positive in his ition.

“ I beg your par on, sir, but I think you are
laboring under a mistake,” she said, in reply.

“ A mistake—in regard to whatl’

“ I do not think you know me; you have inh-
taken me' for some one else.”

“ My child, that isn't blei"

“Iamsureldonot wyou,andIhavo
never been in this house before.”

“Now you see, my,dear, that is one of the
strange hallucinations which, at times, takes
poms-don of you, and which renders my talk
of taking care of you anytheizg but sgreeab ”

‘ shaking h

he re ed his vel . “
coursephno bus to look t on wgilild bills" it
was not the truth, . t is the

reasonwhy yourmalad .issohardtooopo
with trying my utmost ' 1.”

Be on was visibly annoyed ' the persim of
the man was voking. Her words did not
seomto maket eleastim rsssionuponhim.

“But you are wron , lawn youl”sho
declared. “ It is no h ucination : you speakof
me as one whom you have known. while I
sure I never saw you before in my life i”

“ Shall I introduce myself, then, and humor
you in your whim?” the other asked, apparently
not in the least disturbed. '

" If you please, for the quicker we under-
stand each other the quicker I shall be free to
depart."

“ Ah, you ought not to be anxious to run
away. for I am sure you have been well treated
ever since you have beenunder my care, but
since it is your I him to a?” ignorant. know,
then. that 1 am Professor ullsr, and this is my
house, the lngleside Sanitarium, devoted an
tire] to the care and cure of mental disease-in
the emale sex—an establishment patri niaod b
the best aple in the country, for it is cond

ed on strictl scientific plans, and although we
do not ma e many cures, I admit—because
nearly all our patients are incurable, and all the

some unex- ‘

 

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doctors and drugs in this world cannot ‘ medi- I gather from the conversation between the two

cine to a mind diseased ’-—yet the care and at-
tention which the inmates receive cannot be
surpassed at any madvhouse in the country.”

“ A mad-house!” cried Helen, in horror.

“ Yes, my dear—a private lunatic asylum, in
fact, but sanitarium sounds much better, and
all our patients are members of prominent and
wealthy families, for the charges here are high,
and none but wealthy ple could afford to
pay them. Take your ather, the judge, for
instance; if he were not a millionaire, he
couldn’t afford to pay fifty dollars a week for
your board."

“My father, the judge?” gasped the girl,
amazed.

“ Yes, of course.”

“ Why, who do you think I am!”

“ Miss Pauline Cadwalader, of course, only

daughter of Judge Cadwalader of Ohio, now ,

minister to Russia.”

“Oh, but you are crazy, sir, as well as your ‘

patients, to assert such a thing! I am not Miss

Cadwalader, and never even knew that there 1
- was anylsuch person in existence.

My name is
Helen ome, and I am a r girl. withouta
relative, and hardly a frien in the world l”

The mad-doctor shook his head and assumed a
mournful air. ‘

“ You see, my dear, that is Where your insan- *

ity comes in. You are in full possession of

our senses except in regard to this one thing. _

irst you imagine you are the Queen of Eng-

' land; then the next week, you are an African
princess; from that you turn into the greatest ‘

prima donna the world has ever known; but
this freak of assuming to be a poor girl is really
something out of the common, for itherto you
havgimagined yourself to be some great person-
a e.

gFor a moment Helen looked at the professor
like one dazad ; his confident tone stunned her.

“ Can you not see that I am not the girl you
take me to be?” she cried, at last, in a sudden
outburst of passion. “Or, is it possible that

on do not want to see? i tell ou that I am

elen Home, and I demand that be permitted
to depart instantly.”

“And that poor old lady who has just left,
Mrs. Blank, declares she is married to one of
the Bourbon princes, and would be mortally
offended if we failed to treat her in a manner
becomin the future Queen of France, except
at odd mes when she imagines she is the Em-
press of Russia and is afraid of being assas-
sinated.”

“ And is she madf" cried Helen, horror-
siricken, for she had never dreamed of such a
t ing.

“ As crazy as it is sible for a woman to be.
She is the wife of a eceased merchant, and she
has been under my care for fifteen or sixteen

ears no'v.” .

“Oh, butI am not mad; I am Helen Home,
and you must not detain me!” the girl cried,
wrou ht up almo to frenzy at the terrible
situat on in which s found herself.

“Now you are becoming violent, and if you
keep on must use harsh measures. It is the
hand of iron in the velvet glove here. As long
as you behave yOurself and conform to my
rules, you will be treated in the kindest possible
manner; have plenty of good clothes to wear,
plenty of the very best to eat and drink, plenty

of books and amusements to kill time, and you I

can sew and busy yourself with an kind of
fancy-work. take exercise in t gar en, and if
on are very contented and disposed to remain

ere and nel me a little in taking care of the
rest, on sha receive a liberal salary, such as
the 1, Helen Home, whom you assume to be,

we d no doubt be glad to get. If, on the con-
trary, you are obstinate and u ly, there come
the strait-jackets the dark un erground cells
and the powerful dru which act upon both
bod and mind, so tha the sunset person under
the influence will appear to be nothing more
than a gibbering idiot.’

“ Oh, heavensl into what a den have I fallen l"
exclaimed Helen, in terror, recoiling from the
man who was now throwing off the mask and
appearing in his own true character. ‘

“ No den at all, if you are sensible enon h to
know what is good for you,” he replied. “ ow
we will suppose a case.

week to me the cash ready the moment the bill
is Rresented; the judge, her father, and the only
re tive who comes anywheres near her, is in
Russia, and, probabl , will not return under
three or four years; t a girl, through some stu-
piditg, mans to escape. I follow in chase,
and nd her c has a few miles off on the bank
of a river, and as her mania is of a suicidal na-
tore, the chances are great that she has im-
proved the opgortunit to take her own life,
and I am out fty do! are a week. for the risk
would, be too great to present the hills without
having- some one in the establishment to per-
senate the girl. Then, returning home in the
darkness, [ overhear a conversation between an
old woman and a young one. The voice of the
young one attracts my. attention, for it is exact-

like the voice of the missing girl. Icatch

ht of her face, and I find that in feature, too,
she ‘ .. almost an exact countsrpa rt of my patient.

Miss Cadwalader is here ,
in my charge and she is worth fifty dollars a I‘

women that the girl has a record which won’t
_ bear inspection, and even n0w she is flying from
i ursuit, and is without friends. Then the bril-
| iant‘ idea occurs to me to seize and carry her
- of! on purpose to have her personate the dead

girl so can secure in handsome little sum per
year, thinking, too, n her peculiar situation,
that, when she comes to understand the circum-
stances, she will be extremely glad to stay in
my domain and to evade the pursuit so hot up-
on her heels.”

“ I Would not consent to be a party to such an
‘ infamous scheme for anything in this world l"
, the girl protested, hot with scorn and burning
with rage at the insult of such an offer.

“ If you get violent, Miss Cadwalader, I really
shall have to use unpleasant measures,” the pro-
fessor remarked. “ And if you persist in this
delusion that you are somebody else, I shall
i have to try some powerful drugs upon you. If
you think it over perhaps you will calm down.
I’ll come again in an hour or two.”

And with this assurance the proprietor of this
remarkable establishment departed.

 

i
l CHAPTER XXXVII.
l A CLEW AT LAST.

AFTER ascertaining all the particulars in re-

ing the ofii :er and patrolman for their kindness,

Denby and the lawyer proceeded down-town

V again.

i “There does not seem to be the least clew,”

the anxious lover remarked, discouraged at the

ill-success of his search.

“ It does not appear to me. probable, though,
that the girl has destroyed herself,” the lawyer
declared.

“ Oh, no; I do not entertain that thought; she
was of a bright, joyous nature, and I am sure
it would take a crushin weight of sorrow to
bring her to the point 0 wantonly taking her
own life.”

“ Wouldn’t it be a good idea to employs sharp
detective to look into the matter?”

“Perhaps it would; there is this Muttlebud,
but I haven’t a very good opinion of him.”

“ Oh, I don’t take any stock in Muttlebud at
all. As far as I can see he has blundered from
beginning to end in this matter. Brag and
bluster are his best "nolts.’ I haven’t the least
doubt that he is responsible for the girl quitting
her home down in the country. He went down
there and bragged of what he was going to do,
and instead of securing the girl, as was his in-
tention, he so frightened her that she thou ht
some awful danger menaced her and so cut or
‘ luck at once."

“ king of Muttlebud reminds me of the
Eng] shman, Garrowcroft. his employer, who,
‘ for some pur of his own, is so anxious to
i find Helen. ouldn‘t it be a good idea to make
i known to him what we have discovered in regard

to these clothes, and the supposition abroad that

. she has committed suicide?”

' “An excellent idea! He’s a shrewd man of
the world and in a multitude of counselors there
issafety.”

' “ We will go to him immediately.”

I As it happened the Englishman was at home
when the two arrived, and so they were enabled

| to lay the matter before him. .

1

He too scouted the idea of suicide.

“The poor child has been foui‘xy dealt with,
you may rest assured of that l” he instantly ex-
claimed. “ln escaping from the house of that
miserable old wretch, Bumblebig, she fell into
the clutches of some other scoundrel or scoun-
drels, and for some reason—which I confess I
can’t fathom—it was desired that it should be
believed the girl had committed suicide. There
is some deep plot in this matter, gentlemen, you
can be certain of that and the quicker it is in-
vesti ated the better.’

“ hat is the conclusion of both Mr. Purchase
and myself. and we thought of putting detectives
on the track at once.” .

Garrowcroft shook his head.

“ Really, entlemen, you must excuse me if I
say to on t at I have little confidence in detec-
tives. am satisfied that this Muttlebud, whom
I employed. has blundered—if not from the
very ginning— at critical moments, and by so
doing has upset everything. Muttonhead would
be the appropriate name for him, in my opinion.
Suppose, gentlemen, instead of em loyin de-
tectives, that we try our hands at a lttle (Estee-
tive work. Let us go up to the spot where the
clothes were discovered: examine the locality
and question anybody whom we may chance to
find in the neighborhood. If I understand you
rightlly’you didn’t investigate the matter very
c ose .

Both admitted that they had not.

“It is clear to me the clothes were put near
the river to give the impression that the girl
had jumped into the water; I am satisfied she did
not at them there herself, and so somebody else
mu have done so. and as it is plain the gar-
ments could only he obtained from the girl, the
inference is that, if we find the part who left
. the clothes we shall obtain a direct c ow to the
I‘ lost Helen.”

l Both Denby and his lawyer assented to this
view of the case, and the result was that an

 

gard to the finding of the garments, and thank- 1’

hour later found the three on the spot where the
' clothes had been found.

But, after a careful examination of the lo-
cality all were obliged to confess themselves
baffled.

“The next thing is to question the inhabit-
ants,” Garrowcroft remarked.

There was a small shanty about an eighth of
a mile down the river which the three had no-
ticed as they came up, and at this humble abode
l the Eu lisliman suggested the investigation had
' better egin.

I As they approached the house they noticed a
, sharp-looking youngster about ten or twelve

 

; years old fishing from a rock a little ways from
1 the shanty.
! “I’ll commence operations with him,” Gar-
i rowcroft mid, as they approached.
! The Englishman got at the subject in a mas—
terly manner. He had resolved to interrogate
, the boy upon two subjects: first, had he noticed-
! any strangers, male or female. in the neighbor-
j hood lately; Second, were there any folks of bad
i re utation in the vicinity?
lie openin move was to exhibit to the won-
dering eyes 0 the boy a bright new dollar, and
assure him that the coin should be his if h.
l 1would answer truthfully the questions put to
1m.

The lad agreed readily enough, for silver do]-
3 Lag:d were uncommon scarce in that neighbor—
I
in answer to the first question the boy said he
I had not seen any strangers about for two or
three days, and as he explained that he spent
ahout all his time from six in the morning to
nine or ten in the evening Outdoors, it was more
than probable he would have noticed any stran-
gers if there had been any around. To the sec—
ond, the people in the neighborhood were all
pretty good as far as he knew. And then a sud-
den thought occurred to the lad:

“ P”r’aps y0u mean the mad-house up on the
hill?’

No, Garrowcroft said that he didn’t take any
interest in mad-houses.

“ ’Tain’t a very big one—a private one where.
the people hav’ to pay big to it in—a sanny-
something, the professor calls it,” the boy ex-

lained. “He’s a mean old cuss, that Muller!

came near pegging a stone at him yesterday
night when I see’d him going up the track with
a bundle.”

The three men were fairly trembling with ex-
citement at this unex disclosure, and it
was a moment before arrowcroft could go on
with his uestionin .
uller hufa bundle and went up the

“He did, the mean old ri : hosswhip (1 me
onc’t 'cos I was in his orchar ,and he sai l was
a-hooking his apples."

“ Where do you squpose he was going?"

“ I dunno; but it had ’a’ thought he was a-
coming back so soon, I would have hid in the
bushes somewhere and fired a rock at him, any-

 

ow.” .

“ Did he have the bundle when he came
back?”

The boy scratched his head a moment.

