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A BOLD PROPOSAL. “You say he cannot travel to-day, doctor?” “Impossible, Mr. Carter!” “He would be in a drawing-room on the Pullman, and every care would be taken to make the journey easy for him.” T…
THE DEPARTURE FOR PENZA. There was no other word spoken for an appreciable space of time. Prince Marcos could hardly comprehend the possibility of the plan, and was silent. Nick waited for him to say…
A PUZZLE FOR MIGUEL. There was no train from Newport that night by the time the Princess Laura Marcos, mother of the wounded prince, got the telephone message from Miguel, and she did not feel equal …
ON THE ROAD TO JOYALITA. Four days had passed since Nick Carter, in the character of Prince Marcos, had glided out of the Grand Central Terminal in New York City. He and his three companions were tra…
A ONE-EYED BEAUTY. Nothing occurred to disturb the supper which Nick Carter and his two assistants enjoyed later. Phillips oscillated between the dining room and the kitchen regions, bringing the dis…
WHEN THEY WOKE UP. It was just about the time that Nick Carter discovered the loss of the diamond-incrusted watch and fob which were known collectively as the Seal of Gijon, when Patsy awoke from a s…
THE TRAIL TO THE CAVE. The sun was well up, and the whole rugged landscape began to seethe under its direct, unshadowed rays, when Chick, after an hour’s run, suddenly stopped the car. They had been …
A RACE WITH A ROCK. The car that Nick Carter drove was good for a mile a minute on any sort of road. He did not push it to anything like that speed now, with a yawning precipice only a few yards away…
RASCALS READY FOR ACTION. In a handsome room in the royal palace at Penza, capital of Joyalita, a man in a gorgeous uniform sat at a heavy mahogany table, writing. It was very early in the morning of…
THE AMBUSH IN THE PASS. “We are about fifteen miles on the Carita side of the border line,” remarked Nick Carter, as he sat in his big car outside Mala’s hotel in Paron, waiting for Phillips to bring…
