Whether he had succeeded in getting loose from his bonds and gags, or whether some one had found him there and had released him, could not be told.
He was gone, and, so far as Nick Carter and his aids were concerned, he was never seen in New York again.
The three detectives then went to Mr. Herron’s house and delivered to him the drawing and the model.
That same day both Seaman and Elwell were arrested for complicity in the burglary. They easily obtained bail, and when the trial came off escaped punishment for the want of sufficient evidence to connect them directly with the crime.
The jewelry and silver plate taken by Lannigan and the unknown, who remains unknown to this day, were recovered from the fence in Hunter’s Point, which was searched on Patsy’s suggestion. So that Mr. Herron’s loss in the end was little or nothing.
Ida was not compelled to play the part set for her, but Mrs. Pemberton allied herself to Mr. Herron’s interest on receiving another check for $10,000, the payment of the one Elwell had stolen being stopped at the bank.
Since that time, she has taken out the patents which secured to herself and Mr. Herron the control of the important invention, and a company has been organized, with Mr. Herron at the head, to put it into execution.
CHAPTER XIV.
A MYSTERIOUS WARNING.
As for Lannigan, the swell cracksman of Philadelphia, Nick had conceived an idea that there was real worth in the man, despite his bad record.
He had a long talk with him, in which he pointed out that a trial could not but result in imprisonment.