When Andy came out of the police station, he found the boy who had assisted him waiting for him.
He was a bright-faced, pleasant-mannered lad, but his appearance suggested hard luck.
Andy gave him a dollar, and got his name. It was Mark Hadley. Andy was at once interested when the boy told him that his dead father had been a professional sleight-of-hand man in the west.
Mark Hadley had come to New York on the track of an old circus friend of his father. This man, it turned out, was a relative of Dewey, masquerading now under the name of Vernon.
The man had told him that Dewey could help him out. He did not know where Dewey was living, but understood he was about to marry a lady living at the boarding house where Mark had gone, to meet the fellow in a most sensational manner, indeed.
Andy invited Mark to call upon him later in the day, gave the youth his present address, and proceeded back to the boarding house to find his aunt.
The hour that followed was one of the strangest in Andy's life.
There were reproaches, threats, cajolings, until Andy found out the true state of affairs.
It was only after he had proven to his humiliated and chagrined aunt that Dewey was a villain, that Miss Lavinia broke down and confessed that she had been a silly, sentimental woman.
It seemed that the letter Jim Tapp and Murdock had secured was from Mr.
Graham, back at Fairview.