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\t the enc second his left hand’ shot down ; suddenly ‘as the washstand and d over €@piece of soap that he held ee <p his is - what you are thinking of, Charlie, a said Trim. ‘‘Well, by all that’s strange!” jclaimed Gordon. eae as. I Fight 2) asked erin. se you were.’ CX- aca cee to the plate where it had bee ee asked, ‘Tt beats an gehine “Better than open Roe I ever saw.’’ a q —_ was si k e A, B, i to bring about the exposure of the. a = soe. must . say, ’» said Gordon, ‘‘that I a by id like to see just such an exp Sn cel in, Second sight as you su g gest. | hy? he won cd to me is how you do it.’ _ aS €asy enough,’’ Trim answered, | yy vould 1 tell you now except that I) Is sho fe) ’ _ “but J opts what. T “shall clear — 1€ r rot ght suspicion, so that sie we on’t be put to very much trouble. epeceet for a while, because that. pot the ways by which I shall. on the track of the real) aSPECte = tt fei e clerk and the landlord NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. . red his eyes and tossed the 1 | a “How is that for second sight ?”? he going about with eyes “Well Feira i easy, Charlie; it. ry I Vv. “‘Dent’s pase os ps the eieek | Rees I will show 1mm, a trick in second | Hout it will be Recndes some- ens to interrupt my plans and_| criminals ahead of time; but that isn’t, hope .y our plan won’t be interrupted, for T1- | thin): ; ‘hear the Glers ane, Ane Jaana do _ | sight” in big letters an * * . _ mf _ = a , = a . ; i . ’ A il r \ | a PA ua { ae / , F we , -_ % ~ = rue ’ 4 — a, — i Be oe -— , “4 Fit ney a pory for her, but she’ll eave to! ‘had directed, Gordon told them the whole story exactly as he understood it. Trim added what little he knew, ex- ‘plaining frankly how he had restored Gordon to consciousness, and then went to his own room, where he pretended to 5 pack his baggage. When this had been te he turned to Gordon, and in spite of the appeals of the ‘landlord left the hotel. CHAPTER V. PROFESSOR HELM’'S FREE SHOW. -For an hour or two after Trim’s de- |/parture Gordon was occupied with an- swering cabbions - - ‘Phe landlord took the affair very seri- ously and reported it to the police. The result of course was that every ‘newspaper in town sent its reporters to ithe hotel and Gordon was repeatedly Interviewed. The unfortunate chambermaid was ar- rested and in the opinion of -mearly all she | was undoubtedly the guilty party. Gordon rather enjoyed the experience, for he felt through it all that he was playing a part in Trim’s game. | He had such confidence in the detec- tive that he knew that Trim would not have left him to face all these inquiries if there was any danger that he should make any serious mistake. - Along toward noon, when the excite- ment | _about the affair had somewhat cooled eee ae attention } was ees | up in the hote el offi ! It began with the words, “second then went on to that Professor Helm, ‘‘the 2d seer,”’ had come to town and would give a free exhibition ‘of his wonderful powers in one of the. | principal halls of the city that afternoon. There were then a few lines to indicate what kind of things the ‘‘professor’’ would try to do, and the announcement was also made that during his stay in |Kansas City, ‘‘Professor Helm’’ would | put up at the Midland Hotel, Gordon was greatly interested Trims experiment in second gee had aren ed st side cae curiosity, and the coming