T was at Chicago that Will Raymond parted with Mr. Rossmore and the doctor, for he was anxious to get back to New York, as he knew his mother had not been very well when he left.
In vain did Mr. Rossmore urge him to accept a cheque for a large amount for his most valuable services, for the boy was firm in his refusal, taking only sufficient for his expenses.
Two boxes, one marked for Mrs. Raymond, the other for Pearl, Mr. Rossmore also gave the youth for his mother and sister, and, with the feeling that he had done his duty well, and would win the praise of his chief, Will set out on his return to New York.
It was just supper-time, after an absence of one month, that he knocked at the door of his home, and heard a voice say: "Come in!"
In he walked, and, with a cry of joy, the arms of Mrs. Raymond were about her son, while Pearl clung to his hand in warm welcome.
"Oh, brother! how like a man you have grown; but you did not lose your gold badge, did you?" cried Pearl.
"No, sis, I have it safe, and more, for this was a present to me," and he exhibited his watch and chain to the delight of his mother and sister.
"And here is something for you, mother, a present from the same kind gentleman," and when Mrs. Raymond untied a packet he gave her, a pair of superb diamond earrings were revealed.
"Oh, mother!" cried Pearl.
"And this is for you, sis, from the same source."
Pearl opened her box with trembling hands, and took from a velvet case a necklace of pearls.
"Mr. Rossmore was determined to pay me after all," said Will.
"But, my son, tell us about these superb presents," Mrs. Raymond said.
"I will, mother, and it is a long, strange story," and the Boy Detective told the story of his travels.
"We cannot give these presents back, can we, Will, for they ill become Pearl and I in our poverty," said Mrs. Raymond.
"No, mother, for it would deeply offend good Mr. Rossmore, and he was determined to repay me in some way; but I intend to be rich some day, and then your presents won't be amiss; but, mother, did you say that you knew Mr. Rossmore?"
"I said, Will, that I knew a gentleman once of that name," and the woman hastily wiped away a tear.
"But, mother, the strangest of all, and which I forgot to tell you, was the story he told me about his home, and how his wife's cousin and adopted sister had treated the farmer I saved from the robbers.
"And the view of his home was just like the painting you gave Colonel Ivey, and I seemed to recognize it as soon as I saw it, while both the farmer, Mr. Kent Lomax—"
"What name did you say, Will?" and Mrs. Raymond sprang to her feet, white and trembling.
"The name of the farmer, mother, Kent Lomax," said Will, in amazement at his mother's excitement.
"And you have seen that man, Kent Lomax?" again she asked, hoarsely.
"Yes, mother; did you know him?"
Unheeding the question, she said: "Tell me of him."
"Well, mother, he is a tall, handsome man, with a stern face, but a kind one, and he is a rich farmer, living near the home of Mr. Rossmore. He was very good to me, and I felt sorry for him when Mr. Rossmore told me he had been engaged to marry Mrs. Rossmore's sister, a young and beautiful girl, whose home had been at the Mill Farm.
"But there had come a wicked city man down there, and though Mr. Lomax had saved his life, he had made the young lady love him and had run off with her. It was a terrible blow, for the mother of the young lady died of a broken heart—"
"Died!" groaned Mrs. Raymond, and then she said in a voice that was hoarse and quivering: "Go on! what more did you hear, my son?"
"Mr. Rossmore told me that the farmer, Kent Lomax, followed the runaway couple to Philadelphia, and fought a duel with the wicked man who stole his sweetheart, and received a wound that nearly cost him his life; but since then they have never heard of Mrs. Rossmore's sister, or her husband, for he was caught cheating at cards soon after and driven out of the city by those who had been his friends. But I felt so sorry for Mr. Lomax, mother, for he is such a splendid man."
"And the father of this girl who so wickedly fled from her home?" asked Mrs. Raymond in the same hoarse whisper.
"He died some years ago, and was buried in the family burying-ground; but, mother, I have something else to show you, and it is this gold watch, with a small piece of chain attached, which I found in the grave of Willie Rossmore, and it bears the name on it of Ed. Ellis, the man now in prison, and who was the comrade of Night Hawk Jerry."
"Ed. Ellis! let me see the watch!" and Mrs. Raymond grasped it from Will's hand and glanced at the name.
