efficiency of the fine police work kept anything like order.

Cautiously the motor car edged along while the daring pedestrians
seemed to scramble from beneath the very wheels.

And then a cheer arose which proclaimed the presence of Hanlon,
the mysterious possessor of second sight, or the marvelous reader
of another's mind--nobody knew exactly which he was.




CHAPTER III

THE STUNT


Bowing in response to the mighty cheer that greeted his
appearance, Hanlon stood, smiling at the crowd.

A young fellow he seemed to be, slender, well-knit and with a
frank, winning face. But he evidently meant business, for he
turned at once to Mr. Mortimer, and asked that the test be begun.

A few words from one of the staff of the newspaper that was
backing the enterprise informed the audience that the day before
there had been hidden in a distant part of the city a penknife,
and that only the hider thereof and the Hon. Mr. Mortimer knew
where the hiding place was.