WHICH ENDS THE CASE.
But the birds had flown.
Again they had escaped the Bradys. It was a disheartening reflection.
Ordinary men might have abandoned the case in despair.
But the Bradys were not of that sort.
With their usual tenacity they hung out, still looking for a clew which
they felt was bound to come.
In fact they had little choice in the matter.
They knew there was nothing to be done but to trap the Tough Trio.
If they did not do so the trio would trap them. It was a case of the
survival of the fittest.
The Bradys failed to track their birds even the slightest distance. The
trio had seemed to cover their tracks effectually.
Days passed and still the Bradys were befogged.
One day they ran across a detective of the regular city force in a lower
part of New York.
“There’s no use in you fellows trying to find the trio,” said this
fellow, whose name was Whitman.
“Indeed!” said Old King Brady, caustically. “You are very sure of that,
are you?”
“As sure as can be!”
“How do you get your surety?”
“Well, I know that all three of the rascals have skipped the country.”
For a moment the Bradys stared at each other.
Then Old King Brady said:
“Do you mean to Europe?”
“Yes.”
“Do you know that?”
“Well, you bet I do!”
“Can you prove it?”
Whitman was silent a moment. Then he said:
“Well, I’ve been working up a case on the White Star Line dock. I know
three men sailed from there last Saturday whom I am sure are the trio.”
“Did you see them?”
“Well, that is, a friend of mine did.”
Finally the fellow was bound to admit that he was not by any means sure
of his statement.
He depended largely upon the imagination of another, and finally, much
discomfited, admitted that he could not prove it.
The Bradys thus met with all sorts of rumors.
But they said nothing.
All the while they were quietly at work.
One day, however, a messenger boy stopped them at the door of their
lodgings.
He handed them a message.
Thus it read:
“My dear Brady:
“Come down to the office at once. I think I have a clew for you.
“Chief of the Secret Service.”
“Ah!” said Old King Brady, with a smile. “Perhaps at last we have hit
upon the right thing. Let us try it.”
So the Bradys at once went down to the Secret Service headquarters.
The chief welcomed them warmly.
“I am glad to see you!” he said. “And I believe I have valuable news for
you!”
“That is what we are looking for,” said Harry.
“You are still after the trio?”
“Yes.”
“You can’t seem to find a clew as to their whereabouts?”
“Not the slightest.”
“Well,” said the chief, slowly, “yesterday we brought a man in here from
Chinatown. He killed a man in an opium den.
“While questioning him closely I learned that he knew Dan Collins.”
“Dan Collins!” exclaimed Harry.
“Yes. Do you know him?”
“He is one of the trio!”
“Ah! Then it is all right. Collins and two companions have been
frequenting Ah Ling’s place in Mott street for a few days past.”
“Hitting the pipe?”
“Yes.”
“Are they there now?”
“They may be!”
Old King Brady sprang up.
“Come, Harry!” he cried. “Here is work for us.”
“I feel it in my bones,” said the young detective, “that the game is
ours.”
“I agree with you,” said the chief. “If those fellows are taking dope
you will surely get them.”
Old King Brady knew that many a criminal had been taken in this way.
Under the influence of opium they are careless and easily entrapped. So
Old King Brady’s spirits arose.
“Very good!” he said, with his grim smile. “I think we shall get them.”
“The tip may be of no value,” said the chief, “but such as it is I give
it to you.”
“I feel sure that it is of great value!” said Harry. “We will get our
men this time.”
Frequenters of the opium dens sometimes drop from sight for days.
This would easily explain why the Bradys had not heard from the villains
before.
The detectives lost no time.
They at once set out for Mott street.
Ah Ling was a character very familiar to them.
There was no shrewder character, no deeper scoundrel in Chinatown than
Ah Ling.
The Bradys knew that it would be folly to attempt to gain admittance to
his place in their own character.
So they went thither in a clever disguise.
And Harry, for the first time in a long while dressed up as a very
handsome young lady.
As men and women both frequented the opium joints, this was not deemed
strange.
Old King Brady made himself up as a country jay, and Harry took him in
tow.
He steered him into Mott street and Harry led the way into Ah Ling’s
shop.
That urbane Celestial came up smiling and bowing.
“Ah, Melican lady buy fine handkerchief,” he simpered “Sellee cheap!
Comee allee way China.”
Harry punched his rustic partner in the ribs and in true Bowery-girl
style said:
“Come, buy me that, cully! Don’t you see I’m your steady now?”
“B’gosh! Haow much money do ye want fer the durned thing, Mister
Chineeman?” asked Old King Brady.
“Sellee cheap. Allee same one dollar!” said the Celestial, winking at
Harry.
