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mr - a ry ete oe - — <e= —— - —_—— * ss? ay Sl Far - ra! Vie ae ¥ "4 ! gt i t. ‘, “- fi ‘ es a = nS atin OE i ee Eb ‘ * ~ » 30 ; Cool Conrad, the | Dakota | Detective. is With herculean force the new-comer pushed Fancy Joe to the floor, and held him there till consciousness left his brain. ‘Tl invade the last lair now,” and he laid his hand on the knob of the door. It yielded without the semblance of a sound, and he put his left foot across the threshold. There was the subtlety of the panther about the movements of this terrible man, who had come at last and when he was least expected. Leo’s back was turned toward the door, but the change in Silver Chick’s countenance told her that somebody had just entered the room, She turned, looked once, and then ejaculated: ‘*God above! you here at last?” Cool Conrad’s answer was a smile and a flash of triumph in his eyes. He darted at the girl, and seizing the wrist of the hand that clutched the revolver, hurled her almost against the wall. ‘‘T’]l keep your hands bloodless, and do the killing myself!” he said, looking at her a second. “ Silver Chick, ve found the iast of the Colo- rado hangmen |” The sudden coming of the tracker had almost deprived Silver Chick of the power of volition, but the words just spoken threw him into active e. He started back, and, quick as a flash, threw one hand behind him, ** All right, Cool Conrad!” he hissed, as the movement was made. ‘I’ve waited ten days to kill you!” ‘* And I’ve waited that long to finally avenge Albert.” Two revolvers flashed in the light of the bril- liant burner overhead, but there was but one report. he handsome man who staggered toward the window that looked out upon the great city of _ gold coast was Silver Chick, the monte ing! Le» reached Cool Conrad’s side as the dead desperado sunk to the floor. ‘- You've cheated me again,” she said. ‘* Amd for the last time,” was the answer. ** After years of trailing, Cool Conrad has reach- ed the end. Come; let us go. No sound leaves this room, The winners and losers at the tables do not dream that the boss of this monte den is dead.” Cool Conrad kept his hand at Leo’s wrist as he _ ted her from the place, In the corridor she saw the unconscious figure of Fancy Joe, and looked into the detective’s eyes. ** Only a watch-dog. He’s not dead, but harm- less,” Cool Conrad said, and they passed down _ the broad stairs together. Out in the streets Leo separated herself from grasp and said: “ t’s going to become of you now?” “T don’t know—I don’t care! And you?” *T shall go back to Floss, who is my sister— the only one besides myself saved from the wreck of the hacienda home. If I had not accidentally discovered our relationship by a certain birth- mark on her shoulder, I should exile myself for- ever from civilization. Dowe part forever where your trail ends, Cool Conrad?” Leo held out her hands and felt them touched by the detective’s fingers. “TI fear itisforever. ’Frisco loses Cool Conrad for all time to-night. They thought Albert had no kin, and when they found out their mistake, they thought he was no match for them all, Ask the seven dead men who lost the life game city and mountain camp. Lean over Satan’s Hotel and ask Oregon Noll, then walk into yon monte den and ask the man lying dead in the little room. Go back to 4'loss and to Marmoset. They will unite their lives before long—I know it. Give them the blessing of Conrad, the Avenger. Good-by!” The hands fell apart and Cool Conrad turned his back on the girl in whose black eyes was a moisture produced by his earnest words and his parting. i, eee watched him until he had passed out of t. R A strange man!” she said. ‘I have heard of inveterate haters and merciless trackers, but this one surpasses them all. I see Albert’s man- liness in his eyes. Why didn’t I keep him here?” It was too late; Cool Conrad had vanished. Three months later in a certain parsonage in San Francisco two handsome young people were made man and wife in the presence of Leo, who ‘greatly resembled the bride, and a man who called himself Red Roy. We leave the reader to guess the identity of the happy pair believing that to him it is no in- soluble mystery, ‘Tl find thet man and fetch him back ter yer, Miss Leo,” said Red Roy when he went to rt with the huntress after the ceremony. “Til show Cool Conrad thet he can’t escape when you want him found.” _ More than six months passed away, and one day Red Roy presented himself to the beautiful but baffled avenger in the gold-coast capital. He was received with a smile, and was eager- f ly questioned, a -__-oOoOoOo SS The story he told Leo was that he had found Cool Conrad at last, that he had penetrated to Pistol City, no longer a thriving gold camp, but a deserted place, as if some curse had fallen upon it, and that he had found Cool Conrad a Sloat king among the silver hills of Colo- rado. He was Cool Conrad still, despite his anxiety to lose the identity of that terrible name, the same man who had hunted the California gold buzzards down, and whose hand had kept stain- less the hands of Leo, Albert’s love. The wound given him by Captain Noll, the night of the bowie duel in the mountain pass had not prevented him from reaching the end o his life trail; vengeance and justice had con- tributed to a wonderful recovery, and he had one straight to the mark. As has been said, istol City was found deserted by Red Roy. The old inhabitants had gone to other fields, and Holy Hank, with the marks of Floss’s whip- ping on his face, opened another whisky den where there was no Cool Conrads to add excite- ment to his daily business. Leo still lives in Frisco and frequents the home of Floss, Marmoset’s young and beautiful wife, and Red Roy flits from camp to camp whose inhabitants always hear before he leaves how he once hung doomed in the dark depths of Satan’s Hotel. Let us end our romance here. THE END. 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