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NEW NICK CARTER WEE: he had escaped death im the tunnel it was | showing at the mouth of the tunnel. It } altogether likely that they would attémpt/} was im possible to say how far away it to waylay him. — | was. As he walked along he reflected upon He closed the slide of his lantern and” _., the wreck of the passenger train and it| went slowly forward noticing as he did so _ seemed to him that there were some very |that the light orew rapidly larger and_ unusual features connected with it. clearer. 4 | It was plain enough that the track) It'did not enable him to see his way | _ walker had been concerned in it. for outside light makes but little i impres- There was no doubt that his lying on =e in a long tunnel. tT the hillside bound and gagged was a| Accordingly Trim again opened the — . . sham, but it looked as if he had only one |slide of his lantern and let its rays fall 4 accom plice and Trim could not under- | upon the tracks ahead of him. stand how two men could hope to profit) Just asiedid so he noticed two mov ing | ~. by wrecking the train. | spots on the far-away light. - ‘*T shouldn’t have been surprised,’’ he oe - at —- FF He instantly shut up his lantern again | et: teflected, ‘‘to find that there were fifty in|and watched, going ahead slowly all. the - the gang for that number might hope to Scie, Pe _ +overpower the passengers and the train| ‘There was no doubtin his mind that ! _ hands aud plunder the express car. those moving spots were human beings — “But I can’t see se eg to make mejand he believed them to be the canbe ; ‘walker and his accomplice. | **They’ve probably just got to the a ‘mouth of the tunnel,’’ Trim thought, > ‘‘and if I keep my lantern open they'll. deeper than the mere wrecking of See its light and suspect that I’m coming — the train aa U presume the only way to’ along. -I’d better go on in the dark in _ find out what it is is to capture these two | the hope of overtaking them.”” m I might have shot downin| The detective had a good deal of hope the tunnel as easily as not. that he should be able to accomplish this *Tecan’t say that I’m sorry I didn’t for it seemed to him as if the track. shoot them for if I had I should never| Walker would hardly dare to go out into have learned what their game really was. ‘the open light where he might be met | s ‘I don’t believe they’re more than a and questioned by the railroad people at — = : quarter or at the most half a mile away Texuca who by this tiine of course, had S| from me now and with that short start learned of the wreck. 4 a Be they can’t | possibly get away from me.”’ For several seconds as he went along ee ‘Trim’s success as a detective had made he saw those twodim forms moving about — ‘him confident. — in the light at the end of the tunnel. = -_ As he had told the railroad men he had| He could not make them out at all « caught many a criminal who had had a|Clearly and presently they disappeared longer start than this and it seemed to|altogether. Then Trim was troubled by him therefore as if he would be able to | this thought: wind up this affair before the day was| ‘‘If the baggage man of the -w me = over. It ob that it is not always a ‘train in telegraphing to Texuca S- 4 Se tong star’ gives acriminal the ad-|sistance said anything about the track | = : ar over a detective. ‘walker, he would have said that the lat : ae <i was about five or six minutes after | ter was on his Way through the tugs ynel e left ta wrecking gang when, as he|accompanied bya passenger. __ Son lantern rays upon the wall of} ‘That'll make it possible, ? Tria | Te el, th ng the path dark flected, ‘‘for the track walker to £0 0 out aw a a faint aM of lig ht | beds, his 2 Soa ai prete c that th he 23 —— sae vine two haweit'é acted like oittinary train wreckers. ee, believe there is something in this ro 7) = s 1 » - =.