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and knew place with a string. : with a grip . a list of towns to R¢iee lof Holt in the police station, _ tims to-morrow ie | The detective found an old grip s: : leals successful illy they | “Meantime 1e Tl give you another sleep-|in this he NEW NICK CARTER WEEELY. “Vou bet I am.’’ ‘‘T thought you'd let me ¢g fre The judge of the ——— court — 28 that some time or other you would be sure to pass that way, so he’ hired the room over the laundry, cut the sign pole almost in two and held it in| “Holt knew te wail that * was to atpwe wih the detective and “He was on the watch for eg when. tees S thing iio0 Sat as s BOE, ’» ni d 1 ‘How did they manage,’’ Trim asked, | dation el the ‘fake Seachand on did ‘‘now that Howard has. been discharged | something to it with the articles that he by Drummond & Company ?”’ |had brought in his parcel. ‘“They hang around in Broad Street,’’} Holt could not understand what was Holt answered, ‘‘on the lookout for 'going on and Trim of course did not ex- strangers. plain. ‘Maynard has had so much experience| It took some time for the detective to in tackling jays that it doesn’t come very |complete his arrangements and when he hard for him to find out whether any man|had done so he led his prisoner to the sack in his hand is looking for| Old Slip Station. Drummond & Company’s office; then he| There he got the address of a glazier steers them into this office—— > |'who lived not far away and before sunrise ‘*But how about the jetters that the| Trim had him at work in the secret « afed farmers write to Drummond & Company ?| fitting a new pane of glass into the win- What does Drummond think when he/dow that had been partly cut away. reads them??? | ‘This work was completed before the ar- ‘*He don’t read ’em. They used to be|rival of anybody at the Broad street opened by Howard, you see, and now) building, and when Trim left the place it they are picked out of the mail by Drum-| looked just as usual. mond’s office boy. a) | ‘*Maynard and Howard will wonder (tc 0 he’s in it, eh ?”’ | where the man in charge of the office is,’’ ‘Only as Howard pays him a little to|said Trim to himself, ‘‘but if they have look out for the mail. Howard gives him|really got a big scheme on hand that which circulars have|won’t scare them away. been sent. When the boy sees a letter! ‘‘I must catch them at work, because postmarked according to that list, he|even Holt’s evidence won't be strong hands it to Howard. The boy doesn’t | ‘enough to make certain of convicting know anything about this office. May- them.”? nard spots the jays, as I said, brings ’em | Trim had asked some further questions and had — “And the rest of it goes on as before,’ learned that among the victims who were added Trim. lexpected to arrive on that day was a ‘‘Ves, that’s about it.” 'farmer named Horton from a backwoods ‘“Will they be on the lookout for vic-|town in Pennsylvania. sack ve got arrangements|in ‘‘the down town shop’’ and took it haul. I know they are| with him across the ferry to Jersey City. ite a lot of g ust} There he went into a hotel and dis- |} guised himself as a countryman. mean to drop the | This done he loitered about the Penn- st for fear you may. sylvania Railroad Station until a through © |train came in, when he joined the pass- © 4 ‘All right, then, il 1 take a hand in|/engers and went out onto the ferry boat. See d see if I can’t rake in the} He was hoping to meet Maynard there _ lor on the New York side of the ferry, but — was ns ag e arrived 2 at | New York ane he Wien, h