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2 : NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. his cane, spoke again, always keeping be heard a block or two away. ‘‘Vou're one of the Tigers and I know ~ it—understand ?”’ | ‘‘T don’t know-what you mean,’’ the > man exclaimed, indignantly. ‘If you ie3 uot an escaped lunatic Pil certainly have. you punished for assaulting’ a gentle-| iman——’’ Pa “You'll sing a different tune before I get through with you, Brother Ransom,”’’ cried the young fellow. The man a addressed deowled and looked inquiringly at the faces of the sur-| i rounding crowd. His antagonist did the same, casting quick, keen glances in every direction, as = if looking for a face that he hoped to see. ; wet Se are, Bobby!’ the young fellow exclaimed as he saw a policeman pushing his way through | the group. ‘‘Heré’s a prisoner for you.’ “Well, Trim,’’ said a voice just behind him, *“‘what have you.got.this time?’’ ‘Lhe young fellow turned witha pleased look in nie; ‘es, let go the man he had tackled, and responded : “Tm glad.you came along just now, Captain Pemberton. You | “had. better | lrave this fellow taken care of, for he’ll be | useful to us.”’ _— “What. do Trim?” « ‘*He’s one of the Tigers.’?.” **Vou don’t say |"? “= Ss “*Sure of it, but what is. more. te, the point: just now, he i is one of the pair of | swind lers, that. put up the job on Parting- jewelry store. | you remember?” “Ves,? " teplied | Captain Pemberton, — “and Pm not likely to forget it as soon as 7 this. Take him-in.’? Phe last words were addressed to the|: ‘policeman, who. promptly proceeded te x ‘Trim’s prisoner away, rey ‘Rhasge him with, fae 2) Cea a S - Bix = Sy << now ?”? asked the 3 wait there a wiille: & s ee pet his arm eisouchs = ae a g@/and their allies upon the outside of the * his voice at a high pitch so that he could. prison. “Do you want to go to the station vith but Tre tain’s and together they walked ‘Sa Pal There had been an uprising within the prison itself and a conspiracy by profes- ‘sional crooks to bring about a ceneral re- lease of all the convicts. Trim dad joined a chain gang and had completely foffed the plans “of the con- spirators, with the result: that many of them had been captured.. The details of this work have. been printed in “‘Trim on the Safety Valve,’’ No. 7 of the NEw Nick CARTER LIBRARY. In the course of his investigations Trin had discovered that the erooks, both within and without the jail, were led by a mysterious person addressed only as ‘‘vour highness.’’ Among the leaders in the conspiracy was a notorious crook named Jeremiah ochragas. s Trim had passed some time in the headquarters of this gang, a_respectable- looking dwelling house in Balmain, one of the suburbs of Sydney. Both, Scfiruggs and the mysterious highness had escaped arrest, and imme- diately after the exciting events of the morning when Trim had recaptured a steamer that was in the hands of the con- victs, he had prepared to follow up the in- vestigation with the purpose of capturing both Schruges and his mysterious chief. Captain Pemberton, the head of the detective force of Sydney, had just come from the criminal court, where he had en- ‘tered the charges against such of the con-_ ‘spirators as had been arrested, when he _ happened to see T'rim in the act of collar- } ing the man named Ransom. “Well, Trim,’? said the captain | they walked along, “you stirre sg AEE oe a little excitement. Now what about? I suppose vou hac int ae te so loud | a dd Tae ESS Seg Se