The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler

The Collector of the Port of New York sat in his office in the Custom House with a look of annoyance upon his face. Several of his chief inspectors were standing about the room with the most uneasy expressions, for they were being censured unmercifully. Just then two men in uniform standing apart from the rest, advanced. They wore the costume of boarding officers, the dark-blue uniforms being garnished with brass buttons and on their heads were caps with bands across the front bearing the word in gilt letters", Inspector". One of these men was tall and muscular, with a bushy black beard, deep gray eyes and a heavy mass of dark-brown hair.