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 "Who's that?" he enquired of the bar tender, suddenly eyeing Anchisi.

"That? Charley Bon," said the young man. "Do you know him?"

"Yes, indeed," says McLaughlin.

And crossing the room, he seized Bon's hand with an earnest gripe.

"Charley," he exclaimed, "don't you remember me?" And then in a low tone he mentioned how they had been in Sing-Sing prison together, and how Bon had got out first—a few months previously!

Bon fell in with this mistake, at once, and they had a drink together, for "auld lang syne."

Thus the Detective's disguisé was assured.

This man introduced Tenney, Ordway, and Clarke (Bill Dow's travelling agent) to Bon, and all got acquainted readily; as "birds of a feather," &c., &c. At last it was arranged that Detective Delomo, who represented "Mons. Leroy," should proceed with Ober to Canada, to get the coney direct from Boyd's hands. He reached Boyd, but he hadn't the money with him. Leroy wanted $5000 in National Notes. For this large sum it was necessary, Boyd said, to go to New York. After some chaffing, Boyd agreed to go down to New York city, and deliver Leroy the coney there. This was precisely what his customer had long been operating for. He thus had him upon Yankee soil, and would eventually know where all this money came from; as well as to work the job up that they had in hand, so far as Boyd was concerned.

The appointed place of meeting in New York was at the Revere House, where Leroy was to stop. At this point a report was made to Chief Whitley, and the balance of the plan to get a "dead sure thing" upon Boyd, was at once