Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 908 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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New York Nat’s Double. e 5 the parson and his friend, and New a ‘Yes, I remember the porter telling yow — * . r changed my rig to a country boy, as I had several disguises with me, and came back on the same train with him. ‘* He asked for you as he got to the hotel, Nat had picked up from the information | that he heard Vertner speak to his com- panion about his Kansas farm, and there I’)! bet they are,” responded Keno. thus gained, several clues to guide him in his future shadowing of the fugitives | + and seemed all broken up when told ‘you ‘‘Well, we must find out now just how ‘a ai Be had iust left with your mother.’ CHAPTER XX. they left this hotel, and where the went, ; d e registered, however, and so did I, so, Foxey, goand get your grip and returm and then I decided to wait and come to the FERRETS AFTER GAME, council to-night.” ‘All right, Flip. I guess you had better fit yourself up with disguises galore, and still Keep on his track, though I did think of taking you with me.” ‘‘ Whatever you say, Captain Nat, is law to me.” ‘** Well, you had better watch my Double, now that you have begun so well. Keno will be enough to go with me, this time. “If you wish to report to the Queen, do so through Mr. Canfield, going there as a messenger-boy yeu know,” ‘* Yes, I understand,” ** Now the Queen will pay you your salary for the month, settle your expense account, and give you what money you will need to work on.” ‘ Flip drew his salary, settled up his ex- pense account, and asked for what he needed in case of sudden demand, and then left the retreat. “Now, Keno, what have you found out, for | did not care to ask you before the band?” said Nat. here, for you go with us.” The three ferrets set to work to still track York Nat, it is strange how much the con- ! their game, and they were not long {n find- ductor and colored porter of the sleeping | ing out that the fugitives had taken tl.e ee car remembered ahout the two passengers | hotel bus to the depot, and at once taking x. ] who had gone through with them two trips before to Chicago. UrcEp by the fees given them by New hack they left the Leland, still onthe hun. ° The driver was ordered to stop at the The conductor revealed what pleasant | Adams Express office on the way, and inquiry gentlemen they were, and said he had heard | of the superintendent revealed the fact that. them talking about a trip to California and | the Express box sent from New Jersey to. then around the world, after a few days’ stay | Chicago had been taken out by the sender. “all in Chicago, Arriving at the depot, after a good deal of questioning, the ticket-seller remembered the two men buying tickets to a Kansas town which he named. Nat at once purchased three tickets for ing the parson to a trip of a few months. that point, and the trio of ferrets were soon. The porter had overheard them mention | being rapidly whirled westward. the Grand Pacific Hotel as their abiding place upon reaching Chicago, and had overheard the pxrson say in a low tone: ‘‘We must not delay many days in Chica- go, as there is such a thing as risking too much.” Upon arriving in Chicago, the porter, who had carried the luggage of the two men toa As the conductor understood it he thought that Mr. Starbuck was a wealthy member of Mr, Van Elliott’s church, and neither being in the best of bealth, the former was treat- CHAPTER XXtTI. 4 THE FUGITIVES IN THEIR LAIR. Tue little town in Kansas was reached, . and Nat and his comrades drove to the hoteb | and registered, ‘“‘I found the hackman that took the two | hack, found the very driver to whose tender Nat told the landlord that he had an uncle me, men tothe ferry, and he says that one of | mercies he had icft them, and he said that living some twenty miles from that point, ‘ them, the pretended parson, carried a sachel they had first ordered him to go to the Grand | and had come out with his two companions me to pny him a visit, adding: ka ‘*They crossed atthe ferry to catch the | drove them to Leland’s Hotel. Erie Road, and after a great deal of trouble Going there; Nat found that they had and questioning, and giving out that 1 was | been there for several days, and then had in search of a minister who had left home in | gone no one knew whither. a demented frame of mind, I managed to find ‘“We must send for Foxey,” said Nat, out from the ticket-seller that my two coves | and a messenger was at once dispatched to ‘I believe my uncle always comes this far ng on the railroad and drives to his home from ‘ here, but I have lost the djrections he sent. | me and must go by guess-work,” ) ‘** What is your uncle’s name, young man?” the landlord asked, bought tickets to Chicago, and that the par- | the address which Ferret Foxey had given as ‘* Lucius Van Allen, sir.” hs son had his valuable sachel boxed up, valued | his stopping-place in the city. ‘Why I know him, and he stopped here 4] heavily, and sent through by Express to It was not long before they arrived, and.