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f . t. 2 * ‘ : : we . . “ ! Ld. Py pei Ny re o%.. LF i ~~ & H ce se * Then he does possess clairvoyant powers?” “Bout as much as you and I,” replied Bandy. “You see, me and my pard, Ichabod Flea, bave been at work on this case ever since the death o’ Judge Randall. Slowly, and step by step, we gathered circumstantial evidence that pointed suspiciously to’ards Major Bell. 1 cannot tell you now how we worked the case up, for it’d take me a week to give it in detail, and then it wouldn’t be very in- terestin’. But when we'd simmered the thing down to Bell the next would be to con- vict him on the chain of evidence we had. We knew he stood deep in the affections and esteem of Last Lick and that any mistake on our part would bring judgment upon our heads, So we began to figger as to how we could make him convict hisself, and in our ramblin’ ’round through the hills we stumbled across the artist, Laclede, Then the idea o’ the entertainment struck me and so I took him into my confidence and laid the scheme before him. Bein’ in for adventure he jumped at it like a toad at a fly. Then I furnished him with a portrait of the judge that I'd got from Detective Drew; he racticed on it till he got it perfect, and then in disguise he came to Last Lick and as a fes- tive ‘ bummer’ laid around two weeks studying the faces and features of Major Bell and Zu- lima Randall, and when he concluded he’d got them well in mind, he come back to the hills and practiced on ’em, goin’ back to camp every few days to refresh his mind and compare notes. In this way he got the faces of all three in pretty fair shape for off-hand drawin’s; and then he sailed in. We banked considerable on his ‘ clairvoyant powers’ workin’ on the super- stition o’ the miners, and givin’ me a hold on the public mind that would enable me to take time to bring to bear in court the chain of cir- cumstantial evidence I’d linked together. More- over, ’'d expected after his arrest, that a few more links would be found to make the chain stronger. But, to sum it all up; the fellow’s own guilty conscience give him away, and he has paid the penalty with his life. And now, gen- tlemen, I want only one third o’ the reward; I want Laclede to have the balance, for he de- sarves if. Genius should be rewarded, especial- ly when it gits its arms shot half off, as did the nchman’s.” . “All right, Bandy, that just as you say,” re- lied Hatton; ** you have won the reward by a ittle bit the slickest scheme I ever heard of. But say, have you any idea what object Bell had in murdering Judge Randall?’ ** No, sir; [ must confess I hav’n’t, but I s’pose he told you, didn’t he?” “Not a word. He had just come to that point in his confession and asked for a sup of water. The water was given him, when his head fel: forward on his breast and he never breathed again.” ** Horn o’ Joshua! you don’t tell me?” “We had hopes, however,” continued Hat- ton, *‘ of Sybil disclosing the secret in case of her return, but now that she, too, is dead, I presowe it will go down to the grave with hem, unless, perhaps, some time we may get the secret from some one of her confederates in crime,” On the day following her death Sybil and her father were laid at rest in their graves. Whatever the girl’s part in ber unnatural fa- ther’s crimes, her untimely death was mourned by all the camp. Zulima Randall now found herself alone again with old Deborah, but however great had been her suffering—however greatly she kad been sinned against, out of it all came a noble reward in the friendship and love of our hero, Laramie Joe, the Boy Knight, who in af- ter years became her protector, her idol, her all, Kit Bandy and Ichabod Flea, as well as Old Rattler, remained several days at Last Lick, the honored guests of all the camp, but, finally the three departed together for new fields of conquest, and when and where the old “ buc- _caneers” may turn up again, we know not but we can rest assured that men of their im- -pulsive and adventuresome spirits are not like- fy to remain idle, and there is no telling how soon they may “bob up serenely” in another ee great drama of the Wild West, THE END. Qld Tom Rattler. eee —— ——— ~ - ae aes eee > eee —s Beadle’s Dime Library. 1 A Harp Crown. By Philip S. Warne........... 10¢ 2 THe DAre-Devit, By Col. P. 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