If it does not suit you, you can return, and we can make our arrangements afterward." The matter was thus disposed of, and William Bucholz journeyed to South Norwalk with his employer.

The gay soldier had become the humble servant, the prospective farmer had been transformed into the obsequious valet.
These two men had journeyed across the seas, for a far-off land, and thus had strangely met.

The web of fate had woven itself around their two lives, and the compact this day made was only to be severed by the death, sudden and mysterious, of the eldest party to the agreement.
Who could have told that before many months had rolled away, that old man would have been brutally beaten to death, and that the bright-faced young man who sued for his favor would be sitting in a lonely cell under the dreadful charge of committing the foul deed! Perhaps could either have glanced with prophetic vision into the future, their paths, by mutual consent, would have widely diverged, and their intimacy have ceased forever on that August afternoon.
THE DETECTION..