nd the attack upon Lossing, or Sir Carroll Rae, upon
Delbras and Bob; and it was through Hat, the negress, first, and then
from Smug, when sharply questioned, that we learned of their last and
vilest plot, which was to obtain the ransom for Trent, if possible, or
to 'put him out of the way' if this failed, and then, with their hands
free, to purchase a small yacht and to kidnap Miss Jenrys, keeping her
out in the lake until she should buy her release by marrying Delbras.

The only time when Delbras was seen to blench or to appear other than
the stolid, sullen, and silent criminal was when Miss Jenrys,
accompanied by her aunt, was obliged to appear and identify him as the
man who had masqueraded as Monsieur Voisin.

Then, indeed, his dark face paled, his eyes fell before hers, and he
turned away with bowed head.

Clearly such love as such a man can feel had been laid at the feet of
queenly June Jenrys, who had learned the truth concerning him with
amazement, horror, and loathing.

While the body of 'the brunette,' Harry, lay at the Morgue, a tramp,
strange to the police and to the city, viewed it with the many others
who gloat over the horrors of life, and who, having looked long, and
with a startled face, pronounced the body to be that of a professional
thief long wanted by the authorities 'out West.'

'He wuz a born bad un,' the man declared, 'an' a born thief. He
couldn't stay anywhere long on that ercount. I'll bet he's picked more
pockets than any lag at the Fair. He was a slick one. Liked the women,
and most generally had a lot of friends 'mong 'em wherever he was; but
he most generally left 'em the poorer when he got ready to quit.
"Little Kid," that's what they used ter call him, 'cause he was little
an' good-lookin'; but there wasn't a decent hair in his head.' And
the tramp turned away with a malevolent look at the dead man.

And that was all we could learn about 'Harry,' for Smug, ready to talk
on all other subjects, would utter no word as to the manner of Harry's
death. 'He had left them,' that was all he would say; and by this we
knew that Smug was doubtless the decoy who had lulled the suspicions
of the victim and made it possible for the bolder spirits to do the
deed of death.

Delbras was taken to France, and before the closing of the great Fair
had met his fate at the hands of the French executioner.

Greenback Bob and Smug might have spent all their days in prison if
they had possessed three li