ere's another charge to be made."

"Who against?" asked the sergeant, impressed by the apparently wealthy
air of the jewelry salesman.

"Against him," pointing to Wakely.

"What is the charge?"

"Robbery. He and three others stole my gold watch and diamond pin."

Wakely uttered an exclamation.

"I now recognize him as one of the robbers, even though he has shaved
his moustache off," went on De Royster, and Roy, now, also knew where
it was he had heard Wakely's voice before.

"Lock 'em up!" called the sergeant to the doorman, as he made an entry
on the blotter, against the prisoners' names. "You can see the Judge
in the morning," he went on. "I suppose you will be here, Mr. Ketchum?"

"Oh, yes. I will prosecute this case to a finish. It was a wicked and
bold attempt at swindling."

"Well, you seem to turn up every time I need you," remarked Roy to
Mortimer De Royster. "How did you know I was here?"

"I called at your hotel shortly after you left. I had forgotten to
tell you, when we parted, that I would call for you early to-morrow
morning. The clerk said you had gone to the Bowery, after receiving a
note.

"I was suspicious, and I followed. I got there just as the patrol
wagon left, and I came on to the station house. Well, I guess you
'rounded them up' as you call it, Roy."

"Yes, they're roped and in the corral now, all right. That is, part of
them are."

"The police will get the others. They'll make Annister and Wakely tell
who their confederates are."

Mortimer De Royster's surmise proved correct. Later that night Hynard,
Baker and Sutton were arrested, just as they were about to leave the
city. On Sutton were found pawn tickets representing De Royster's
watch and diamond, and he got them back in due time. There were also
some envelopes and letter heads secured in some criminal way from Mr.
Ketchum's office. On one of them the note to Roy had been written.

After a hearing the swindlers and Annister, the rascally real estate
agent, were sent to jail, in default of bail, there to await trial on
several charges.

Eventually they were sent to prison for long terms.

"Well, you saved your father's building for him," remarked Mr. Ketchum
to Roy, a few days later.

"Do you really think Annister could have gotten it into his possession?"

"He could, under the law. Of course we might have contested it, but it
would have been a long and expensive proceeding. He would have had a
tax