The Twin Detectives; or, The Robbers of the Tomb — page 147: what you’re looking at

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Ta Ie) Sage THE TWIN DETECTIVES. ‘¢ Archy, in spite of your assurance to the contrary, I am afraid some detective may find 7¢, and trace it to us.” “Don’t I tell you they will never find it, and if they do, can’t trace it to us !” «« Are you certain?” “Yes. Why, man, you know'that time I was away for two days? Well, I took it to % ‘‘Hush, Archy! I tell you I don’t want to know.” ‘“Pooh! What a superstitious fool you are! Just be- cause my old father made you promise a lot of stuff, you are all of a tremor over his old carcass.” His father! This man was then a son of the earl whose body had been stolen? Now it came back to Bob like a flash when and where he had seen this: man. “A party of grave-robbers had been arrested after long and patient watching, and this Hall was their ringleader. This event had taken place some three years before the stealing of the earl’s body. Hall had served his term of imprisonment, and was once more at large, and not caring to do any more petty work, had broken open the Cuthbert vault and stolen the body of his own father. Was it any wonder that such a villain should follow up his crime by murdering his mother? Bob listened eagerly to McLean’s answer. «<Yes, when he was dying, I promised I would be faith- ful to his son.” | The words were uttered sadly and solemnly.. ‘“ Well, so you are, Mac; you are faithful to me, and I am his son.” . Hall broke into a brutal laugh. ‘‘You are not the son he alluded to. He meant Lord Nugent.” Gomicbooks (e(e) m