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CHAPTER IX, A FATEFUL ARRIVAL, THE reports of the detectives sent out to obtain knowledge of James Powers were unsatisfactory. No trace had been found of the man but that he was dead, and had been for nine years previous to the making of the inquiries. His family had moved from Newark immediately after his death, and trace of them was impossibie to find. One of the daughters was married and it was believed that the family had gone with her to live, but whether to Philadelphia as some believed, or into the West as did others, it was impossible to definitely determine. No one had heard the name of the son-in-law. There was one fact in the report that caused Dick much wonder and some uneasiness. His agents had been preceded in their inquiries, no matter where they went, by a middle-aged man. The description of this man comported with Mrs. Tomlinson’s description of the man calling upon her, whom she had at first taken for Mason. At that time he had concluded that the man was acting for Barber, but Barber was dead and still the inquiry was pursued. He wondered if Mr. Hetlow had employed other people on the matter without his knowledge. He was so much perplexed by this discovery, and as well by what appeared to be the end of the search, that he thought he needed the advice of Mr. Stanton. Accordingly he sent a dispatch to the old lawyer, asking if it would be agreeable to receive him that afternoon. The answer was made, not by the old lawyer, but by Wallis, to the effect 79 Comicloo® S C@© 3