The "Daily Negro," the special organ of the black race, published a portrait of Frycollin after his latest photograph.

Rewards were offered to whoever would give news of the three absentees, and even to those who would find some clue to put the police on the track.

"Five thousand dollars! Five thousand dollars to any citizen who would--" Nothing was done.

The five thousand dollars remained with the treasurer of the Weldon Institute.
Undiscoverable! Undiscoverable! Undiscoverable! Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans, of Philadelphia! It need hardly be said that the club was put to serious inconvenience by this disappearance of its president and secretary.

And at first the assembly voted urgency to a measure which suspended the work on the "Go-Ahead." How, in the absence of the principal promoters of the affair, of those who had devoted to the enterprise a certain part of their fortune in time and money--how could they finish the work when these were not present?
It were better, then, to wait.
And just then came the first news of the strange phenomenon which had exercised people's minds some weeks before.