The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler; Or, Working for the Custom House

d Old King Brady when

ped, "he is try

nd a cold chill darted through him as he he

lutch may sav

" groaned the boy a

gh the pair as the falling car wen

ey went flying down past the different floors, and heard

tectives were held so they coul

h, and visions of the wrecked car and their bodi

of their situati

away and both instinctively grasped the si

stories t

denly sounded

a few feet, then ca

out and tightened on the pilot rods

to the floor, but they quickly scrambled t

ant neither

jaws of death was such a strain upon thei

and glancing upward he saw that their ene

exclaimed. "La

ch good luck," repli

s holding,

are we to ge

way between the seco

r and the conductor of an ascending car in the next shaft as

ut in the hall, filled with dread le

work and when some saw the car, a shout of r

you

e all righ

'll have the

line was passed down from the floor above

cured the cut cable, passed it over the drum, brought it down to

floor and opening the door the detectives pa

but they quickly avoided them by dodging in

loor-q

he gate and

es made a rush for the room La Croix

wn!" muttered Old K

d up in the elevator so

some clew behind. Le

lop basin they found a lett

up the fragments and pu

ut it may be of some use. I'll put the pie

d anything else an

rk, they asked if La

his way," replied the

ur

sit

nd his fami

y up in th

N

's qu

eard how the eleva

es

x saw us and c

! Tried to

That's why

ain that fel

y other exit

I'll have a

oy approached, to whom he gave an ord

that the smuggler, his wife and his daug

n them hire a cab and drive away

. They had very comfortable apartments and spent the da

translated, and read the followin

France

titious name and take passage on the steamer Labrador, to Canada. You can meet her in Montreal, and the stones can be taken across the border at Niagara Falls, as you suggest. Should you follow this plan, wire me at once, and I shall so arrange matters that the Ame

ruptly here, for th

hole plan of smuggling a huge amount

astonished and H

ust be the gigantic smuggler whom t

he intends to operate, we had better make preparations to nip the plan in the bud, or

e steamer Champagne sa

Well, we'll barely have time to reach her if we go at once. G

ngly, "we will be pretty sure to see La Cr

ep the man watched in order to let him lead us to his daughter when she returns. As she's pretty sure to hav

nd they hurrie

over to the French Trans-Atlantic

hip's mooring lines had been cast off, the gangplank was

ves were di

engers on the upper deck, they sudd

r handkerchief and shouting to a stylishly-d

-by,

elf, my child!" replied the woman, as she

ged Old K

La Croix has not shown up. He fears ar

drily. "This woman won't know us. It will there

nd the friends and relatives of the depa

t to go. She did not know that t