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could make his play. lov but thrilling tones. say, Elegant Ahab, that the Dragon League is * to eg rewarded all who helped her in the act of darting into a hallway, was caught by a hand which threw him half-way round. ‘‘What does this mean?” flashed the person thus suddenly checked, and then he started vis- ibly as he caught this confronter’s eye. ‘We'll go up together, Captain Keenear,” “was the response. **Ah! you know me, and you have reason to.” ‘Yes, I know you, Claude Coldgrip; but I’m no thief to be treated thus,” and the private de- tective, caught at last, drew back the length of the arm by which he was held. ** What is want- ing? **T want Floss.” Tom Keenear put on a look of indignation. ** Floss who?” ‘*Frances Percy, if you don’t recognize our new gold queen the name of Floss,” smiled the detective. ‘‘ Come! don’t play with me, ‘but go up-stairs and show me the girl.” ** Or what?” “Or [ll turn you over to the police on a echarge that’ll chill your blood.” Cornered by the New York ferret, Tom Keen- ear bit his lips and turned toward the rather <dimly-lighted stair midway down the hall. A moment later the two men were climbing the steps together. “You've been hunting me?” suddenly said the ‘private shadow. sé Yes.” ‘Did you come from Ferg Fowler’s to- night?” ‘*T was there.” ‘What has transpired? Something has, I know. I saw tro policemen enter the house, but I was too sharp to follow them. Wasn’t it a trap for me, cantain?” The detective coull not suppress a smile. ‘*A trap it was!” cried Keenear. ‘ Well, it didn’t catch mo, Who was waiting for me there?” ‘** Duke Dado,” " Ferg Fowler’s accomplice in the English crimes!’ ‘*Hoe wasn’t very deepin them; but he knew ght Fowler’s secret.” They were nearly at the top of the stair now, and Captain Coldgrip was next to the wa!l, Tl do it!” flashed through the private de- ‘tective’s brain. The following second he turned upon the sleuth, but his throat was clutched before he ‘* I expected this, captain,” laughed Coldgrip, ashe forced him over the banister. ‘‘It was your last chance, I know, but I have to play my trump and spoil it. I’m sorry, really sorry, opie! You'll pardon me, won’t you, eh?” here was no reply, for Tom Keenear saw that his game was up. Three minutes af-erward the New York ‘Vidocq dragged a half-conscious man across the threshold of a’small room and surprised a beau- tiful young girl, who greeted him with a thril- ling exclamation of joy. it was Floss—Frances Percy now, gentile reader! ‘*T have one more play to make,” said the detective, as he left Flossin the care of young Mowbray, and went down into the street again, some distance from the scene of Tom Keenear’s <discomfiture. ‘Ferg Fowler commissioned me to run the Dragon League to earth, and it is almost done. ‘There is but one of the dangerous trio at large —the man in kids and the worker in pastilles. I think I know where to find him,” And he did. Elegant Ahab, scrupulously dressed and with ‘waxed mustache, was one of a party of players _ at the famous tables of a Broadway gambling palace. _A man walked into the place and toward him. The elegant sport, deep in the game, saw no one. All at once a hand fell like a Lap of velvet upon his shoulder; the thief in kids looked up. ‘You're the man!” said the detective in “T have the honor to no more.” We are at the end of our story, and there is but little to add here. Floss came into on of her rights, and obtain em. A few months ago she became the wife of Soong Ow Oney who had helped Captain Cold- during his great trail, and who grip napey met her t when she was only Floss of Chatham street. _Ferg Fowler was dead, and the law could not yunish him for the secret crime that orphaned ercy’s heir. Nydia, the banker’s ward, was given a for- tune by the girl who supplanted her as mistress of the mansion, and her reign there away. Bowery Burt came to trial for his inhuman murder of Foxy at Pana Pangborn’s, and thanks the old Jew’s. testimony, the noose strangled b ie in the Tombs. s for the Raven, Foxy’s companion, whom ‘we last saw adroitly captured ia a cab by Cap- tain Coldgrip, he went to Sing Sing on an old charge, and to-day inhabits that famous insti- tution. Helen Hotspur was too dangerous a woman to let run at large. Her last great game for gold had failed, and her cool work told that she would not hesitate to take life to further her ends. She turned out to be the cast-off wife of Tom Captain Coldgrip in New York. Keenear, private detective, and when she came | into court to be tried for the attempted murder of Captain Coldgrip, her whole history and the plots of the Dragon League came to the surface. Her dazzling beauty did not save her; the in- exorable law had its way, and the same train that took the Raven to Sing Sing carried her thither, with a man who wore kids and had a waxed mustache—Elegant Ahab! Our almost forgotten friend Mrs. Hoyle, the Amazonian candy-seller of Houston street, fled the city shortly after the detective’s experience in her ‘‘ cupboard;” and Tom Keenear soon fol- lowed her example. Papa Pangborn narrowly escaped a sentence; his testimony against Bowery Burt was all thot saved him, Duke Dado, tbe dwarf, did not remain long in New York after the collapse of the game. is connection with Ferg Fowler in England put him under a cloud, and although he would not have been molested because of the assistance he had rendered American justice, he chose to leave, and probably put an ocean between him and our shores. We have but to say here in regard to the master-spirit of our city drama—Captain Cold- 77 Corpurnoy CHARLIE. By Edward J.. Wheeler.. 5¢ 78 Buve Dick. By Captain Mayne Reid... 79 Sot GINGER, THE GIANT TRAPPER. A.W, Aiken 5c 80 Rosenup Ror. By Edward L. Wheeler .., . 5c 81 LIGHTNING JOE. y Captain J. F.C. Adams... 5c 82 Kir HaAreErootr. By T. C. Harbaugh... 5e 83 RoLLo, THE Boy KANGER. By Oll Coomes .. 5e 84 IpyL, THE GirL MINER. By Ed. L. Wheeler .. 5e 85 Buck Buckram, By Captain J. F.C. Adams... 5¢ 86 Danpy Rock. By G. Waldo Browne ... . 5e 87 Tur LAND Prrates. By Capt. Mayne Reid... 5e¢ 88 PHOTOGRAPH PHIL. By Edward L. Wheeler..., 5 io “@nrveeve 89 IsLanD JIM. By Bracebridge Hemyng... .... 5e 90 THe Dreap Riper. By G. Waldo Browne. .. 5e 91 THe CAPTAIN OF THE CLUB. By Bracebridge ic i Se eee 3 eel easton io 400 92 CANADA CHET. By Edward L. Wheeler....... 5e 93 Tue Boy Miners. By Edward 8. Ellis Awe OC 94 Mipnicut Jack. By T.C. Harbaugh .. . 5e 95 Tae RrvaLt Rovers. By Lieut. Col. Fazeltine. Se 96 WatcH-Eye. By Edward L. Wheeler. . 5c 97 THe OvTrLaAw BrotrHers. By J.J. Marshall. 5c 98 Rosin Hoop. 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