The Trevor Family;*

reveal , careful watching at the post-office did . Crawley did receive money from Kansas , and corresponded with parties there , and their names Glyndon found in the commercial reports under the head of land agents . With this clew he acted promptly . The first westward bound train took him and Esquire Faxon as passengers , and the second morning after they took breakfast at the Kansas hoteland then inquired their to the land office of Barker and

, way Sloan . They found Mr . Sloan in , and w ^ ere soon in the full tide of conversation on the subject of crops , lands , and prices . Glyndon , in the course of some remarks , incidentally alluded to their place of residence , Stanhope . "Ah , Stanhope , " said Sloan , " Yon are then acquainted with an old customer of mine , but not living there at present . I refer to Harmon Trevor . " " Yes , " answered Esquire Faxon . " We were both acquainted with him in

his lifetime . An excellent man and good citizen . " "In his lifetime ! " exclaimed Sloan . "Why , his death must have been very sudden . When did it occur ? "About eighteen months since , " said Glyndon , while both he and the esquire felt they were treading on the verge of important developments . " Eighteen months 1 Why , gentlemen , it is simply impossible . I have

seen and conversed in this office with Harmon Trevor within six months , and corresponded with him within the last thirt y days , at Bradford , his new home . I knew that Trevor ' s wife was dead , but not Trovor , " and Mr . Sloan had arisen and was impatiently pacing his office floor . And then Glyndon knew bespoke of Crawdey , now a resident of Bradford , and by degrees the whole story came out . The secret of Joel Crawley ' s plethoric pocket-book soon became known .

CHAPTER IX . FROM time to time , as his means permitted , Harmon Trevor had invested a portion of his gains in government lands in Kansas . The entire business had been transacted by correspondence carried on under instructions b y Joel Crawley , wdio had , in all cases , signed the name of his employer . The western agentsthereforeknew no other signature but Crawley ' s and even that as

, , Trevor ' s own . The latter had remarked to his clerk that he preferred-that his family should know nothing of the purchase , as he wished to surprise each of his children on their birthday or marriage with wdiat would be the making of a handsome farm . The papers were in the safe , and their existence known only to Harmon Trevor , Crawdey , and the western agents . The sudden death of the owner offered a temptation that Crawdey could not resist . No danger ,

he thought , need be anticipated from the western agents , and , if he had any compunctions of conscience in the matter , he silenced them by regarding these lands as the natural dower of his intended wife . And so , securing these papers , after leaving his clerkshi p , Crawdey visited Kansas , boldly assumed for the time the name of Harmon Trevor , and proceeded to place ' the lands , already largely increased in valueon the market . Tho most of the propert

, y was soon sold , and the remainder of the purchase money had been forwarded to Crawdey while the detective was on his track . A few clays after , Esquire Faxon and Frank Glyndon , accompanied by Mr . Sloan , of Baker and Sloan , entered the town of Bradford , only to find the communit y in a state of hi gh excitement . One of the large wheels of the powerful engine used at the furniture ivories had flown into fragmentsand

, dangerously injured one of the proprietors and several of the workmen . The one was Joel Crawley . Mr . Sloan remained onl y long enough to be admitted by the surgeon in attendance to the victim ' s room , identify him , make the necessary affidavit in tho interest of the Trevor estate , and returned home . Frank Glyndon and