2“ I guess he didn’t; I don’t remember seeing of

“ It doesn’t matter, anyway; here’s your dol-
lar, sonny for your trouble.”
Awa the three went. There wasn’t much
doubt n their minds, now, as to where the girl

ra ewasinexplica lo.
I ow Purchase’s legal knowledge came in.
P

ayl

“ We want to go to the nearest magistrate-
and swear out a warrant; then, with an officer,
proceed to search the house.”

Not a minute was wasted. The magistrate
was found, the warrant issued, an oflicer r0-
cured, and then Professor Muller’s Sanitar um
was attacked.

Never was there a more astonished man than
the proprietor of the private mad-home”When his
premises were invaded by this “ army.

First he attempted to blaster, but when he
found that the visitors were armed with the
necessary legal authority, and were determined
to execute their prime. he began to crin e.
He had been aways fires? deal. htely; one of is

tients had escaped n his absence, and his men

ad recaptured her, so_they said, but he had not
seen the patient since his return, and there might
have been some mistake made. And in this way
he tried to avert his Own implication in the out.

e.
“fie conducted the visitors to the cell~like apart-
ment where Mrs. Blank and the lost Helen were
confined.

With a scream of joy Helen rushed toward
Denby the moment she saw him in the door--
way. And her exclamation was echoed by the
poor insane patient, Mrs. Blank, when she
ooked upon Garrowcroft.

“ Mathew, Mathew!” she cried.

“ Oh, heavens, it is my sister!” the Englishman
‘ exclaimed, rushing to her.

I With a wild scream she threwn her arms
f and fainted dead sway Garrowcro t cath
' he; as the fell, and placing her sponono ’ ‘

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“ You have done it now,” the professor re-
marked, cynicall . “ You have either killed
or cured her. or madness came from a se-
vere ief-shock, and now if she don’t die from
the c ects of too much ha piness, it is more
than,probable she will actua ly recover her rea-

1

“ And I have mourned her for dead all these
years,” the Englishman moaned.

“ Poor lady! and I love her so much, although
we have only just become acquainted and she
says that I am nearer and dearer to her than
any one she has ever known,” Helen remarked,
her face full of sympathy.

“ And no wonder, in dear child, for this we-
man is your own mot er, as I am your own
uncle l”

“ My mother 1” and throwing herself upon her
knees beside the bed, she rested her head upon
the bosom of the senseless woman and burst into
a flood of tears.

“ Yes your mother, who was stolen from me
by a villain when she was but a mere child; he
married her; then, after you were born, de
sorted her and fled to this country. She, with
her child, followed him, and all traces of her
disappeared. I was away in India, battling
bar for a fortune, and new nothing but the
bare facts of the case. Not until I returned to
En land with a fortune, onl a year ago,
did learn all the rticulars. 'Then I came to
America, but all could learn was that my sis-
ter had died shortly after coming to this coun-
try, and that her child had been intrusted to a
man living somewhere near Long Branch
whose exact name I could not discover. I
came for vengeance; too late, though—the vil-
lain who did all this mischief was dead. But a
bitter reckoning hereafter awaits Gloster Plan-
tagenetl”

A cry of astonishment came from Denby’s

ps. .

“ Gloster Plantagenet was my -fatherl”

“The scoundrell and he coul n’t legally
marry anybody as long as this :- woman
lived, for she was his lawful wife. understand
it all now; when my poor sister came here and
hunted down the man who had so cruel] de-
serted her he, probably, threw off the m and
declared she had no claim on him, and that she
could and starve for all he cared. So the
terrible shock produced insanit .”

“Exactl ," the profeuor astened to ex-
claim. “ hat is the wa she tells it, with the
slight exception that, in or madness, it is the

‘French prince, the Duke of Orleans, whom she

had married. I can he of assistance to you
gentlemen, if you care to accept my aid. If

on will agree to overlook this little mistake
hat has been made, I will furnish you with
the name of the lawyer who arranged for this
lady’s keeping here. Of course I never knew
who she was, or anything about her. In an in-
stitution of this kind, troublesome questions are
never asked of patrons. I knew that there had
been a sum of money set apart, the interest of
which was sufiicient to support her, so that she
was provided for as long as she lived. I gather
from what you have said, that there ma be
some property involved in this matter, an my
evidence, an the proof of which I can put you
on the track, will help to make the legal chain
complete)” a

A ter a consultation, it was agreed to accept
the offer, although. as Gsrrowcrcft remarked,
“ the rascal ought to be punished !”

“ I am punished where I feel it most, gentle-
men—in my pocket.” Muller replied. “ By this
little incident I lose two good payin boarders
—seventy-flve dollars a week out, an if I don’t
get some others in their places right soon I shall
have to shut u shop.”

Meanwhile t e unfortunate victim of man’s
cruelty was slowly reviving. and as her strength
came back so that she could‘situ , all noticed
the the peculiar wild expression w ich her face
had worn was no longer there.

-“ She’s all right. gentlemen; it is a marvelous
recovery n Muller remarked. “ All the medi-

cine in the world applied for a hundred years‘

n’t have done it. I’m no slouch of an ex-
pert, gentlemen, and I know what I’m talking
aboutbif I do run a rather peculiar establish-
ment.

And it was the truth, the shock and rescue

restored the unhappy woman to all her
senses.

At one turn of fortune’s wheel, Helen recov.
ered her freedom the man she adored. and the
loving mother w om she had so long mourned
as dead.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
A aoonn’s Discoxriruas. 0

Tm: rest of our tale is now soon told.

The unexpected appearance of the first wife
and eldest daughter of Gloster Plantagenet
would have upset all of the crafty Richard’s
plans, even if a bomb-shell had not exploded
under him, hurled from an entirely diflerent
direction. ‘

He had made all preparatioan reduce the
true will which, in some momentw on Justice
got the better of his craft, Gloster Plantagenet
had executed. making tardy reparation to his
abandoned daughter; but it was not the young

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r e’s game to make the will public until he
ha gone to England and arranged matters
there, so that he could, by means of false wit-
nesses and false oaths, establish the fact that
Viola, instead of be Gloster’s niece, was in
truth his daughter. e felt sure that, by the
liberal use of money, he could make out a case
so strong that he could make Denby glad to
compromise by giving up one-half of the prop-
erty, even if he could not clutch the whole.

But, just as he was getting everythin nicely
in trim an event occurred that chang all his
plans.

As the reader will robably remember, the
superintendent of po ice surmised that the
coachman, who had been so prompt to accuse
Livingstone of the murder of his mother, knew
a great deal more about that tragedy than he
was willin to acknowledge, and so the detec-
tive, after fiis release from the House of Deten-
tion, kept a constant watch upon him, day and
night. So complete was this surveillance that
the man never step foot out of his house
without being dogg by a spy.

Suspecting that he was shadowed—for the
guilty mind doth fear each bush an officer-the
man at last discovered the truth. Then he be-
came alarmed and sought an interview with
Richard, informed him that the police were on
his track, and that he must have money by
means of which to fly.

The letter, although at first rather inclined
to lung at these fears, finally came to the con-
clusion that it would be a good idea to get rid
of the weak-kueed scoundrel, for by this time
he began to realize that the trap he had laid to
catch Denby was not going to work. He had
hoped that the circumstantial evidence was
strong enou h to convict Livingstone of the
murder of his mother—for it was he who had
concocted the ch but new be was con-
yinced nothing coul be expected from that ef-
ort.

So, on the whole, he thought it would be a
good idea to et the coachman away, for he
now distrus the coward, and had an idea that
should he be arrested, the man would try to
throw all the blame on his employer. '

Giving him a hundred dollars—at which the
other grumbled, for he thought he ought to
have five—he advised him to ‘get out’ with-
out delay. The fellow declared that he would
leave by the first train; but in regard to this
he reckoned “ without his host,” for the detec-
tives, keen on the watch, nabbed him at the

de t.

file an rintendent, resolving to play a bold
game, has0 given orders to arrest the coachman
f be attempted flight. His idea was to f hten
a confession out of the man, if he really- ew
an thing about the m der.

his artifice succeed . The moment the fel-

low found himself in t e hands of the officers,
and it was intimated to him that he was sus-
pected of being the murderer of Mrs. Plantage-
net, he became terribly alarmed and agreed to
tell all he knew about the affair. It wasn‘t
much but it served to throw suspicion strongly
upon ichard Plants not.
Then the chief reso ved upon a master-stroke,
and that was to arrest Richard on the charge
of murder, hoping by the movement to frighten
him into a confession.

But the plotter was too much of a fox to be
caught napping. The coachman, having told
him by what train he intended going the
young man had been on hand in the back-
ground, disguised, to see him off. When the
arrest was made, in the fright of the moment,
the coachman had declared his own innocence,
but aeknowled ed that he knew who did the
deed. Richa waited to hear no more. He
realized well enough that the time to act
promptly had come, and if he was not anxious
to see the inside of a cell, the quicker he got out
of the way the better, for he was the guilty
man, although he had not the slightest inten-
tion of injuring Mrs. Plantagenet when he had
made the midnight raid upon the safe.

In anticipation of just such an event as this
he had made all preparations for flight. He
had fared well since coming to America, and
flattered himself he had such a start that in
some infant city of the far West he might build
up a colossal fortune.

‘ After all, I was a fool not to take the hun-
dred thousand.” he said, after he had got past
St. Louis and felt free from danger.

But in the wild West Richard Plan enet
was not fated to p The weight 0 the
crime which he had committed seemed to drag
him down. All his speculations were unluck ,
and finally reduced to poverty, he caught t e
fever so fatal to non-acclimated strangers in
some parts of the mountain regions. and died a
miserable death without even a friend] hand
to close his e es; and thus it happened t the
true will of loster Plantagenet had never come
to li ht, for Richard had carried it away with
him n his flight.

;I B] means of the information gained from the

old sump. Muller. the lawyers were found
through Whom old Plantagenet had arranged in
regard to his wife and daughter. but with the
cunning natural to the man, he had not let the
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It was very easy, though, to identify “Mr.
Thomas Blank,” as he had called himself, and
the great speculator.

As the professor had predicted, the long-sf»
flicted woman completely recovered her reason,
and bid fair to engoy many happy days in the
society of her new- ound daughter.

The char e against Denby was of course ut-
terly ex 1 ed by the confession of the coach-
man, w o swore he had been bribed by the fu-
gitive, Richard, to make the charge, and as
a punishment for his perjury he was sent up the
river to do the State some service.

Justice, too, at last swooped down on Bumble—
big. It was suddenly discovered that he had
been dipping his arms in the public treasury up
to the elbows, and when his “crookedness ’
came out, and he only escaped punishment by
a hasty flight to parts unknown, leaving all his
ill—gotten gains behind him, again the new -
pers displayed the stirring head-line: “ Ano er
eminent citizen gone wrong!"

The Canary family, cunning and skillful as
they were, “tried it on ” once too often, and
were “ scoo in,” then sent to Sing Sing to
meditate upon the folly of all evil ways.

As for liola, the irl without a heart al—
though well provide for by Denby, she liun-
gered after more money, married an Italian
count, who turned out to be a chorus-sin er in
the opera. a mean rascal, who made sad avoc.
with his wife’s money until Livingstone inter-
fered, and procured a legal separation for the
unfortunate girl; and now, as the rly-paid
music-teacher in a fashionable boar ing-school,
she sighs for “ what might have been.”

“'ith the happy marriage of our country girl
to the man of her choice our story ends.

The millions of Gloster Plantagenet althou h

haps ruthlessly acquired, are used or naug t
ut good, andpeaceand ha in” dwell in the
mansion over which p es peerless Helen
Home. '
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146 K“, "and", llt-lwzivv; or, Silver Star, Hi» l‘my Knight.
168 Kit Bandy in Texan: or. Tl!" You"! NIH-“UK”-
20?‘ Kit Ilandy'o (‘atchz Ur, 'l'hl- llnv lierl'lllrl.

4‘39 Kit. llnndy‘n Right flower; or, ituhv Sawmthe Boy Giant
444 Kit llandy‘n swoop; l-r, Lillie llm-kakln. lite Centaur.
4C8 Kit. llnmly‘o Hllok Scheme; hr,01(i'l‘un; Ruttlcr.
Kit Bandy"— Dellvcrum-e: or, Banner Us”.

, llnmly'n ’nrd; ur, llttllnllo-u Dan. the ll'reelancr.
Kit lhuul)‘ Holiili'll' or, 'l'lwlnlantilinnt.

795 Kit Ilumly III Iii-d ituln: or, line Young Whirlwind.
799 Kit littllti)": lliK "while; nr,Saddle King Sam.
804 KM. lhuldt‘o llrlgmlo; WI" [)an, the Muunlaiu Guide.
921' Kid llnmly’n llrixntlt- in Arizona.

989 kit llundy'n slur Engagement.

8 Jan-k Drew. llw Nt-Im'hia. or, Eagle Kit the Bov Demon.
82 Jon-k Drew‘- Drom or, Lililr Hurricane. the Boy Captain.
80’) Jack Drew In Deadwood; or, l’ruapeci Pole.

