They felt confident that Mason would not come out again that night and therefore went home.
On the following morning a great surprise awaited them.
Harry was reading the daily paper and caught view of this item:
"The missing man found. Oliver Dalton, the well-known Broad street broker, found drowned in the East river. At ten o'clock last night Martin Kelly, an old junk dealer, picked up the mutilated corpse of a well-dressed man in the East river off the foot of East Forty-second street. He towed it behind his skiff to the morgue, and turned the corpse over to the authorities, with an account of his ghastly find. The body had been in the water so long it would have been unrecognizable if it were not for some private papers found in the pockets, by means of which the man's identity was established. A reporter was the first one to bring the news to the dead man's daughter, etc."
When Harry read the item aloud, Old King Brady cried:
"Harry, had Mason's trip on the river anything to do with finding that corpse?"
"Let us go down to the morgue and get the facts."
Old King Brady nodded and they hastened across town.
CHAPTER VIII.
WHAT THE BROKER'S WILL SAID.