“All right! Hyars yer dollar. Now take it gal, an’ I say, what’s that
you told me about? I want to see all the sights. But I’ll be gol-blamed
if I haven’t forgotten.”
“Oh, you mean hit the pipe,” said Harry.
“Yas, yas! That’s it. I dunno what it is, but b’gosh I’m reddy fer it.”
Harry winked at Ah Ling, who bit readily enough.
“Yeppee, me slee!” he said. “Hittee pipe. Heap fine tlime. Comee dis
lay.”
The detectives followed the Chinaman through various corridors and down
stairs until finally they were in the opium den.
About on bunks and rugs lay the half-stupefied devotees of the pipe.
The Bradys almost instantly singled out their men.
Collins lay completely stupefied. Van was still smoking and Burke was
getting ready for the same.
The Bradys were elated.
The birds were at last in their hands.
Escape was out of the question.
The detectives took in the full situation at a glance.
Not one of the gang was capable of offering much resistance. The Bradys
quickly planned their coup.
After Ah Ling had gone, the two detectives laid their plans.
Nobody in the place noticed them. Old King Brady whispered:
“Everything is coming our way. Now, I’ll first slip over and put the
handcuffs on Collins.”
“Yes.”
“He’ll never know it for he is too deeply asleep.”
“Exactly.”
“Then together we will tackle the other two.”
“Capital!”
“That will place them hors du combat. We must trust to a bold dash to
get them out of here.”
“If Ah Ling is wise he will not offer resistance.”
“He may not.”
“Very good.”
“I’ll spring it now!”
“All right!”
Old King Brady crept over to where Collins lay.
He snapped the handcuffs on him and the fellow never moved. Then Harry
took the signal.
Van and Burke were both half dazed. They fought like tigers, however,
but were finally overpowered.
“You are trapped, my fine birds!” cried Old King Brady, jubilantly.
But at this moment Ah Ling appeared on the scene.
The uproar had attracted him. With white, scared face he stared at the
detectives.
“Whatee de debbil you do?” he cried. “You no make such noise. Hi-hi,
yeppee, yeppee, who you be? No pleece-man?”
“Yes,” replied Old King Brady, sternly, covering the Chinaman with a
revolver. “We are detectives. These men are murderers. We are going to
take them out of here. If you offer resistance, I will shoot you dead!”
Old King Brady kept Ah Ling covered while Harry went out to the nearest
signal box.
In a very short space of time a squad of police were in the place. A
short while later the Tough Trio were in the Tombs.
The Bradys had won their famous race for life.
The case was thus ended.
The three notorious criminals expiated their crimes in the electric
chair. The Fifteenth street case soon became a matter of past history
and the two famous detectives soon had their attention claimed by
another undertaking even more complex and mysterious. The details of
this we will reserve for another story.
THE END.
Read “THE BRADYS’ LAST CHANCE; OR, THE CASE IN THE DARK,” which will be
the next number (85) of “Secret Service.”
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1 The Black Band; or, The Two King Bradys Against a Hard Gang. An
Interesting Detective Story.
2 Told by the Ticker; or, The Two King Bradys on a Wall Street Case.
3 The Bradys After a Million; or, Their Chase to Save an Heiress.
4 The Bradys’ Great Bluff; or, A Bunco Game that Failed to Work.
5 In and Out; or, The Two King Bradys on a Lively Chase.
6 The Bradys’ Hard Fight; or, After the Pullman Car Crooks.
7 Case Number Ten; or, The Bradys and the Private Asylum Fraud.
8 The Bradys’ Silent Search; or, Tracking the Deaf and Dumb Gang.
9 The Maniac Doctor; or, Old and Young King Brady in Peril.
10 Held at Bay; or, The Bradys on a Baffling Case.
11 Miss Mystery, the Girl from Chicago; or, Old and Young King Brady
on a Dark Trail.
12 The Bradys’ Deep Game; or, Chasing the Society Crooks.
13 Hop Lee, the Chinese Slave Dealer; or, Old and Young King Brady and
the Opium Fiends.
14 The Bradys in the Dark; or, The Hardest Case of All.
15 The Queen of Diamonds; or, The Two King Bradys’ Treasure Case.
16 The Bradys on Top; or, The Great River Mystery.
17 The Missing Engineer; or, Old and Young King Brady and the
Lightning Express.
18 The Bradys’ Fight For a Life; or, A Mystery Hard to Solve.
19 The Bradys’ Best Case; or, Tracking the River Pirates.
20 The Foot in the Frog; or, Old and Young King Brady and the Mystery
of the Owl Train.
21 The Bradys’ Hard Luck; or, Working Against Odds.
22 The Bradys Baffled; or, In Search of the Green Goods Men.
23 The Opium King; or, The Bradys’ Great Chinatown Case.
24 The Bradys in Wall Street; or, A Plot to Steal a Million.
25 The Girl From Boston; or, Old and Young King Brady on a Peculiar
Case.