87 Koon Knli’e on Guard: 0?. AHMUPO Abe, tho Boy Guldo
31 Keen-Knli’e. the i’rinre or the Drama.

5 \‘g‘ghqpud Joe, tlm Young Wandoring Jay.
18 The Dumb lipy.
‘1 Laaao Jul-k. lln- Younz Mil-tang".
53 The Border King; or.The Secret Foo.
:1 Delaware Dick. 1 a hung R‘nler Spy.
4 Ilawk-e '0 Harry tlu- Young Trap
88 Rollo, I. e “0le un erfi or, The
184 Sure Hhoi. flet , ‘hr 0 ' Woman.
48 Sear-Fave Fatal. the Si ent Hunter.
178 Did Rolitury, the Hortnlt Trapper.
.18 ’:"I'L’hf"l‘0il’l‘ t|he Tera; Terr-yr. *
284 an o 't or, rapper Tom’l C
.88 Little‘vndilro, the Ynunx Prairie Nnmui.
Dill-l ’l‘he Parooa De tootivet or Tho Little Rang...
no The "local-ed Guide: or, huh Ravon, u... 11...».
800 Doro-Devil Dan, tho Ynnnu Prairie Ranger.
'7' lilakakin Mike, the Boy Sharpohootor.
890 Little Foxfire, the Boy Sm. or, Old Caleb Arbucllo.
800 The Sky Demon; v-r, Rnlnlmlt, the mug...
.34 \v hip-king Joe, the WW Rancht'ro.
409 Hercule-t “P. Dirk, illr iio} Ranger,
4l7 Wehi’oot Mono, thv Tramp Dom-ti".
457 \flngedi’oot Fred ; or. “iii Polar Soul.
468 'I anarac Tom. the Mg Trapper Boy.
482 fltonewull lloh, the Hay Trotal.
868 “hindering Ila-ll, tho Hrrmli Boy‘l'rappa.
65! Don Barr, tho l’lalno Freelanco.
670 Norway Nola, the Biz Bov Moonloinoor.
778 Iiiihland Harry the Wind RIflow-
828 [’0 or Jack. tho two Sport.

BY ’1‘. J. PLANAGAN.
900 lilohlptaaa Dora the Pirate Canker,

oan Cow y Captain
 RiTwo gidohlp-en; or, 'l‘ho Coroalr~Chuer’a mm
Cu .

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rife-o

BY DAN BURNING.

748 Iiei. Jack, the Secret liorvlre Spy.
7 ac and Jack. the lnvlnclblu. 07.11» Diobollcal Threo.
875 Detective Dave’s Clone Call.
84 Farrel Fox and Ilia Girl Ferret.
98 Farrel Fox‘s Sweep-Baku.

in GEDRGE 0. JENKB.

888 Git Thar Owney tho Unknown.

888 Git Thar 0wney’o Plug.

818 The Demon Dot-tor; or, ndhold, the Kid Dotectiro.
581 Double-Carve Dan, the Pitcher Down".

“in; Flute the Singer Detective; or Ownoy in a New Rolo.

808 The Pitcher Detectivo‘o 13o"; or, Dn’o Dooblo Play.
016 The Ocean Detectivet or. The Lotterqu oitho Bloch loop.
081 The Pitcher Detective-’- Toa heat Taaole.

7 y the Thoroughbred ton on Ivory moo.
779 Iron “and. the Charmed Driortlro
8“ Uncle San'a Detective in Chic-‘0.

BY WI. 9. PATTEN.

089 Violet. Vane: tho Vulvot Sport: or, Tho Jubileo oi Jockqu
888 Violet Vane a Victory; or. Tho Jllper Clty Clout Out.
888 Violet and D oy, iho no: Portia.
05 Violet Vane’o vow; or.‘l‘ o Crany Deiocttvo'o Crait.
84 Violet Vane’o \ ea aloe; 0!, Tho Wlpo-Out.
i: grits: $aae’au‘v‘e’ " t olr,  Game atsCoflu City.
oo one. o our not 6009: or rtvasm

no Violet You as. Vanqoio .4. or.1‘ho u}. "mo,
1’68 Violet i one Vision; or, Tito Fiery Hand of r“...
489 The Diamond bport or, Tito Doubl— erooi Bod Rock.
:3. 0a tan- .dyoter tor. "in Ooo.

1 Dal” uaro tho port from Doug,
887 Old iiowlblhell lhu Ran”: Dotootlu.
.04 iron Fern the gian oi tin: or, Among tho Vultnroo.
81! The Bo rat-p Detective: or.Tho Doohlo nvtpwuoooo
841 Diurnal ave’l Dandy Paris or,ThoClooto¢oM.Clow
651 no... Roy F "lit. the You"! Amotolll’ fly.
08. Wild Vulcan, the Lotto-Range Rider.
714 Did Miner-y the Man from Mlmuri.
1’74 Clear-Grit Gal, tho Nova-Say-mo no”...
789 Earn Sheridan, the Seem Servico Epoch].
80“ Cowboy lteve the Ranch Moaeot.
880 Hobby Nat. tho Tendorinot Dotoctlvo.
and sharper fltoke’o Double Deal.
857 Bpotter Robin New York.
808 Spotter Bob‘o ll owery Racket.

BY CDLDN EL DELL! IARA.

i go. or, The Vallod Lady,
lg: 3:: E3525: .° or. H'- Gunner'- mx 0-...

BY CAPTAIN FRED. WIIITTAKLI.

ho Son-(lat or. Tho Witch of Donn.
io DI-h or, Tho Don’- Donna.
"R n.'"'-v t 0 any Exprooo Ridor.

ace and 3 or, The Childron of tho Chm.
34 atom or. Tho Land oltho In. tlidoro
’ Th. m 0. hilt or, Akin-or Jabol Colo'o

0 Th. 8” CHIN 0r. Tho Broihorl of tho Pia-oi 1..
880 “0 Rohhor oitho loo.
0.0? tho Animal Kin: or. Round tho World.
m Th. Tl’.’ 7' l’i 0'. Tho Loa'ao oitho hub.
“to .80 M-.

88 California Joo'o War Tun.

BY CAPT. J. I. c. ADA..-
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50 met “8 ’I on or. In no Vol oi M.
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28 Niel." 0' the Night: or, 'l'hv l'-ry Spy 14,76.

37 The Hidden Lodge; ur Thr Littl- Hunter.

47 N lghtiln ale Nut, ' n7, '1 Hr, l-‘nrcll ('uytuills.

84 "IIIle tit-k: lrr, 'i‘iu‘ (hillatwa ml the Oregon Trait.
HE it'll Ilnrel'oot, the “‘ood—lluwh; hr, ()lti PuwtlerJHu
94 .‘litlliifl‘lli. .l Iii-it 3 1'?" 'l he Boy 'l‘rumlrv.

106 Did Froaiy, the (v‘uillr: nr, 1 ll» \i'hitr Quotn.

128 Kltnvn Charley the White )Iualunger.

139 Jud e in lit‘ll Jr.: “LT-he WW Vigilante.

155 i-‘volt 'I‘r gler. llu- Sr ll: 0'. The Girl Avenger.
169 'l‘ornudo 'l‘ont; ur, njun Jiil'li Frnm er (You.
1’48 Ned Temple. tln- l‘lnrlier lloy, m- Thr Mad llunlrr.
19H Arhunuuw; or. 'l in film it 0| Fatw’ufievengo.

207 Navajo vah. the Bar Gold Hunter.
2“; (‘uptnin litlllot ; i-r. Lillie Tupkmt’o Crusade.
21H Plungy I’hll; or. mun. lhr Rt‘ : Jerehel.
24] In” Ill-“yo; “r, Tllr Roughl- hi tho Rnt'liiel.
255 (‘gptghg Anon , lhl! i\lll(-l)ln Hi Howie.
867 The lint-L'an Dotovtlve: or. Th» King of Road—agents.
279 Did “'ilwltt “r. 'rl'k' Ifll“3ll‘lll'll lieu-vermin“.
294 Dvnnmlle Dan: “r. The wais illadr of (lochetopo.
802 'l‘ 0 Mountain Detective: or,1‘he Trigger Bar Bully.
816 "hi Eclipae. 'l‘rumn (‘nrd hi Arizona.
826 The Ten i’ardn: yr. 1 he Tenor mTake-Noilco.
886 Ill: Bent-on: or, The “not?” of tho Lama,
‘45 I’ltlleu Matt; 0'. de 'l'hllulrrholi’l Secrot.
'50: (um! ~ m mud Par '3 0‘ Tho-Terrible Six.
356 van-g Foot. ilio- lndnm ilrirrilve.
8N6 i‘nnialn (‘IItla-Au: or. he- ll ccuneor‘o Girl Foo.
896 Rough Rob: 0". The will Champion: oi Blue Elana.
411 The Nikon Lam-o: or.1‘he Kouec Ranch Rubia.
418 Felix Fox. the “fly Sttnttur; or. The Gold Gang of New York.
485 Tenn 1 ramp. the Burdor Rattler.
486 Phil Fla-n, tho- New York Fox: onle Riv-wry oime 9|.
M5 The (‘liy \ amniroo: or, Red Rolfe'o Plg'wn.
Gill Due A allot. Fin": or. The Loot Man of Keno Bot.
 $=e f oy fhadow: or. Felix Fox’o Hunt.
o 1x09 n or hport: or. The Wuhin ton s tter.

499 flinglc Night. the Our-Eyed Sport. R w
5 Branded Den. the Mob! Ferret.
518 limiter Dick. thy Wharf-S ly Dean-live.
521 Jodgor Dlok‘a lie-l Dulth or. The Gotham Gold Gang.
"ox and Falcon. lhr Boweryshadowa.
rod‘er “ii-Ii; the Dock Ferret.
Dodger Dlok I Double: or, The Rival Boy Detectivoo.
Dodger Diok’o Dunner-ate can.
588 -!0¢l er Dii-k. iht- Boy Vitiorq; or. The Gang of Three.
878 ' he wo “In down: or, Dmlgrr Dick’s Slop Game.
588 llod or Dlt-k’a Drop; or. The Mun from Johny.
894 J“ o Lon. the Stmt-slnzor Detective.
010 Did Skinner, the: Gold Shark; or. Tony Sharp on Guard.
886 'l he Champion Par-(lax or, The Lucilor or Silver Bar.
687 Dru-ll Donn. the Dock Bov Detective.
645 kit the Pavement Sharp.
058 Billy Bantam, u... a... Bugle.
671 Jersey Jed, the Bm- Hnotlor: or. Shadowing the Shodowor.
885 Happy "n h, the Boy Mllllt‘ihn DmiiVl.
701 Photoarap Fred. the Camera Shar
715 wake Len, lhu QBnltrr City cmi.
782 Dnin Doll. tho Pavement riorilve: or, Trapping Big Game.
  “‘illlo'l, illt' Bell liny Dvlet‘lh‘e.
754 l‘ ill \"inka, tho ROM BOY Shadow.
763 la: 9, Ned. the Boy on Guard: or. Too Can]: Spidorl.
780 Tonkaway Tom. the Red Wizard
 The lgl'l'niill‘m Sportir

‘ n. t e uttery errott on. an: onion loll No
807 Davy Doon’o Bi. llounoo. ,
905 lialdfioN Igget, tho Bo" Shadow.
981 The y on Denver. '

   

 

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118 Will Gov-ten, tho 30V Dotoouvo.
 Br“ Hardy: the lion gay.
rhythm «to: or. iwdormto tho buntin-
no now-mo Dick: or.’l‘ho H... il.  i
8 Ilpndomne Ilarry, the Bootbloch Dotocti
47 “ ill W 88% the Thorough“.
188 Ill-oh Bela. Ill Wildfire I Rater.
7 Mike lorry tho Harbor Police Boy.
I Will Wildfire in the Wooda.
R lly Ba. age. the Railroad Br .
Tran“ Ear-d; nr. Will Wilalii'ro Wino and Lao.
Boh lloo lien: or. lily-min ot New York.
B oo hot the Bank Runner.
“ en aland [onmllnylldfiroéohlhwm
ayar tn» o t _\-- nr. oSmau
nob Roe Kettz'or. Driven to tho \i’all. u
Bhuowodlt or, Bob ltockott‘o Fight for uio.
. the Tire! King.
Dallth Dave. tho Dandy Dotoetivo.
Torn Ton-(tr; or. The B och Shoop oi tho l'loeh.
885 flan: Charcoal tho Prominm Darky. i
:” “ltd” “Wilma "sthfly'd h am ‘ noon.
o a 3 or, onon co and ' .
.8! Dick Duh-way t or, A Doioto. Boy In Chu-
888 Young shin-pa; oi . Rollieking Mlho’om Trail.
874 Jolly Jim. ihr Detective Ar untieo.
889 Jolly {int’o Job; or, The con: Dotoetivo.
898 The “ ater-lloaadt or. Tho Young Thovoofhlrod.
805 lbuhawayt of Dakota: or. A Wootorn lad n Qooxor City.
884 lialnh Ready. the Hotol Boy Dotoetivo.
I Tony Thorne. tho Vagabond Dotoctivo.
Tho Reporter-Detective; or, Fred Flyor'l Bill-hi.
887 W hie-Awake Joe: or. A Boy of tho 7mm.
87’ Lari-’7'. the Leveiert or. Tho Blnodo oi tho Bonlovard.
408 Fire ,v Jack. the Rlvor—Rat Domtlvo.
488 The Loni. Finger: or. Tho Entrappod Cuhlov.
408 Fred Fiver tho Rot-arm Doiottive.
“I Invincible ma. tho Pink!”- 1'0"“.
“8 lllly Brick. tho Jolly Vagabond.
400 e-Awake Jerry. Do'octlvo; or Into-1M Ailvo.
47. Detective llod : or. The Mvntorv of Frank Hoorty.‘
88" “'ild Dioh "no '0“ or. How He Fought for Honor.
801 llooto. the Boy Finn-an i or. Too Sharp ior tho Sharps
i‘h Soon-i. ‘erviee Dov Detective.
the K'ilk oi. A Lamb Agonzwwiolvm
race 0 r anoaot or. e o {lo Fold.
888 l‘laeky Paul, the Boy flpeoalator.
007 oh an Earn, the Dain Dotectivoo.
‘0” The Carbotone Detective: or. Harry Holo‘o Bk Boat.
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89 Ned Norman. the Ga-irnrolftr. .
881 Tarke Billy tho Shim-’m-up Detectivo.
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BY ALBERT W. AIKEN.

