CHAPTER XLII.
FANNY had not hesitated a moment on the question of communicating to her father the singular occurrence at Mr.Willet's; and Mr.Markland was prompt not only in writing to two or three of the principal sufferers by Lyon in New York, but in drawing the attention of the police to the stranger who had so boldly made propositions to his daughter.

Two men were engaged to watch all his movements, and on no pretence whatever to lose sight of him.

The New York members of the Company responded instantly to Markland's suggestion, and one of them came on to confer and act in concert with him.

A letter delivered at the post office to the stranger, it was ascertained, came by way of New Orleans.

A requisition from the governor of New York to deliver up, as a fugitive from justice, the person of Lee Lyon, was next obtained.