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THE FUGITIVE. “Now where am I to go?” Morton Parks asked himself this question as he sat down on a fallen tree to rest. He had rubbed the dust of the road on his face and had considerably altered his…
“ONE OF THE BOYS.” “Hello! What’s up, now?” Nick Carter, sitting in his room, at the Windsor Hotel, on Dearborn Street, looked up with a smile, as Chick rushed into the room and hastened to the windo…
THREE MILLIONS AT STAKE. “And I tell you they were both detectives.” “You are crazy on the subject of detectives.” Gilmore sprang to his feet with an oath and pointed around the room. “You’ll soon be…
THE FLAT BURGLARY. It was long past midnight, and a slow, winter rain was falling. Shivering with the cold, and muttering imprecations against the weather, Parks and Nixon left the shelter of the cho…
THE POISON BALL. “If you get a hot foot after you, don’t come here.” “No; the coppers have had pointers enough already.” “We may come back if we get the boodle and come out all right, though?” Parks …
THE MAN IN THE WARDROBE. “There’s a dead man down there.” “Down where?” “In the doctor’s flat.” The man living in the flat above the one where Nick {119} Carter had been assaulted looked up from the…
“THE DOCTOR.” “There! You may set the electric drill in motion to-night, or as soon as you please.” Nixon stood by a basin of water in the cellar, washing his hands. Gilmore and Geary, with smiling f…
A LONG JUMP. “The electric drill ought to be working by this time.” Chester Smith, the wealthy banker, Nick Carter, Chick and two detectives from the city force sat in a room not far from the chophou…
AWAITING NICK CARTER. While these events were transpiring in Chicago the New York chief of police was being interviewed by a woman who had a most remarkable story to tell. So remarkable, indeed, that…
AN HEIRESS IN TROUBLE. “And yet you have some doubts, Miss Templin, whether it really is your father’s body which lies in that vault back there?” commented Nick Carter, as the young lady indicated th…
