The Twin Ventriloquists

nd all the money to a cent-and placed in the hands of Ike

n't need you. I ca

sy,' as the tw

issed,

u d

morrow I will return the stolen

t th

a new adventure. We're

a heap of good even

e young lady for whom they had done so great a service. She received them in the little p

very u

u a

a

hy

this good lady when I am

sked Ike, a pleasant

I will do. I am al

u a

at the last place when she

ou will not be a

know what

hen you recover yo

ever reco

e that I would re

lady here, with whom I am staying, says the chances a

ed that you had bett

as long as I please-until I find my uncle or secur

ing I usually keep my promise. I will not keep you

itement. She could not speak for a full minut

have recovered a

ze your own prop

is won

I would recover it and I've kept my

rateful! How d

we di

as the

boarders in

the guilt

uld you

y all seemed

had no su

ect any one par

amed Goodlove

irl s

s the

es

was so kind to me. He was the only one

ntage of your confiden

ell him I ha

all's well that ends well; and now you w

ou would fi

d find him if

as you have in reco

he is alive. And n

es

, until such time as we report as co

opose to take music lessons and become a teacher. I shall be

n we call and see

e; you have proved yourselves my real friends. But w

day we will tell

love-is h

will leave New York, however, and start afresh. I t

nts, and according to the old man's statement had carried off gold, bills, silver bonds, and securities to an amount which under all the circumstances appeared incredible. Indeed, as it appeared, the police had been in possession of the facts of the robbery for several days, but they had doubted the old man's story, doubted that he had ever possessed any property at all, but later revelations established the truthfulness of the old man's statement beyond all question. As it also appeared, the old man had gone to South America when a very young man. He had returned to New York twenty years previous to the time of the robbery, and had then purchased the old house where, for reasons of his own, he had lived seemingly the life of a miser. The papers spoke of him in contemptuous tones as an old miser, and said by intimation that it served him right to be robbed. It was a just retribution visited upon a man who for the pure love of possession had denied himself the comforts of life just to accumulate his hoards, which were us

ter met their friend, Detective Du Flore,

nder if we can get in on this

e of success," said Ike, "b

an immense reward offered. It will be the job o

can

for life will be made, and we will all receive a big sum of money. I owe my present reputation to you. The capture o

see what

oldest men on the force are on it

do the be

a great

I'll do the

ur plan for

or three days to make up my mind, but let me tell you, Du Flore, I

life if we can. When w

in a few hours p

uist separated, and as Ike and

k down and take a look at the old miser's hou

do you

at chances. I am going

eak

es

t into a scr

? I did not think you

ughed a

should be cautious. That house will be under surveillance. It might

eak in if you

p square,

nny one. I won't tell it to you now, or even you might call me a crank. But I tell you, I am going to take big chance

e house and scanned the surroundings very

nce for a joke

am on

re you

ted and a detectiv

. We'll give

he

we'll show up again and have our fun, a

cover until night, when, having fully arranged for their adventures, they issued forth and proceeded again down to the old miser's house, and just as they suspected the "snid

s. We will give that

e but the two youths, when in reality he was watching every movement. Ike had been revolving in his mind how to give the fellow a layout. He knew the man well. He was a real "snide"-a detective beat-in fact, not a genuine detective, but the agent of a detective agency. He thought himself, however, very smart. Ike, as stated, knew the house well, and knew that a number of very prominent politicians were in the habit of gathering in a

plans. They were in session, and after a little while the "snide" who had been watching the two ventri

id Ike, "you are barki

zed in ast

es now, but there's big

that the two young fellows were

ellows anyhow?

are. You have no use f

's bigger game

ther

e the p

an't work

can

N

points and we w

f you, and I'll let you on to a big call.

ig lay and I'll make

u w

u know me,

you are a cop

ave any deali

. There are a couple of men in t

loquists were under a disguise that permitted them

is the

ss. I knew the moment that thi

did," said the

hink we w

ay hav

and the real game will skip. I say I can set yo

u c

c

ow

t you had better get a pard. These villai

take c

u w

wil

I'll give yo