The Death-Watch in the Wall
New York Mercury.
A few years ago a shrewed, but somewhat inexperienced young man, whom we will call Oscar Tolles, was taken into the employ of a firm of private detectives whose principal office was located on Broadway.
Pecuniarily Oscar Tolles was independent of any sort of work or profession whatever; therefore, the reader will at once surmise that he had some object of extraordinary character in making the search of unknown and concealed desperadoes and outlaws a business.
And the reader will be quite correct to surmise thus.
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