"Yes, Ed Ellis, his friend," she gasped, and as she did so her head fell back, and her lips crimsoned with her life-blood.
"Oh, Pearl! mother has a hemorrhage! Quick! run for Doctor Churchill!" cried Will, supporting his mother in his arms, while his sister bounded away to fetch the physician, whom Mrs. Raymond had been compelled to send for on several occasions.
Pearl soon returned, for fortunately she had met the doctor almost at the door, and under his care the hemorrhage was stayed and Mrs. Raymond was greatly relieved.
"You must keep her very quiet, and watch her carefully, for this has been brought on by some sudden shock," said the doctor to Will, as he departed, promising to send a faithful nurse to take care of the poor invalid.
The nurse came and in the morning Mrs. Raymond appeared much better; but she was very pale and weak, and her face had become haggard from suffering; but she whispered:
"I must live for you, my children, bitter as life is to me, and I will do so, for you are my all in this world."
With a heart too full to speak Will kissed his mother and went out to report to Captain Daly, the poor woman saying aloud as he left the room: "My punishment is greater than I can bear, for my act, I now know placed my poor mother in her grave, and nearly cost Kent Lomax his life. I knew not of this duel, for he never told me. But I erred, and I have suffered, and now a fearful retribution has come upon me; but, for the sake of my children I will cling to life until they are old enough to do without me," and closing her eyes, while her lips moved as if in prayer, the poor woman sank into a deep slumber.
CHAPTER XXII.—Insnared by a Watch.
HE entrance of the Boy Detective into the police precinct caused a sensation, and his hand was grasped in welcome at every step he took.
Captain Daly heard his name called and advanced to the door of his private office to meet him, while he cried: "Welcome back, my Wizard Will, for I received your telegram from Chicago, and you have worked wonders."
"Bravo for Wizard Will!" cried a tall sergeant; while a policeman said:
"The captain has well named the boy, in calling him Wizard Will."
For two hours was Wizard Will, as I must now call him, closeted with Captain Daly, and then the two came out of the private office together.
A carriage was called, and they drove at once to the Tombs. The police captain gained ready admission, and he said to the officer in charge, after he had introduced his young protege: "Wizard Will here wishes a private talk with your prisoner from Maryland, who calls himself Ed Ellis."
The officer bowed assent, and Will was conducted to the cell of Ed Ellis, the man whom he had captured in Maryland, at the time that he had shot Night Hawk Jerry.
"Ho, boy, what do you want here?" gruffly said the prisoner as Will entered and was locked in with him.
"I am here to have a talk with you, Ellis."
"What have you got to say?"
"I wish you to tell me if Night Hawk Jerry really killed little Willie Rossmore, or if he died of exposure and starvation, as he told me was the case?"
"I don't know anything about the kid."
"Did you never see him?"
"No."
"Suppose I tell you that I know something of your past?"
"I don't believe it."
"You are from Philadelphia?"
"Who said so?"
"You had a watch presented to you once."
"Yes, I did, and I lost it."
"Suppose I tell you that I know where it is?"
"I'll bet you don't."
"When did you have it last?"
"It was stolen from me in camp, some six years ago."
Will did not show the slightest sign of having seen that the man made a slip of the tongue, as he asked:
"In a mining-camp, you say?"
"No, in a camp on the prairies."
"Some six years ago, in Nebraska?"
"Yes."
"Ah! you have been West, then?"
The man saw his mistake and recoiled, as he said:
"What if I have?"
"Suppose I tell you I know where your watch is?"
"Do you?"
"Yes."
"I'll bet my life Night Hawk Jerry was the thief that stole it from me, after all, and you found it on his body after you killed him."
"You have the chain that was attached to it?"
"No, I hain't."
"Well, this chain, taken from you in Maryland when you were captured, is it not the same that you had on your watch?" and Will showed a gold chain of a peculiar kind of pattern, that had been taken, with other things, from the prisoner when he was captured.
"No."
"And you think Night Hawk Jerry stole it from you?"
"Yes."
"About six years ago?"
"About that."
"Well, tell me how you lost it."
"I don't know exactly, for I had it one afternoon, and when I went to wind it up that night it was gone."
"This was in Nebraska?"
"Yes."