11 The Two Detootivea or Tho Fort-oo- oi low
Aha Colt. tho Crow-Killzr. ’ ‘ a a“
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498 (‘aotu- linrr. lha \lan lrnm Hard back.

587 Did Honcho" 9. Lhr <irrra Shadow.

564 Powder Phn. the 14.». Miner. «gnu Man Without. rut.
809 Holly Dorrit. lltr t‘ir‘rtlll Dru-(live.

820 Little Ll htninlz‘n l (-anu-z UT The MVIWYO In? lilo».
683 I’lunhy isaul. Llw Hui l‘rv-spw-tur.

75‘ “old-“ll!” Dun. lint-Tim] Pnlrnl.

755 Gold Dun-i llnn‘n I 1 ill: It. ltrcltlooo Boy,“ Malawi
988 Gold-Dani Don‘t: Flap-Shot.

ill‘ JDSEI'II i-L. BADGER. JR.

8 Yellow-tone Junk: 0r,Thr Tra r.

48 lilavk John. thu Ronni-Arr)“; or, e Outlow’o Retro“.

05 “urrivaue lllll: or. Min-ton: Sam and “in M.
119 Multan 8am ; ur.Thu Kin] hi the Plalno.
18il Night-l. nwl. Kit; -r. 'I he Daughter of tho Ranch.
1“ Dainty Lam-e ihr Hay Sport.
15] Panther Paul: or, Dainty Lam-e to the Rooeoo.
160 The Illack Giant: or, llainiy Lance in Joopordy.
1"“ Deadly Dan-h; or, Fighting Hrr with Fire.
184 The lloy 'l ruller-g or, llaitll) Lance on tho War-Path.
208 The “a ' ’ioriitlg or. Dainty Lam-o Unmukl.
.11 (‘rooke l‘ale, the ('alilmn m‘ (‘oleliial City.
810 The llarram-a “'oli'; or.The Brantlnt Doony.
819 The Dial-h llidert 0r,Thr llnm-Thiovoo’ Leanna.
8815 "Id Double Flat or. The Strange Guido
855 The Kitty at "-1- I'oml-r 07 Daniel Boono’o Loot”
849 Kit. Fox. tho Border 8m- Dotocuvo
625 (‘hinoapin Dan. the iloy Trailer.

677 (‘hlncunln Dun’n Seoond Tra l.

088 (‘him-apin Dun‘o "onu- litre-tell.

698 Old (Waxy. Illr Man \i‘ithouta Hood.

708 ].i'l|I-lll‘lll'i lotto-’- Legao .

718 Li lit-lloart. luto’l lat-t rail.

728 iii \‘u-rhlodo. the Rho-hone.

789 fiilverhladc. the llali-hllld: or. The Border Booxlo at h
789 Silverblade, the lioatilr. or, The Bordor Beoglo'a Trail.
748 Silvcrblade the anndlv: Ur.'l‘|re Border Beqh'l MM

BY 0. DI'NNING CLARK.

188 CI toil Paul: or, TN- 303‘ Spy at tho Mun-loin.
.80 Th: Yankee Rajah : or. The Toto of tho Block Shorool.

in man. n. D. vital”. U. ‘8. 1!.

178 The Boy Ranawayt or. Tho Boeronoor oitho hy-
180 The Sea Trailer: or, A Vow Won Kopt.
1” Captain Kit: 01. The Myoton oi Month-h Point.

BY JACK FARRAGUT.

815 Ned. the Cabin lioy; or, The Witch oi tho Port.
880 The Sea Soreereoo; or. ’l'ho Boy Shppor.

DY CAPTAIN IIAYNE REID.
79 Blue Dick or, Tho Yellow Chlor’a Vongoonco.
87 The Land l’lratea or, The Loan: of Dovil’o lolanA
87 The llel loo- Iiln ; or, Bachwnodl Rowibutioo.
889 The Girls-miter Guide! or. Tho Loot Moanhb.

BY BRACEBRIDGE IIEIYNG.
89 I la 4! Ji-t or. The Pet of the Family. .
P81 1’he'ilavtalnofiho (‘luht M. The Rival Athlotoa 
101 Jack llarhaway in New York.

IIEO'ELI.AN E077! AUTHORS.

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18 Gallivor‘a Travelo. Byboon bulk
18 Aladdin; nr,’l‘ho Wondoriul loot .
18 Itohiaooa Ora-too. (91 llluotrat on.)
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584 Dead wood
“90 Dea won
59 Dear ww
606 Deat woos
606 Deaf wow
61’ Dead woot
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EDWARD L. WHEELER.

Deadwood Dick Novels.

Dick, the Princs oi the Bold.

Dick's Defiance; or, Double Dam

Dick In Disguiae; or, Bulaia lion.

Dick in Ilia Castle.

Dick’s Bonanza; or. The Phantom Miner.
Dick in Danger; or, Omaha Oll.

Dick’s Eagles; or, The Puds oi l‘lood Bar.
Dick on Deck: or. Calamity J Ins,tho Heroine
Dick’s Land. Act: or. Corduroy Charlie.
Dick in Lead ville.

DIek'o Device; or, The Double Cross Sign.
Dick as Detective. '

Dick’s Double; or. The Gorgon’s Gulch Ghost.
Dick’s Ilomc Bale; or, Blonds Bill.
Dick’l Big Strike or, A Game of Gold.
Dick oi Dcadwoo : or 'iho Picked Psrtv.
Dick’o Dream; or The lllvnls oiths Road.
Dick’s “'ardt or, The Black Hill's meel.
Dick‘a Doom 1 or. Calamity Jane’s Adventure.
Dick’n Dead Deal.

Dick’s Death-Plant.

iek. A Romance 0! Rough: and Toughs.
Dick's Divide-i or, Ths Spirit ovavsmp Lake.
IDIck’a Death ‘rail. ‘

Dick'l Deal: or, The Gold'Brick oi Oregon.
DIck‘a Dozen: or, The Faklr olPhantom Flats
lDick‘a Dncatn: or, Days in the Di (inn.
Dick Sentenced; or. The Tsrribls Gondotta.
Dick's Claim.

Dick In Dead City.

Dick‘n Diamonds.

Dick In hew l orlu or, A "Cute Case.”
Dick'n Dull! or, The Chained Haj.

Die . Jhi or The Crirnwn Crescent Sin.
Dick, Jr. 0, Defiance.

Dick, Jr.’s l'uli iland.

Dick. Jr.’s. Big Bound-Up.

Dick Jr.’a Bucket at (Vial-

iDiek, .lr.'n Corral; or. Bounian .
Dick. Jr.’n. Dog Detective.

Dick. Jr., in Deadwood.

Dick, Jr.’n. fompact.

Dick Jr.’s. Inheritance.

Dic‘I? Jr): Jifrin'n.

ch . Jr.’n. De verance.

Dick Jr.'s ’rotegee.

Dick. Jr.’s. Three.

Dick, Jr.’s, . Dancer Ducks.

Dick. Jr.’s. Death llunt.

Ichk. Jr.. in Texan.

Dick, Jr., the wna West Vidan

Dick. Jr., on "In Mcttic.

Dick. Jr., In Gotham.

ck, Jr.. In Boston.

D ck. Jr., in Philadelphia.

D ck. Jr., In Ch eago.

 

ck. r.. Afloat.
ID ck. on. In Denver.
Dick. Jr.'n, Decree.
Dick Jr.. in Beelaehuh’s Baoln.
ck, Jr.. at Cone island.
ck. Jr.'-, Leadv ie Lay.
D ck, Jr.. In Detroit.
Dick. Jr. In Cincinnati.
ID ck. Jr., In eva a.
ID ck. Jr., in No Man’s Land.
D ck. Jr.. After the Queer.
Dick Jr.. In Bulaio.
Dick. Jr.’n. Chane Acros- the Continent
Dick. Jr.. Among the Ssnaggiero.
D ek, Jr.'s lunnrance Cane.
c , Jr.. liack in the Miner.
D ck, r? In Duran-go: 0r.“Gsiherod In.”
ID e , Jr. s iDi-coverygorJoundsl’ortaas.
Dick. Jr.’o. Dannie.

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Int-I9, Jr.. ’at Jack-Pot.
Dick Jr. in San Francine.
Dick, Jr. a fltiil ilunt.
Dick. Jr.’s Dominoeo.
Dick, Jr.’a, Disguise.
Dick. Jr.’o. Douhlc Deal.
 J’r.’.s. leathhlwtateh.
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Dick: Jr.’n, lDeathhiow.
Dick. Jr.’o, Desperate Btraik
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Dick: Jr.’n. Bcnurrectiol.
R'Icfi. :llr.’|"lDI;u-‘:& Days.
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Dick, Jrf‘s, Double Device.
Dick, Jr’.a, Denpcrate Venture-l
Dick, Jr.’n, Diamond Dice.
lI'Dlicli‘r slur, lI'ioydai Illflasll.
uni-k2 J::’:. amid ‘
Dick. Jr.’n, Boon.
Dick. Jr.’o, Icoop.

Dick. r.'a. l’rox .
Dick. rdo. (‘Iutc

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IDiek Jr‘. at I evii'o

Dick, Jr. a, Death-Bole
Dick, Jr.'n Bomb-hell.
Dick, .lr.. In Mexico.

Dick. .lr'n Decoy Duck.
Dick. Jr. in Silver Pocket.
Dick. Jr.’e. iDcad-b‘urc Game.
Dick. Jr.’n, llouhle Drive.
i'rick, .ir.’a. 'i‘radc-Mark.
Dick, .lr.. at Tip-Top.
Dick. Jr.’a Dou lie-Decker.
Dick, .lr., at Dollarviilc.
Dick, .lr.. at Flank Fiaig
Dick. .lr.’n. Sirahc-up.
Dick, .lr.’n, Duuhlc Drop.
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905 Deadwood Dick,

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971 Deadwood Dick, Jr.’n. iDaih.

977 Deadwood
986 Deadwood
992 Deadwood

Dick. .lr.'n, Death-Doom.
Dick, Jr.’n, llt‘!l Card.
Dick. Jr., at Gold Duet.

BY WILLlA“ R. l‘ll'fl‘l‘i‘llh
199 Dandy Darke] or,Tho 'l‘izera oi iiiin Pine.
210 Faro Frank: or. Dandy Darke's Go~Down i’srds
Hlfl ’l he "antler Bozuc-(‘ tclrcr.
888 Poker I’cte’n Doulric Dodge.
851 The Tie-To fiport : or, il:;h lluntling at Sinnou' Flat.
Mill Monte Saul. the “port.
901 Diamond Da vc, lirc (Hit-Edge Shooter,
9]" Crack-Shot Dainy'u Drop,
93‘ The H art in Vclvl‘l: or, lily lfiurk's Bluff.
945 Billy iird‘a Bonanza: t-r. ’Iha lintok-iiavans' RootOut.

902 Flip-Fla
969 The Grer

Fred at. Hard i’an
Sport-Mradower; or, (‘iark'n Cinse Shuvo.

988 Banty Biliy'l Bonanza; or, The BearrTurmr's lmzuiso,

 

other Novels by E. L. Wheeler.

80 . ‘ " Bob: or, Nugget Nod, the Knight.

34 losebuo Bob on "and; or, Idyl, the Girl Miner.

88 Rosebud. Rob'a Res nearancei or. Photo r-vh Phil-
lfll Rosebud Roh’o ()lla lcn e; or, Cinnamon .‘hip.
277 Denver Doll, the Detective ueen; or, The Ynnkeo'e Surround
.81 DenverlDoll's Victory; or. Skull and Crossbones.
.95 Denver Doll's Decoy ; or. Little Bill’s Honours.

.96 Denver Doll’s Dril‘t; or. The Road Queen.

