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18 DIAMOND DICK, JR. OUT OF SIGHT. to lose don’t know what I would do!”? “Afi-yi! Chin-kum-foo! No lJoosee me, you bettee life! Me got no ‘lations that care snap ’baut me; me stickee to com- bination while Diamond Dick, Juny, stay in biz! But missee Hans bely much, that light.’? ‘“So do I, so do J, yaller; and we must pick up another chuim fer ye the first chance we vit.”’ It was true. Hans, the Two-Cent Kid, had dropped ont. Some relations had set about looking him up, and a lawyer had asked Diamond Dick, Jr., to assist. Bertie, finding that the boy was wanted for lis own good, distingished himself in the eyes of that lawyer by producing him almost immediately, with proofs of identity. It was rather a sad parting for Hans, for he loved Bertie with all the heart he had in his rotund body; but as it was for his own good, Bertie turned him over to his relations, well assured that they meant well by him and intended to do the right thing. And more than that, Bertie placed a snug fortune to his credit ina certain substantial bank, to be his when he came to ave. It was his share in their Klondike «iis- coveries. * And so Hans was no more, and the Mascot and Handsome Harry missed him, for the parting was but recent. The Serpent and the Mascot made their preparations as speedily as possible to respond to the sumunons they had re- ceived, and in a short time were at the railroad station. Here inquiry was made concerning trains to their place of destination, and they found that they had not a great while to wait. The Serpent bought the tickets, and they were soon on their way. The journey was uneventful. At last they were set down at the lone station in the mountains. When the train had gone its way, the you, —. * See the Klondike Series: Nos. 53, 54, 55, 56 and 5 Serpent uf Siskiyou took a long and care- ful view of the surroundings. ‘‘Glee-ory to snakes an’ grasshoppers!’ he exclaimed. ‘‘I wonder what fer a place ther hermit kin have hyerabouts? Guess that yarn about a big mansion was all wind.”’ He had made some inquiries on the train. | ‘‘Allee samee no tellee,’’ observed the Mascot. ‘‘Allee samee here findee road ; must go to pilacee, as it no go anywhiere else.’? “‘T oness ye aire right, Mascot, I guess ye aire so.”? ‘*Allee sainee coinee ’long.”’ ‘Vou bet.’ So up the road they went, and came presently to the wall between the cliffs, ‘‘Glee-ory to suakes an’ General Jack- son!’ cried the Serpent. ‘“‘Et would take wings ter git past this hyer, et would so.”’ ‘‘ Allee samee that light. But, must be way to git thlough; allee samee see where road go under wall in middle.’’ “Wake twp, snakes, an’ put on _yer specks! So et does. Coie on, yaller, an’ we’ll give ’em a call, anyhow.”’ And forward they pressed. Presently the tinkle of a bell. came to their ears. A few seconds more, and a stone was pulled back in the center of the wall, and a voice called out: ‘Well, who are you--what’s wanted ?”’ ‘“Glee-ory to snakes an’ General Andy Jack Jackson! Who aire we and what do we want? Ef this hyer is whar Hum- phryes’ Hermitage lives, then we want ter come in.an’ see him; we do so!”? ‘Allee samnee that light,’? put in the Mascot. ‘‘We been sent fol, told to come here, here allee samee we be. You open up gate and let us in, else down coimee dog-house, you bettee! We comee to findee boss, Diamond Dick, Juny.”’ “‘Glee-ory to snakes!’ yelled Harry, instantly. ‘‘Now you have gone and cut ahog in the eye, ain’t ye!” ‘Allee samee what mattel with you?’ “Ve have let out the hull durn busi- ness !”? “What of it? He no tellee us keepee still; say come pay visit. That allee samee what blingee us up here too.”’ COmichdooks.com