Bats in the Wall; or, The Mystery of Trinity Church-yard
e than surprised that you should have had the audacity t
ou know as well as I do that there was a time when, with you
circumstances alter cases, and I am inclined to think that I could do somewhat better than to bes
salary is quite enough for a young couple to get along
I have recently heard of your career, your drinking, gambling and nightly
ator, who spoke these words, the person to whom they were ad
ne of the nine-story buildings just below Wall, and the ti
Callister, Frank Mansfield was by no means
tioned, the father of this young man had been a wealthy and h
ue side by side, and their children-in each case the only child the friends possessed-had be
ne and the loss of a kind and loving husband, had disappeared from the circle of friends in which she had long figured
1879, which, all will be seen, was
flourished, even as his friend M
self, with occasional slips and frequent lapses into dissipation and folly-always bitterly repented of when
l circles, and yet he had turned his back completely upon the son of his old
ween the youthful pair from developing as time went on, is evident from the conversation in wh
lushing to the eyes at the stock speculator's last remark. "I have been a little wild an
to
ght his fist down upon
with proof that you are possessed of at least ten thousand dollars of your own, and I will
his is
Mansfield was very
at you make it, and then, if Edna has not previously found some one more worthy of her, as I have no d
an turned upon his heel an
his shiny beaver at the proper angle upon his head, and taking up his walking stick, prepared to start for his palatial home with a general air of res
t; "by to-morrow, unless I greatly mistake, the young gentleman will have most effectually settled himself. I have nothing against Frank
, as he locked the office door behind him, "that when she h
ight, would have been suspected of such a thing, stepped into the elevator, passed out of the nine-story building into Broad street, and, slipping around the corner i
Joe?" he asked of the white-aproned bartender, as he set d
't seen Billy in more'n a-- By gracious! talk of angels, and
dressed in a dark overcoat and ordina
ge, but his face bore indelibly stamped upon it a knowledge of the croo
air, both withdrawing at once to a table in a remote corner of the saloon, upon which,
llister, pouring out a stiff glass of liquo
can bet. I saw Detective Hook not an hour ago and gave him the tip. He swallowed the bait whole, the s
id you
workin' on him for the best part of a week, an' have pretty well brought him roun
her of them sus
bout as a general thing. When I tell you a thing is fix
must and shall be removed from my path. Your scheme is a good one, and I believe it will work; if I read of his arrest in
s he spoke, and buttoned up hi
er sure," replied Cutts, likewise rising.
er fear. How's your
, but confoundedly nervous t
and I shall expect to see you with your work
oes, butter would not have melted in his mouth, shook hands with Detective Cut