| not two weeks ago, on his way home with a. a, Chicago.” the three friends greeted each other warmly, | friend. Ree ‘‘Good! we can trace them to the Express | and Foxey said: ‘* He lives some forty miles from here, and. i Office in Chicago at least, so get ready and ‘Well, (’l1 out with all I know, Cap’n | hired a team of me to drive to the Village ., 4 _ we'll catch the midnight train, for we have | Nat. half-way, where he intended to get another T time to do so. ‘‘ Vertner was here as aphysician, and he | vehicle to carry them the balance of the “a “* Meet me at the ferry sharp on time.” murdered and robbed a couple of his rich | way. ; mY “*Tll be there,,Cap’n Nat, never fear,” an- | patients, so got found out and was sentenced ‘* He paid me six dollars for the team,”’ tad swered Keno, and with a bow to Olive he | to be hanged, * Well, Ill give you the same amount to- * took his leave. take us to the village,” answered Nat, and it Then Nat selected from his stock in the “He was known under an alias then, and was arranged that they should start the next. after his escape from prison, and which wasa retreat, several disguises, and departed with | most mysterious affair, he was found out to | morning, Olive, the dog guardian escorting them to} be Vance Vertner already twice under sen-| Nat looked at the name on the register and “the cellar door, tence to the gallows for murder, | said: Re. “I hope Tony comes daily to look after ‘* What became of him not a detective in ‘‘We are all right, boys, for those are: i Sentinel,” said Nat, referring to the dog. this city knew. But it is reported here that | the same hands that wrote the names of , “He says that he does, for I asked him to- | he is dead, having been killed in a railway ! Van Elliott and Starbuck on the register of ee night, and I guess he would not neglect }| accident. : the New York Hotel. * ee him,” was Olive’s answer. ‘*I found one of his servants, a nurse girl, ‘*We are tracking cur game to their bt » Escorting his sister'to her home, and tell- | and after giving her a liberal fee, she put on | lair.” eA ing herto go early the next day to Mrs, | herthinking-cap, and remembered that Vert- The next morning the three Ferrets started ms _ _Marsden’s, and write him to an address in | ner hadowned a farm in Kansas, and atthe | on their journey in a buck-board which — | Chicago which he gave her, Nat bade her | trial this had not been spoken of, while he | also carried their baggage, whieh consisted. ae Tt a _ good-by and was soon on the Elevated Train | was known down in that country as Lucius | mostly of disguises and weaponsto be used. rage rolling rapidly down to the ferry. Van Allen. 6 when needed. 4 e Pte He found Keno there awaiting him, and also carrying a large grip, as Nat did, and erossing over the ferry with time to spare, they found that the same train hands went PERE fe ~ out that night that had made the run through 1 Vie anges when the two men they were tracking had departed. : | | ** We will try and get on the same sleeper, -} 80 as to pump the porter,” said Nat, | ) _ Inquiry soon made them acquainted with | «the car the two fugitives had traveled in, and by rare good luck they secured a section * ns (oats it hat is what I call good luck,” said Nat, yt —-88 they entered the car and giving the porter i: = a liberal fee which commanded his devoted ‘It seems she was an investigator herself, | They reached the village for dinner, and ~~ and letters came for Mr, Lucius Van Allen | found it a small place of a hundred ine — every few weeks, which she saw her employer | habitants, with a tavern, one store, a church, open, and one cf the letters came open and she | school-house and blacksmith shop, AG read it, and it was from the manin charge of | After their driver had had hisdinmnerand the Kansas farm and was so worded that she | started back, Nat made inquiries as to i): aa) knew the doctor, as she called Vertner, was | whether horses could be purchased there, the owner or was Opening the letters of some | and the three were soon fitted out with four one else, ponies, one being used as a pack-animal, and ‘The reason that she did not give this in | having found out the way they were togo, = jake evidence at the trial, was, she said, because | they rigged up as cowboys and started oub she was so rattled she did not know what she | the next morning to look for work, they = testified to.” said, as herders upon some of the ranches. ‘This is a connecting link, Keno, with the | to the southward, ; | een remark of the sleeping-car porter, who said | ‘‘Pards, we are in for it now, and must. the parson remarked that he would visit his make a bold thing of it,” said Nat. re Kansas farm before going to California, and ‘You bet we will, Cap’n Nat, for you | ae added that no better retreat could be found, | and I have been on Genie trails before, == 4 to which Starbuck had replied: Vey and we'll show Foxey a thing or two,” ‘Then let us stay there by all means until | answered Keno, at eet haa ‘““Foxey has been on deadly trails, too, LE TT « a y _. 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