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CHAPTER.XXII.
CONCLUSION.

Cole Winters fairly staggered under
the weight of the fair girl, whose cruel
and untimely death he had 80 despair
inely mourned.
This was not due to physical weak
ness alone. Ecslatic JOY had contributed
its part. He had tried to resign himself
to the greatest of earthly losses-a pure
and loving heart and in the midst OF his
struggles the bitter cup Of woe and des-
pair had been unexpectedly dashed from
his hand.
Suddenly the raptures Of the two united
lovers was broken by low and PECULIAR
cry.
Our hero turned in alarm, and saw that
it had proceeded from Mat Hyland.
. The touch of the magic wand of an
Arabian enchanter could not Save worked
q greater change than was visible in the
bearing, but more particularly in the face
of the detective.
A glance was sufficient to inform our
enraptured hero that he was insane and
demented no longer. Intelligence flashed
in his eye, and indignation und de cision
compressed his mouth.
The numerous recent exciting events,
eliminating in sight of the beautiful
girl whose murdered father he had un-
dertaken to avenge, had 80 shocked his
nervous system as to enable him to throw
off the lethargy that had SO long paralyzed
his brain.
-Winters!" cried he. as he sprang for.
ward and seized our hero's hand.
You are recovered?"
Quite. Your case will be clear ore,
now"
At that moment footsteps were heard
on the stairs without.
They are returning" whispered Moore,
hoar5ely. WAIT here
With this he passed into the next
room, taking care to close tie door after
him.
An instant later and The two villains,
accomp panied bv the third member of the
triangle of crime, NJ az Morris, rushed in.
"Furies!" shouted Sears, as his eye
swept The two apartments and saw no
sign of the nanacled prisoner and half
demented detec!iYa he had left there not
many minutes before.
1You here?" shouted Morris, as be saw
and recognized Moore.
AT ,o1r seryi"e."
What does this me.n?'
i
when you procured me to murder Milton
Moore, the son Of m dead brother.
You're tooll"
Il have been. you mean
With this he drew re eSolver.
But he did not shoot. Before be could
bring it into position there WAS n report,
and shot. fred by Sc rs or Bloom,
it was never decided which, pierced his
heart.
Another moment the rooms were
thronged with police officers. who Sc
cured the three plotting murdere1,
though not without desperate struggle.
Their presence there was easily eI.
planned. Jerrs Moore had located the
new headquarters Of the triangle, who
had chosen that place knowing that the
next room had long been used by Hylapd,
and hoping that he would soon return
there, and perhaps give them Glow to
the missing tonds, which they had de-
cided hid somehow come into his hands.
Jerry had also discovered that Berentcs
st. Cyr was captive there, and had no.
titled the police. whom he had preceded,
that the raid might be as effective ~
possible.
At first the prisoners affected lnno-
cence, but when they we're confronted by
Hyland, in the full possession OF his
mind and memory, they weakened, and
Morris endelvored 10 swallow the con.
tents OF a phial containing a deadly
poison. He was defeated in his sui
cidal attempt, and the three were hurried
away to cells in the neIrest police sta
ton.
They were given m Immediate trial
and convicted Of the murder of Paul st.
Cyr. Soon ofterward, they were exc
cuted in the county jail. Thus ended
the trio OF desperate murderers, who will
be long remembered as the lam Gus Trl-
angle of Crime.
Unon the body Of
ffty-nine ponds, for the possession OF
which the murder had been committed.
Mat Hyland is detective no longer.
His services in the ST. Cyr case secured
his promotion to a police captaincy,
position which he will fill with credit,
both to himself and the great munich
pality that employs him.
The body found and buried as that OF
our heroine had been procured by the vii-
lains. and 30 dressed and adorned with
the jewelry of Berenice as to be identified
with great certainty.
In the meantime, Sears had kept her
prisoner with the intention of forcing her
into marriage when he had been able to
convert the estate into money, and leave
the country