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Title: The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler
or, Working for the Custom House

Author: Francis W. Doughty

Release Date: October 23, 2005 [EBook #16919]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "Madam," said Old King Brady, "here is a warrant for the
arrest of your daughter. The charge is smuggling!" Calmly taking the
document, the lady read it. Harry opened the door and let the hall-boy go.]

SECRET SERVICE.

OLD AND YOUNG KING BRADY DETECTIVES.

_Issued Weekly--By Subscription $2.50 per year. Entered as Second Class
Matter at the New York, N.Y., Post Office, March 1, 1899. Entered according
to Act of Congress, in the year 1900, in the office of the Librarian of
Congress, Washington, D.C., by Frank Tousey, 24 Union Square, New York._

No. 79. NEW YORK, July 27, 1900. Price 5 Cents.

The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler

OR,

Working for the Custom House.

BY A NEW YORK DETECTIVE.

CHAPTER I.

THE BRADYS AS CUSTOM HOUSE DETECTIVES.

The Collector of the Port of New York sat in his office in the Custom House
with a look of annoyance upon his face.

Several of his chief inspectors were standing about the room with the most
uneasy expressions, for they were being censured unmercifully.

"I tell you, gentlemen," the Collector was saying, angrily, "I am very much
disgusted with the poor service your department is giving. I am determined
to stop this wholesale smuggling. If none of you are capable of doing the
work for which you are liberally paid, I'll have to get somebody to do the
work for you. Do you understand?"

"But, sir," began one of the inspectors, humbly, "we've done our best--"

"And accomplished nothing!" snapped the Collector.

"How could we, sir? The smuggler you want us to catch does not resort to
the usual tricks such people adopt to avoid paying duty on the diamonds and
other precious stones, which you