"And Jerry was with you?"
"Yes."
"Who else?"
"We were with an emigrant train, and going out West to homestead land."
"You had your own waggon and horses?"
"Yes."
"And joined the train on the march?"
"Yes, but we didn't stay long in company with it, as it wasn't going our way."
"Did you remain long in Nebraska?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because we didn't like it there."
"And you returned East?"
"Yes."
"And you became a Baltimore crook?"
"You seem to know."
"And Jerry became a New York crook?"
"As he's dead and not on trial, I may as well say that is about the size of it."
"Yet you said awhile ago you had not known Jerry more than a year?"
"I had forgotten."
"Well, Ellis, I have got your watch!"
"The deuce you have!"
"Yes; and I'll tell you where I found it."
"Where?"
"It had a piece of chain to it, a link of the very chain I hold here of yours."
"Yes, I remember now; I had the old chain fixed over."
"And, Ellis, I found your watch in the grave of the little boy you murdered!"
The man gave a cry in spite of himself, and became livid, while Wizard Will held up the watch, all covered with dirt as it was, and said:
"Here is the watch, and I took out of the grave of Willie Rossmore; and in burying him, it rolled out of your pocket and fell there.
"And more, the boy's skull was crushed in by a blow you gave him—"
"No—no! Jerry gave him that blow," cried the man in quivering tones.
"Jerry is not here to deny it, and you have confessed to having been there with him, while this watch tells the story that you at least buried him, and you and Night Hawk were the ones who kidnapped him; so I tell you, Ellis, you are the murderer of Willie Rossmore."
"If I've got to swing, boy, you'll not be there to see me die!" was the savage threat of the man, and he sprang like a tiger at Wizard Will.
But the boy stooped quickly and avoided him, while the door was thrown open and Captain Daly sprang in and seized him, followed by the officer in charge of the prisoner.
"No, my man, you can commit no more murders in the short time you have to live, for a jury will soon send you to the gallows," said Captain Daly, and with Wizard Will he left the cell, while the officer of the prison remarked:
"We heard all he said, Wizard Will, and a stenographer took it down, so he is doomed; and the watch insnared him, for without it he could not have been tried for anything but highway robbery; now it will be for murder, as well."
CHAPTER XXIII.—Wizard Will's Luck.
S soon as he left the cell of Ellis, the kidnapper of Willie Rossmore, Wizard Will went directly home, for he was anxious about his mother.
But he was delighted to find her much better, though weak, and the iron will of the unfortunate woman was doing much to build her up again, after her determination not to give up and leave her children alone in the world.
"Mother, Captain Daly has increased my pay to fifty dollars a month, so we will move to a pleasant little cottage out on Long Island, which belongs to him, and there is no rent to pay, and it is furnished, and has five acres of land, with a fine garden, a cow, and a horse and buggy.
"Then there are plenty of flowers, and chickens, and though the cottage has but five rooms in it, it must be a lovely place, for the captain's brother lived there until a few days ago, when he went West, and left it to him," and Will's enthusiastic description of the little home got Mrs. Raymond quite excited over it, while Pearl was wild with joy.
"And you say there is no rent to pay, Will?" asked his mother.
"The captain said he was just going to arrange with a man living near there, to give him the use of the horse, cow and garden, to take care of the place, while he'll give it to us if we go there to live, and he can get me a pass on the railroad, so that will cost nothing, and it is not half an hour's run to the station where our home is, so you must cheer up, mother, for life is getting brighter for us."
"But are there any schools, my son?"
"Yes, mother! one only a hundred yards away, where Pearl can go; and the captain is good enough to say I can have two hours each day to study here in town, while he'll not put me on night work if it can be avoided, and only on special detective service then."
"That is most kind of him, Will, and I must see him and thank him."
"And mother," proceeded Will, whose enthusiasm increased as he continued to enumerate, "Captain Daly says I'll have a chance to earn special fees if I am successful in my work, so that we need not stint ourselves in living, and I suggested an idea to him that he was delighted with, and said I might carry it out."
"What was that, my son?"
"Well, you know that I am pretty well acquainted with New York, and I said I would like to form a league of 'Boy Detectives,' for I feel that I could do a great deal of good with them, and he said he thought so too, and I should be captain."
