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NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. 25 look after him. Ishan’t let him out of|said to himself, ‘‘and this statement that- “me sight for one second, I shan’t.’’ he tried to do me because he was a friend _ ‘Trim paused in the hotel office to ask|of the Malaysisall rot. how far away St. Luke’s was. It proved; ‘‘If he has committed suicide, as seéms to be about a mile and Trim accordingly | certain, he has take pains to switch me ordered acab. ‘This was brought around joff the right track. He wants me to presently and he and Dobbin got in. | think that it was the Malays at the bot- When they had come to the vicinity of | tom of last night’s attack, and I don’t be- St. Luke’s Church they saw that some- lieve it.”’ = thing had happened to arouse the interest; He folded the letter again and put it in of passers in the street. _ his pocket, still puzzling over the situa- _ ‘hey were looking: up-into the air tion, when he saw a man approaching in and collecting in little groups here and| whom he was deeply interested. It was E-there. Horace Terrell. 3 Trim ordered the driver to stop and) As Terrell made his way along the side- _ alighted. walk Trim kept his eyes upon the man’s He found himself in front of a church | feet. He noticed carefully the halting with a very tall spire. He looked Up aS gait, the way one foot dragged _after the others were doing and saw a sight that other. : _ gave even his cool nerves a*shock. ‘“As if,’ he said to himself, ‘‘there The spire was surmounted by a gilded | was still a ball and chain attached to it.”’ _ cross, and from one of the arms of this ‘‘Ah, Mr. Carter,’’ said Terrell, pleas- . _ cross a human body dangled and swayed! aniy as he came up.: ‘*This is a ghastly in the wind. a ap spectacle, is it not ?’’ _ -“Lord_ bless us! What’s that?” ex- ‘Very,’ Trim returned, shortly. claimed Dobbin, aghast, as he too looked’ Prins was not yet prepared to bring his — up. gates 2 attack directly against Terrell, and he Trim’s face was very grave as he took | therefore said nothing more at the time. iller’s letter from his pocket and read) Jt was his purpose not to arouse any ~ it again. 2 ge ae fear in Terrell’s mind that he was sus- YT wonder if it can be possible, he pected, so he talked indifferently with © thought, ‘‘that this fellow has actually | Terrell, who spoke of the suicide as any _ climbed the steeple and committed suicide | other man might have done. . in order to escapeyme?”) They presently found themselves sur- _ He shook his head as he read the note, | rounded by various persons who were — then he looked up into the air. _There connected with the church. They: were — e the figure hung as plain as anything in | aj] talking of what had occurred and were ’ ‘- Right. Asia ee debating how the body should be taken _ ‘What came over Jem Miller to do/down. tas nt oe that?’ said a surprised voice at his side. It seemed that there were one or two _ Trim turned and saw that two gentle-! other steeple jacks in the colony, but men had paused and stood near him|that there was none who had ever ‘with their eyes fixed on the spectacle! climbed this particular spire.except Mil- above. ler; in fact, when some repairs had been “Excuse me,”’ he said; ‘‘but is it pos-| necessary a few months previous, Miller baerecognize that body. at “thie Miss wae-the guar one that part Of hice 2 Saag ae Dla doo aged phe. would tadextas sb¢ j0b, ea ge ae ), two or three days would | ‘The church members were exceedingly _. |anxious that the body should be taken . | he/down at once. = ae SSS Sei eee CONMEIOOKS COM ws ‘ £ — vr teh. i 7 . ha he ste eae tes OS ‘ “ — ~~