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INSNARED BY 4A WATCH. 59
better; but she was. very pale and weak, and her face had become
haggard from suffering: butshe whispered :
“TI must liye for you, my children, bitter as life is to me, and I will
do so, for you are my ail in this world.”
With a heart too fall to speak Will kissed his mother and went ont
to report to Captain Daly, the poor woman saying aloud ashe left the
room: “ My punishment is greater than I can bear, for my act, Inow
know placed my poor mother in her grave, and nearly cost Kent
Lomax his life. I knew not of this duel, for he never told me. But
I erred, and I have suflered, and now a fearful retribution has come
upon me; but, for the sake of my children I will cling to life until
they are old enough to do without me,’’ and closing her eyes, whilo
ber tips moved a3 ifin prayer, the poor woman sank into a deep
slumber.
CHAPTER XXII.—Insnarep By A WAtcH.
SRE entrance of the Boy Detective into the police precinct cansed
oa sensation, and his hand was grasped in welcome at every step.
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Captain Daly heard his name called and advanced to the door of his
‘rivate oflice to meet him, while he cried: ‘ Welcome back, my.
Vizard Will, for Treceived your telegram from Chicago, and you have-
worked wonders.”
wae Bravo for Wizard Will!’’ cried a tall sergeant; whilea policemaz:
gal
wie captain has well named the boy, in calling him Wizard
i”?
For two hours was Wizard Will, as I must now call him, closeted
with Captain Daly, and then the tivo came out of the private office
together.
A carriage was called, and they dreve at onco to the Tombs.
The police captain gained ready admission, and he said to the
officer in charge, after he had introduced his young protege : “Wizard
Will here wishes a private talk with your prisoner from Maryland,
who calls himself Ed Ellis.”
The officer bowed assent, and Will was conducted to the cell of
Ed Ellis, the man whom he had captured in Maryland, at the time
that he had shot Night Hawk Jerry.
“Ho, boy, what do you want here?” graflly said the prisoner 0
Will entered and was locked in with him.
‘Tam here to have a talk bia you,’ Ellis,”?
“What have you got to say
“T wish you to tell mo if Nicht Hawk Jerry really killed littl>
Willie Rossmore, or if he died of exposare and starvation, as he
told me was the case?”
““T don’t know anything about the kid.’
et you never sco him?’’
“ Suppose I tell you that I know something of your past P*>