Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 908 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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ee ana $0 New York Nat’s Double. her brother, Bernard Gaston, can be found, | to the meeting that night, and wended his | ed to the business on hand, for it was savy and of course she keeps it as a dark secret, | way to see Freckles, his new agent detective. | night. yy WI for his neck has a rope about it you know, | From what Freckles said, it seemed cer- The different young members made their though from Seldon’s confession he was aj; tain that Goldsmidt was the guilty man, in| reports, which Olive noted down asrceported ~*~ victim, not a criminal, and Vance Vertner is | the eyes of the police, and he was being | inthe ‘‘ Book of Doom,” as the register of r | the arch fiend of that whole plot. shadowed day and night, though not so as | crimes was called. ' a of ‘‘Now I want you to go there and get | to cause suspicion that the detectives sus-| The murder at the hotel was discussed, board if you can.” | pected. : and each member was asked to tell what he ** Yes, but suppose she has no room?” ‘‘They have got hold of the wrong man, | had heard about it, Loo Choo and Wing ‘*Then get day board, for you must make | and if I do not find the real murderers Gold- | Lung also marking down once more what her acquaintance, win her confidence and ; smidt is liable to be hanged on circumstan- | they had already told Nat, | friendship. | tial evidence,” muttered Nat. It seemed to be the opinion of one and all, - ~ am «é SS ox Pie ‘‘Give Mr. Canfield asa reference, if she from what they had gathered about the cily, | Be Pasi wants any, and give her to understand that Bs that Ormann Goldsmidt was the murderer, ; rf t you are an artist, for you really are, and can CHAPTER XVIII. and the police would now fasten the crime ie im take with you your portfolio of sketches, 2a aR APB Gh VOR RNSAN LED upon him, : ‘* Lead her to think you are studying in saci thie ta a ‘Ido not believe he is guilty, boys, and ‘ the studios, and keep a watch uponall she} New York Nar and Olive, as ‘Mrs, | if I can prove it, as I hope to do before long, does, for her brother may be in tuis city for | Chandler,” drove away from the hotel, ina | 1 will add to our bank eccount something all we know. hack hired down-town by the Ferret, just as | over ten thousand dollars, perhaps more,” ‘* Especially watch the letters she receives | a cab drove up and the mysterious Double | said Nat. and sends away, for you must find her bro- | alighted from it. * At present the Queen, who is our treas- | ther.” ‘Oh, Nat, there he goes, arriving just as | urer, reports a bank account of our own of | " ‘“T will, Nat, and will go there as I am, | we are leaving.” twenty-nine thousand dollars, variously dis- ie asking for board for my youny niece Miss ‘Yes, Olive, I see him, and we are just | tributed in the different banks under ficti- Olive Chandler, whom [ cannot accommo- | in time, , tious names, and the chicf of the Scoret Ser- | date as I live too far away.” ‘Tf he can find me to-morrow, he is wel- | vice holds rewards we bave won amounting “The very thing, and you can arrange for | come to shadow me,” answered Nat, and | to seventy-one thousand dollars, while cash our niece, yourself, and see just how the | added: , in the treasury for daily use, foots up fifteen . and lays, ‘‘Now, tell me about your visit to Mis, | hundred, and our ally, Mr. Canfield, kolds “Vil trust in you every time, Olive,and | Marsden.” ° for us some thousands in rewards that pass- we will prove her brother a victim of wrong, ‘‘ Well, I found her a most estimable lady, | ed through his hands. | not the gallows-hunted criminal he is accused | and fortunately she had a large front room| ‘‘ Now this isa big showing for our band _of being. upon the second floor just vacated. of Boy Police of Unknown Ferrets, and if > “Now go and find out what you ean do ‘*T at once engaged it for my niece, and | we keep on we will have a handsome sum to. there, and mect me here in a couple of hours, | paid her a couple of wecks in advance, for I | divide when we decide to come out and ‘“Then I will have a carriage ready to take | thought it best. | make ourselves known, you up home, anddrop me near the Rookery, ‘‘ Her room is the rear one, and she suid if ‘¢This is puy-night, so the Queen will pay for I will hold a council to-night of the | my niece did not mind the door could be | salaries, and the expense accounts you hand | band.” | he between, for she and her little |in to herof what you have spent in your Lt , a a eee - - With this Nat left the room and pausing at the office said to the clerk that he wished he would make out his motherss and his bill up to after luncheon that day. ‘We are sorry to lose you, Mr. Norton.” “Oh, [ll be back often; but my mother is very nervous over the murder in the hotel, and which I read about while