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SLIPPED AWAY. “Look out! You’ll run us down!” The response was a growling oath, as the heavy launch came on, full speed, straight across the river. Nick Carter, sitting at the wheel of another craft …
SECRET FOES AT WORK. In spite of the sharp lookout maintained by Nick Carter and his assistant for the launch with the five rascals in it all the way down to that upper part of Manhattan Island where…
NICK CARTER TASTES SALT. When Nick Carter dashed up to the front entrance of Crownledge in his own big touring car, with Danny Maloney at the wheel, he found Claudia Solado on the porch, looking for …
THE ICE HOUSE IN THE SWAMP. It was hardly ten minutes later when Patsy came again into the library. But, rapid as he had been in his movements, he had not been able to beat his chief. Nick Carter was…
COLD-BLOODED PLOTTING. When Nick Carter entered the building he found himself in a large, half-dark warehouse that had formerly held many tons of ice. A great quantity of moldy sawdust was scattered …
HOW PATSY BROKE IN. The blow on the head, suffered by the detective when he fell to the table, had been a severe one, and, aggravated by another tumble when the table crumpled up beneath him, it had …
CHICK’S FELLOW PRISONER. We must go back to the early morning, at Crownledge, to find out how Marcos and Chick had been kidnapped in the very midst of their friends. The only thing Chick knew was tha…
A WATCHFUL ENEMY. “How have they got you?” asked Chick, after a short silence. “Could we not make a break to get out together?” “If we could get this door down between us, we might,” answered Marcos.…
AN OFFER OF LIBERTY. When Nick Carter and Patsy began to row toward the back of the warehouse, both were on the alert for any enemy who might be on the watch. The famous detective knew by experience …
CAUGHT ON THE FLY. The three toughs dragged Marcos across the floor and behind the screen so quickly that he was gone before Miguel had time to rise from his chair. Obviously his intention was to hel…
