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Here is a list of the men to be watched." Adam Adams brought out a slip of paper. Then he described the old mill. "The counterfeiters' rendezvous is under that mill," he continued. "They make folks think the place is haunted and Styles has savage dogs on his farm near by, and that keeps the curious away. I want you to watch the mill, too, if you can. But keep out of all danger.
But he was my hearty second at the last, even to the point of agreeing with me that, if we could accomplish but the one end, it were better to find and rescue Gerald Trent, if he were living and in duress, which we both doubted, or to solve the mystery of his fate if dead, than to arrest a pair, or a trio, of counterfeiters, or possible diamond robbers.
"It's not for a few old ghosts we'd take up our pans and kettles and move out of the Gairden of Eden. I'll keep you safe from the counterfeiters, my darling, never fear." "You said heaven speed that sail yonder; but the man has taken it down and is rowing in here." "Then he's an impudent loon. Who asked him?" "The sight of our tent, very likely.
Train after train emptied its human freight, yet the pale man with the concave nose and the peculiar ear, accompanied perhaps by a lady, did not pass us. At last the incoming stream began to dwindle down. It was long past the time when the counterfeiters should have arrived if they had started on any reasonable train. "Perhaps they have gone up to Montreal, instead," I ventured.
He visualised him in dissipation and depravity of every kind and degree; he saw him sinking lower and lower, a traitor to his family name; as if in a dream that appeases the sense of obscene horror, he saw him in league with the abandoned and proscribed, associating with thieves, street bandits, high-flying swindlers, counterfeiters, anarchists, prostitutes, and literati.
"Well, maybe it's a good thing they won't," murmured the manager, but what he said, aloud, was: "You will have to take that part, Mr. Bunn, or look for another engagement." "Then I'll leave!" the old actor declared gloomily. But a little later he was observed to be putting on his mask, and taking his place in the "den of the counterfeiters," as the screen announced the place to be.
"Here," he began, "we have the finger-prints of a man who was one of the most noted counterfeiters in Great Britain. Beside them are those of a man who succeeded in passing counterfeits of several kinds recently in New York. Some weeks later this third set of prints was taken from a man who was believed to be the same person." The magistrate was examining the three sets of prints.
The two men disappeared again, but this time Ned saw the opening to the work-room, as they had termed the underground apartment, when they swung an imitation rock made of plank aside and stepped down. For a moment their figures were illumined by the red light of the fire within, and then they were no longer in sight. "They're a cheerful pair!" Frank whispered. "Counterfeiters!"
The two counterfeiters sought for an escape, and Jack, sudden strength returning to his immobile limbs, sprang upon the startled Mordaunt. A terrific struggle ensued, and a tender scene between the two lovers as the police dragged their three captives from the stage. "At last, little Martha," Harkness murmured as he looked down at her. "At last," she murmured, gazing shyly into his face.
The county can get another sheriff easy enough." "And they'll suspect you of being in league with counterfeiters," said the father. "They may suspect me of anything they like!" exclaimed the sheriff, "so you love me and be be your own best self and my good father. But this bare hut not a comfort that you need no food nothing oh, if there was only some one who had a heart, and could help us!"
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