[Jack’s Ward by Horatio Alger, Jr.]@TWC D-Link bookJack’s Ward CHAPTER XXX 10/12
"I wish I had you in my power once more.
I treated you too well." We need not follow the police in their search.
The discoveries which they made were ample to secure the conviction of the gang who made this house the place of their operations.
To anticipate a little, we may say that Foley was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of years, and his subordinates to a term less prolonged.
The reader will also be glad to know that to our hero was awarded the prize of a thousand dollars which had been offered for the apprehension of the gang of counterfeiters. But there was another notable capture made that day. Mrs.Hardwick was accustomed to make visits to Foley to secure false bills, and to make settlement for what she had succeeded in passing off. While Jack and the officers were in the house she rang the door bell. Jack went to the door. "How is this ?" she asked. "Oh," said Jack, "it's all right.
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