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UNDER HIS THUMB. 129 blind they can’t tell an honest face when they see one.’’ . “They are not to blame, of course. They are told to arrest suspected persons, and they merely do their duty.’’ “Then it’s no harm to them if I send them off to the wrong side of the city to find you, is it? But the papers are all against you and your father. Have you read them this morning? They’ve got your name in print more than twenty times, though it is little to your credit they say.”’ The girl had a copy of one of the dailies in her hand, and unfolding it, she directed Stella’s atten- tion to the latest news concerning the great tragedy. As she had declared, the names of. Stella Brandon and her vagabond father were brought out promi- nently, the latter as suspected of direct connection with the crime, and the former as guilty of shield- ing the man from his pursuers, and probably know- ing his guilt. | ‘““Whose work is this?’’ she cried, when she had finished scanning the paragraph “Tf that was said of me, I should be for laying it to some cowardly enemy, that I should. For didn’t you say that Mr. Croly, the detective, stood up for ye? Sure, and he wouldn’t be so mean——’’ “Surely he would, if he thought my father was guilty. The detectives are working for a reward, and they’re bound to take some oneif they cannot find the real culprit.’’ “Then it is time you found a place to hide. They | shall not harm a hair of your head if I can help it, Stella, dear. It is coming on dark now, and we'll be off together,” : EOmMmIiGchboo “S Go mn