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to ask old Hatgood.”’ ad * ji _— * ce grinding. | by which come again and I’ll find him yet. arator and there was Drummond himself, whom Trim recognized fron old man on his first entrance into the office. ibe that DFurhmond g not surprise him. tions were not at allclear, and in the! second there was no reason to suppose| that either Howard or Maynard would be} *€¢ + in the office at all hours of the day. me. which the old man’s story shaky. the grinding of his sam ples in the model | of the zc ld separator. not ‘in condition to grind so much as a| Berlin, that yeou’d get these fellers by very purpose ad turne: d la ¢ rank wheel which causec 16 mae: NICK CARTER WEEKLY. whom he was shadowing m1 It occurred to Trim as possible that out unobserved. there might be another machine in The building had two corridors, and| Drummond & Co.’s offices which could two sets of elevators. The man might | be set up in place of the one first seen have gone from the room which he had|/and which could be used for dishOnest entered into the other corridor and so out | ‘purposes, by way of New street. The fact that old Hatgood had been ‘“That’s what he’s done,’’ thought|taken out to luncheon after his first visit Trim, but if he’s been here once he’ll/suggested this thought, for that would | give the operators time to take down the ‘Meantime I’ve got some new questions| real model and set up the fake. | There was a strong objection to that lave got, | theory. Tees ees | In the first place, the model was a big CHAPTER V. laffair which would take time to remove A TIP FROM THE HOSPITAL. land i in the second place there was no way lof hiding it in the offices. In most respects, Hatgood’s story of| his experiences seemed to agree with | what Trim had discovered. Trim had taken pains to look the offices | over very carefully to see if he could see There was the office of Drummond & | 2"Y sign of another machine that osiedit be set up to do the dishonest work Company just wliere he said it was. : PaaS There was the model of the gold sep-| There was none, and he was convinced | that somewhere or other there wasa screw Hatgood’s| loose in Hatgood’s story. jescription as the one who had met the| “There's a shrewd gaine going | ‘Tam did not recognize any body else j in| la hand in it, but at present = i maar’ be ; ce, sar that did| lieve that they are swindlers.”’ See Oh, - **Well, mister,’’ said old Hatgood | when Trim arrived home, “did you find them ?’’ ‘*1’m not so sure about that,’’ the de- tive isiedered. ‘*but I guess they found In the first place the farmer’s descrip- one thing, however, in | The old man looked disappointed. He seemed to be|did not catch the meaning of Trim’s re- |ply, but he saw that the detective had po: sitively about | not finished the case. ‘I was hopin’,’’ he said, ‘‘from the islick way in which yeou dete up the fel- There was He had spoken quite The model that Trim looked at was) Her that robbed Squire Bowker in 1el of coffee to say nothing ot cobble | the scruff of the neck afore sunset.”’ | agouti miaaty t exp ect too much,’’ Trim The detective had loo sp : womnetionss: talk g “Dew tell ! I thought they always |ketched criminals. I’m right sorry that had not been able tosee any way| yeou haven't got ’em, ’cause it took just ‘his s could be acco Senos, and|’bout my last dollar tew git down here Haton told him how his} tew New York an’ I can’t stay no longer iples of ny were Bh ed into the|’cause I hain’t got money n’ouh tew put ‘thine and how one of the swindlers| up at a tavern.”’ ‘Isn’t this place | you ?’’ asked Trim, = ‘ entrivense was ¢ COMICDOOKS.CcoO Broad street,’’ he reflected, and it may |