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32 . “Tt ain’t any business of mine, any- way,’’ he muttered. ‘‘I’m acting under orders, and if you can find your man on board you can take him away and s ll be “well rid of him.’ Trim began to feel about*in the wheat with his hands, and ‘in less than half a minute he had uncovered Horace Terrell. ‘“Well,’’ said Terrell, ‘‘it wasn’t easy to breathe under all that wheat, but you'll have a hard time, young fellow, in proving anything against me. ‘You're a bluffer to the last,’’ retorted Trim, ‘‘and I’m going to call that bluff right ‘here. 2 _ Terrell looked at him defiantly. “Vou got that limp of yours,’’ said Trim, slowly, ‘‘by wearing a_ ball and chain, and before this day is out I shall have your record as a convict——”’ The call succeeded. Terrell trembled, stammered, and presently broke down. There is no need to go into the. details of his confession. It was not a complete one, and Trim had séme work left before him to discover the full extent of the ex- convict’s frauds. He discovered that Terrell s method of robbing the railroad company was by add- ing a shilling a week to the pay of every man employed on the railroad. The men received exactly their wages. Terrell took the extra shilling and charged the men on the books with the - full amount that he had drawn for the pay roll. In this way the books appeared - to be absolutely correct. _ The case was spoken_of as ‘one of the _ most clever swindles ever known in the ~ colony. ; _ When Terrell had been advised by the president of the company to employ the young American detective he had made up his mind that he would be discovered, +? gh nn s-'y - He therefore did his best to have Trim =a put out of the way by bribing Miller, the ae _ Steeple jack; to kill him. _ Sie _— When this attempt failed he-planned to| ae "delay Trim by having the dummy hung to the cross on ‘the chirch spire hoping : = that Trim would do just what he did— that is, arene. sainlti to take the sup- served an eight years’ NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. He had paid the shipping agent a big sum of money for the use of the Osprey on the condition that it should stop load- ing and sail at once. Trim’s investigations, together with Terrell’s confessions, showed that he had sentence on the Andaman Islands for similar crimes com- mitted in Bombay. It was there that he got his fatal limp. What became of Jemmy Miller was for the time a mystery, though Trim came across kim again before he left Africa. “‘T suspected that that was a dummy from the start,’’ he said, in discussing the case with President Hopkins. ‘*T don’t see how you suspected that,’’ said. the president. ‘‘Ror these reasons,’’ Trim responded: “(Tn the first place, the note that Miller had sent me was evidently a fake. Then I had a suspicion that there were no spikes attached to the feet. “Tt did not strike methat Miller would go to the trouble of taking off his spikes before hanging himself. . “Tf he had done so the spikes must have. been on the ground at the base of the steeple. They were not there, and when I went to his room I found a set of spikes that had marks on them showing that they had been recently used. ‘That settled it in my own mind. I climbed to the spire then just because I wanted to give Terrell a chance to expose himself by makihg an attempt to leave the colony. ‘‘He came near baa too quick for me, and he might have got away “if it hadn’t been that he went to his lodgings to get money aifd other things that he wanted to take with him.”’ ‘The happiest man in the colony was old Jack Dobbin. . “T thought ’ee was daft for sure, lad, ’ the sailor said ; “but I know ye’reall right now, an’ as long as ’ee stay in Africa I’ 1 stick to ’ee, I will.’’ Trim was fond of the faithful sailor, and of course made no objections. They were together, therefore, in. the next de- — tective work that Trim undertook, which ’ is described in “Trim in the Kimberly _ Diamond Fields,’’ in No. 10 of the NEW 4 Nick CARTER WEEKLY. | [rae END.) © £« ‘ a. Ee ey . 5. 4