Ed came up with his prize, but it was not so easy settling the all important question after all.
Old King Brady had all kinds of trouble opening the thing, but at last the lid was pried back, and sure enough money was revealed.
It proved to be the Albany pension money and the Government got it.
Old King Brady saw to it that Ed came in for a share of the reward. The boy went back to Albany but his mother and Ethel failed to return. The last Ed heard of them they were in San Francisco, where the misguided girl had married another Chinaman.
Harry was under the weather for a week but he entirely recovered and wants nothing more to do with the secret dens of Pell street.
And thus the case was rushed to a successful finish the night following up the Brady's Chinese Clew.
THE END.
Read "THE BRADYS IN A FOG; OR, TRACKING A GANG OF FORGERS," which will be the next number (605) of "Secret Service."