"I expected to pump some valuable information from him about Ronald Mason. But that hope is gone. We shall have to watch out for that pair. In the meantime, if you wish us to recover your father's body, dead or alive, you must maintain the utmost secrecy of what we said, Miss Dalton."
"You can depend upon my discretion," replied the girl, quietly.
The detectives promised to exert every effort to find her father, and finally took their leave of her.
On the following day the Bradys went to the office of Solomon Gloom, the undertaker, on Seventh avenue, and met him in his office.
He looked nothing like the man who personated him.
It was just as the Bradys suspected.
Having described the man who had the wagon and carried off the body, Old King Brady asked the undertaker:
"Did you give that man one of your business cards?"
"I certainly did," replied Mr. Gloom.
"And rented out your wagon to him?"