86" l'reka Jim; the Goiti-i-lsslhercrt or, Th» Lilo Lottery.
B7. k'reka Jim I Princ; or. The wolvu of “'ake~Up.
885 \' reka Jim'a Joker; or, The Rivals oi Rod Ncso.

894 l reka Jim of Tuba Dam.

909 Fritz, the BounQBoy Detective: or, Dot Lreile Game.

918 Fritz to, the Front; or, The Ventriloquiut Hunter,

944 lerra flam. l-ilu Fruutiur Ferret: or, A Sister’a Devotion.
I48 §--erra flann- Secretx or The Bloodv Footprints.

I58 S-erra Sara‘- l’ard; or.’ he Angel nt Big Vista.

958 Serra Bam‘a Seven or. The Stolen Bride.

384 Kangaroo Kit; or. T1. Mysterious Minor.

‘89 Kangaroo Kit‘a Racket; or. The Pride of i’lsyod.0at.

39 Death-Face, Detective; or, Life in New York.

96 “'atcll-l‘lyc tln- Dou-Hive: or. Aral-u and Angels.

11? Gilt-Edged Dick, m. sgm mum».

I45 Captain Ferret. the 'ew York Detective.

l0! New York Nell, the Boy-Girl Detective.

220 The A rah Detective: or, Summer, the Boy Sharp.
991 ank the Boy Ferret.

825 Iicllcy. lilckev dt (70.. the lit-tl-vtives of Philadelphia.
848 Manhattan Mike, the Bowery lh-tcctivo.

400 “'rinkicn. the Night-Watch Detective.

416 High llat Harry. the Base Ball Detective.

490 Sam Slab-idea. the Beggar-Buy Detective

‘84 Jim Beak and Pa]. Private Dotectivoa.

26 ()loven lloof', the Buffalo Demon: or, The Border Vultures.

82 Bob Woolf; or, The Girl Brad-Shot.

45 Did Avalanche ‘ or, Wild Edna, the Girl Brigand.

58 Jim Bludaoe. r., the Boy Phcuix.

61 Backhorn In!“ or. The Red Rifle Team.

90 Canada Chet: or, Old Anaconda in Sitting Bull’s Camp.
118 Jack "oer the Young Smculatnr.

1.5 Bonanza Bill Miner; or. Madam Myltory, the Porter.
[38 Bola Bob the iling of Buothiarks.

141 Solid Earn, the Bov Road-Agent; or. The Branded Brows.
177 Nohb Nick ofNevadat or, The Sierras Scsmpo.

181 “'ild rank the Burk-kin Bravo; or. Lady Lily's Lo".
.80 Apollo Bill, the Trail Tornado: or, Rowdy Kate.

940 Cyclone Kit. the Young Gladiator; or, The Locksd Valley.
978 Jumbo Joe the Boy Patrol: or. The Rival Heirs.

880 Little Ilic -8hott or, The Dead Face of Damrsvilio.
858 Pint-C asn Fred. Iho Gent Irom Gophsr.

B7B Naboh Ned z or. The Secret oiSlab City.

38' Cool Kit, the Kin] nl Kids; or, A Villain’s Vengeance.
488 Santa 1% Sai, the Sluhor; or, A Son’s Vengeance.

“I Real-kin 8a.. the Sparklor: or The Tribunal ol'l'ea.
918 Kit Keith. t 0 Revenue Spotter.

929 Sol Sharpe. the New York Night-Hawk.

948 (Did llayseed Annou- Brace Men.

 

 

 

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490 Broad way Billy. the Boothiack Inn.

514 Broad way Billy’s Boodle; or, Cloulsgsltraaco Cssu.
586 Broasrway Billy’s 'Dilkilty.”

557 Broat way BIII ’s Death Rocket.

57’ Brou way Bli y'o Burprine Party.

605 Broadway Billy} or The Boy Detectlvs’siiie isainr.
«on Broadway Billy .- 15.“! Act: or,'i'ho as"...
669 Broadway Billy Abroad; or. The Boothsc in Frisco.
675 Broadway Billy’s Beat; agile-tings“ Francisco's Hunt.
687 Broadway Billy In lover.

696 Broadway Billy in Texas; or,Ths Rivsr Rnstisss.
70. Broadway Billy’s Brand.

711 Broadway iliy at flanta Fey or The Clover Dual.
790 Broadway Billy’s Dv'nll llandt or. oGsiaia Detective.
785 Broadway BIily’a iiaainesn.

788 Broadway Billy'n (,‘nriona Care.

758 Broadway Billy in Denver.

70. Broadway Iiiliy’s Bargain; or, The Thus Detective.
769 Broadway Billy, the Retriever Detective.

775 Broadway Blily’n l. dow Chane.

788 Broadway Billy’s Beagle-t or The Trlo'l Que-t-
786 Broadway Blily’n ’l‘eam; or, The Combins's Bl; Pall.
790 Broadway Bliiy’a Brigade: or. The Dead Allvs.

796 Broadway Billy’l (Iueer Bequest.

800 Broadway Billy Bafled.

805 Broadway Billy’s Si no! Scoop.

#10 Broadway Billy’s “' pe (Dot.

8l5 Broadway Billy’s Bank Bucket.

82l Broadway Billy’u Biol.

826 Broadway tllly Anton! Jersey Than

888 Broadway Billy’n liin .

839 Broadway Billy‘l Big Boom.

844 Broadway Billy":- Big Bul c.

849 Broadway Iiiliy'u $100.0 0 in

 

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856 Broad way Billy'n Blind: or. The iioutblsck Siowswsy. I

862 Broadway Billy In I mdon.

868 Broadway Billy Rha own London Binnie.
874 Broadway Billy'n Frcnch Game.

880 Broadway Billy and tho Bosnb-Throwero.

989 Bicycle Bob’s iIot Scorch.

loo solver-Mask. the Man on Mystery; or, The Golden Keys.
B69 Shanta. the Gold King: or. hrs"... Years Dead.

4.0 The Detective’n Alpprentlce: or. A Boy Without a Name.
494 Oihuta Jonnt or. sd-Hoi Timon at Auto Bar.

489 Sandy Sam. the Strut Scout.

407 Dir-co Dan. the Daisy Dude

506 Iledlixht Balph ths Prince of the Road.

594 The Engineer Detective: or. Rodlixht Ralph’s Resolve
548 Mart, the Night Expreu Detective.

57I Air-Linc Llllcc the Young Engineer; or, The Double Cu.
592 The Boy Pinkerton; or, Running the Ruscnls Out.

«to Fizhti‘nc llurr the Chis! ur Chained Cyclone.

H40 Bareback iici , the Centaur of the Circle.

647 'lyncwrltcr Tilly. the Mcrrhant’u “'ard.

059 “oonlilht Mowan the" Pluncst”l\lsn of Auto Bar.
8:47 Battarydtoh. the Dock Detective.

~94 Arizona Dick'n “I c.0ut.

900 Jumplntr .Inck’n . uhllee.

906 flui‘cty Sam, the (‘_vr|e Snort.

DI? Train Boy 'I‘rlni'a llot lllllltle,

9|“ 'I‘he 'l‘rumn Dock-"0V.

oer lllg‘ Boot- Bob, thc l‘irc-larddie.

930 Bunilcr Ralph. the Boy Spotter.

987- ‘ c Pix-N'pw-Iroy Dclt‘cilvc'n (‘llum.

911 The Boullmz l} rccn Dctcctlva‘n Drop.

91.1» (‘owhoy (‘harilc‘n Double.

9 i7 The Bowery \l' rc-tlcr; or. The Butcher-Boy's Banker.
958 l’athlv'fl Trump ('artl: or. Silver Sallie, the Girl Sport.
SD64) The Broadway Sport: 0?. Fiw‘r Frcri'l Clear Case.
907 $l000 Bcwnrd: or, The Rival vaml’lefl' Sleek Scoop.
97B Bantam Billy. lhc (‘orkcr-Fcrrei.

978 Piueky Pat. thc Strcct-Boy Detective.

BY “'Iii. PERRY BROWN.
956 Brooklyn Boh’n Bulge; or, Dodger Dot's Dis-old Snsp.
963 The I’ant-Sldc spotter: «flaming Down the m- hm
974 (Did Sant‘n Dark Dcal; sr. Min. lst's Iron Grip;

 

BUFFALO BILL NOVELS.

BY COL. PRENTISS lNGRAEAM.

9R“ Buli'alo Bill’s Laneo Throwers.

981 Bull'an Blii’n Fi htin Five.

975 Bull'an Bill’a iflefi oil.

968 Bulaio Bill’a Bus-h Bidet or, Sure-Shot, the High-Fixer.
964 Bull'an Bill'n Decoy; or, The Arizona Crack Shot
958 Bairan Bill's Maze pin-Chase.

948 Bulfan Blil’u Rnapu ot: or. Wild Kid's Texan Tally
942 Bull‘an Blll’n Tou h Tunic.

980 iiulfnlo Bill’s Boy a-cot; or, 100 Jsrvio’ Hold-up.
929 Bull’an Bili'n (‘rack-rhot i’ard.

650 Bulaio Bill's Boy l’nrd: or. Butterfly Billy.

Bill Bison Bill. the Prince oi the Runs.

.29 Bison Bill’a Clucx or.(1‘rlt,ih0 Bravo Sport.

BY BUFFAID BILL.
‘5 Deadly-Eye. the Unknown Scout. or, The Banded Him

6’1 Border Robin flood: or The Pruirie Rover.
I58 Foley Frank of (‘oioradot or. The Tnpper's'l‘r-L

Bi CAPT. ALFRED B. TAYLOR, 'J. 3.A.

Bulfaio Billy. the Boy Buliwhnrker.
Buffalo Bill I Bet: nr. The Gambler Guido.

BY T. J. FLANAGAN.

 #dduhipmangmrlc. thi: i’Iralte Catcher.
) e oun low my ‘a in n.
933  ’l‘wo glidnhipmengpur, ’l‘ho Corsair-MT M
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949 The Three Lieutenant-
959 ’i‘hc Mascot Mindy ; or The Four Commutation.
966 righting Jack Hhuhrick.
97‘ 1 ithtina Jack's Middle“ or, Dsudy Dick’s Dash.

BY ODLIDNEL PRENTISS INGBAIIAM.

93’ New York Nat‘s Dro : or. Ex-Fumt Sykol' Boll than
926 New. York Nat and the Traitor l'emt.
920 New \ ork Eat Trapped.
914 New Y_ork Dat‘n 'ihree of a Kind.
905 New \ ork Dat'n Double.
902 New York Rat’s in Colorado.
896 New York Nat in Gold Nu‘nt Ca-p.
i189 Dew \"ork Nat’a Deadly Deal.
888 New York Nat’l Crook-Chase.
877 New York Nat’n Trump Card.
87I New York Nut and the Grave Ghouls.
866 New York Nat'a Marked Mascot.
859 Yew ‘ ’ork Nat. the Gamin Detective.
858 Dick Doom'n Kidnapper Knock-Out.
847 Dick Doovu's Ten Strike.
842 [Dick Doom’n Flu-h "and.
779 Dick Doon’s Death-Grip; or,The Detective by Destiny.
777 Dick Doom’s Deutiny; or, The River Blsrklu's Tami.
784 Dick Dooll; or. 'l he Sharps uud Sharks oi New York.
788 Dick Doovn In Boatoat or. A Man oi Many Monks.
798 [Dick [Door- in (‘hlcapm '
798 Dick Boom in the B iid Vi est.
808 Dick iDoovn’s (‘iean flweept or, Five Link- in s Clea
808 Dick Doom’a Death flue.
2418 Dick Doe-’s Dia’lnond Deal.
819 lDIck lDoosa’s Girl Maoeot.
899 Dick D’oosazs %h|adlolw llant.
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749 ‘ ' _ Charlie?!" Ths Kentucky-Trudth "MM
756 Dan hing Charlie's Dertinyt or. The Month's Csptiva
760 Dunning (‘harlle’n Pawnee Pard.
706 as in Charlie. the Rescuer.
497 uck ayior, King ot the Cowboy-a
787 luck Taylor, the (lornauchs’s C30”.
743 luck Ta lor's Boyer cr.Thel’. Rideruoitho‘iom
:0: ’awnee “III, the ic’nirifhshgswér. be
1 ’awnee ill or If , o ow y.
719 l’awnee Blilis l‘iedxet or.1‘hoCowboy'sDoo-.
7'5 Pawnee Bill: Hr, Darin; Dick.
69. ledfern'n (‘urIonn (‘aaer or, The Rival Sharpe.
691 iedfern at De vil’a Beach; or, The Sharp iron Teens.
70. Redl’ern's llixh "and; or, Blue Jack
707 Bedfern’s Lant Trail: or.The Rod Bombmihugevs.
And Filly 0thero.

DY LIEUT. A. K. SIMS.

589 Tons-Cat and Ford; or. The Dead Set at Silver (my.
629 'l‘ovn.C.t'a Triad: or. The Al'air at Tombstone.

681 Tom Cat’n Terrible Tank; or The Cowho Detectivs.
688 Toll-Cat'o Triumph or. Black Dan's Gteat mbino.
546 Captain Cactu- the haparrai Cock; or, Jouh’. Tu Std}.
568 The Dandy oi’ Dodlc; or. Rustliu {or Millions.

