Bats in the Wall; or, The Mystery of Trinity Church-yard
ook, with the closest scrutiny, began a systematic e
had been entered other than by the r
relate, were unprotected, sa
s windows upon two sides, facing Rector street and Broadway, the policeman on the beat could see the entire front of the vault as plainly as though
be devised than this, providing always, the
still the officer in whose charge this portion
red door itself, told with startling plainness the met
mined each point w
lue remained
-it might have contained cents-t
l order in this affair," he muttered to himsel
d of this clerk and a gang of desperate burglars, I find the vault already robbed an
innocent as I am, Caleb Hook; there is something else
what have yo
anywhere about, except an old crazy woman walking up and down before Trinity Chur
Officer Flaherty, who o
've searched for hi
detective, "and you, Brady"-addressing the second policeman who had
g this way. Just over the fence are others, too. I sho
t," said the detective, briefly. "
e street, leaving the t
d kneeled but a few moments before. "I've got a genuine mystery on my hands at last, I fancy, and that's what I've been sighing
, panting for a breath, st
be you kills me, Mr. Hook. I
ut that is impossible! Speak, you Dutch scound
t mein eyes from him, und I looks for him und he ish not der
stood beneath the high wall skirting Trinity church-yard on the New Church
der told his tale, without renderi
circumstantially that there could be no doubt of
een opened, perhaps in a century, filled with the moldering bones of the long-forgotten dead, and the structure of the eleva
crossed the street was
foot was visible in t
wall the detective had no diff
served to doub
g, and at the precise point where the boy had halted when the attention of his conductor
isoner could have advanced or retreate
gain, and leaped the iron fence at the first available p
an hour had passed, and
de of the grave-yard from a point overlooking the place wh
be much disturbed, both on the ground its
ving about here, but their foot-prints seemed to l
did i
e many mysteries in his time, but never bef
ed; he could
, he repaired to the station at last, an
ty was preparing for their morning issues an accou
ective Hook, still hovering about the scene of his late defeat, turned, fo
dressed, with gray hair hanging down from beneath her worsted hood, and wild,
as she passed. "Blessed be the bats in the wall fo