Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 859 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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a =. New York Nat, the Gamin Detective. | Pull powers, sir, to act as though the drug those on board, so that there will bet property was my Own.” | opposition to the boarders, who will go out ‘*Remarkable powers, sir, indeed. But, 1 | to the yacht asa party of ladies and gentle- have a clue—just what, I cannot now tell | men. you; but I hope that before very long Ican ‘‘ The crook who is the spy isa French- find you the missing girl, alive and well.” | man who answers to the name of Pierre, and ‘* Indeed, sir! I shall be delighted!” re- ; is boatswain. plied the lawyer, and yet the chief, who! ‘‘ Make no move to protect the yacht until read the human face as an open book, deter- | after dark, then be on hand, | | ent, one who sent him strange communica- tions there was no accounting for. if they had come from his own men, why had not the informant appeared to draw the rewards which in several cases awaited him? The news he received was of all kinds, and of deeds done in every part of the city, showing that the unknown detective was | most thoroughly posted as regarded the haunts of the crooks, and of their inove- ments. Now came a hint that the heiress to the mined that, contrary to what the attorney “Tan UNKNOWN SHADOWER.” asserted, the man was keenly disappointed. a aap :: = But, the officer did not tell him so, and P.S, The owner's wife and a lady Haunted House would appear in good time, | continued: | ose Dave. Ha Pesaied pn Parag: and and that it would be well to keep an eye ‘‘Of course a property left as this has CF PONE Nema so wae t sipon the attorney who had her fortune in , been, in your keeping, attracts considerable | ‘* Well, captain, what have you to say to his control, | attention, and 1 need hardly tell you that | that?” asked the chief. The chief knew the lawyer as one who | there are those who are only too anxious to| ‘* You believe it, sir?” stood well in the city, was a meuber of a | get it out of your keeping, so, ina friendly | ‘‘Why not? My unknown detective has church, and upon whom no suspicion of | way, Mr. Brackette, I would advise you to never yet put me on a false scent—never wrong-doing had ever fallen, ive them no hold upon you. Give no in- , failed to tell the truth!” But appearances, he had found in his | formation, make no concessions,” ‘‘ You have not the slightest clue to his eventful career, were most deceiving; so he ‘* Your words mean more, sir, than you . identity?” | decided that he would at least make a call | care to explain,” said the lawyer, in a tone ‘* No more than have you.” | | upon Adam Brackette, Esq., and have a | of concern, ‘Tt is remarkable, sir. talk with him, as now was his duty, ‘‘T am in a position to hear much, sir, yet ‘Tt bears the same black seal as the The detective sent to shadow the old lady | not free to explain, so I simply give you a | notice of Miser Max having been murdered,” who had brought the news of the murder of | hint that you have foes who will try to give | ‘‘ It does, and is on the same paper and is the miser, had returned with the information | you trouble, should the heiress appear sud- | in the same handwriting.” that she was just who she bad represented | denly, and you not be prepared to answer | ‘‘The paper and writing may be a clue, herself to be, and the chief felt certain that | fully to the confidence bestowed on you by | sir.” she had received the letter, as she had stated. | Miser Max. If 1 get further information, ‘“The paper is of the plainest kind, with ! | The officer sent back with the messen- | I will call again.” no water lines, and the writing, as you see, er-boy returned to say that a young lady The chief departed, leaving the man-of- | ig in a disguised hand.” ad brought the letter in, asked for a trusty ; law completely mystified and in a frame of ‘True, sir; but you will heed the warn- boy and had paid the fee and departed. | mind that was not enviable, for he muttered | ing?” No one there knew her, or could tell ; to himself: | ‘*Of course! So takeit in hand.” where she had gone, and, as she did not re- | ‘‘T have spies upon my movements, that | ‘‘I will board after dark, sir, as a party turn to see if there was any response, there | is certain, so it is lucky the warning came’ pretending to believe that the owner is on was no clue to her identity. | as it did.” ' board, and desires to visit him.” ‘*T will now go and see the lawyer,” And the chief walked back to his office| ‘‘ A good idea, captain.” decided the bewildered chief. musing: ‘“‘The boatswain ean be lured into the Lawyer Brackette was a shrewd man.