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lie then proceeded to search his waist
coat pockets. The young man hung his
head, and looked guilty. lie had heard
of money being put into an innocent
mans pockets, and he feared that game
had been played with him.
The detective examined his wastcoat
pockets and found-nothing. His other
understanding lie patted his breast
and examined his Notwithstanding.
"Try the bag" said MOncktOn.
The detective searched the bag--noth-
ing. He took the oyercOat and turned
the pockets out-nothing.
BARLEY looked surprised. MOncktOn
still more so. Meantime Hope had gone
round from the lobby, and now entered
by the small office, and stood watching
part of this business, viz, the search
of the bag and the oyercoat, with bit
ter look of irony.
but my safe must have been opened
with false keys" cried BARLEY. 'Where
are they?'
"And the numbered notes." said
MOnckton, where are theyy
Gentlemen, said Hope, may offer
my advice?"
"Who the devil are your" said Monck-
ton.
lie is my new partner, my associate
i'm business" said the polite BARLEY
Then deferentially to Hope, What do
you adviser"
You have two clerks. would ex-
anime them both."
Examine mcw cried Monckton. Mr..
BARLEY, will YOU allow such an affront
to be put on your old and faithful SER
vantf"
If You are innocent. why object!"
said young Clifford, Spitefully, before
! BARLEY could answer.
We'll. it is only fair TO Mr.. Bolton"
said BARLEY. Come, come, Monckton,
it is only a form"
Then he gave the detective signal
and lie stepped up to MOnckton, am
emptied his waistcOat packets of eighty.
five sOvereigns.
There" cried Walter Cliliord. There
there!"
my own money. won ut the Derby"
said Monckton. c0olly: and only a part
of it. am happy 10 say. You will find
the remainder in hank-notes."
The detective found several notes.
BARLEY examined the book and the
notes. The Derby. lie was beginning
to doubt this clerk, who attended that
meeting on the sly. However. he was
! just. though no longer cOi,Iiding.
Il am bound to say that not one OF the
numbered notes is here"
The detective was examining Monck-
tons overcOat. lie produced u small
bunch of keys.
How did they come there?' cried
MoncktOn. in amaZement. 1t was IN
incautiOus remark. BARLEY took il up
directly, and bounced on the keys. He
tried them on the safe. One opened the
safe, another opened the cash-bOX.
Meantime the detective found some
! nOtaS i'm tha ,pcLpt pf tha nyprroat and
produced them.
Great hea<ens!" cried M0ncktOn,
show did they come there"
"Oh, dare say You know" said the
| detective.
BARLEY examined them eagerly. They
were the numbered notes.
! You scOumdrel," he roared, these
show me where your gold and your
other notes came from. The whole con-
tents of my safe-in that villains peck
ets!"
No, no." cried Monckton, in agony.
''It's all Il delusiOn. Some rogue has
planted them there to ruin me-"
Keep that for the beak," said the pO-
lceman: "he is sure to believe it. Come,
my bloke. knew who was my bird the
moment clapped eyes on the two.
'Tain't his first job, gents, you take my
word. We shall find his photo in some
Jail or other in time for the assizes."
Away with him!' cried BARLEY, furi-
Ously.
AS the policeman took him off. the
baffled villains eye fell on Hope, who
stood with folded arms, and looked
down on him with lowering brow and
the deep indignation of the just, and
yet with naughty triumph.
That eloquent look was u revelation
to Monckton.
"Ah," he cried ut was you."
Hopes only reply was this: "YOu
double felon, false accuser,, and thief,
| you are caught in your own trap"
And this he Numbered at him with
such sudden power that the thit went
cringing out, and even those who re-
NAMED were awed. But Hope never
told anybody except Walter Clifford
that he had undOne MOncktOn's work
in the lobby; and then the poor boy fell
upon his neck, and kissed his hand.
To rum forward little: Monckton
was tried, and made no defense. He
dared not call Hope as his witness, for
it was clear Hope must have seen him
commit the theft and attempt the vii
lainy. But the false accusation leaked
out as well as the theft. a previous
conviction was proved, and the indig-
nant judge gave him fourteen years.
Thus was Bartley's fatal secret In
mortal peril on the day it first existed;
y ct on that very day it was saved from
exposure, and buried deep in Jail.
BARLEY set Hope over his business,
and was never heard of for months.
Then he turned up i'm Sussex with a lit
tie girl, who had been saved from diph-
liberia by tracheOtomy, and some I'M
known quack.
There was scar TO proveit The ten
der parent pointed it out triumphantly,
and rallied at the regular practitioners
of medicine.
| CHAPTER Nv.
| AN OLD SERVANT.
Walter Clifford returned home pretty
well weaned from trade. and anxious to