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CHAPTER X, A PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. WHEN Dick consulted Mr. Stanton as to the course to be pursued in view of the failure of the search for Powers the lawyer had little to offer. The best advice he could give was that advertisements, calling upon per- sons having knowledge ef James Powers, deceased, to communicate with Stanton, Boyd & Stevens, should be spread far and wide. The old lawyer was evidently puzzled by the infor- mation given him by Dick that a person was conduct- ing asearch upon parallellines, The thought occurred to him, as it had to Dick, that perhaps Mr. Hetlow unknown to them had employed other people, but Dick disposed of that idea, by telling him that he had questioned Mr. Hetlow upon the point, and had received the assurance that no one but himself had been so employed. Mr. Stanton was inclined to give the fact a greater importance than Dick had been. But, with all the consideration he gave to it, he could Ot Suggest a purpose. “Yt would be strange,’’ he said, ‘‘if the young Dug- dale was endeavoring to establish proof of his identity, starting from the end we are seeking and, in working toward us, crossing our linesin the endeavor. It is by no means improbable. All we can do, however, is to await developments. ”’ And so, without a satisfactory result from their consultation, Dick went to his bed, much disturbed ever the events of the day. uring the dinner mention had been made of West es Comicloo® S C@ 3