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30 Shortly afterward he was in the vesti- | bule of the church once more, receiving | the congratulations and thanks of the | else been hiring a vessel in a hurry?’ ehurch members. “What a shame!”’ they said, ‘‘that you should have had such’a dangerous climb all on account of a hoax.’ ‘«That’s all right,’’ said Trim, who was hurriedly taking off his spikes. ‘That hoax has served me a good turn.’’’ = The people would have detained him, for there was talk of raising a purse asa reward, but Trim waved them aside. He pressed through the crowd and there found Dobbin, who had just driven up in a cab. ‘Thank the Lord, lad!’ erled the old} sailor, ‘‘that you’re well out of it.”’ ‘I’m glad you’ve got a cab, old fel- lew,’’ said Trim. “‘Jump in and let’s hurry away.’ This they did, and when the driver had whipped up he said: ; “What about Terrell?” | ‘*T followed him to a shippin’ office,’’ replied Dobbin, ‘‘an’ after he came out he got into a cab an’ I lost sight of him. I got the first cab I could find an’ tried to give chase, but I failed. ~ - ‘Tt ean’t feel very sorry about it, for I was that anxious about ’ee that I couldn't | follow your orders as well as | wanted to. Ts all right, Dobbin,’’ returned “Prim, ‘‘It’s just as well as if you had kept Terrell in sight all the time.”’ "What do ’ee want of him, anyway ?’’ pie ‘*He’s one of the biggest “ceinals mn ~ South Africa,’? returned Trim, ‘‘and I want to get him locked up.”’ _.. Dobbin’s’ mouth opened in amazement at this, but be said nothing. He was too much bewildered by “his -_friend’s actions even to think of a question. , ‘Trim had the driver take him to the 3 2 7 ans page that Terrell had entered. e tered for a long voyage. oS + Soo “What kind of a vessel do you 2 eo and when do. you need it? 375 ey ete ; & . : = ; . NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. young | possible to the one where the Osprey was. ‘He went in himself and asked in a busi-| - ness-like tone if a vessel “could be char- Baad “Certainly,” said the Bet pied the | ‘’m thinkin’ that that’s the same driver.” 43 Lae arin replied, “if} }standing near and to kim ; ot 10, South African: Railway Company. ae going to eRe an fs go mit on — ) 4 5 ‘*Ves; but what do you mean by that ?”’ retorted “Trim, sharply. ‘‘Has somebody “Well,” returned the agent, ‘‘I shouldn’t have spoken as I did. I'll see — what can be done for you.”” With this he consulted a book that lay upon a table back of him. ‘‘? don’t see,’ he said in a moment, “that I can fit you out inside of four or five days.’’ ‘’That won't do,’’ Trim responded. ‘Isn't there any vessel lying in port now that can be had ?”’ ““They are all chartered.’ ‘Well, wouldn’t it be possible to take up the charter of one of them ?’’ “*T thik not, but you might try. ‘Well, tell me . what vessels ee are here that you control and Ill see what I can do.’ The agent named, halfa dozen. One was loading with manufactured articles, another with fruits, another with cotton, and soon. The agent concluded: “There’s the Osprey, half. filled with — wheat. But I’m pretty sure you cannot [| gether, so I wouldn't try.’’ | ‘*“What’s the matter with the Ospréy?”’ Trim asked. ‘Well,’/was the response, ‘‘she’ll be | sailing within an hour, I think.”’ : “Allright. Then Ill see what I can | do with the others. ”’ Trim hurried out to his cab. “The Osprey,’? he said to himsel, ‘*half filled with wheat and sailing within 9 an hour. I reckon that’s the boat I want to go to.”’ The agent had mentioned the docks at which the various vessels were lying, and J Trim directed his driver to go as fast as” As they approached it they met an empty cab coming away from it. : ‘‘See here, Dobbin,’ Bae EE Trim. “Is that the cab that Terrell took?’’_ at ain't got much of an eye for horses ons,” returned the sailor, but an’ wag A moment later their cab stopped at the entrance to the dock. A _policema ) ‘the = Tn rd the “Pm a detective. employed by Shige ee ee _