Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 902 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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‘New York Nat in Colorado, | TO ae ¢ x “Curse you, you are the traitor—there | went with her to where Sherman Canfield | agents. We bave all the proof against him _ We _ goes my last shot!” and Gentleman Jack awaited them. that we need, Mr. Hammond.” Weer te, ha The traitor outlaw uttered a cry of terror, That each of the three mostly interested ‘* We certainly found enough proof of his ng: e | and tried to dodge, but the bullet crashed | ones had a story to tell, now that the Ferrets guilt to hang fl dozen men, when we searched yy Poy through his brain aud he dropped dead, | had sprung their trap, we may well assume. | his cabin in Junction City, Nat,” Gentleman | Di? while New York Nat said; : Jack replied. a ; ieee “It is a fitting fate for him, though I in- And so it was decided, that Nat should ie - oo tended to set him free. There are two of our CHAPTER XXVIII. call upon Mrs, Hammond, while Sherman wy iy boys dead, you say?” FRC Arf Canfield arrested Walter Benson. ee ‘ ‘Yes; and one of your boy pards is eS tet et The woman would be given a few hours Ban, : slightly wounded.” It was Olive who told her story first, and} to leave the city, and then Helen Har- S ‘“Itis you, Keno; but I got it also in the | what she said was in effect that she had | wood should make known to Mr. Hammond , | arm, though Lam glad that neither wound | overheard, from her place of concealment in | the deep and damnable plot against him, Cam . oo is serious,” the parlors of the Hammond mansion, con. And this plan was fully carried out that * 4). ‘* Now to Gentleman Jack.” versations between both Mrs. Hammond and | very day. +f hat “Here to answer for himself, though | Miss Benson, and their visitors. ——_— ae bound hands and feet, so I could not help She had discovered that Miss Benson was ‘ | ‘ io gz you, pards,” came @ voice over in the corner } not the daughter of Mrs, Hammond, but CHAPTER XXIX, Aiea | - o of the large cabin, that the latter was the wife of Walter Ben. ROL TRTON 1 - The prisoner was quickly brought out } son, and had shared his fortunes, and at one SUN Sas , ie ane and freed from his bonds, and then he said: | time had been a dealer of faro in her sport Mrs. HAmMonpd, with her guilt known, vay ; | “Ah! it is my Boy Champion of the stage | husband’s gambling saloon, was only too anxious to leave the country, oe : coach attack! The two had done one good act, for they | with the few thousand dollars she had laid wit ‘I owe you all my life, for those men in. | had cared for the dying mother of Helen, | by, and her jewels, too, being her own. a heey: tended to kill me in the end, I am sure, as | whose name was Harwood, and had adopt- | Nat escorted her aboard a steamer bound " er _ soon as their chief returned from the East, | ed the girl when she was just entering ber | for Liverpoo!, | Mt. dip whither he has gone upon a mission of dev- | teens. Then, with Waiter Benson as a_ prisoner RA y. iltry T can now stop if it is not too late,” | She had been sworn to say that she was | he returned to the West, accompanied by Bry | ce aD Gentleman Jack shook hands all around | their own child, and so far’ had kept her | Keno and Freckles, and turned their man ie ; ise : with his rescuers. oath. over for trial, giving all proofs against him. ; at cs’ Then one of the men looked to the wounds Then Mrs. Benson had met Mr. Hammond, | Dhis could end in but one way, and that bis fe tes ath of Nat and Keno, and found them slight, | who had gone West to look after some mines | was at the end of a rope, for the wicked a of but dressed them in a very skillful manner. | he was largely interested in, and had com- | man