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202 THE DUGDALE MILLIONS. I should be disposed to accept your theory, but the facts you have presented certainly justify examina- tion,’ remarked the captain. ‘Perhaps | am influenced to a degree by the 1m- pressions the young man Pierson has made upon me,’ returned Dick. ‘ ‘These I cannot communicate to you, but if I could, I think you would see that I have some justification for my theory. However, I want to know all I can know about Ransom, Orton Pierson, and Harold Pierson, and what, if any, relation Or acquaintanceship exists between them, how close it is, and how long it has existed. To know that these inquiries are being made would give me an ease of mind I would not have if they were not on foot.” Captain Lawton promised to make the tinvestiga- tion and report as promptly as he could. The following day brought forth nothing, and Dick without interruption devoted himself to the duties of his department. On Wednesday morning, however, he received a message from Captain Lawton which caused him to felicitate himself for having set the inquiry on foot. The captain’s message was to the effect, that while he had not been able to progress very far, he had yet learned that Ransom was a fre- quent visitor at Orton Pierson’s house; that, in com- pany with a Tombs lawyer named Moore, he waited at Pierson’s ofhce for Harold Pierson's return on Saturday morning. The significant point of the message was, that Captain Lawton had come to know that Dick was himself followed by a man wherever he went, and had been since Monday night. For what purpose the captain could not determine, but he warned Dick to govern himself by the knowledge and not betray any recognition of it, because that shadow was shadowed by one of Captain Lawton’s men, charged with the duty of finding out its mean- ing. It was shortly after he received this information, Comicboolkkxs 3