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NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. ; 27 his last gasps. -He stil] clutched in his| “I’m pretty near it. Iwas not in the hands Trim’s coat. gang, but I was well acquainted with The lad knelt before him and exclaimed Guy Henley. — in astonishment: | | **T don’t hesitate to miention his name ‘« Archie Grosvenor !’’ _|because I know that you are on to all his “Ves,” said the dying. man, feebly. | doings.” Pm Grosvenor, and you won the last} ‘‘Yes, and I shall capture him. ns . © trick in our game, my. boy.”’ ‘There § is no doubt about it! Grosvenor was au Englishman whose} ‘‘I shall die easier if I can feel that I’ve crooked dealings had given Trim pepe put you in the way of running that great tunities for work before. villain down.”’ His bold theft of a gold mine and his| Grosvenor paused a moment, for it was attempts to. work a Scheme for raising | only by a great effort that he oot speak money by abduction, as well as Trim’s/at all. | successful efforts tooutwit him, have been} ‘Trim waited in silence for him to rte- narrated in ‘‘Trim Among the Bush-! sume. men’? and ‘‘Trim’s Double Header,” in) «poye been villain enough,’’ he said Nos. 5 and 6. — : presently, ‘“but Guy was more of a vil- Trim’ = adtonishinent at finding Gros- | jain i in one day than I could be in a venor here was perfectly natural, and |} y ‘ear.? the reason for it was shown in his ext) «pyats true,’ said Trim, ‘and you'll remark. Dees be doing a good: deal to inake up for ‘*T left you locked up in Broken Hill.”’ pyour crimes if you’ll give me a pointer “Yes, you did,’’ Grosvenor admitted; now that will help in bringing him to ‘and if you’d been there I probably justice.’ ecouldn’t have got away. As it was, I; “J’m goingtodoit. - escaped and came here bound to find you) ‘J came straight to Sydney from and get revenge.”’ - Broken Hill and got here after the at- ‘““Phen it was you who sawed the axle tempted jail breaking. : of miy cab, was it ?”’ Grosvenor nodded. | ithat, and I made up my mind that I One of the train hands who had gath- would lay for you. ** cS pees ered around remarked that possibly there | “Then I ran across Henley. - J knew — a doctor on board who might relieve him well enough to speak | freely and told the inju ured man, and he ran off at once | , m all about how you chased me. to make inquiries. pe deie | He believed that he had done for you. Zin Grosvenor looked | after him with 4) He said that he had | eeried you in a a re se ae tunnel over in Balmain. 2 ae eee a doctor to do ane - *Didn’t he suspect,” asked Trim, ee mee as_possible,” ‘ Gaia “that I had escaped when he found the ng up witha ear: body of Schruggs in the cellar of the Fe aes room below it ?”’ iVEHOF fecbly pat ont his hand to, ‘No, - He thought Schruggs had ihan- 1¢ cushion: away. laged to crawl up the stairs before his oe “Oy don’t: want it,” he groaned. death, and as Henley himself had left Noth hing will make me comfortable ex- : Bf 0 Aho ees age —— wet. I WY ¥ . through a door, he didn’t think that it -jeould be you who me left the window | open. “Tt wasn’t until this afternoon that he was convinced that you had aon * ot. “How 4 did he learn that?” ’ ‘pee tie my < 3 3 . ; f vere Sa Ds Se <f- AS Sine F as ul “Sa : “4 * . % aA? a rs e+ 2 ij ig 7 ‘ ; aN S4t0d + ng . nom aw ™ a ’ 7 aa - * — on ¥ 9 t-* x r poo: : z ee Pe eae 2S ae Fee er ar ~~ « a ae . “ “] heard how you were mixed up in house instead of in the Rereiesotae €: the house’ by way of a window instead of y-