"Ah! my son, I fear you are taking a very heavy weight upon your young shoulders."
"I can stand it, mother."
"You've always said, mother, that brother had an old head on young shoulders; but he's got broad shoulders, too, and can stand it," Pearl remarked in her quaint way, for she would wager her life upon her brother being able to do anything that a man could accomplish.
"Well, Will, you are the bread-winner of our home now, and the head, young as you are, and I will not be the one to put a straw in your way against success, for you seem to have a real talent for detective work."
"Thank you, mother, and they have dubbed me, on the force, Wizard Will, as they say I have done wonders as a Boy Detective."
"You have, indeed, my son, and in a few days I'll be able to move out to the cottage, and you can then devote yourself wholly to your new career;" and, with the firm resolve to bury her bitter past at once, and forgetting self, to live wholly for her children, the noble, though sorrow-haunted woman, improved steadily each day, and one pleasant morning Captain Ryan Daly, the good-hearted officer, called for the trio in a carriage and drove them out to the cottage, which he playfully called Wizard Hall.
It was a charming little cottage, with large trees upon one side, a lawn sloping down to an inlet of the Long Island Sound, a vegetable garden, a stable, a meadow lot, in which an Alderney cow was grazing, a henery, with a large number of choice fowls, and beds of flowers that at once caught the eye of Pearl.
The place was in perfect condition, the garden flourishing, the house well and completely furnished, and the store-room and cellar well stocked, while the coal-bin and wood-shed were filled, the captain remarking that his brother had been a most liberal provider, and telling the story without a flush on his honest face, for he had placed all there himself.
"I shall soon get well here, Captain Daly, and I know not how to thank you for all your kindness," said Mrs. Raymond, the tears coming into her beautiful eyes.
"It is a kindness for me, madam, to have the place occupied by good tenants, and I must tell you that in yonder little cabin on the hill lives an old negro and his wife, who will do odds and ends for you when you need them for very small pay."
"Now, Wizard Will, I shall give you a week's leave to get settled in your new home, and then you can set to work raising your League of Boy Detectives, whom I shall put great faith in," and, promising to come out and dine some Sunday with them, the noble-hearted police captain—whose daily intercourse was with criminals, who was hourly amid desperate and tragic scenes, whose will was iron, whose nature knew no fear, but who had the heart of a woman for deeds of kindness—took his leave and returned to the city, leaving the mother and her children to make themselves perfectly at home in Wizard Hall.
CHAPTER XXIV.—Conclusion.
FTER a happy week spent at his little home on the Sound, Wizard Will returned to his duties in town. He had made friends with the old negro and negress in the cabin on the hill near the cottage, and had found them most willing to do all in their power to help his mother, and had secretly made an arrangement with them to look after matters in his absence, the old man to look after the horse, and his wife to milk the cow.
He had also ingeniously attached a wire from the cottage to the cabin, with a bell at the latter, so that his mother could call for aid if she needed it.
With country air, pretty scenery, pleasant quarters, fresh milk and vegetables, and no worry about their daily bread, Mrs. Raymond rapidly improved in health, and life became worth the living for her, as she strove hard to shut out the past.
Pearl started to school and made friends, and some kind-hearted neighbours called upon the new-comers, so that the mother and daughter were not wholly alone, while Wizard Will, when at home, gave them many a pleasant drive about the country, and row or sail upon the Sound.
But Will did not neglect his work in the city, and, setting to work with energy and skill, he formed his League of Boy Detectives, and it was but a very short while before the police force recognized their ability and acknowledged it, treating their young captain with as much respect as they did their own commanders.
In due time Ed Ellis the kidnapper and murderer was tried, found guilty upon the testimony of Wizard Will and executed.
Mr. Rossmore came on to the trial, and urged Wizard Will once more to become his adopted son, but Mrs. Raymond would not hear of it, and also declined positively to allow her son to bring the kind-hearted gentleman out to see her, as he wished to do.
Will felt hurt at this, especially as his mother gave no other reason for her strange conduct than that she would not see any strangers.
With deep regret at Will's refusal to go with him Mr. Rossmore returned to his home in Maryland, and the boy settled himself to hard work to win greater fame in the career which he had drifted into by accident.
