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140 DETECTIVE BOB BRIDGER, CHAPTER XXXII. ™~ THE CAPTIVE MAIDEN. Again came the tap on the door, and again the voice said, in low tones: “Miss Rachel! Miss Rachel!” The angry yelps of the fierce brute beneath now rang out harshly throughout the hall-ways of the house. A moment later a voice like that of Moses Muggins called out from the stairway at the rear: ‘Ho dere vid you, Rachel! Vat vas de matter dere?” The Scotch detective turned low the lamp on the mantel, and the two sleuth-hounds softly approached the door. As they did so the sound of “Silly” Billy's footsteps, as he walked to the rear of the hall way, reached their ears. “Vas dat you, Rachel, I called!” shouted the voice of Moses Muggins again. “No, ’e, ’e! honly me,” said ‘‘Silly” Billy. “ Misses sent me for the groceries. ” : “Vell, and a letter Sammy has also brought her.” “Letter? ’e,’e! She will be glad.” “T should tink so. Quiet there, Kaiser! Quiet, I say! I never vind him make such noise ven you come down be: fore—quiet, you scoundrel dog! Kaiser! Brute! Come down vid me, and I give you de tings.” An instant afterward the yelps of the dog became more subdued, and the detectives surmised that the twain had entered the basement beneath, and closed the door after them. This left the dark hall-way without clear, and the sleuth- hounds stole softly forth; Bridger locking in the captive, Rachel, and placing the key of the apartment in his pocket. Opening the eye of the dark lantern which he carried, the Scotch detective threw its light along the hall-way to the rear. A stair-way led at its farthest end below, and one also ascended to the floor above. Cautiously the two sleuth-hounds appreached, and as- cended the latter stair-way. | me As they did so the dog’s bark sounded more viciously — than before, and they could hear the rattle of his chainas comicbooks.com — Pee et ae