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
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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 Phoenix's Shadow; or, the Great Detective's Mysterious Monitor
139. Montebello, the Magnificent; or, the Gold King
140. Death-Notch, the Young Scalp Hunter
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