FOUND DEAD.
"What's the trouble yonder, Nick?"
"Where?"
"In the park."
"Humph! Something wrong, evidently. Come on, Chick, and we'll see."
It was nearly sunset one Monday afternoon, and almost two weeks subsequent to the incidents last depicted.
That at least one of Dave Kilgore's suggestions had been adopted, and he and his gang had become rigorously guarded, appears in that the Carters had utterly failed to accomplish anything against them in the interval mentioned. Despite constant vigilance and incessant work on the case, neither Nick nor Chick had been able to secure an additional clew.
Kilgore and Matt Stall had vanished as if the earth had swallowed them.
The mammoth vaudeville troupe had completed its engagement, and was now disbanded for the season.
Señora Cervera still retained her uptown house, and frequently received Venner as a visitor; but never a sign of the diamond gang, or of any stranger, could the detectives discover, in or about her place.