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» SD 24 : office and Pemberton turned inquiringly to Trim. **Tt’s the man!’’ said the boy, quietly. ‘““No. mistake ?’’ as sure of itas Iam that I stand here.’’ ““Then,’’ replied Pemberton, ‘‘there ought not to be any very great difficulty in running him down ?’’ ‘‘No, I don’t think there will be.’ “> Trim smiled queerly as he said this, 7 = and the captain asked him what he was _ thinking of. “IT was recalling how I chased around ae as this morning,’’ was the reply, ‘‘after om 2 -~ =. ee the button were plainly sho Sea te en named Henry Gardner. ‘*VYou see, I made out the letters G ae H on this monogram, and when I leaned over Schruggs as he was dying I spoke them in the wrong order. I said H. G. instead of G. H. ‘There was a ss in his eyes that I misunderstood. “T thought it meant ‘that I had hit it right. Instead of that the old villain must have felt a kind of triumph in seeing that Ihad guessed wrong. ‘*Now I think I could tell you-a correct story of how Guy Henley, alias his high- ness, hired that house in Balmain.” “Do. you mean the one over the other side of the hill?”’ ‘‘No. He called himself Brown when he hired that, but I'm thinking of the other:2 == “Dm thinkihg that he went into the real-estate office, and being called upon _ to sign his name to some paper, the sleeve of his coat slipped wp so that his cuff and “With his initials im sight, he would see at once that it might not do to sign the “name of Brown, Jones, or Robinson to a document when he had a cuff button | ps Paver letters that would not answer to) _ such names, so he probably wrote the first e that occurred to him that had ini- tials ‘corresponding to his own, but he re- versed them in order to dierse * his- iden- y ras = as saree gee NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. captain’s curiosity was so aroused that at a later time he made a little investigation on his own account. He went to the real-estate agent who had let the house, and from him learned that when the papers came to be signed the man who had hired the house bent over the table to write his name, and that as he did so his cuff button was fully ex- posed. ‘“That’s a neat monogram you have there,’’? remarked the agent. “Ves ? the man responded, and imme- diately wrote the name Henry Gardner upon the paper. So it seemed that Trim had correctly guessed that part of the transaction. Captain Pemberton and Trim discussed the new features of the case at some length before the young man left the office to resume his investigation. The captain offered him the assistance . of the best detectives on the force, but Trim thought he could proceed alone to better advantage. ‘“There are a good many questions to be asked,’’ he said, ‘‘and it’ll be better to stick tothe old man’s wish of keeping the thing private. **It’ll surprise me a good deal if Guy Henley doesn’t believe that I’m lying drowned in the tunnel. As long as he thinks that, there isa chance of finding him right here in Sydney.”’ "Keep that disguise on,’’ remarked the captain, ‘‘and he’ll never recognize you.’ ‘I’m not so sure about wal, for he has very sharp eyes.’”’ There is no need to natrate how Trim passed the next three or four hours. They were spent just as detectives have to pass a great deal of their time—asking 7 the ae sort of questions of aoe many — aot le. Ng ‘He was trying to ae all he. could about the habits and character of Guy a Henley and trying to do so without at- Se tracting any especial attentio to himself, He succeeded satisfactorily in this re- =. = & |spect and met with no incic nt = need. oe s{ be toldss se rete a tee hh c