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t ; 4 Ai from the street lamps outside, and a _ Dan’s eyes were now accustomed to the - darkness this was sufficient to show him that there was nothing whatever in the room upon which he could stand. Ses All the furniture had been removed from the house at the time of the fire, and it looked for a moment, therefore, as ©» if the young detective could get no fur- ther in his investigation. But Dan was ingenious. The noise in the back room continued so steadily that it was perfectly certain that the man at work there was confident that nobody was anywhere near to inter- rupt him, and Dan didn’t feel it as neces- sary to move slowly as he had before. He withdrew to the hall again, crossed and entered another Toom. This room had been badly wrecked at the time of the fire because the firemen had used their axes in chopping away a _ portion of the ceiling. There were a number of long sticks that had been splintered from planks = ‘dying about, and best of all, there was a _ wreck of a low chair there; it had been so badly damaged. that “no one had _ thought it worth saving. Dan discovered these things his pocket lamp upon the scene. al f 7 ve “a wa , di _ | - ° 7 ; 2 1 Ba - : , ‘ 4 4 », a ; . ‘, ‘ ” | ‘y | md \ : ' : d | . 7 ) : ‘ yf -_ ‘4. @ . J ? al » i 2 - y ’ ? i , é | | ‘ * ae ; , a . 4 ? r r. ee - ® a , i ‘ 4 i ‘ 1 - 4 a rt » . i ~ *» « « ‘ t " * P be 4 é € ® \e- | " ’ 7 ta 4 ' ‘ 1 é P * * : é LU , : ia! , > o 4 uf ptm at the other side of the. house, be He kept the slide open but a m es owever, ort until he had selected a stick entered it: he h Siard d again a | as ud, reaking “sound, and— as he NICK CARTER WEEKLY. x as slit at the end of the stick. not have dared to use the ee: ees = x here he believed it could be done with soauda Tee at ‘firs t ear 9 the broken chair upon the floor beneath the Sirti and stood upon it. It was not tall enough to bring his head within two feet of the transom, but he had counted on that and was not in the least discouraged. Taking his pocket knife he split open one end of the stick he had brought for a few inches. Then he took a small hand mirror which Nick had given him as a part of his outht and thrust the handle into the He worked at it a moment until the mirror was firmly fastened and then raised it carefully to the edge of the transom. immediately he saw a reflection of a part of the room beyond. It was not the part he wanted to see, for it didn’t show the presence of any- body at work there. | He moved the mirror this way and that until at length he got a glimpse of a man’s back; then he got down and moved the chair a foot or two to one side. Mounting it again and raising the mirror, he found that he could lena it against one edge of the transom in such a way that the reflection gave him an almost complete view of the s the man was at work. It proved from this, as Dan had the- orized, that the man had been prying away the mop bi upon one side of the room. was to > the peictihesS was ageing a aoa siving gi gy it a violent pt «eran that he had a= pot where At the moment when Dan got the __ scene well in view, the man, whose back