[CHAPTER XXII.—Insnared by a Watch.]
HE entrance of the Boy Detective into the police precinct caused a sensation, and his hand was grasped in welcome at every step he took.
Captain Daly heard his name called and advanced to the door of his private office to meet him, while he cried: "Welcome back, my Wizard Will, for I received your telegram from Chicago, and you have worked wonders."
"Bravo for Wizard Will!" cried a tall sergeant; while a policeman said:
"The captain has well named the boy, in calling him Wizard Will."
For two hours was Wizard Will, as I must now call him, closeted with Captain Daly, and then the two came out of the private office together.
A carriage was called, and they drove at once to the Tombs. The police captain gained ready admission, and he said to the officer in charge, after he had introduced his young protege: "Wizard Will here wishes a private talk with your prisoner from Maryland, who calls himself Ed Ellis."
The officer bowed assent, and Will was conducted to the cell of Ed Ellis, the man whom he had captured in Maryland, at the time that he had shot Night Hawk Jerry.