Bats in the Wall; or, The Mystery of Trinity Church-yardRaymond, P. T.
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Bats in the Wall; or, The Mystery of Trinity Church-yard
Raymond, P. T.
Detective and mystery stories; Detectives -- Juvenile fiction; Dime novels
Again the newsboy stood by their side, looking almost over their
shoulder at the plan they held between them, as he thrust his bunch of
papers in the broker's face.
"No, you young imp!" exclaimed Callister. "These newsboys are thicker
than flies about here. I tell you, Billy, there's no trouble about
it--no trouble at all. An entrance can be effected as easy as rolling
off a log. And as to money, why, good Lord, it's the clearing house,
you know, and there's always money there. Come, let's get down and show
these to your father, and see what he thinks of the idea."
He rolled up the plans hastily, and putting them under his overcoat,
moved off up William street toward Wall, the detective keeping pace by
his side.
At that moment the newsboy crept out from under the shadows of the
Custom House fence and followed them, dodging from one side of the
street to the other, calling his papers, and occasionally stopping to
sell one, but always keeping the forms of Messrs. Cutts and Callister
plainly in view.
"I've got yer now, yer sly old rat!" he muttered, as he crossed Wall
street close at their heels. "An', by gracious, I orter after all the
time I spent a-watchin'. I seen them papers wat's got the picter of the
Lispenard bank onter them. If she an' me don't spoil yer little game
this time 'twon't be no faalt of Jerry Buck's, an' don't yer forget it!"
Who "she was" did not appear as yet.
Certainly, in his present position, Master Jerry Buck was playing the
part of a detective quite alone.
Down William street to Liberty, down Liberty to its junction with
Malden Lane, down Malden Lane to Pearl street the men advanced, all
unconscious of the ragged youth who followed close at their heels.
Turning to the left, they kept along Pearl street, beneath the shadows
of the great structure of the elevated railroad, nor did they make
another turn until Franklin Square was reached.
And when they passed beneath the roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge and
entered Cherry street, smelling of a thousand and one ill odors,
suggestive of anything save the luscious fruit from which its name is
derived, Jerry Buck was still behind them.
He had ceased to call his papers now, but stood silently watching them
from between two empty trucks drawn up by the side of the curbstone, as
they entered the very house on the easterly side of Cherry street, just
beyond Catherine, which he had pointed out to Frank Mansfield upon the
occasion of their Sunday morning visit to the Catherine Market as the
one into which the burglars of the Webster Bank had disappeared.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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