576 The silver fiport; or. .losh Peppermint’s Jubilee.

588 Sahon Sol. the Man With a Shadow

00] “II p llann, the Dutch Vidncq; or'HotTlmgaat Round-U.
611 Bil a Barnacle, the Detective Herculua.

640 Cowho Gill. the Cattle-Range Detective.

657 Warhlfag “'Iliiam the Mountain Mountebauk.

665 Jolly Jeremiah; the Plain: Detective.

670 flianai Ram, the Lookout Scout.

699 Billy the Gypa Spy: or,’l‘he Myst» 'oi'l'wo Lino.
699 Simple film, the {macho Bin-tn: or. For cStak-I.

712 The MeamerI-t liportr or, The Mystiflod Detective.
788 Toltec Tom, the Mad Prospector.

745 Ran-as Jim, the (‘mns-(‘ut Dcteriivo.

761 Marmaduke, the Mustnugcr Detective.

778 The Buntlcr of Rolling Stone.

7R5 Lone "and Joe. the Committee oiOuo.

81“ Kent Kirby. the limit-Kicker irom Killhuek.

88 The Doctor Dctr etive In Texan.

879 Two Shownu-n I'ctcctivcl In Colorado. Sh‘
987 The Texan Firchrand: nr. Brazos Billy I5“?-

961 The Tramp’a Trump-Trick.

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998 Deadwood Dick. Jr.‘u Big l’lln 01’. Ths 131.com.
at Gold Ledge City. liy E. L. Wheeler.

999 Jack Lang, the Privateer 3071 r; or, Th. M“ .1 “n,
Names. By 'I'. J. F amp“-

1000 Buii'alo Bill’s Decoy Boys. By Col. P. lngraham_

1001 Banty. the lDelr‘vefr Boothlaek; or, The Dark-an
Detective. By E. . W hoeler. ‘

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994 Billy Bowcrn' Street scouts; or, R'lidiii' the Rolling .
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995 Bufl’aio Bill'n Drop; or, Dead-Shot Ned , the Kan-u m4.
Col. 1’. luzruhum.

996 Two Rt‘lml'li‘l' DI-tcctivca In Colorado; or, Bucknkia
Rob’s Snapsh. t. lly H. M. l‘lnynton.

997 Fcorciur Sam. tho Dctertivo on “'heell; or, The Somatic
at Wuhingtnn li-‘lKllil. By J. C. Cowdrick.

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BY JOSEPH E. BADGER. JR.

‘928 Old Soberside the Detective of St. Louis.

925 White—Horse heeler, the Revenue Detective.

915 The Double Edged Detective.

907 Maverick Mark. the Man from Nowhere.

898 Silky Steele, the Stay—in Sport.

88-1 Tue S. tter-S ort s Neck-Tie Part 3

870 High- ater ark; or. Silver-Tip Std.

862 Riata Rob. the Range Chain )ion.

855 The C ~wh0v Chiefs Sure-S 0t.

84 The Rival Red-Hat Sports.

837 Curly Kid. the Cheyenne Sport.

824 The Soft Hand Detective:

815 The. Soft Hand's Clutch.

809 Dan Dunn the Soft‘Hand Sport.

796 The Frisco Detectives Thug~Tangle.

789 Sam Cary. the Rivers ort.

78( The Dead Sport’s Don le. ‘

771 Prince John. Detective S ecial.

763 Dandy Don. the Denver etective.

754 'lhe Man from Texas; or. Dangerfield,
Doctor Detective.

2'41 Sii'eepstakes Sam. the Silver Sport.

720 The Secret Sir or, 01d Halcyon.

:12 The Man 0: Silk.

7'05 Bantam Bob. the Beauty from Butte.

693 Kent Kasamn, the Preacher Sport.

683 Bob Breeze, the Rounder Deter-tire.

675 Steel Sorry, the Sport in m Sunrise.

668 Solemn Saul’s Luck Strt ak

661 The Get-There Sharp.

651 Silvertlp St-ve, the Sky Scraper from Siskiyou.

645 Gopher Gabe, the Unseen Detective.
Dandy Darling, Detective.

627 Mossbiick Mos», the Mountaineer.

617 The Grip Sack Sharp‘s Even up.

597 BligBandy, the Brigadier of Brimstone Butte.

$8 i‘ dy Sands. the Sharp from Snap City.

576 Silver-Tonguetl Sid: or, Grip Sack Sharp’s Sweep.

564 The Grivath Sharp; or. The Seraphsof Sodom.

55.5 Grip-Sack Sid. the Sample Sport.

547 The lilll‘lf‘il Detective; or. Sanl‘s Six Sensations.

541 Major magnet, the Man of Nerve. .

5&5 Dandv Dutch. the Decorator from Dead-Lift

527 Dandy Andy, the Diamond Detective.

511 Gabe Gum. the Grin! from. Ginseng

304 Solemn Saul. the Bad §an from San Sn .

495 Rattlepate Rob; or. The Roundhead‘s Reprisal

488 The Thorn hhred Sport, .

D oEye; the Desoot of Dew Drop.

fl Old - h and Ready, the Sake of Sundown
Dutch Dan. the Pilgrim from Spiizenberg.

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148- A Cool Hand: or. Pistol Johnny’s Picnic.

4'18 Oklahoma Nick.
48?. Laughinnr Leo: or. Sam‘s Dandy Pard.
4% The Ghost Detective: or. The Secret Service Spy.
416 Monte Jim. the Black Sheep of Bismarck.
409 Rob Roy Ranch: or. The Imps of Pan Handle.
40% The Nameless Sport. I
3950de aim. the Duke 01' Der-ringers.
2147 Dark urg. the Ishmael of the Hills.
372 Caggain Crisp. the Man with a Record.
.867 A yal Flush: or, Dan Brown’s Big Game.
860 Jumping Jerry. the Gamecock from Sundown.
355 Stormv Steve. the Mad Athlete.
351 Nor‘ West Nick. the Border Detective. .
846 Masked Mark. the Mounted ve.
339 Spread Eagle Sam. the Hercules Hide Hunter.
881 Chispa Charley. the Gold Nigger Sport.
317 Frank liighttoot. the Minor tectivo.
299 Hoke Homer. the Boss Ronstabout.
fill Pistol Johnny; or. One Man in a Thousand.
388 Sleek Sam, the. Devil of the Mines.
57 Death Tra D ‘ ings: orH A Man ’Way Back
249 Bio bane om. o Duranzo.
1141 Spiram King of the Rustlers.
sue-m my of Tombstone.
m- V ofthc Planers: 01'. J0 uin‘s Death Hunt
‘39- or. The m or $8 1:.
pper toot ve.
165 Joaquin. the Terrible '
154 Joaquin, the Saddle King.
1141 Equinox Tom. the But‘ of Red‘fioeit.
119 Alabama Joe: or. azoo motivators.
‘10!» Dan Brown of Denver: or. The Detectives-
~88 312 George; or. The Five Outlaw another-s.
71 Cantu n 0001 Blade: or. Mississippi Man Shark.
67 The Boy Jockey: outlioneay rs. Crookedness.
50 Jack Rabbit. the frame snort. -

BY WM. G. PATTEN.

ill Fire—Eve. the Thu '9 Terror,
:95 Old Nigl t-ilawk, he (hook sunflower.
738 Tm Prni e of New York Crooks.
Old Burke. the Madison Square Detective.
Doub.e_v0ice pnn‘s Double minimise.
flEiDouhle-V’oice Dan on Deck.

702 Double-Voice. Dan. the Always-on-Deck Detectiro
i090 Double-Voice Dan. the Go-it Alone Detective,
689 The Bparkl’er Sharp. ‘ ‘
676 Hurricane Hal. the Cowboy Botspur.

% Old'sme Blue. the Trusty.

The iant ;or, Sold to Satan.

use Old Pt I I glv. the Rough and Ready.
848 Gold (ion did the-Man of Grit. _
641 Aztec Jncli. the .rt Nomad.
681 Colonel Cm]. the Santa Fe Sharp.
602 Cu min Nameless. the Mountain Mystery.

 

. 571 01' Dismal. the Rail e Detective.

 Hustler Harry. the wboy Sport.
in (aroma; (haunts.

», fill The Arizona Detective. »
: 894 Silver Sam. the Shasta Sport.

am The Silver Sport‘s Double. i
868 The Race—Course Detective. V
Flid'l'he Bayer-ed Detective.

 7'?! Ca lain Corden, the Twist ’ Detective.

155117111 1". to the Brant-ho uster Detective.

7% Fearless Sam. the (ii-rind Combination Detective. .
- 719 l-lmton.IBtili. the Sport Detective.

572 Jauulv Jive, the Jo: hey Detective.
551 Had Shari». the l‘lihlli‘l' I
53“ Rube Rocket. the Tent lh-ti-ctim

I 526 Deatlrlll'iti. the 'l'vntlt-rlimt ill-turtiw'v.

W The) Drummer Detectivv'. l
‘43? The (hunt Horsemen '
.398 Newbie.“ The. HIV l’:ltsiii.‘ l‘wteclivia

' 574 Old Falcon ‘3 Double.

 

BY WILLIAM R. EYSTER.

916 Two DeadSquare Sports.

902 Soft Velvet. the Man from Sandrock.

891 (ienteel Jim. Sport-atLarr e.

881 The Clubmnn-Crook‘s Cat s-paw.

867 The Frisco Sport.

852 The Stranger S We Shake-up.

828 Kirk King. the an from Kirby.

818 Gentleman Dave, the Dead Game Sport

783 The King-Pin Tramp.

767 The Sport of rilwr Bend.

718 Uncle Bedrock's Big Bounce.

707 The Rival Rovers.

687 Double Cinch Dan. the Sport With a Charm.
677 Mr. Jackson, the Gent from Jaybim.

659 Gilt-Edge Johnn ': or. Roldan and His Rovers.
650 Luck Lester‘s one Hand.

634 Old andcart‘s Biz Dump.

622 The All Around Sports.

603 Desert Alf. the Man With the Cougar.

590 Gentle Jack. the High Roller from Humbug.
578 Seven Shot Steve, the Sport with a Smile.
568 The Dude Detective. ‘

558 Hurrah Harry. the Hi 11 Home from Halcyon.
549 Belshazznr Brick. the Bailiff of Blue Blazes.
533 Oregon. the Sport \\ ith a Scar.

603 The Dude from Denver.

478 Pinnacle Pete; or. The Fool from War Back.
459 Ma or Sunshine, the Man of Three. Lives.
429 Hair Trigger Tom of Red liend.

402 Snapshot Sam; or. The Angels’ Flat Racket.
396 The Piper Detective; or. The Gilt Edge Gang.
 Royal Geor e, the Three in One.

350 Thr e Han! some S ions; or, The Combination.
333 Derringer Dick. the Inn with the Drop.

268 Magic'Mike. ‘he Man of Frills.

229 Captain Comic-eve: or. The Little Sport.

214 The Two Cool Sports: or, (iertie ol’ the Gulch.
182 Hands Up: or, The Knights of the Canyon.

160 Soft Hand. Sharp: or. The Man with the Sand.

145 Pistol Pards; or. The Silent Sport from Cinnabar

BY NED BUNTI‘JNE.

657 Long Tom. the Privateer.
63‘} The Sea 5 ,_v. ,
621 The Red i'ivaneer; or. The Midshipman Rover.
581 Fire Feather. the Buccaneer King.
517 Buffalo Bill‘s First Trail.
861 Tombstone Dick. the Train Pilot.
122 Saul Sabberday. the Idle} 8
111 The Smuggler Captain; or.
18 The age. Bandit; or, The Queen on Isle.
16 The ’hito Wizard; or, The Seminole Prophet.

BY JACKSON KNOX—“old lli'k.”

888 Old Grips Still Hunt. '
827 Detective Wnltlen‘s Web.
778 The Butler Detective: or. Old Grip‘s Grip
770 The Showman Dete tive. . v
762 Old Grip the Detective.
74o Captain biew, the Ft hting Detective.
782 The Hurricane Deter e. -
M3 Castlemaine. the Silent Sifter.
616 Magnum the Weird Detective.
gig ghee“ rop actegtive. 70",“ I
m. e p Detective.
582 Joram. the Detectlpveg Expert.-

561 TheThugKl ' or The
548 Faiconbridgegthc Sphinx
536 Old Falcon 3 Foe: or. The
515 Bhortdétop Ma 9. the
509 Old Falcon. t c Thu
501 S ringsteel Steve. the
491 c Detective‘s S y.

435 Bowlock. the Ear ' r Detective.
477 Dead-arm Brandt. , "
457 Mninwaring. the'Salamande-r.
462 The Circus Detective. ( r
451 Griplocki the Rocket Detective. I
444 The in Detective; or, The Hidden Band.
424 Hawk

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erbolt. Detective.
timed Detective.

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‘886 Hawk Hot-bu. the silica-Detective. .

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75-2 The Sus t B ort of Daisy Brig.

