y, who couldn't resist the temptation to take a hand in it, but he
was permitted to take his friend out to the hospital.

The building was so nearly deserted at the time that the news did not
get out.

The two young nephews of Broker Bellamy on learning of the failure of
their hired assassins, immediately sailed from New York for parts
unknown, and all Wall Street became interested in the question of what
had become of them, where they had gone and why they had left the city
between sunset and sunrise.

Fred and Terry believed that they knew just why they had gone away, but,
of course, had no idea where they had gone.

Broker Bellamy, who was very fond of his two stalwart nephews, intimated
that he believed that Fred and Terry knew what had become of them, and,
from that, the gossips began saying that the old broker had charged Fred
and Terry with making way with his two nephews. At first Fred and Terry
laughed at it, and so did all Wall Street. Nobody believed it except
their enemies, who were willing to believe anything to their discredit.

Terry finally called up Broker Bellamy and took him to task for starting
such a report that they had had some hand in making way with his
nephews, but the old man, of course, denied the charge, whereupon Terry
told him of the hired sluggers who had attacked Fred in his office, and
how their attack had proved an absolute failure.

One of the sluggers had died from being shot by a crook after making
confession to one of the surgeons that he had been hired by the two
Bellamy boys, and that therefore he ought to understand why his nephews
had absconded from the city.

The old fellow was dumfounded, and it was probably true when he denied
that he knew anything about the attack on Fearnot, and so he refused to
make any retraction whatever.

Then Terry wrote an account of the whole incident and had it published
in one of the big dailies. This was a shock to the entire city.

Terry obtained an affidavit from one of the surgeons who had treated the
wounded man in the hospital and one also from the other thug who had
witnessed and taken part in the attack corroborating the charge that
Terry had made.

It came very near ruining the old broker, who already had many enemies
in the Street, and it gradually forced him to retire.

After that Fred and Terry took part in several more little deals, some
of which panned out pretty well, while others profited them little or
nothing; but in