Though he had several times seen Colonel Ivey in the street he had avoided him, as his mother had earnestly requested him to do, and the gallant soldier little dreamed that the name his eyes fell upon now and then in the papers as Wizard Will, was the one whose three-dollar gold-piece he had found on Thanksgiving morning, and still wore as a charm upon his watch-chain, while he deeply mourned for the woman he had learned to love, and the children who had crept into his heart as though they were his own flesh and blood.
One of the first duties that the brave young officer set for himself to accomplish with his juvenile band of Secret Service scouts was the running to earth of the "Land Sharks," and how he accomplished the giant task is written in the Police History of New York City, wherein no name stands out in bolder relief than that of Wizard Will, the Boy Ferret of New York.
Those who wish to know how he accomplished his task, must read "Wizard Will's Street Scouts," the next number of the Tip Top Tales.
THE END.
THE "O'ER LAND & SEA" LIBRARY.—Continued.
40. Rocky Mountain Rob, the Roadagent; or, the Vigilantes of Humbug Bar
41. Kentuck the Sport; or, Dick Talbot at the Mines
42. Injun Dick, the Death Shot of Shasta
43. Velvet Hand; or, the Iron Grip of Injun Dick
44. Gold Dan; or, the White Savage of the Great Salt Lake
45. Captain Dick Talbot; or, the Black Hoods of Shasta
46. The Pirate Chief; or, the Queen of the Isle
47. The "Spotter" Detective; or, the Girls of New York
48. The City Sharp; or, the Flash of Lightning
49. The Cretan Rover; or, the Secret Signet Ring
50. Always on Hand; or, the Sportive Sports of the Foot-Hills
51. The Human Sleuth-Hound; or, Who Holds the Winning Hand?
52. The Prairie Mazeppa; or, the Madman of the Plains
53. The Wolf Demon; or, the Red Arrow of the Far West
54. The Gunmaker of Moscow; or, Vladimir, the Black Monk
55. Death Trailer, the Chief or Scouts; or, Life and Love in a Frontier Fort
56. The Pilgrim Sharp; or, the Soldier's Sweetheart
57. The Wild Riders of the Staked Plain; or, Jack, the Hero of Texas
58. Seth Slocum, Railroad Surveyor; or, the Secret of Sitting Bull
59. Wild Bill, the Whirlwind of the West
60. White Beaver, the Exile of the Platte; or, a Wronged Man's Red Trail
61. The Wizard Brothers; or, White Beaver's Red Trail
62. The One-Arm Pard; or, Red Retribution in Borderland
63. Gold Spur, the Gentleman from Texas; or, the Child of the Regiment
64. Red Renard; or, the Gold Buzzards of Colorado
65. The Corsair Queen; or, the Gipsies of the Sea
66. Black Plume, the Demon of the Sea
67. The Sea Cadet; or, the Rover of the Ricoletts
68. Double Death; or, the Spy Queen of Wyoming.
69. Gold Bullet Sport; or, the Knights of the Overland
70. The Vigilante Captain; or, the Haunted Ranche
71. The Black Pirate; or, the Mystery of the Golden Fetters
72. The Dead Shot Nine; or, My Pards of the Plains
73. Tiger Dick, the Faro King; or, the Cashier's Crime
74. Fire Feather, the Buccaneer King
75. Iron Wrist, the Swordmaster
76. Old Benzine; or, Joe Bowers' Racket at Ricaree City
77. Personal Reminiscences of Buffalo Bill
78. The League of Three; or, Buffalo Bill's Pledge
79. Buffalo Bill's Grip; or, Oath-Bound to Custer
80. Buffalo Bill's Secret Service Trail; or, the Mysterious Foe
81. Darkie Dan, the Coloured Detective; or, the Mississippi Mystery.
82. Shadowed by a Showman; or, the Mad Magician
83. Milo Romer, the Animal King
84. Fighting Tom, the Terror of the Toughs
85. Phil Hardy, the Boss Boy; or, the Mystery of the Strongbow
86. The True-Heart Pards; or, the Gentleman Vagabond
87. Detective Dick; or, the Hero in Rags
88. Konrad, the Swordmaker; or, the Masked Emperor
89. The Lost Captain; or, Skipper Jabez Coffin's Cruise on the Open Polar Seas
90. Buffalo Bill, the Buckskin King; or, the Amazon of the West
91. Buffalo Bill's Swoop; or the King of the Mines
92. Buckskin Sam
93. The Tiger Tamer; or, the League of the Jungle
94. Yellowstone Jack; or, Trappers of the Enchanted Ground
95. The Mad Mariner; or, Dishonoured and Disowned
96. The Kid-Glove Miner; or, the Magic Doctor of Golden Gulch
97. Red Lightning the Man of Chance; or, Flush Times in Golden Gulch
Continued on page 3 of cover.
