“No,” replied Hare nonchalantly; “but he’ll weaken, see if he don’t.”
Frank’s prophecy was fulfilled. The next day Blair sent for him and told him where he had buried the booty he had secured at Murphy’s. The spot indicated was beyond the Harlem, but Hare had little difficulty in finding it.
That afternoon he very triumphantly turned over the treasure to his chief. Both detectives took considerable interest in examining the great green diamond.
Mike Quick was convicted of the murder of Monte Murphy. He was never hanged, having been carried off by an attack of pneumonia.
Bull Blair was sent up the river for twenty years, while his pal, Tony Riley, got off with ten. After the death of the heathen priest Burt lost sight of both Billy Barry and the beautiful Zulima.
Dick Kidd died of the wound inflicted by Pierre Jacquet, who fled the country and was never captured afterward. When Kidd felt that death was near he confessed to the murder of Aimee Jacquet.
Enoch Cook drifted to Chicago, and was killed in a drunken row there.
Henry Stolburst sent the Eye of Jobu to King John of Abyssinia. He went to Paris and visited the physician already referred to. The latter did much to relieve the explorer of his horrible appearance.
But he has never forgotten that he owes his rescue to Burt’s fidelity, and whenever, in the course of his travels, anything comes up that he can turn over to Burt he does so.
“Burt Cromwell,” he is fond of saying, “is the best detective I have ever met in the entire world.”