r and his daughter were working some schem

he pair they saw t

air gliding swiftly down a passage, out on w

daughter entered

listened outside the parti

geet ee

I came right here and mingled with the throng waiting to meet the various passengers. As soon as t

eet ze sings ashore ver' easy, an' no wong weel see ze package bulge o

ng of paper

afterward there en

beckoned to Harry and th

in after La Cro

ead to rights,"

repared fo

a powerful persuade

ome on

and pushed the s

mall, it pushed La Croix against the two bu

out, C

at the detecti

you want

d Harry, pointi

at

ggli

is

arch him

asped the exc

ach was bulging suspiciously and Old K

ve you g

La Croix. "Zees ee

t know!" la

n. "Go tell ze captain

ed out the doo

an, the detectives la

your coat

why?" grow

what you've got

en, you

quick, or we'll

opened his vest and a

as of nor

fter!" laughed Harry,

, eet ees only

nce,

ned the myste

lled with

shrugged his shou

r, you ees

disgust on Harry's

us and the girl got a

Brady was

thoroughly, and if he has not got any contraband

a Croix's pock

found upon

searched

came to light

nothing

. The girl

e you see zat you wro

look, shook his finger at the Fre

smuggler in this port. It won't be long be

ay zat?" innocent

y anxious to nab your daughter Clara," said the old detect

ed out of t

Harry whisp

ad and I'll

lipped into an

y wanted to do, and he left the cabin a

room he was in and seeing the old detecti

d, the smuggler finally left the steamer with Harry at his heels in

rady saw t

med his own

now had assumed th

of dark-blue was buttoned up to the neck, around which there now was a stan

n his head, were much different from the reverse s

y saw the man hail

rtner and bec

et, Harry a

find th

ave hurried fro

x is bound to

cour

s to keep h

can't get a

s far as Eighth avenue before they

they were carried up to Fourteenth street, across to

d before the Fifth Avenu

rmed about his addre

ly going in there

the Arch so as not to

l. Be car

he cab and hurri

w and the detectives hastened to

y here name

in room 678. Wish t

Brady, with a smile, as

he clerk, "d

La Croix. H

What has

ugg

bout his wife

be in his

o pull t

Is he in

went up t

reach his apartme

up in the elevator. I

l tr

wn was one which had no conductor in it. As they did not wish to l

er story, without seeing

an elevator from

x was crouching with a big hatchet in his hand, as

he was waiting to give the detectives a warm receptio

ing up in the car, he picked up the h

it down upon the cable by which the ca

adys to look up and the

e upon the cable again w

re rope to part where he cut it, an

ll with the de