The banker clasped his daughter in his arms, weeping from pure happiness.
Still, much remained to be done to break up the gang and punish those already captured.
The work was full of difficulties and entailed many adventures, but eventually Nick succeeded in his task.
The Calhoun woman served a long term in the penitentiary.
Greer was prosecuted on the charge of murdering Wilbur Field, but the jury disagreed. On another indictment he received a long sentence.
Shortly after his return, Hilton Field settled up his affairs and, with his daughters, went to Europe.
While sailing in the Mediterranean one day, a sudden storm arose, and the yacht in which were Field and his children, was capsized. Field alone was saved.
This catastrophe seemed to have dried up the milk of human kindness in Field’s heart. He returned to America, plunged into the vortex of Wall Street, and became known as one of the shrewdest, richest and most unscrupulous operators the “Street” had ever known.
In a few years time he had become one of the richest men in America. He built a palace on Riverside Drive, one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in New York City, retired from active business, and lived in his magnificent home a life of solitary grandeur.
Of the few men who knew him as friends, Nick Carter was one, and although they saw each other infrequently, the feeling of mutual esteem increased with years.