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198 DETECTIVE BOB BRIDGER. you all, gentlemen, to the condition upon which I assented to view Detective Fandon’s mesmeric experiment upon the prisoner. That the evidence adduced would be received by no court was admitted. The world will know that these two prisoners were accused of murder, imprisoned here, and that one died by laudanum and the other by a knife in his own hand, and thus let the matter go forth and re- main.” To this proposition all assented, and the undertaker’s conveyance was for the second time sent for. ‘‘It is terrible, Bobe, terrible !” said the Scotch detective, suddenly turning toward Bridger. ‘‘I fancy I feel much as you did when in the discharge of your duties as conductor you caused the death of those two passengers. I have done with mesmeric experiments forever, and as for the necro- mantic glass—there !” As he spoke Fandon took the black ball of glass from his pocket, and dashed it into a thousand fragments upon the stone floor of the prison. CHAPTER XLIX. THE BIG DIAMOND. On the following morning the work of framing a legal statement of the entire case began in the office of the rail- way’s attorney. Four copies were made of this statement, and the pro- cedure occupied two days. Copies of the documents were forwarded respectively to the British Minister at Washington, to the Scotland Yard, London, to the clerk of the county in which Garson was situated, and the fourth copy given to the Scotch detec- tive, and the original document retained by the district attorney. The bodies of Alfonse Godot and Pere Videre were em- balmed and forwarded, in iron caskets, directly to police headquarters in London. Detective Hoffman was presented one thousand dollars by Dr. Macy for the efficient service he had rendered, and departed to resume his duties at Pittsburgh. | The personal effects of the dead were delivered to Annette, who was declared their legal owner. Though at times sad in the realization of her father’s ‘ate, Annette seemed to grow more beautiful every hour | comicbooks.co . é f *% ~* 3 . vw} ¢ & +t * ‘a , , “~h ge a awe : vd a