THE "O'ER LAND & SEA" LIBRARY.—Continued.
98. Queen Helen, the Amazon of the Overland
99. Buck Taylor, the Saddle King; or, Buffalo Bill's Chief of Cowboys
100. The Winning Oar; or, the Innkeeper's Daughter
101. Tracked from the Rockies; or, Injun Dick, Detective
102. The Fresh of Frisco; or the Heiress of Buenaventura
103. Bronze Jack, the Californian Thoroughbred; or, the Lost City of the Basaltic Buttes
104. Cloven Hoof, the Demon Buffalo; or, the Border Vultures
105. Seth, the Dumb Spy of Iowa; or, the Demon of Des Moines
106. The Pirate Priest; or the Planter-Gambler's Daughter.
107. Cutlass and Cross; or, the Ghouls of the Sea
108. The Sea Owl; or, the Lady Captain of the Gulf
109. The Lasso King's League; or, the Tigers of Texas
110. Captain Ebony; or, Bound by the Golden Fetters
111. The Cowboy Clan; or, the Tigress of Texas
112. The Swordsman of Warsaw; or, Ralpho the Mysterious
113. Don Diablo, the Planter-Corsair; or, the Rivals of the Sea
114. The Scarlet Schooner; or, the Nemesis of the Sea
115. The Texas Tramp; or, Solid Sam, the Yankee Hercules
116. Alligator Ike; or, the Secret of the Everglade
117. Buffalo Bill on the War-path; or, Silk Lasso Sam
118. Old Pop Hicks, Showman; or, Lion Charley's Luck
119. The Chevalier Corsair; or, the Heritage of Hatred
120. El Rubio Bravo, King of Swordsmen; or, the Terrible Brothers of Tabasco
121. Buffalo Bill's Blind Trail. A Story of the Wild West
122. Fire-eye, the Sea Hyena; or, the Bride of a Buccaneer
123. The Czar's Spy; or, the Nihilist League
124. Buffalo Bill's Buckskin Brotherhood; or, Opening Up a Lost Trail
125. Buffalo Bill's Body Guard; or, the Still Hunt of the Hills
126. Dark Dashwood, the Desperate; or, the Child of the Sun
127. Mourad, the Mameluke; or, the Three Swordmasters
128. The Swordsmen Hunters; or, the Land of the Elephant Riders
129. Buffalo Bill's Scout Shadowers; or, a Romance of the Forts and Mountain Trails
130. Dashing Dandy, the Hotspur of the Hills; or, Pony Prince's Strange Pard
131. Buffalo Bill Baffled; or, the Deserter Desperado's Defiance
132. Keen Billy, the Sport; or, the Circus at White Gopher
133. Buffalo Bill's First Trail; or, Will Cody, the Pony Express Rider
134. Red Rapier; or, the Sea Rover's Bride
135. Revello; or, the Rival Rovers
136. Buffalo Bill's Bonanza; or, the Knights of the Silver Circle
137. Corporal Cannon, the Man of Forty Duels
138. Joe Phœnix's Shadow; or, the Great Detective's Mysterious Monitor
139. Montebello, the Magnificent; or, the Gold King
140. Death-Notch, the Young Scalp Hunter
OTHERS IN ACTIVE PREPARATION.
ALDINE PUBLISHING CO., 9, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, LONDON.
Transcriber's Notes:
This book was originally published as Beadle's Half-Dime Library #450: Wizard Will, the Wonder-Worker; or, The Boy Ferret of New York. A Romance of Mysteries in Metropolitan Life. This electronic edition is derived from the later reprint in Aldine's Tip-Top Tales series, which omits credit to the author, Prentiss Ingraham.
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