"From what you heard from the Land Sharks, you know more than any one else about the matter, and the boy is doubtless dead, as they stated, and they evidently murdered him.
"Now I wish you to go to Baltimore with these clothes, the photographs and the ring, and see Mr. Rossmore, telling him all, and directing him to the spot on the prairie, as well as you can, where your friend Night Hawk Jerry said the boy was buried.
"Will you go?"
"Certainly, sir, for I am ready to do just what you wish, if you think I am able to accomplish it."
"You are able to do a man's work, Will, after what you did to extricate yourself from the clutches of those Land Sharks.
"Now I will give you the money for your trip, and you had better get a satchel, a suit of clothes and some other things, and get your mother to pack them for you.
"Here are twenty-five dollars to fit you out with, and I'll give you the money for your trip when you are ready to start.
"And here, my boy, I had almost forgotten to give you your badge of office; it is a gold one, and a present to you by the officers of this precinct.
"We would make it a public demonstration, only we do not wish it known outside that we have made a new departure and enlisted a boy in the Secret Service force."
As Captain Daly spoke, he pinned under the boy's coat a handsome gold badge, a shield, upon which was engraven: