The Prairie Detective: Secret Service Series No. 24 — page 167: what you’re looking at

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THE PRAIRIE DETECTIVE. 165 CHAPTER XVIII. WORKING IN EARNEST, If you had seen the party two hours later you would nevér in the world have recognized them as the same people who had sat in consultation beside the fire early in the morning. Robinson was the only member of the company who was unchanged in ap- pearance. Sycamore Dan was the most thoroughly disgeuised of the three others. His light hair was dyed to a deep and shining black, his eyebrows were heavily colored, and his skin was darkened toa deep yellow hue. In contrast to these points of make up, his eyes showed with pe- culiar brilliancy. His whole appearanee was odd to a striking degree. | Ryan had been almost as completely metamor- phosed. Previously his complexion was dark, and ~ his hair and mustache were of a rich brown color. By some mysterious process his hair had undergone a sudden and complete change of hue. It was now so light as to be almost straw-colored. His mustache had disappeared, and his eyebrows had also given way to the influence of the magic dye. "Hsther was as thoroughly disguised as either of the others. Her splendid hair was shorn to a length compatible with the sex she represented, and she was clothed in a boy’s costume, hastily altered to suit her figure. The clothes had originally belonged to one of the dead Bloodsuckers, and the girl shud- cComicboo ~~ ‘S (ele)