was quickly tried and strung up. 6 aes ey The wounded outlaw was also cared for, ! pletely fascinated him—he believing she| Returning to New York, Nat found Olive = hiat and then the whole party sought rest. was, as she said, divorced from her husband, | still in the Hammond mansion, nominally as Ms cai ee But bright and early the camp was active. | Entering with her husband into a plot to | maid, but really as Miss Harwood’s compan-* Be A search revealed that the outlaws had two get Mr. Hammond’s money, she had secured | ion, for awhile. ; tiers) _._s-seore of horses in the valley, half of which a divorce and soon after married the man The whole story had been told to Mn = |, _Nat at once turned over to his miner allies, | she was plotting against, to carry out her | Hammond, and, after the first shock was © He four in number, who had aided him in the | mercenary schemes, rescuc; and he also gave them the. booty Finding that Jack Hammond was in the found in the camp, so that they fared well. | way, and how his fortune was left to him, The dead men were buried—the outlaws | the bad, bold woman had arranged with her apart from the slain rescuers—and by noon | first husband to get Jack out of the way, it the party was ready to start upon the re-} that husband having remained West and had y Ee burn. become a chief of road-agents in addition to Patina They picked up their horses on the range, | his other deeds of evil. -} sand after a rest and supper, started fora} So Jack had been run down, kidnapped, J Pi ey night ride for Junction City. held a prisoner, while Walter Benson came ps |. Two of the men rode on ahead to’spot the ! East to see just how the affair stood, ee other members of the outlaw band, and He found matters working well, for Mrs, when Nat and the others arrived, he, Gen-| Hammond was each day administering _ tleman Jack and their companions entered | poison to her husband, as she thought, but, fg AL het Wt found, where all of the gang were to be | in reality, Helen Benson was ig pane ae found, ; invalid from taking the poisonous doses an -_- Tn’ an instant Satan Sam and his pals found | giving him trey ieherdiee medicines instead, HS 9 2. themselves covered and their surrender de- For her kindness to her dying mother, ‘manded. and afterward to herself, Helen did not Wy _ There were several to resist, but these | wish to betray the beautiful fiend, and so only anticipated their death a short while, | simply plotted to circumvenf her, until when * as Satan Sam and the others, as soon as | Walter Benson called for her, to see if he | uy ae Gentleman Jack’s story was heard, were | could not get her to join them in his plot, Me iG seized, dragged out to the nearest tree and | she denounced him as a villain, and told a ee quickly strung up for their crimes, for there | him that if ever he came to that house again Sat NM oh | is no ariehin ™ frontier justice. | she would have him arrested; while to Mrs. _ .. Having learned that the chief of the out- | Hammond she said that she was going to > Taws, under the name of the ‘‘ Prospector | take Mr. Hammond away for a change, so Derr ¢ we Prince,” was @ man whom he very much | that he could get well; and if she did not faba: wished to meet, Nat went to his cabin, kept | leave him, upon some excuse ghe could wey Ph an his absence by a Chinaman, and, Wing | trump up, she would send her to prison, but Ao Tang and Loo Choo Were allowed to make a ; she ,wished to spare the guilty couple for oe) earch of the premises, their kind acts to her mother, pid » What was discovered caused Nat to start She also said that she would find Jack ay sh . East the next night on the Midnight Express | Hammond and have him come home to hu | Se _ train, and he was not only accompanied by | thwart them, ; ? eal - Keno and Freckles, his