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“ie "a ; 28 ‘Ves, I kept my eyes on Pemberton’s : office, for I knew that if you were alive - -you’d turn up there some time. - You were well disguised, but I was certain that I knew your gait and your general shape. . “T made up my mind that it was you, and followed you around like a shadow all the afternoon. “Then Henley and I put upa job by which we should manage to get you out to this railroad cut. “T thought I could do for you, but I didn’t, so there’s no use talking about that.’’ “No, said Trim. ‘‘I’m right sorry for you, but the, important thing now is, where is Henley ?”’ ‘(He wouldn’t risk showing himself,”’ said Grosvenor, ‘‘and remained. in Syd- “ney. | “Tt was my plan to chuck you into the cut, where you would either be killed by the fall or by this train, and then I was going to go by the same train to Sydney. ‘““He will be waiting for me in the sta- ‘tion. Hustle yourself aboard this train and you’ll catch him there.”’ 1 These words were uttered very slowly and with great difficulty. Toward the last Trim could hardly hear the dying man speak. | . et He had told all that he could tell, and with that his last strength departed. Another moment and Archie Grosvenor was dead. © : - The train was still waiting, of course, and when it started on again it bore both Grosvenor’s dead body and ‘Trim. The lad had found a place in a forward compartment, and he persuaded the train- man to leave the door unlocked, so that he = could jump out the moment the train ar- rived in Sydney. Bie eee Sig Grosvenor had told him the truth. Nevertheless the capture of Henley was ot such an easy matter, after all, -__. ‘The station agent near the cut tele- abroad through the station, and although man had been run down. The news got NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. Trim looked in vain for him among the crowd upon the platform. The shrewd villain was there, however, and he saw Trim. Failing to see Grosvenor and suspect- ing Trim’s identity in spite of the lad’s disguise, Henley calmly crossed the sta- tion to a train that was just about to start out and got aboard. . He might then have escaped for the time being if it had not been that his anxiety to know what Trim would do led him to a careless action. Just as the train was going out he thrust his head out of a window and looked back. Trim caught sight of him. The boy’s eyes were as shrewd and keen-as Henley’s. Disguises amounted for little with either of these persons. Trim knew his man and knew instantly what to do. He stood stock still, asif he had not recognized his highness until Henley drew in his head. Then ‘Trim made a break for the train. A porter tried to stop him, but Trim knocked the man down. It was his only way to accomplish what he was after. “Act now,’ he thought, ‘Sand explain . afterward must be ny policy.’’ Railroad trains in’ Australia are made up like fhose in England. ‘There are no open cars of the “American pattern and no plaforms between the cars. The ends of the cars are blank walls with a little projection just above thie trucks for the coupling apparatus. The last car had already passed Trim when he began to run. The train had not gained much headway, however, and he soon had his hands upon the rear car. As the three doors opening into the compartments of the car were closed and locked and the windows down, it was ~ impossible for him to get abuard the train - by entering a compartment. — eS a _ ‘Phere was only one way by which it would be possible for him to travel with _ - the leader of the Tigers. Thatwastoget eae it was not known just who the man was, upon the coupling apparatus of the rear aS ley had his suspicions aroused and|car and hang on ther , if possible, until a2 was so well disguised that his best/ might make h orward.and perhaps _ friend would not have known him, and| get in the sé tmentwith Henley. 5 a