e will be withdrawn. Are you satisfied now, my
boy?"

"Yes, I reckon it's all right. I'll take the chances; but if you
fellers are playin' any game, the inspector is bound to raise a
terrible row when I see him."

"That part of it is all right. Tell Harvey what you know, and I answer
for it that it will be the same as if the inspector himself was here."

With this remark the sergeant walked away, and Jet said in a low tone:

"Now I'll tell the whole story; but first I want to know why that
advertisement about me was put in the papers?"

"We thought those two men might have gotten hold of you, more
especially since the manager at the district messenger station reported
that you spoke of being hired to go to Yonkers."

Jet now gave, with careful attention to detail, the story of his
misadventures from the time of leaving the Union Square Hotel, and
Detective Harvey received the information with no slight degree of
excitement.

"I suppose the bills you found in the pile of dirt are in the
sergeant's hands," he said, half to himself, when Jet concluded.

"I reckon so; anyway, they took both away from me."

"We will go up stairs and look at them. If I'm not mistaken, my boy,
we shall run to earth the gang who are flooding the country with the
most dangerous counterfeit known, at the same time that we bag the
murderers. Do you think you could lead me to the house in the woods?"

"I'm certain of it; but we shall have to walk a long distance."

"I wouldn't grumble if it was fifty miles, providing we finally
succeeded. Come with me."

Again he summoned the turnkey, ordered him to open the door, and said
to Jet:

"Follow me."

"Ain't they goin' to keep me here any longer?"

"I should say not. You heard what the sergeant said, and we must be
out of this town within an hour."

Jet followed his conductor up stairs, and in a few moments the two were
in earnest consultation with the Albany Chief of Police.

The counterfeits were found to be the same which had given the
authorities so much trouble. They were so well executed as to pass
without suspicion in the majority of cases, and the fact that the two
discovered by Jet were imperfect impressions, which had been thrown
aside by the makers, was, probably, the only cause of their having been
refused by the ticket-seller.

"It is lucky you were arrested," Harvey said in a tone of satisfaction.

"Why?" Jet asked in surprise. "It wasn't any fun to stay in