Under His Thumb — page 218: what you’re looking at

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UNDER HIS THUMB. eee 209 when the shot was fired, and escaped by throwing the window open and jumping out. The assassin immediately followed—and I presume it was his thumb, wet with his victim’s blood, that left the clew which you have so successfully worked out. Leary entered the next building, in which a window was also open, aS youremember. George Dyer was an unseen witness of the crime, and this morning he made a full confession to me. It was he who shouted, ‘Waldron has killed himself.’ He did so upon an impulse to shield his employer. And later, he dared not reveal what he knew, because, being a confidant of Blain’s fraudulent speculations, he had accepted bribes, and was in danger of being impli- cated as an accomplice all through. Dyer escaped by a secret passage under the printing-house; and I discovered this passage, and drove him to seek refuge elsewhere.’’ Hyjah made these statements rapidly and in a low tone, while the officers and a physican resusci- tated Blain, who had fallen, apparently, in a fit upon realizing that there was no escape. ) * Ok * 7s oS eS %s Another great New York criminal mystery solved, and the culprit brought to jusice. For Julian Blain, despite the vigilance of his guards, succeeded in putting an end to his own life before the case came to trial. Of Bill Leary’s fate we will not speak, be- cause it 1S our province to entertain, not to shock, the reader. ‘“Spider’’ was not caught, and he is still at large, although the little wretch deserves severe punish- ment if any one ever did. George Dyer had no specific charge made against him, and so got off by merely being branded as a coward. Hyjah, the Hindoo, had been beaten, in time if notin skill. The rivalry had been warm, the result strangely close. But more friendly or generous ri- vals than these two great detectives never lived. Both were brave, skillful, and honorable; yet they were as unlike in their methods as two members of the same great calling well could be. | EOmMmIcHboOoKsS. co mn