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NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. 29 - entirely. He knew this and therefore; went up fifteen feet more, when again he - acted with the utmost caution. ‘had to pause to rest. Then for the first Clinging to the spire with his left hand time since he had begun to climb he as well as he could, he gaye the rope a looked sharply at the ghastly figure. sus- toss upward. His skill in this exercise | pended in the air above him. served him well. — ee | “TI reckon I’ve gone far enough,’’ he The rope shot up and wound itself com- said to himself, and with his spikes thrust pletely around the spire a few feet above into the spire and his left hand clinging his head. He gave it astrong pull and | to the rope he drew out his revolver and found that it held. Then, before begin-' aimed upward. : ning to climb up, he once more directed | The crowd below watching breathlessly his spyglass to the crowd below. - |could not tell what he was about. The He saw Terrell walking rapidly away. |thousands of spectators, therefore, were “That’s it,’? thought Trim. ‘‘He’s|/immensely startled when a moment later satisfied now that I’m going to go on and |they saw a little puff of smoke at Trim’s he’s not going to lose any more time.’’ | hand, followed by a sharp report. | Trim replaced the spyglass in his} Thena cry of horror went up from pocket, and digging his spikes into the) their throats. holes already-made by Miller, slowly| ‘The lad hal shot so that his bullet cut climbed to the point where the coil had | the rope that held the suspended body, wound itself around the steeple. Then ‘and the body was falling to the ground. _ he unfastened the coil and gaveit another; ‘‘Oh, what an ontrage!’’ everybody throw upward. * thought. -‘‘It’s awful enough to have ‘The rope held, although the loop was that corpse hanging there, without allow- ’ a _ but a couple of feet above his head. ‘ing it to fall to the pavement, where it -~ Nevertheless that allowed. him to climb) will be bruised to a pulp!” ~~ just so much further up. Then he rested ' Mostof the men present turned their. a minuté, using the time to look again heads aside, overcome by the sickening through his spyglass in the direction in spectacle. They heard the thud of the _ which Terrell had gone. — body as it fell to the pavement, and then > He easily picked out his man, for from | gradually they approached the spot where - that height Trim could see along many itlay. As they drew near their sicken- — - streets. .Terrell’s limp would have given | ing feeling turned to indignation, amaze- him away even without the aid of the iment, and in some cases to laughter. _ spyglass. He was making down along What they found was not the mutilated — , f > Pe « +) hie ai —f street that led to the docks. Putting up body of aman, but asuit of clothes stuffed _ the spyglass, ‘Trim continued his danger- | with straw. ous climb. : sae * oe | Sigs Se CHAPTER «VI. Ss the way up he was so exhausted that he! Word that a dummy had been fastened. __ _ had to coil the rope hard about the spire to the cross went from mouth to ° : and then let his weight rest upon it for . Beets acest dat fin the. crowd.s~c,atieeaaee te Se ek ee 7 a When the spectators looked upward — t=¥ this time he searched all the again they sa y Trim descenc . ae = reets in view with his spyglass. At first di suld find no trace of his man. _ ‘step by step, | ig his spik . ts < Le OS ec pe a “a ee ee re oy - At last, however, he saw Do ) hol lounging in a doorway far down near 3 that he had knotted on the beam th -him, and entered the belfry,