I was away,” SA ied ty ‘Yes, wasn’t it sad, for Mr. Schlossberg was a splendid man.” ‘‘Have they found no clue to the mur- derer?” ‘‘ Well, I think they have, butare keeping daughter roomed together, her son of twelve | work. having the hall room next to hers. ‘Now let me make known to you that I “T told her my niece would prefer the | have a Double, and he is shadowing me con- door unlocked asa protection, and that she | stantly. would arrive to-morrow, so I go there with- “That some of you may not see him, and out having to disguise myself, Nat.” mistake him for me, let me tell you that ‘No, better wear a wig, streaked with | when you see me without a disguise, I wilh | gray hair, and gold spectacles, and dress like | wear a white pink flower in my buttonhole, a prim old maid, for I do not wish you seen ‘*Remember, no other flower but a white as you are, Olive, while engaged in any | pink, and in addition I will carry this light Secret Service work.” cane—all look well at it, and do not address. ‘* Your word is law, Sir Captain of the | any one you believe to be me without seein Unknown Ferrets, even to the Mascot Queen, | the white pink and this cane, while one an and 1 obey, while after all it is best,” an- | all of you keep a watch for my Double, and quiet until the police have their plans all | swered Olive, seeing him, track him to learn all about him, arranged, » ; It was late when Olive was set down a ‘* Now, boys, [am going away fora few ‘**It was too bold a crime for the guilty | couple of blocks from where her home was, | days, but the Queen will be in command, — ones to hide themselves.” in Mrs. Herbert’s cottage on the Hudson | and Freckles will act as captain for me, “$0 I think,” and as Nat was going out | River, and Nat carried the baggage. ‘‘Foxey is in Chicago, and Keno will | the clerk called after him: ; Then they went on to the cottage, and | doubtless go with me.” | “What shall [ do about your Double if | Olive slipped up to her room without being With this the band was paid off and dis- ST he asks about you?” seen in her disguises as an old woman, Nat | missed just as'Flip entered the assembly ‘Say I will soun be back,” and Nat pass- | going back inthe cottage tosee Mrs. Her- | room, and joined Nat, Olive and Keno, the ed on, | | bert, and talked to her until his sister coald | latter having remained behind, | ~ es He went first to the laundry of Wing; make a change. | Lung and Woo Choo, and they greeted him Mrs, Herbert wasa good woman, and loved cordially, but could give him no further in- | Nat and Olive dearly, for the former had CHAPTER XIX. formation than to say that it was the gen-} saved her two children from drowning, and WG UP eral opinion of the New York crooks that ; thus won her beart. | PICH et : Schlossberg’s partner was guilty of the mur- Olive paid a good sum when she wentthere| Frip’s coming was most welcome, but _ der, for he was’ known to have a pass-key to | to board, and Nat paid for his meals by the | he seemed amazed when New York Nat his friend’s rooms, which were taken by the | week, whether he was there or not, said: : year, and had often remained at the hotel all Mrs. Herbert could not but feel there was ‘Well, Flip, you stuck to your man wellup | is night as his guest, something mysterious in the conduct of the | to S—— and back again to the hotel.” rhe peg V7 hey had had a difference of some kind, | brother and sister, but she asked no ques-| ‘*Do you know that I went toS$——?”,- hay about Schlossberg’s drawing out of the firm, | tions, and took all that happened with per- ‘‘Yes, and arrived at midnight in the — Beas) and yet it was said that they parted good | fect faith in them. rain, a it a Bt friends, only the breaking of the partnership She owned her cottage, was a widow with ‘‘My Double tried to find me there, but Bayes 2") ° left Mr, Goldsmidt in a financially crippled | two children, and did fancy work at home| could not; found that I had left, so res © ey Onan which gave her an income, | turned to New York and went again to the ane This was the talk of the crooks, who were Olive was welcomed back warmly, after ; hotel.” Mae: Beri sure that no New York criminal had done | her absence, but was asked no questions, ‘‘ You know it all, captain,” said Flip with Bie uk /.4' the deed. Si and after supper, she put on her flesh-like | a smile. ’ : | afi! CS aie ee sf Go.dsmidt, che _killee partner allee | mask and vail, dressed in black and accom- ‘I saw you, and got a look at my Double, 7, samee,” said Wing Lung, while Loo Choo | panied Nat tothe Haunted House, the retreat | too, for I left, as you arrived. Nai wie added: | of the Unknown Ferrets, ‘“T knew he was in good hands, so did rot Bee l, ‘““Crookee ’Melican man say so allee The band had arrived, and was in the as- | delay.” ef 3) eee i. lightee,” yl ‘ sembly-room in force, and all rose and greet- ‘Well, he was hot on your trail. 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