| ‘ That manisahypocrite, He is tricky; | cabin and captured, and the crew can be sent He wore a beard but had shaved his mus- | he plots and plans for self, alone. But the | back in my boat, leaving my men on board.” tache off—a style that gives one a sly or half- | hint I gave him will cause him to go slow; ‘That will catch the gang, especially if sinister expression. that it frightened him was evident to me.” {| you can force the Frenchman to confess,” his earnings to charity; he had several; a letter upon his desk, sealed as were all “Then go and arrange your plan, but Chinese in the Sunday-school class he taught; | the mysterious communications he had re- | work with the greatest caution, Williamson, ceived, taking only picked men, for I have reason to Instantly he rung for his attendant, and | believe that we have aspy in our own camp.” asked who had brought it, ‘¢A spy here, sir?” | The attendant did not know; he had gone ‘ Yes: for this letter I found on my desk, office, and at once spoke of the reason for his | out to lunch for a few minutes and had seen | and no one knows how it got there.” calling. | no one enter the office. | ‘That does look suspicious, sir.” **Of course it is none of my affair, Mr. And no one else could tell how the letter: ‘‘ It does; so set a trap to catch the spy, Brackette, but I am anxious to find the ' had come upon the chief’s private desk! | for he must be found out at all hazards ”’ murderer of Miser Max, and also his miss- ‘By the heavens above, but I believe ||} Captain Williamson shook his head like one ing heir, so would like what information | myself am shadowed,” the chief exclaimed ; in a quandary, and replied: you care to give me regarding your dead | aloud, and, now doubly mystified, he turned ‘* Yes, sir, for this is something I cannot client, his wealth and the heiress, for a} to the new letter and broke the black seal. understand, when your own quarters are word often is a clue, you know.” shadowed,” and the captain went to pick ‘‘Very true, sir, very true. My late half a dozen good men for the night’s work, client was a singularly close-mouthed man; CHAPTER XIII. It was just after dark when his boat push- had little to say about himself, though you A WARNING. ed off from the ener at Fiftieth street, with doubtless know that he it was, who, man > ; aiyis two strong men at the oars. yeurs ago, shot his daughter when she a a, Sigh oat xn aloe ccpl gas nan ae ie , No sooner had it left the shore when a masquerading in man’s attire one night, mis- ayers rit Maha eat gti 8: | couple of sachels were opened and out of ; ¢ : +9 too, the black seal and its weird crest and , a taking her fora burglar? shat adwiat eh he Tinknewnahadower?4 them were taken four feminine wraps and ‘Yes, I have heard the story. pba dar oe dee reqs aoe e | bonnets, a couple of high hats and other dis- ses ‘ae 9‘ ; a ake I will see what Williamson thinks of "fi She was his only child? var hint “Nem guises, - : it,’and the chief rung and requested the a + p She was, and it nearly killed him; but |; cajate presence of his trusty aid, Captain Ahoy the Ideal!” called out the captain, he rallied, went abroad, and, after years of Wilkin ee Eee Sac dinse g | who had the appearance of a Wall street travel, returned to New York. ana an? man, as they came near a handsome schooner r . ; soon appeared, when the ‘* He came to me, for my senior partner rhe captain s00n app ' yacht anchored in the stream, > M > . ‘ e y ' had been his lawyer, and placed his will eae silently placed the missive in mic ‘Ay! ay! what is it?” asked a gruff voice | from the deck. Fle was said to be a good man; he gave of Upon returning to his office the chief saw | ** Yes, sir.” | | | he was respected and admired by his fellow church members, for his probity and appar- ent goodness of heart. The chief was ushered into his inner in my hands, with deeds to certain propérty mos Be" he owned, and only told me that he had Miu tee ey through in silence and then | “wo are a party of friends come out to found a granddaughter, but whose child she ‘Read it aloud,” Say Boot by to Mr. Rochelle.” was he did not reveal, but he legally adopted | yy, tai dag: follows: ‘“Mr. Rochelle will not come off until to- her as his own.” 04 cpa obese hy morrow noon.” ‘* Did he have money at his home?” ‘‘T desire to inform you that there isa “Ts none of the sailing party aboard?” “1 believe he did, for he hinted as much.” | plot among the crooks to board the yacht ‘No, sir, only myself and four of the ‘Then that. the murderers must have se- | Ideal to-night and rob ber. crew,” and the man spoke with a foreign ac- cured?” ‘‘She lies at the foot of West Sixteenth | cent. ‘‘Tam afraid so, for I made a most thor- | street, and is all ready to sailto-morrow ona} ‘‘ Well, my man, we have a present for ough search of the place and could find noth- | long cruise, so that she has on board valu- | Mr. Rochelle, and wili board and leave it in ing of value.” able stores, money and silver plate of much | the cabin with a letter, for you can give usa *- And you have heard nothing of the miss- | value, while her crew, with the exception of paper and pen, I gyess,” and the disguised ing heiress?” a few men, will be allowed to spend the , police captain leaped aboard and thrust a ** Not a word.” night ashore. 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