ves apiece, so many were the counts against
them. Their trials were separate, and came about after weeks of delay.
There were no friends with long purses to 'influence' the jury, and
unless that elastic pardoning power is stretched for their benefit, as
has sometimes happened in similar cases, Greenback Bob and Smug will
employ their future time honestly and for the good of the race.

Sir Carroll Rae had a very fair reason for remaining in America for a
time; and so, placing the business of his newly acquired estates in
the hands of the London solicitor who had been Sir Hugo's legal
adviser, he remained in the World's Fair City, where, with minds
unburdened, the entire party, with at first the exception of Gerald
Trent, who was rapidly recovering in spite of the overwhelming
attentions of his friends, took up the much-interrupted and pleasant
employment of seeing the World's Fair, with eyes that saw no flaws,
even in the Government Building.

The Trents did not linger when the invalid was well enough to travel,
but hastened to the home where Mrs. Trent, an invalid still, but a
happy one, awaited her son's return impatiently, after the long weeks
of suspense.

There are no weddings in this tale of strange happenings, which,
nevertheless, are not more strange than many of the unwritten annals
of the Fair. But when the early autumn came, two pairs of lovers,
chaperoned by a discreet little Quakeress, renewed their acquaintance
with the Court of Honour, loitered in the shadows of the Peristyle,
drifted upon the Lagoon, and, pacing its length, recalled anew the
strange adventures and experiences of that wonderful, impossible,
kaleidoscopic, yet utterly and charmingly real Midway Plaisance.

THE END.

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

1. Shadowed by Three.
2. The Rival Detectives.
3. The Diamond Coterie.
4. The Detective's Daughter.
5. Out of a Labyrinth.
6. A Mountain Mystery.
7. Moina.
8. A Slender Clue.
9. A Dead Man's Step.
10. The Lost Witness.

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WARD, LOCK & BOWDEN, LTD.

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