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598 The Dominic Detective. . '

591 Duke Daniels, the Society Detective.

580 Shadowing a Shadow.

565 Prince Paul. the Man Detective.

557 The Mountain Graybeanis: or.

519 Old Riddles. the Rock

499 Twilight Charlie. the .port. .

473 Gilbert ol.’ Gotham. theSteel-arm Detective.

45:? Rainbow Rob, the Tulip from T .

436 Kentucky Jean. the S rt from ellow Pine.-

492 BlueGrnss Burt. the old Star Detective.

890 The Giant. Cupid: or Cihuta John's Jubilee.

3.35 EDWARD WILLETT.

493 Flush Fred. the River Sh

868 The Cnnvon Kine; or. a

348 Dan Dillon. Kin Oi Crosscnt.

an Old Gabe the a ouhtain Tram .

$2; grrgpli‘n gicwhglwmiwfipd Detective.

. us re s ‘ u e: or. e nattcts‘ Le "'e

308 Hemlock Hank. Tough and Tme. ' m

298 L ~gzer Le n: or. bite in the Piné'WOods‘.

249 gush Fre ‘s Fq‘lifland.' '. _- 7 '

27: ush, Frog. thshMississlppi soot-ft. * > ‘

918 Montan hat. t 6 Lion of Last Chance Camp.

22? Bill the inward: or. Red Jack’s. Crime.

203 Book Barley. thi- Bonanra Prince?-

129 Mississippi Hose: ’01-. a Stron‘g Man's Sacrifice.

uv “cram mm; Rein.
267‘ he WhiteSutiaw. , '
2:41" ‘lic Hunter‘s ll‘l'ilsl’. ‘
ti . ‘i‘iw \Viltl llimtress: or. The Sqiiauer.
 I The Rillc hunters: or. Adventures in Mexican

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The Scalp Hunters. A Romance of the. Plum.

This Skipgr‘s Crime.

Falcon Detective'a Foe.

Delaware‘s-swell Joli.
Diamondmold Detective.

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271 Stoneflst. 01! Big 8 at Bend. . ‘ ’ 
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283 iron-Armed Abe. the unchback Destroyer

_%8 Bullet Read, the Colorado Bravo. _

176 Ladv Jaguar. the Robber Queen;

 

 

BY COL. PRENTISS INGRAIIAM.

911 The Blue Blockader; or, The (‘oast Grayhound. 
906 The Cuban Cruiser. - 

854 The Ocean Gips)’. 
931 The Wild Steer Riders; or, Texas J ack’s Terrors. 
819 The Rival Monte Cristos. l ‘

805 The Last of the Pirates; or, Docm Driven.

till The Water Wolves’ Detective; or,Trapping the l
Grave Ghouls.

791 The Coast-Raider‘s Death Chase.

748 Arizona Charlie. the Crack-shot Detective.

704 Invisible Ivan. the Wizard Detective.

685 The Red-skin Sea Rover. .

679 Revello. the Pirate CruiSer; or. The Rival Rovers

62*: The Red Rapier: or, The Sea Rover’s Bride. t

662 The Jew llvlective': or, The Beautiful Convict.

640 The Rev P’s Rt t ibution. «

635 The Ex Buccaneer: or. The Stigma of Sin.

6‘25 Red WingS; or. The Gold Seekers of the Bahamas,.

615 The Three uccaneers. -

610 The Red Flag: Rover; or, White Wings of the Deep.

605 The Shadow Silver Ship.

600 The Silver Ship: ('1'. The Sea Scouts of ’76.

593 The Sea Rebel: or. Red Rovers of the Revolution.

5'? Conrail. the Sailor Spy; 01'. True Hearts of ‘76.

581 The Outla wul Ski per; or. The Gantlet Runner.

560 The Man from ii exico.

5.33 .‘la. .‘1 Monte, the Mutineer; or. The Branded Brig.

516 T"* Doomed Whaler: or. The Life Wreck. '

.530 The Savages oi’ the Sea.

5:34 The Sea Chaser; or, The Pirate. Noble.

510 El Moro, the Corsair Commodore.

493 The Scouts of the Sea.

457 The Sea lusurge m: or. The Conspirator Son.

446 Ocean Ogre. the Outcast Corsair. » .

435 The One-Armed Buccaneer. . ’

430 The Fatal Frigate; or, Rivals in Love and War. '

399 The New Monte Cristo.

39.3 The Convict Cnptiau. ,

377 Afloat and Ashore: or. The Corsair Conspirator,

369 The Coast Corsair: or. The Siren of the Sea.

364 The Sea Fugitive: or. The Queen of the Coast.

341 The Sea Desperado.

336 The Magic Snip' or. Sandy Hook Freebooters.

3:5 The Gentleman Tirate; or. The Casoo Hermite.

318 The Indian huocaueer .' or. The Red Rovers.

30: The Phantom Pirate; or. The Water Wolves.

255 The Pirate Priest; or. The‘Gamhler's Da liter. 

246 new Helen,‘.the Amazon of the Overlan

235 magi-lung the Man of Chance.

224 Black . the Buccaneer.

no The Specter ~Yacht; or, A Brother‘s Crime.

210 Buccaneer Bess. the Dohess of the Sea.

205 The Gambler Pirate; or. Lady of the Lagoon.

198 The Skeleton Schooner: or. The Skimmer.

184 The Scarlet Schooner: or. The Sea Nemesis.

104 Montezuma. the Merciless. _ . _

103 Merle, the Mutineer; or. The Badman-Brands, b i .

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4 The Kidnapper-z or. NorthwestShanghal. .

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828 Hotspur B V {01: The Banded Brothers. .  . a
311 H , tor; The Karked Men. .
805 Silveme 801. the Montana . .‘

W1 Horsesh ilioeBBoilminhthérmnlnn ofTBlg Luck. _ _. _
285 ' tang t.te you error. ‘ .,
276 1,731: Chick. the Southweatnetective. ‘

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227 Due shot Ben, the Man~flunter at In 0. 

223 Canyon Dave, the Man of the Moms“ n . . 

219 The Scorpion B -; or. Mad Tour-M

202 Cactus Jack. the Giant Guide. ; .. (2:3... 3,, _.
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149 One-Armed Alt. the Giant Banter. , C », - ~. 

99 The Giant Bifleinan: or. Wild Camp Life. . ,

48 Dakota Dan. the Rockies; Ranger. A _' . _

B-l'~(‘0L. Tnoin'as n. monarchy.
236 Chara ion Sam: or, The Monarchso'f the Show
150 m Ru ‘ Bravo, Xingu! the Sy’wdsmen. -, i

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919 Tin-Sea Emotion The Patriot Privateer; _,
3‘36 The King of Crooks. . a ‘ '
858 NumberOnc. the Dead-set Detective.
F450 The Planter Detective. ’ v y R .
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cm The Detective. in Rags; or. Thearim‘ Shadow; 3
50U The True-Heart Pards. '  ‘ , ,y  ' "

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BUFFALO HILL NOVELS.
By Colonel Prentiss lngruiiain.

Buffalo Bill‘s Bluff; or, Du kv Dick the Snort.
Buffalo Bill's Quandary: or. Velvet Bill's Vow.
915 Buffalo Bill and the Sugvon S tour.
. Buffalo Bill’s League; or, Red Butterfly.
904 Buffalo Bill‘s Tangle-d 'lruil.
900 Buffalo Bill‘s Rough Rider.;.
895 Bufhlo Bill‘s Secret Ally.
800 Buffalo lli.l's Life-Stake.
' l‘ :e Three Bills: Buffalo l‘ill Wild Bill and Band-
box Bill; or. The, Bravo in Broadcloth.
874 Buffalo ill‘s Buckskin Braves.
869 Buffalo Bill‘s Road-Agent Round-up.
863 Burfnlo Bill’s Dea h Charm.
857 Buffalo Bill’s Rmal Flush.
851 B iffalo Bill‘s | oubie Dilemma.
845 Buffalo Bill’s Redskin Ruse.
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Buffalo Bill‘s Bess in Blue.

Buffalo Bill‘s Shnr ) Shooteis.

Buffilo Bill‘s Best ()Wt‘i‘.

Buffalo Bi 1‘s Red Trail.
812 Buffalo Bill‘s Deatli~Knell.
794 Buffalo Bill‘s Winning Hand.
7‘47 Buffalo Bill‘s Dead Shot.
Buffalo Bills Brand.
777 Buffalo Bill’s Spy Shadower.
769 Buffalo Bill’s Sweepstake.
.' B ffalo Bill‘s Dize. : or, Silk Ribbon Sam.
761 Bufl’alo Bill‘s Mascot.
757 Buffalo Birl‘s Double.
7 " Buffalo Bill‘s Big Four;or, Custer‘s Shadow.
743 Buffilo Bill‘s Flush Hand.
739 Buffalo Bill‘s Blind: or, The Masked Driver.
735 Buffalo Bill Lnd His Merry Men.
731 Buff do Bill's Beagles: or Silk LassoSam.
727 Buffalo Bill’s Bodv Guai .
72.2 Buffvo Bill on the Wur- ath.
716 Buffalo Bill’s Scout Sha owers.
710 Buffalo Bill Baffled: or. The, DeserterDesperado.
697 Buflalo lxill‘s Buckskin Brotherhood.
691 nfstO Bill‘s I lind Trail; or. Mustang Mad 9.
667 Buffalo Bill‘s Swoop;or. The King of the M nos.
658 The Cowb'iv Clan: or. The Tigress of Texas.
653 Lass.) King's L~ague;or. Buck Taylor in Texas.
649 Buffalo B1 is Chief of Cowboys; or. Buck Taylor
644 Buffalo Bill‘s forums; or. S veri‘lrcle Knights.
362 Buffalo Bill's Gri : or. Oath Bound to Custer.
329 Buffalo Bill‘s Pie go: or. The Lemme of Three.
189 ild Bill's Gold Trail; or. The Desperate Dozen.
175 Wild Bill’s Trump Card: or. The indlan Heiress.
168 Wild Bill. the Pistol Dead Shot.

By Bufl‘nio Bill.

839 The Ranch King Dead-Shot.

8%) White Beaver ’8 Still Hunt.

817 \- ild Bill. the Wild West Duelist.

800 Wild Bill. Ihe Dem-Center Shot.

639 Buifai ) Bill’s Gold King.

599 The Dead Shot Nine: or. My l’ards of the Plains.
414 Red Renard. the Indian Detective.

401 OneéArm'ed Para; or. Borderland Retribution.
897 The Wizard Brothers: or. White Beaver's Trail.
394 W its Beaver. the Exile of the Platte.

319 W id Bill. the Whirlwind of the West.

304 Texas Jack. the Prairie Rattler. ‘
843 The Pi rim Sharp: or. The Soldier's Sweetheart.

' 83 Gold Bu ietSnort: or..Knights of the Overland.

[52 Denth‘Traiier. the Chief of Scouts. -

 lly Loo- Lowls, Ned Buntilnn, etc.

773 Buffalo B ll's Ban; or. Cody to the Rescue.

682 Buffalo Bill‘s Seen-t Service Trail.

6% Buffalo Bill's Darin Role; or. Daredeath Dick.
517 Buffle Bi 1's First rail; or. The Express Rider.
158 Buffalo Bill, Chief c f Scouts.

117 Bulfan Bill s Strange Pard; or, Dashing Dandy.
92 Buflalo Bill. the Buckskin King.

BY HAROLD PAYNE.

883 The Man from‘Mexlco in New York.

872 The King-Pin Shark: or. Thad Burt's Ten Strike.

$1 The Tenderloin Bigfigur

58 The Quaker City C k.

844 Tracked to Chicago.

836 The Policy Broker‘s Blind.

8939 The, Frisco Sharper‘s Cool Hand.

821 [he Tramp Shadower‘s Backer.

813 The Sham S tter‘s Shrewd Schem

806 The Grand treat Gold-Dust Shsrpers.
Detective Burr's Luna ic Witness

793 The-Wall Street Shan-cr‘s Snap.

784 Thad Burt’s “Death Drop.

74:! Detwctive Burr Among the New York Thugs.

734 Detective Burr’s Foil' or. A \'- omon’s Strategy.

788 Detective Burr. the Headquarters Special.

718 Detective Burr’s Spirit Chase.

7% Detective Burr’s Seven Clues.

6% Thad Burr, the Invincible; or, The “L " Clue.

690 The Matchless Detective.

eeo xx. the Fats] Ciew; or, Burr’s Master Case.

BY LIEUT. A. K. SIMS.

914 Snowflake Sam's Double. ’
897 The Six-Shot Spotter.
887 The Stranger Spar-t from Spokane.
878 The Sport DswctiVe's Colorado Clew.
800 The Spangled S rt Shadower.
843 The Crescent (. ty Sport.
3 Gm Gale‘slgloc'i! 8."? (Mil Ll
Tog n 0 e 88 0‘ ons.
m ChicdxglggChulie‘s Diamond Haul.
776 Chicago Charlie. the Columbisn Detective.
756 The Wizar 1 King Detective.
7% Teamster Tom, the Boomer Detective.
709 tons Lem, the Chsm ion of Chestnut Bun.
695 Singer Sam. the P11 rim‘ tective.
688 River Bustiers; or. t e Detective from ‘Way Back
on Stuttering Sam the Whitest Spat of Santa .Fe.
666 Old Adamant. the Man of Rock.
018 Kansas Ksrl. the Detective King.
552 Prince Primrose. the Flower of the Flock.
W Huckleberry. the Foot-Hills Detective.

