Bats in the Wall; or, The Mystery of Trinity Church-yard

until the Trinity Church clock struck the hour of four, his patience would have been rewarded by seeing the iron

ca, we believe it has been said-nor any one else was about at the time, the head and shoulders

y another, after which the iron d

rch street, and whipping around the corner of Cedar street like a flash, suddenly sl

e Sabbath morning not

eeps, its ceasele

ins, so has covered the pure snow everything in and abo

travelers as they move along, and se

of the pair there

s usual dress must to the reader, who has free adm

d a low, slouch, felt hat, not unlike the garments which a few hours since we saw adorning

one inserted in each side-pocket of his short monkey-coat as

rank had to thank a sharp file, procured by one of his

y, he is likewise a

phic description of the robbery of the Webster Bank as hav

couth in his dress and speech, but immeasurably superior, as could be seen

s" in the short and easily-rememb

place again, Jerry?" asked

se into which the three bank-robbers had disap

n in Cherry street, just behind the Catherine Mar

three of the

d up in a comforter, and two others, one with a big bag

, the boys, having now turned into Broadway, moved along in silence until they reached t

sement doors, and elbowing his way among a crowd of men and boys, em

in the wall," and had his living to get on

omplement of papers was completed at last. "Let's hurry

the way past the great arches of the Brooklyn Bridge, e

or once, the boys passed the end of the Catherine Market, and a

said. "I saw them all

are s

ake about it, for I used to li

exclaimed Frank, looking up at the house. "Jerry, I think th

han I, but there's another road out of this place by way of t

nd paused before an old tumble-down rookery bearing the s

f the busy market there we

p and down the sidewalk, to and f

, pointing toward an alley lea

sponse to the sign a man spran

who had arrested him

ring street-lamp Frank re

p his coat, and, followed by Jerry Buck, who did not comprehend the situation at al

o such fears as at that mome

glance behind him and beheld the singular accident already de

rank by the arm. "He's down, and ther

asket of fish dashed round the corner and past

whispered the boy, excitedly. "Who's

t arrested me-I do

the slip twenty times in this neighborhood-never you fear. If yer a-goin' to give yerself u

om around the corner of the building by the side o

e con

the basket dropped by th

o men, who, moving unobserved through the crowd which had now gathered about the building

Frank by the arm. "That's another of them-that's the

nsfield made

the vanishing forms

he robbers of the Webster Bank, what was

y himself-was the father of the girl he loved-that most respectable stock oper