26 The Bradys and the Shoplifters; or, Hard Work on a Dry Goods Case.
27 Zig Zag the Clown; or, The Bradys’ Great Circus Trail.
28 The Bradys Out West; or, Winning a Hard Case.
29 After the Kidnappers; or, The Bradys on a False Clue.
30 Old and Young King Bradys’ Battle; or, Bound to Win Their Case.
31 The Bradys’ Race Track Job; or, Crooked Work Among Jockeys.
32 Found in the Bay; or, The Bradys on a Great Murder Mystery.
33 The Bradys in Chicago; or, Solving the Mystery of the Lake Front.
34 The Bradys’ Great Mistake; or, Shadowing the Wrong Man.
35 The Bradys and the Mail Mystery; or, Working for the Government.
36 The Bradys Down South; or, The Great Plantation Mystery.
37 The House in the Swamp; or, The Bradys’ Keenest Work.
38 The Knock-out-Drops Gang; or, The Bradys’ Risky Venture.
39 The Bradys’ Close Shave; or, Into the Jaws of Death.
40 The Bradys’ Star Case; or, Working for Love and Glory.
41 The Bradys in ’Frisco; or, A Three Thousand Mile Hunt.
42 The Bradys and the Express Thieves; or, Tracing the Package Marked
“Paid.”
43 The Bradys’ Hot Chase; or, After the Horse Stealers.
44 The Bradys’ Great Wager; or, The Queen of Little Monte Carlo.
45 The Bradys’ Double Net; or, Catching the Keenest of Criminals.
46 The Man in the Steel Mask; or, The Bradys’ Work for a Great
Fortune.
47 The Bradys and the Black Trunk; or, Working a Silent Clew.
48 Going It Blind; or, The Bradys’ Good Luck.
49 The Bradys Balked; or, Working up Queer Evidence.
50 Against Big Odds; or, The Bradys’ Great Stroke.
51 The Bradys and the Forger; or, Tracing the N. G. Check.
52 The Bradys’ Trump Card; or, Winning a Case by Bluff.
53 The Bradys and the Grave Robbers; or, Tracking the Cemetery Owls.
54 The Bradys and the Missing Boy; or, The Mystery of School No. 6.
55 The Bradys Behind the Scenes; or, The Great Theatrical Case.
56 The Bradys and the Opium Dens; or, Trapping the Crooks of
Chinatown.
57 The Bradys Down East; or, The Mystery of a Country Town.
58 Working for the Treasury; or, The Bradys and the Bank Burglars.
59 The Bradys’ Fatal Clew; or, A Desperate Game for Gold.
60 Shadowing the Sharpers; or, The Bradys’ $10,000 Deal.
61 The Bradys and the Firebug; or, Found in the Flames.
62 The Bradys in Texas; or, The Great Ranch Mystery.
63 The Bradys on the Ocean; or, The Mystery of Stateroom No. 7.
64 The Bradys and the Office Boy; or, Working Up a Business Case.
65 The Bradys in the Backwoods; or, The Mystery of the Hunters’ Camp.
66 Ching Foo, the Yellow Dwarf; or, The Bradys and the Opium Smokers.
67 The Bradys’ Still Hunt; or, The Case that was Won by Waiting.
68 Caught by the Camera; or, The Bradys and the Girl from Maine.
69 The Bradys in Kentucky; or, Tracking a Mountain Gang.
70 The Marked Bank Note; or, The Bradys Below the Dead Line.
71 The Bradys on Deck; or, The Mystery of the Private Yacht.
72 The Bradys in a Trap; or, Working Against a Hard Gang.
73 Over the Line; or, The Bradys’ Chase Through Canada.
74 The Bradys in Society; or, The Case of Mr. Barlow.
75 The Bradys in the Slums; or, Trapping the Crooks of the “Red Light
District.”
76 Found in the River; or, The Bradys and the Brooklyn Bridge Mystery.
77 The Bradys and the Missing Box; or, Running Down the Railroad
Thieves.
78 The Queen of Chinatown; or, The Bradys Among the “Hop” Fiends.
79 The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler; or, Working for the Custom House.
80 The Bradys and the Runaway Boys; or, Shadowing the Circus Sharps.
81 The Bradys and the Ghosts; or, Solving the Mystery of the Old
Church Yard.
82 The Bradys and the Brokers; or, A Desperate Game in Wall Street.
83 The Bradys’ Fight to a Finish; or, Winning a Desperate Case.
84 The Bradys’ Race for Life; or, Rounding Up a Tough Trio.
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