“Trying to get that man out of the well, sir,” replied the boy. “But that’s not the way to do it.” “I don’t know,” said the boy. “Just you give me another half a dozen slates. I’ll get that man out of the well if I have to take him right through to China.” _Announcement Extraordinary_ Readers of Nick Carter Stories, and lovers of narratives dealing with the detective art and the solving of mysterious crimes, there is a great treat coming to you. Nick Carter Stories has outgrown its present form and we are going to publish it in magazine style. It will be edited by Nicholas Carter, and will be called DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE. It will be published on the fifth and twentieth of each month, and will contain, besides a rattling good serial, telling of the exploits of Nick Carter, serials and short stories dealing with the detective art in all its forms. The stories will be the very best that can be obtained, and the magazine will contain one hundred and twenty-eight pages of them. The first number will be out October fifth. Don’t miss it, and get your copy early, or you will get left, for they will sell fast. SNAPSHOT ARTILLERY. By BERTRAM LEBHAR. (This interesting story was commenced in No. 153 of NICK CARTER STORIES. Back numbers can always be obtained from your news dealer or the publishers.) CHAPTER XXXII. THE OUTLAW NABBED. Although Mayor Henkle had declared his intention of removing Chief of Police Hodgins from office as a result of the _Bulletin’s_ revelation of the police conditions which prevailed in Oldham, he had not done so. There were several reasons why his honor had changed his mind about taking this step. In the first place, Hodgins was the mayor’s wife’s cousin, and his honor feared that Mrs. Henkle would have something to say if he fired her relative. Tyrant thought he was at the city hall, the Honorable Martin Henkle stood in considerable awe of his little wife. A second reason was that if he had removed Hodgins on account of those snapshots, the mayor, in order to be consistent, would have had to dismiss from the department the delinquent policemen whose pictures had appeared in the _Bulletin_. Some of these men had a strong political pull, and Mayor Henkle was disinclined to take such action against them. Besides, the _Chronicle_, at the mayor’s suggestion, had published a long editorial denouncing those police snapshots as atrocious fakes, and denying that the members of the force were really guilty of the misconduct of which the _Bulletin’s_ pictures had seemed to convict them. Consequently, the mayor could not have punished his chief of police without going back on the administration organ. So Chief Hodgins still held on to his job. But he was not happy. The fact that Hawley had come back to Oldham, and was once more at work with his camera, was one of the things which prevented him from being so.