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Rh liable if there's any money in the concern. He may have a lot of the cash, which the firm got on other deals, salted away somewhere He's the one we want as badly as we do the other two. A young chap too, but as slick as they make 'em I'm told, even if he is a stranger here."

Ned listened in wonder. He thought of his two hundred shares, and of the certificate in his pocket. He wondered if, by any possibility, he could be the one wanted.

"Who is this young fellow?" some one in the crowd asked.

"That's what we'd like to find out," the inspector replied. "He only got into New York yesterday, so one of my detectives informs me. Came from up state, or out west I hear. He's the one I want, for he can tell a lot about this business. If I can lay hands on him I'll clap him into a cell quicker than he can say Jack Robinson."

"I wonder if he can mean me?" Ned thought, and his heart beat rapidly. "I came from up state yesterday. I got into New York yesterday, and I have two hundred shares of the Mt. Olive stock—at least I paid for 'em. But I don't know any more about this business than the man in the moon. Still they may not believe me. I wonder