"In a false bottom under Miss Daisy Linden's trunk. See--there she
stands--that handsome big actress there. Do you think she's as fat as she
looks? Well, just notice how big around her body is, and how thin her arms
and neck are. If you'll get one of the lady inspectors to examine her
privately, you'll find she's got several valuable oil paintings wrapped
around her body, under her clothes."

The woman made a great fuss when they insisted upon rummaging in her trunk
a second time and reluctantly opened it again.

Harry threw everything out and the woman shrieked, scolded and protested.
But when the boy opened the false bottom of the trunk and withdrew the lace
he mentioned, she fainted.

When the actress came to, she found that a lady inspector had disrobed her
in a stateroom on the steamer and taken five very costly paintings away,
which she was smuggling under her clothes.

By the time the Bradys finished, they had nine smugglers exposed, and fully
quarter of a million dollars' worth of valuables were seized.

The Collector had been watching these proceedings with deep interest.

When his own men reached him, he said to them:

"I'm ashamed of you. Here you let two absolutely green men step in and do
the work you've been at for years, much better than you do it yourselves."

"Well," grimly admitted Gibson, "they've kept their boast and beaten us