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ad frankly told him of her un tehates ngagement and the serious mistake it lad led her to make. Therefore, Trim asked no questions nd Cainpo sat staring hard at the detect-| | ve and his revolver ‘until the door in the! Under ordinary circumstances Campo tall opened as the servant returned. anay have been a good shot but on this _ As it happened Trim was facing a mir- | occasion he was so excited that his bullet ‘or on the wall which reflected the door- flew wide of the mark. way through which the servant would Trim in his eagerness to catch the lave to enter the room. track walker had forgotten the desperate _ Without removing his eves from Campo enemy he had been dealing with in the y NICK CARTER WEEKLY. not yield at the first assault; he drew back to give it another and just as he did so Campo who had hastily opened the drawer in his table and taken a revolver from it, fired. therefore he could see the servant coming | room, es in with a small oped in his hand. At the sound of the revolver Trim *“Cive it to me, 1? ec aid ‘Trim. ‘turned acain and gave Campo a lesson in pistol practice by a snap shot that tore Cainpo’s revolver out of his hand without The servant did SO ie at the same mo- M1 nent Trim heard footsteps slowly comin 1g | along the hall. Somebody had come in doing any other damage. with the servant. | “Now then, open this door for me!’’ Trim supposed that it was the man cried Trim. who had loaned money on the jewel. Campo started apparently to obey, but Still pointing his revolver at Campo the black servant frightened half to with one hand he hastily opened the par-| death, was ahead of him. ‘el with the other and saw that it con- py] open the door, sah!’ he stam- ts ‘ined a magnificent emerald, ‘Mered, runaing across the room witha He thrust it into his pocket and stood | key that he had snatched from his mas- : ter’s desk and in another second the door AT right,’’ he said, “my business is was opened and Trim was running down complete, Mr. Campo.’’ the hall after the track walker, calling as he went. . We shall meet again.”’ BY this time the footsteps of the new-| mer were at the door. Trim caught sig ight i in the mirror of the man who Was! The door into the main hall of the b bout to enter there. buildin oat g was partly open. = Tn an istant all thought of the ‘Trim ran out and could hear the steps reen Eye’’ vanished from the detect- of the track walker dashing through the e's mind for the man in the doorway hall of the ground floor. Trim went Was the treacherous track walker with bee the stairs four steps at a time. ——— ae ’ rom he had had his adventures in the + ry a tunnel. strange aspect the case had assumed, eS aa Sey en “This js the greatest of luck,’’ he thought, ‘‘for it shows me Joie about that Bess wrecking of the train than I had dreamed DANGER AT THE LEVER. of atthe time. Trim wheeled about and made for the! ‘Here will be work for me even after a E i way but not before Gam po had cried, T’ve got this rascally track walker. It’sa ’s Carter! heehee hundred thousand to one that Campo is at track walker recognized — Trim the head of a gang of criminals of which ve ir before Fmt “spoke and turned these ECW are members and from what bc ut slammi behind him. —_ I know now The doc oF r had @. spring latch so that it proved th at they were a branch of the Vhen Trim reach d could | not be Nanigos whom I broke up in Mexico,”’ pened at once. rik ks bs AW Den he reached the street he saw the > % = _—— -- . | CHAPTER IX. ~~ . ~~ _— = ~ ee i, - all it was track walker and another man running = alder — Bs d toward Lee Circle, pes ef Ths other, the detec ut did the track walker’s £55 ee es Even thea his mind was busy with the it would not surprise me if ve recognized a as : = ” | , Neue —- P “ , . a a =, ate / 4 4 = . : => » - ° . — — ~ - CS : . 4 fod ¢ a . | —_ 8 — j | ‘ = 4 A. A ; ] ‘ns \ = —_ y SS ” *&, ~~ - . oi <= *% , our ti. : = " * ~ ‘ al + ® + * ‘ | a _ ~ ‘ * « aE - ° e | .