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Paying the Price

Paying the Price

By: Nicholas Carter Completed
Language: English
English ·Mystery & Detective ·Completed
·Nicholas Carter
13
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13 Chapters
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Paying the Price(Nick Carter Stories No. 146, June 26, 1915)follows the famed detective as he steps into a case filled with hidden dangers and calculated risks. The investigation leads him through tangled motives and perilous encounters where every clue carries the possibility of betrayal or discovery. As the pursuit intensifies, courage and sharp reasoning become essential tools in confronting adversaries determined to evade justice. Within this fast-paced tale connected withNicholas Carter, readers encounterdangerous pursuit, flashes ofbold strategy, and the suspense of a mystery where every move may demand a costly price.

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THE RECTORY MURDER. Nick Carter paused only a moment before replying. He took that one moment to consider the other strange matter that had brought him to Washington, and whether compliance with the r…

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CONFLICTING EVIDENCE. The library was a square room of moderate size, comfortably, though simply furnished. An open desk stood against one of the walls, with a rise of shelves on each side, partly fil…

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THE MYSTERIOUS BANDAGE. The first thing to catch Nick Carter’s eye after stepping out on the veranda was a strip of white cotton cloth, also a piece of common white string, both lying on the veranda f…

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A CONNECTING LINK. Nick Carter had spent much less time at the St. Lawrence rectory than one might infer from the nature and extent of his investigations. He had covered the ground rapidly, despite th…

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IN THE TOILS. It was noon when Nick Carter entered the vast building on Pennsylvania Avenue, in which the state, war, and navy departments of the nation are located. Nick proceeded at once to the west…

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HOW NICK SIZED UP THE CASE. Ten o’clock the following morning found three persons seated in Harold Garland’s apartments in the Grayling—Nick Carter and his two assistants, Chick Carter and Patsy Garva…

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NICK CARTER’S VENTURE. Nick Carter’s project was a daring one, even though ventured against crooks of ordinary caliber. Against as lawless, determined, and desperate a knave as Andy Margate, who, if N…

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CAUGHT IN A BOX. Nick Carter gazed for a moment without speaking. The face of the knave peering in at him wore an expression the detective did not fancy. Mingled malice, merciless hatred, and vicious …

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BETWEEN TWO FIRES. Chick Carter and Patsy Garvan, though this case was one in which nearly all of the work had devolved upon Nick Carter himself, were not idle while their chief was engaged as describ…

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STRANGE PRECAUTIONS. While Grail was shaving, at that two-minute gait which, once acquired at West Point, is never forgotten, a sudden suggestion came to him, and he laid down his razor to draft out o…

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