faithful Ferret | All this Olive, the Queen of the Secret oni pards, but also by Gentleman Jack, | Boy Police, overheard, and she at once made 1, ~The sale of the horses found in the outlaw | known to Helen Benson that she was New | —s camp had brought the trio of Ferrets a very | York Nat's sister, and then in the mansion po snug sum, and their fellow rescuers were | as a detective. | | = +. - A oo Sor i - = _— <= * \~ : . . /. | sternly: -_ vs) ead ‘liberty of taking his frontier ‘pard, | murderers arrested.” vid, and then his first duty was to go to | wood's conditions are that Mrs. Hammond Day ca auarters in the old rookery, call his | shall escape, aud be’ allowed to leave the | messeng Li Olive, + | | West again, to be tried for kidnapping Mr. pie They ray ig, girl came quickly, and Nat Hatha ER ARC § PPins od , , ’ . +) 1 ~ Le Upon arriving in New York, Nat took | “* Our fitst duty is to have the intended ' ether, put them upon the ‘track of | country, while, to avoid all: publicity, I can | Hi ig eae ns n of Arizona, and next to send | arrest Walter Benson and carry him to the | "° Wa gBRI Re” such, indeed, it, ay: EY | -Teally blaz-d with exciting ev is i as the chief of the road- | ditions, and telling ¥ . 7 7 SY 4 4 ‘sy , > : TEL Pale *{ wu on ee 4 : ° #) ‘wot ; rs oy le 4 ‘ a9 / . 4 . ey ; " 4) : Am BRIS oa “¢ 5 . : ny 4 “ F ' ; ne ds J “it { WW fies iz + b . : 4 iy oo j : -* W ey ) , . ‘ Vat Act, > | . 1X. i {4 ‘ . i eT YS. SOM Sheer 4 ») 4 < thw Yee Leah ; ¥ 3. Ue iv : é : : Ae ag 4 : ‘ ’ 3 rite, i yy wee : Ae § \ ive hy * cr as : ise +p : <n i f - : % nt uF j 9 / veg et (a7 ? - h ‘ s+ Nts bi, - re, id TY ‘ th > te f fy) } ah of } oe P ve. Sa ¢ f) te” AEs PSA ea : 7 : athy ~ ausi\ or.) J) “-< j \ ° ae 2th NaS cs athe Ms) Sk bod Mote ET Leer ae LAER Ree a, tn over, he began rapidly to improve, and the a presence of his noble son was far better than ae medicine for him, Jack had not returned poor, either, forhe had dug quite a fortune out of the mines. ere It is not strange that he soon fell desperate- == ly in love with the beautiful Helen who had i ae been the means of saving his own and his” ta father’s lives, and the chances are that she will soon become the wife of Gentleman Jack Hammond. As for New York Nat, the fair Mascot = Olive, and Keno and Freckles, they dropped quietly out of sight, for their mission :‘was = ~~ done; they had accomplished their work, = played their game and won, so were schuf- fling their cards for another Secret Service = deal, tives, i? But, more; they were proud to number, sa the members of their band, none other = than Wing Lungand Loo Choo, who had ——_—‘ returned East with Nat and his Kid Detec- mt ; Ne 5 Y poe Netr Haur-Dime Lrerary, No. 903! ate THE DODGER OF THE DOCKS; © The Double Detective. at ae A decidedly novel double role is played to'sueh remar! ane. that F sy f a concatenation of cireum- i Nae stances"? and peculiar events. That the down-by- — Py coy EG | adjutant of one of the shr ewdest detectives in the = : ‘ , . , L p : 7 c “ahh” reat City, with no sign or indication of his ‘being ‘ + x, . . ; . ‘ ' ) ' : : ‘ a Pm, pe Ny 9 rt 4 + ah) rentleman Jack, to stop with Sherman Can-| No,” demurred Nat; ‘‘Miss Helen Har- | Billy Blue Blazes, is in itse'f a decidedly yinteresting feature of Secret Service lite, but’in this’ points, Oe -» ‘ ae ee ee - a, =» “> eS , ' ; * \ g . - Z \ ‘ 7 © Soa . oe ® 4 Ls > ) BY Jo PreRow,:) 0)! oN : Ae 4 Ven , af ia! rf t nore tian delighted with their ale the | When Jack Hammond heard all he said | the-pier’s gamin and night-walker should ‘be the AN: vi 7 at Pi i “ nM ¥, nt <9) ‘ eh he ° ’ a4 : ard Ms . ef ‘4 J alledi Dy. ashe ks 4 wy es « oe Sem eal rF.. / pee ” : Pi 4 ie J F; / r| RF ‘ ” Pay ts > ee . »* +) a we ' " ‘ we ri } ‘ ee ne r 3 ' ' 3 : Ba aed “ay TR! DA