for all the years to come.

How I first established a connection between the crook Delbras and the
fine gentleman who had taken New York society by storm as Monsieur
Maurice Voisin was a wonder to many, until I had laid before them the
process of reasoning by which it was done.

I had entered the classic Fair-grounds intent upon searching among the
many faces for two, one a blond young Englishman, the other a dark and
handsome Frenchman, and a letter picked up in the crowd had given me
a mental photograph of these two, though I knew it not.

Before I had ever seen Voisin I had said of him, mentally, 'I believe
he has tricked Miss June Jenrys and young Lossing.' Then I saw him in
company with Miss Jenrys that day before our meeting, and I could not
help seeing how perfectly he answered the description of Delbras. Next
we met, and I could not believe in him; and the glimpses of Greenback
Bob's disguised companion in Midway, as agent and fakir, all were
wonderfully like Monsieur Voisin, man of fashion; and so from day to
day I had watched him as he sought to dazzle the eyes of sweet June
Jenrys, hoping for the time when I might unmask him before her.

Then came the attack upon Lossing at the bridge, in which we both saw
the hand of Voisin. Mrs. Camp, too, added her quota to the solution of
this riddle when she recognised in Voisin the swindler of the Turkish
Bazaar, and identified the hand of Voisin as the hand which had held
out the Spurious bank-notes to Camp; and, finally, there came his
second attempt to destroy Lossing in the Cold Storage fire, ending as
it did in his own disaster and in revealing to me the scar upon the
temple so minutely described in the chiefs letter as belonging to
Delbras.

The man had maintained a stolid indifference and a stubborn silence
after his arrest, even when he learned how complete was his exposure
both as Voisin and Delbras.

Before his departure for New York a complete record of his misdeeds,
so far as we knew them, was made and put into the hands of Jeffrys.
The man Smug, or Harris, as might have been expected, was willing to
betray his companions in crime, now that he knew himself safe from
such vengeance as had been meted out to Harry, the brunette, and in
the hope of such measure of immunity as is sometimes bestowed upon the
rascal who 'confesses' the evil deeds of his associates. It was by
his testimony that we fixed the theft of Monsieur Lausch's diamonds
upon the gang, a