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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 …
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 fi…
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 …
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 t…
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 wes…
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 Garv…
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 …
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…
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 descri…
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 …
