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156 DETECTIVE BOB BRIDGER. The dram, however, surely tended to assure the crazy giant that the two sleuth hounds were his friends, and he danced and simpered in high glee, while they stooped to minister to his insensible victims. Lifting Moses Muggins to a sitting posture the detectives -— poured a quantity of the liquor into his mouth, which he swallowed involuntarily, and they then administered the same treatment to Sammy. Placing the dark-lantern in Billy’s hands, the Scotch de- tective bade him go ahead and light the way. He then lifted Moses Muggins in his arms, and followed down the stair-way, while Bridger brought up the rear, bearing Sammy. At the landing beneath, the crazy giant lifted the body of poor Kaiser by the thick nape skin, and bore along the weighty carcass in his sinewy left hand, with as little ap- parent effort as if it had been that of a kitten. ‘‘Hit do be funny, Master Fandon,” he said. ‘*Hevery one hof us ’as a dog in ’is ’and !” CHAPTER XXX VIII. THE JEW’S TREASURE. The stair way which the crazy giant and the burdened sleuth-hounds pursued ended in the basement at the open door of a large, low, dirty room, which had been parti- tioned off from the front store-room. Midway in the partitions was a door, which was locked and barred. : Near the partition, and against either wall, was a small cot bed. Against the partition, and to the right of the door, stood a massive safe, wide open. To the right of the docv-way at which the detectives en- tered, was a large, shallow box, half filled with straw, which had served as Kaiser’s kennel. ; To the left was a writing desk, upon which burned a amp. At the rear of the room a large quantity of old clothing was piled, and at the apartment’s center was a stove. The Scotch detective placed Moses Muggins upon the bed nearest the open safe; Bridger laid Sammy Muggins on the cot to its left, and ‘Silly’ Billy tossed Kaiser’s body into the box which had served as his kennel, comicbooks.com —