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2 ~ “‘T found out all about it this morn-| ‘“‘It ouglit to, for it shows that a man ing.’’ I’m after is on his He thought he ~ Trim looked a little surprised. | had done me up by that. sign racket and “How did you find out?’’ he asked. |now he knows at least that J wasn’t badly — “Why, early this morning a man came|enough injured to be laid up in the. into the hospital office and told the clerk | hospital. in charge that he had called to inquire| ‘‘Probably he’s found out also by this | how Detective Carter had passed the|time that I got away from the ambu- night.’’ | lance. “Great Scott!’ exclaimed Trim, jump-|} ‘‘Yes, I’m glad to know that he called yi ing up. “Describe that man, will you?” |to inquire for me, and of course it makes it inecessary for me to work all the faster.’’ | ‘Trim and the doctor then separated and ithe detective returned to Broad street. TRIM’S GIANT SWING. | He was beginning now to see light on Pg Oe Pe eR DOE PETS | Hatgood’s matter. He still thought it _ a | didn’t see the caller, 9 he sa] 5 | possible that Drummond & Company “Confound it! said Trim, sitting | |might be engaged in swindling operations down again. 'as well as in lawful business, but he was ars | thought I was doing pretty well,”’ /more inclined to think that swindlers had continued the doctor, ‘‘to tumble to the | used the firm’s name as a decoy to trap - situation and let you know about it.’’ unsuspecting countrymen. : oe: “Certainly you did and I’m very much | He was now particularly anxious to obliged, but haven Beh Wie oak | Aine sont Set A: LOOK into the offices of the Denver lian that man looked like 9 d | Milling Company, for he believed that “No. The clerk paid no especial at-| there he should find the solution of the tention to him.”’ | mystery. ‘What did the clerk do?” | He went first to room 815, tried the ° “Why, he looked through the book to| door and knocked on it. There was no find the record of cases that came in yes- | SPONSE. terday and of course he found no refer-, Choosing a moment when nobody was ence to Detective Carter.”’ in the corridor he Seed his pick ] lock and — Well 2 Iturned back the bolt; even after that the ‘“Then he inquired of some of the at-|door would not open. « tendant: and they knew nothing about} ‘‘It’s fastened with hata bolts on the you or any one of your name being in the|inside,’’ thought Trim. ‘*That being ' hospital at that time, so the clerk told the| the case I must lock the door again, for ° inquirer that Detective Carter was not in/it’s almost a certainty that if there are © the I or sae and he went away. : |hand bolts inside, somebody is in there e ey etfs. oe | now and if that somebody has heard me . ow of.”? {fooling with the lock, or findsit unlocked » Jater, there may be difficulty in following — jome- Accordingly Trim cautiously locked the was | door again and left the building. lOspli flashe “upon me | | He walked through acnange Place to fete, it was you awho got hit with | New Street and exami: hat | ) ied the buildings _ the sign, and that for : some purpose of | that stood near ad ae wae in which our OWI > esd Bernas unconsciousness, Ort md & ff rem the cialethe flo 'street side he saw a window that he "bes = "Ves, of course you tumbled to the lieved opens into one of © offices hole thing “then,” interrupted 2Om., ‘rented by the so-called Denver Milling