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Broadway Billy’s Shadow Chase. ‘¢ Wonderful!” cried one believer, unable to control his tongue longer. Immediately there was a grand ending to everything, and no more sights or sounds were heard. ‘*'You have spoiled it all by speaking,” spoke the voice of the great Dubarre. ‘*Some min- utes must now pass before the reappearance of our dear departed ones, I will light the gas again, and then prepare for other manifes- tations,” The gas was lighted, and the circle winked and blinked at one another in the blinding glare, For an hour there was a great performance, the woman showing all manner of impossible doings, declaring the spirits to be in full posses- sion of the house, and at last she made mention of her new discovery, a boy of the street who was the most wonderful medium she had ever met with, Atasignal from her.Happy Harry was led into tha room, by the servant, He was cool and easy in manner, and gave a queer blink at Billy as he took his placeina chair in the center of the circle. Billy had plans of his own, but had decided not to put them into operation until he learned what Harry was going to do, or what was going to be done with him. He felt that he could trust the boy fully. The woman made a long speech, in which she dwelt upon the mysteries so little understood; the near ties that bound the living to the dead —the mortal to the immortel; and a good deal more in that occult line, and finally came down to the subject in hand, ** And now,” she concluded, ‘*I will command this boy to sleep, and he will immediately be in condition to communicate between the material and the immaterial. See; I speak! He is gone!” She had spoken, and Harry dropped back in his chair, staring straight ahead. Broadway Billy looked on with keenest inter- est, wondering what it meant, and how it was coming out, ‘* Now,” the woman went on, ‘the spirit of this boy is out of the body, As soon as it is gone, another spirit takes its place; the boy will speak, Now, silenceall,” All were silent, and presently Harry spoke. ‘* Father?” he called. The woman raised a finger to prevent others from speaking, and asked: ** Who is it that speaks?” ‘‘T am Betty Rundle,” was the answer. want my father!” Billy looked over toward the old man, and saw that he was trembling, and that his face was pale, **Can you prove that you are Betty Rundle?” the woman asked. ‘‘ Give some proof that your father will positively be able to recognizs.” ‘*Father,” epoke Harry’s lips, ‘do you not remember the present you gave me on my tenth birthday? Thering I was so proud of? It had two pretty red stones in it, and I lost it.” ‘It’s so!” cried Rundle, ‘It’s so! It’s so!” “Then you recognize me?” asked the spirit using Harry’s body, **'Yes,mychild! Yes, yes!” “Then pay close attention to what I say now: ‘You are going to die, some time, but maybe not ‘very soon. These swindlers are playing for your money, This woman—” Madam Dubarre made a rush at the medium, as did also Gus Casmore, but Broadway Billy and the others sprung up and held them back. ‘* This women,” the spirit went on, ‘is a fraud, and she bas been bleedin’ you fer all you are worth, and more too, This night sbe intended to make you give ber all your money, but her little game is nipped in the bud, and— Crack- ers an’ cheese! /’m the gentle kiss-me-quick wo had a hand in it, hoop! ’Rah fer our side! eT The seance had broken up in confusion. Rosa Dubarre, Gus Casmore, and their deluded fol- lowers, were making the greatest kind of ado, but the detective and his helpers had the two arch crooks handcuffed before they could escape, as they at once endeavored to do, and the Shadow Chase waz ended. Broadway Billy had materialized the spooks, and Happy Harry cele- ool ep it by dancing a war-dance over the re- sult. The doors were locked, and a thorough search was made of the house. The will of Matthias Rundle was found, together with a private diary that had been kept by his daughter, and out of which the woman Dubarre had learned iw ’ a * ‘ 4 j x tie i Hy bits” + einen Jj) Sate 2 2S he ‘ so many events of her life as to enable her to carry on such a deception. It was an exposure BY WII. G. PATTEN. 689 The Sparkler Sharp. complete, and the faith of the spiritualists | 674 Hurricane Hal, the Cowboy Hotspur. present received a shock frow which it never re- | covered, Billy, duly armed with warrants, beld fast to his prisoners, while all the others were held as witnesses, and were taken to the house of deten- tion. A policeman was left in charge of the place. The woman who was acting as house- keeper for Mr. Rundle was next arrested and sent to join the others. Broadway Billy had all the proof needed, and more, and when the case came to a hearing the guilty ones were sent down to await the trial that was sure to termi- nate in their being sent up—up instead of down —and for a considerable period, too. Billy received the congratulations of his patron, and Happy Harry came in for the ap- proval of his chief, Billy could not praise Harry enough, and could not get over the splen- did start he bad made, He told more than one person about it, and declared that Happy Harry was destined to make a greater record by far than he had.made bimself as a boy. Harry took it all with modest mien, declaring it had been nothing but dumb luck, but Billy would not allow that to be said of it. Mr, Rundle was cured completely, and his will was made stronger than ever in favor of his son, Of course, the young detective was handsome- ly rewarded, and be immediately put a ‘** nest egg” to the credit of Happy Harry in one of the city banks, Some days later Billy met with a surprise at home. His mother, standing with one arm of the old ranger, Roger Watts, around her when Billy opened the door, informed bim that she and Roger had been married that day, and that Roger had changed his mind about going up to his home in the northern part of the State, where he had now no friends, and had made up his mind to spend the rest of his days with the boy he had learned to like so well, And all Billy was able to say, at first, was—*' Sweet pertaters!” Billy declared that his birthday had been a glorious event, but now be hardly knew which pleased him most, that or this. He had learned to love the honest, brave old man, and it was an arrangement that suited him exactly, Billy is in the harness now in earnest, and, with happy Harry as his adjutant, is bound to do some signal work in bis line. THE END, Beatles Dime Library, BY CAPTAIN MARK WILTON, 323 Hotspur Hugh; or, The Banded Brothers, 811 Heavy Hand; or, The Marked Men. 305 Silver-Plated Sol, the Montana Rover. 291 Horseshoe Hank, the Man of Big Luck, 285 Lightning Bolt, the Canyon Terror. 276 Texas Chick. the Southwest Detective. Stonefist, of Big Nugget Bend. Leopard Luke. the King of Horse-Thieves. lron-Armed Abe, the Hunchback Destroyer. Bullet Head, the Colorado Bravo, Barranca Bill, the Revolver Champion Long-Haired Max; or, The Black League. 27 Buckshot Ben, the Man-Hunter of Idaho. 223 Canyon Dave, the Man of the Mountain, 219 The Scorpion Brothers; or, Mad Tom's Mission 202 Cactus Jack, the Giant Guide. 194 Don Sombrero. the California Road Gent, 176 Lady Jaguar, the Robber Queen. RY COL. THOMAS H. 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