 

 

 

BY CAPTAIN HO‘VAIID HOLlVlES.

929 GPliiii‘lllilll George, ti" Showman Sport.
91‘: (i4 ntee—l Joe‘s Lone Hand.
903 Tue l‘ruin Detective.

. 896 Kent Keen, the (lrooerrushexr.

888 Niglirshudv in New York.

879 Falcon Flynn, the Flash Detective.

871 The (‘rook Cashier.

859 (llesziwk Kcenc‘s Right Bower.

847 Hii'uui Hawk, the. Harlem Detvctive.

841) Major Bullion loss of the liners.

831 Sh zdowing tho Loni‘on Detective.

817 Plush VelVet. the Prim-e of >polter8.

803 The “0ng Broker‘s Right Bower.

788 The Nuht-H \i’k D. tec'ive.

779 Silk R'bbon's Cr sli-out.

766 Detective, Zm-h, the {roadway Spotter.

751 The Dark Lantern lletv ctive.

736 The Never-Fa I D lective. '
724 Captain Hercules. the FtronLr Arm Detective.
711 Dan Damon, the Gilt-Edue Detective.

701 Silvnr Stow, the Branded Sport.

694 Gideon Grip, the Seeiet Shudower.

684 Velvet Von, the Mystery Shadowu‘.

678 The Dude Desperado

671 Jason Clew, the Silk-Funded Ferret.

664 Monk Morel, ihe Mun-Hun er.

654 Sol S hinx, the Fermi Detective.

642 Red ard 1nd Yellow

608 Silent Sam the Shadow Sphinx.

592 Ca lain Sit , the Shasta Ferret.

579 01 Cormorant t‘ e Bowery Shadow.

569 Captain Cobra. the Hooded Mystery.

559 Danton. the Shadow Sharp.

550 Silk Hand, t c Molian Ferret.

543 The Magnate Detective.

532 Jack Javert. the independent Detective.
523 Reynard of Red Jack: or. The Lost Detective
512 Cs tain Velvet‘s Biz Stake.

505 Pb l Fox. the Geiiteel Spotter.

496 Richard Rednre. the Two Worlds‘ Detective.
487 Sunshine Sam. a Chip of the Old Block.

480 Hawkspear. the Man with a Secret. ‘

4‘8 Coldgrlp in Deadwood.

460 Captain Coldgrip. the Detective

453 Captain COidi‘l'iP'S Long Trail.

447 Vozcano. the r sco Spy.

441 The California Sharp.

434 Lucifer Lynx. the '- onder Detective.

421 Father Ferret. the Frisco Shadow.

413 Captain Coldgrip in New York.

467 Captain Coldgrip's Nerve: or. In un Nick.

400, Captain Coldizrip: or. The New ork Spotter.
392 The Lost onanza: or. The Boot of Silent Hound.
382 The Bonanza Band: or, Dread Doii of Cool Clan.
374 Major Blister. the Sport of Two Cities.

365 Keen Kennard. the Shasta Shadow.

352 The Des crate Dozen.

347 Denwr uke. the Man with “ Sand."

340 Cool Conrad. the Dakota Detective.

335 Flash Dan. the Nabob; or. Blades of Bowie Bar.
321 California Claude. the Lone Bandit.

294 Broadcloth Burt. the Denver Dandy.

BY Winnum n. MANNING.

920 The Montana Miner in New York.

908 The Duomsx ay-Den Detective.

899 The Double-Quick De'ecrlve.

898 Yellow Gid of Dark Divide.

885 The Expert Dctective‘s Shake-up.

875 Trap ing the Race Track Judge.

864 The ollce Specisi‘s Dilemma.

844 The, Genteei Sharpfiigg Combine

841 Graydon‘s Duuble I.

838 The Sport Detective's Gripl:

823 Thn Athlete Sport About own.

(iii TheCruok-lm tective‘s Pull.

790 Plunfier Pete. the Race Track Detective.

782 Boys Rock. the Round-up Detective.

774 Steve Starr. the Dock Detective.

764 The. New York Sh ‘s Shadower.

738 Detective Cluxton. t 9 Record Breaker.

714 Gabe Gall, the Gamboiier from Great Hump.
703 Spokane Saul. the Samaritan Susgexct

692 Dead Shot Paul, the Deep-Ran e lorer.

655 Strawberry Sam. the Man wit the irthmark.
646 Dark Job 1, the Giim Guard.

638 Murdock. the Dread Detective.

623 Dan erous Dave. the Never-Beaten Detective.
611 Altai Abe the Game Cl‘icken from Texas.

596 Rustler Ru ,; the Round-Up Detective.

585 Don Dixon‘s Double.

570 Steady Hand. the Napoleon of Detectives
568 Wyoming Zeke, tl e Hots ur of Bone, suckle.
551 Garry Kean the Man «it Backbone.

539 Old Double lurk. the Wily Detective.

531 Saddle-Chief Kit. the Prairie Centaur.

521 Paradise Sam. the Nor’-West Pilot.

513 Texas Tartar. the Man With Nine Lives.

506 Uncle Honest. the I‘eacemaker of Homcts’ Nest.
498 Cintral Pacific Paul. the Mail Train Spy.

492 Border Bullet. the Prairie sharpshooter.

486 Kansas Kitten. the Northwest Detective.

479 Gladiator Gabe, the Samson of Sassajack

470 The Duke of Dakota.

463 Gold Gauntlet the Gulch Gladiator.

455 Yank Yello «bird. the Tall Hustler of the Hills.
449 Bluff Burke. King of the es.

442 Wild West Wait. the Mountain Veteran.

487 Deep Duke: or. The Man of Two Lives.

“7 The Rivals of Montana Mill

415 Hot Heart. the Detective S v.

405 Old Baldy the Brigadier 0 Buck Basin.

997 Colorado Rube. the Stronz Arm of Hot ur.
979The Gold Dragoon. or. Cslifomis Bi hound.

BY LEON LEWIS.

797 Pistol Tommy. the Miner Sharp.

735 The Dawn East Detective in Nevada.

773 Buffalo Bills Ban or. Cody to the Rescue.
699 The Cowboy Couriers.

6% The On-the-Wing Detectives.

624 The Submarine Detective: or. The Water Ghouls.

aptain Randy. the Red Rsnsomer.
431 The Silent Detective: or. The Bogus Nephew.
456 The Demon Sites

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428 The Flying Glim: or. The Island Lure.

 

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ALBERT \V. A [K LN’S NOVELS.

nick 'I'alibin Series.

741 Dick 'l‘nlhot‘s Close Cull.

737 l)i«-,~ Talbot in Apache ! and.

733 Dick Talbot. ihe B..n«-- King.

729 Dirk Tnlbot’s t‘leiu Out

72. Dick Talbot in No M 11‘? Comp.

331 Dick '1‘ :1 ob: Oi. 'l'i e Brand m Crimson Cross.

36 Dick Talbot: 01‘. The lie tli Shot of Shasta.

AikPII’s "rush «I l’risru Aerie-p.

8‘25 Fresh, the Race-Truck Ff" rt.

660 The Fresh in “()ll'lfl‘il ;. r. llr lm's Full Hand.

652 ’l‘ e Frvsh’s ltu=liu of Pol: ted Ciy.

647 The Fresh at Soul ‘ h : «1‘, Th r ranger Sharp.

556 Fresh. the, Sport: hr. '! he i i. Rocket at Slide Out.

537 Fresh Agililbi 1110 r ie (I: “l' l’luke. the Lion.

497 The Fresh in Texas: v r 'l‘h ll: («1de Millions.

461 The Fresh of Frisco on the Rio Grande.

97 The Fresh in Big Walnut (Ln 1»: or Bronze Jack

‘lken’s Jm- l'lwnix ' erieu.

865 The Female Barber ill trctiv ; or, Joe Phenixin
Silver City.

799 Joe Phenix‘s Great Bim- Dinni n' Case; or, The
Ne“ York Sporl at L( up Bron h.

793 Joe l‘heuix’s Dewy: or, ’lhe Mn: 01' Three.

760 Joe Phenix’s Lone Band.

749 Joe Ph nix‘s Big Bulge.

745 Joe Plienix‘s Mad 0: so.

708 Joe Phenix's Siren: or, The “'omi'n Hawkshaw.

700 Joe Phenix‘s Unknown; or. Ciushini: the Crooks

681 Joe Phenix's Specials: or. The Actress Detective

637 Joe Phenix in Cram Camp.

632 Joe Phenix’s Master Search.

626 Joe Phenix‘s Comrin ; i',tl'.e i‘andy Conspirator

620 Joe Phenix’s Sileit Six.

601 Joe Phenix‘s Shudow;or.tl e Defective’s Monitor

419 Joe Phcnix., the Kinv rf Df‘ll-CLiVi s.

161 Joe Phenix's Great Man Hunt.

112 Joe Phenix, Private Devective. or. The Lengue..

79 Joe Phenix. the Police Spy.

A iken‘s in nu- eliuiieous Novels.

926 Old Sunflowi‘r. the Silent Smiter.
923 Old Sunflower. the Hayseed De'c'ctive.
901 The Hotel Sweli—Sl arp; c r. The Suen Shadow”;
89.! The Country man Detective '
Miner Sharps. .
842 Teton Tom the Half-I'll, 0d.
835 The King Pin Detective.
811 The New Yorker An om: Texas Sports.
775 King Dandy. the Silver Spor'.
75:1 Gideon’s Grigjnt Babylon I ar.
717 Captain Pat cGowen, ti e Greencont Detective.
674 Uncle Sun Up. the Born Detective.
670 The Lightweight Detective.
665 Tue Frisco Teiertiv: ; t r, The Golden Gate Find.
613 Keen Billy, tl'e Sport.
607 on Bunzine the " Hard Cage “ Detective.
594 Fire Face. t e Silver King‘s Fm.
5853 The Silver Sh arp Dc t1 4 live.
577 Tom. of Calif - rizia; « i. lH tertiw‘s Shadow Act.
570. The Actress Deieciiw: or. The invisible Hand.
562 Lone Hand. the Shadow. A
520 The Lone Hand on tin Cm‘do.
490 The Lone Hand in Texas.
475 um Chin, the Chinese Detective.
465 he Actor Detective.
440 The High Hor e of the Pacific.
421 The Lonelfland; or. The Red River Recreants.
406 Doc Grip. the Vendetta of Diath. .
381 The Gy sy Gentleman: «r. Mei Fox. Detective-
376 Black. geards: Oi 'lht I.i< Guide High Horse-
370 The Dusky Detc Clive: or Pursued to the Erie.
363 Crowningshield. the Diteclive
320 Tho- Gonteel Spotter: or The N. Y Night Hawk.
'2 The all Street ' lood: (r. '1‘“ Teluzrs h Giri..
£33 The Double Detective: (r.'l he llin'izight ysterv.
196 La Marmoset. the Letteilve Queen.
101 The Man from New York. ._
91 The Winning Oar: or. The Innkeeper”! Daughter.
84 Hunted Down: or. The League oi Three.

' 81 The Human Tiger: or. A Dean of Fire.

75 Gentleman George: or. Parlrr Prison and Street,
7'.‘ The Phantom Band: or. The 5th Avenue Heiress.
56 The indian Mazeppa: or. Maxim» n of the Plains.
49 Th Wolf Demon: or. The Kaiiaii'iia con.

42 The California Detective: or. Ti 0 “ he as of N.Y.
31 The New York Sharp: or. The Flu sh of htning.
37 The Spotter Detective: or. Girls ot New ork.

BY J W. OBBON.

922 Gilbert Golds ur..the Dandy Sport.
905 Shouts Sam, he Sparkier.

877 Cool Creede, the Dead-Shot.

759 The S
518 Roy

rt from St. Louis.
Richard. the Thoroughbred.

NEW ISSUES

934 b h Sand . the Sport tt Large- or, The
T31: Khan. 3 Tangle By Joe. E. Badger.

935 Th R kland Wolves of New York' or, ROI-
and 3322's Ruse. By Albert W. Aikeii.

936 Buffalo Bills Black Paul; or. "he Gold Boomers
of the Big Horn. By Col. P. ingrahlm.

937 G on Gus the Go-L htly Detective' or. The
Clgrwnof the Thumbless and. By J. E Badger.

JUST ISSUED.

m Dashing Charlie‘s Double; or. The Old Miner‘s
Legacy. By Col. P. lngraham.

931 Frisco Frank at Glory Gllii'h; or. Wi ing Out
the Gold Duster's Gang. By Wm. H. Mining.

932 Detective Gordon’s Grip; on The Shadowed
New York Swell. By Albert W. .5 iken.

968 Dashing Charlie, the Wild West Detective; or,
The Bravos of Borderland. By Col. P. Ingraham.

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