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THE TWIN DETECTIVES. 2 SS and returned to their home. They invited Madge to ac- company them, but she preferred to return to Brooklyn with with her friends, Captain Lyle and Mrs. Parsons. When Charlie Hudson reached home he found a telegram _ had arrived during his absence. It came from Gordon, in Boston, aid merely said: “Come on at once. He is at No — Tyside street. Ill meet you there. Don’t delay.” ‘‘ Mother, Hstelle, I must leave you at once.’ “‘ But, Charlie,” said his mother, while Estelle looked re- " proachful. ‘See this telegram. J have no choice. I must go.” He ran up stairs and packed a few articles in his satchel. With a kiss and tender word to Estelle, and a found good- - by to his mother, he was off. ‘Qh, dear, what a miserable ending this is for what we expected to be such a happy day,” said Mrs. Hudson. ‘‘I declare my head is perfectly addled.” ‘‘ Whois this man who stole your son?” sdked Estelle, when the two ladies, partly consoled by cups of tea, sat to- gether combing their hair. ‘¢He is a wretch who quarreled with my husband, and. vowed vengeance against him. I always suspected he stole — the baby.” 3 ‘¢ How dreadful! I wonder he did not take them both.” “< He did not know there was another.” CHAPTER XLII. DISCOVERY OF THE BLACK TRUNK, Bob Brierly found, on his return from the church, that — McLean had left the house. ‘“ Where has he gone?” he inquired of Mr. Broom. Gomicbooks.co mn i