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_ broker’s card and hastens away. PR , ore S. oe lon’t like the idea of mixing up in _ affairs of the turf. My business is to assist. = as the phices of the law in bringing crim- 4 ad —_ — r ad . ’ ‘ ¥ . MK: a4. - NICK CARTER WEEKLY. ay “Nota “wend Ee 43 ie ee the de-| * tective. as he bends over him. ‘‘Are you} | able to walk ?”’ “I think so. You see, it rather knocked | me out.”? “Well, get a carriage here and drive) tS away.”’ Nick places the broker in a carriage, and then turns back toward the track. - **¥You did nobly,’’ he says to the| jockey, a moment later. ‘‘Keep what took place last night to yourself, andj Some to this address to-morrow fore-| The detective hands the boy thie|~ ‘‘Now, then,’’ he says to the broker, | ae as they drive slowly along, ‘“T want 34 | ~~ tell you, now that it is all over, that I) don’t like these kind of cases.’ 4 But you have saved my reputation, | and have saved the property of two inno- _ feated one of the wickedest conspiracies % a aver put on the turf.”’ tae o* Yes, but I don’t like it forall that. [ nae to justice. = tie TE the note you sent me this morning $s correct you have also done this.”’ of oe : 4 3 * 7 " | iol ' ~~ 7 hed 1 _ = 7 7 — coal — = —_ - 3 * < : , . i a | o _ ee a ‘ ‘. -~ 7 - @ -~* al b : a f i . _ <> 2 i. el \ <l f - a - 1 ’ J a. ee & 7 J — Pd ov b 3 Lasill a > ; . - @ @. * - => e : ‘eati o the race-track gambiers Fa fe yan eee eeprared the men who robbed | “ "me et twenty idudand dollars.’’ | That i 18 all Ahat makes me feel in any | ay easy about my ae = ‘“y i. bit that et “of. x was all in- | -« volunta ry—I did not set out to catch the | le did 1 both, though,” Y said Wheeler, | — heart! aly, “and I am seventy thousand| ars ahead by reason of your good | ork. For with out your assistance I) covered the ten thousand. 3 2a sey Tou epee | ben faced the loss of the | : if 4 ‘ so il cent children, Besides this, you have de-| ‘nen parted, these) part-in the transac-. Ito his companions how, lost the twenty thousand | and would never have re-| member the promise you male me white : IT entered upon the case ?”’ ‘What was it ?”’ z ‘Vou promised that if I would assist } | you in saying your money that you would | invest the money belonging to these heirs | 'in some safe and secure manner, where it | would be beyond your reach.’’ | ‘And you By rest assured that I will | do all that and more. They shall have | all the money J haven won by the use of | their money.’ } ‘There is one thing. more. 1 want you ‘to give the little jockey a thousand dol- lars when he comes to your office to- morrow. I leave my com pensation entirely to yourself, ’’ ‘‘Tt shall be ten thousand dollars, if it lis accent. Come around in the morning (and get the check.”’ ‘“Vou’d better collect in all your bets ‘this afternoon,’’ said Nick, as*the two t . 1 the pool -rooms have been hit hard. I won a few hundred my- self; not because I wanted to win the meney. but because I found myself 1n places where I had to bet. I ave a private charity fund, how ever, which will care for that.’? Wheeler collected his money without ‘any difficulty, and Nick Carter received his very liberal fee next day. The. little jockey nearly went wild when he was presented with a thousand dollars. Brower and Morris were convictec of lgrand larceny, and sentenced to long se termis, And now, when the celebrated detec- |tive feels particulary pleasant, he explains for-once in his ‘life, he became a “ dead -game”’ sport, saved the patrimony of two innocent ~~ children, and won the famous handicap. [THE END. |