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NICK CARTER LIBRARY. ie 4 dl a ahs Ps A) ee a “Does anybody know that you have come to see me? ‘j i h ge to the great de- 5 opie i ian rig cag dt ge : “Nobody hut Mr. Hepperson and Mr. Taylor.’ ive, he asked : 3 2 Ph Oar ra ase to Washington to-night, Mr. Carter?” “Tell them I could not come. I prefer to have nobody | Nick is much more apt to ask questions than to answer ph that sre on the case, _ them. a ery well. he eS } -e the circumstances of the robbery?” he! As Mr. Bowton rose to go, he asked : a “Mr. Carter, have you any hope of recovering the asked. “Qn the 13th of last September,” said Mr. Bowton, | money ?” “when our cashier went to open the vault door, he found “If I had not I should not care to take the case, Mr. that it had b locked open instead of shut.” Bowton.” cc Seog ise : On the following Wednesday an elderly gentleman with “Was the door open?” “No; it was sing but the bolts were thrown back in-| white hair and side-whiskers called at the bank and sent his card in to Mr. Bowton. It read: stead of forward.” ‘Who locks that door?” Nii ‘Mr. Hepperson, the cashier, usually does it himself, Mr. ALEXANDER Harpy. but Mr. Taylor, the assistant cashier, had done it the night before.” “Yes; go on.” Mr. Hardy was shown into Mr. Bowton’s private office. ‘Mr. Bowton,” said he, ‘I wish to open an account “T heard Mr. Hepperson scolding Mr. Taylor for his with your bank.” carelessuess and stepped out to see what was the matter. | I drew the vault door open and found that the lock inside | ton. had been blown to pieces.” “The cashier attends to such matters,” said Mr. Bow- “You will find him outside.” “But I wish you to identify me.” “yw 2?” “T can’t do that, sir. I never saw you before.” “T don’t know. Some explosive had been used. Thein-} ‘‘Then you couldn’t indorse my check?” side of the door was badly smoked up, and pieces of the| ‘‘Not if I know myself.” lock lay on the floor.” “But if you know me vou will.” ‘“How was the explosive introduced ?” Mr. Alexander Hardy took off his wig and whiskers. “That is what we do not know. The police said it was} ‘Nick Carter!” some new method unknown to them.” | “At your service, Mr, Bowton.” “The inner safe, containing the money, was opened in| After he had recovered from his surprise, the banker the same way, I suppose,” said Nick, asked : poh XT ie ‘‘Do you really wish to open an account?” “Did Mr. Taylor lock that also the night before ?” “Yes, as Alexander Hardy.” “No; Mr. Hepperson locked that himself.” Nick put on his wig and whiskers again. “They were both inside locks, were they ?” a ne Hepperson was called in and introduced to Mr. Les. ardy. “And both broken in the same manner?” Nick handed a roll of money to Mr. Hepperson, who, “They seemed to be.” counted and sorted it. “Yet nobody knows how it was done ?” There were some pretty badly worn bills in the lot. “ Nobody.” Mr. Hepperson separated these from the rest. a F/s Fo aes ‘IT notice,” said Nick, “that all the paper money used “You do?” in Washington is new.” ; Yes.” “Yes,” said Mr. Hepperson;: “the treasury is so close ‘How 4 at hand that we always turn in worn money and get new “It is a new method, as you say. I suppose it was] bills for it.” | never done before in Washington, I will explain it to you| ‘Such as that, for instance?” said Nick, pointing to the later. 1 will take your case, Mr Bowton.” pile of old bills that Mr. Hepperson had separated from “Good ! We can catch a train for Washington in about) the rest. an hour. . é “Yes; we send all such bills over to the treasury.” Excuse me a moment,” said Nick, as he left the room.!| ‘‘I suppose you keep it until you get a quantity.” When he returned he said: s : f As No; we send over what we have every day. Strange Now about Sanders! Was it Leggett’s idea to have! brin d deal of . as else pada e ng a good deal of worn money to town and we always 4 ok r + jh: ‘ ” d f retire it as s00n as possible.’ ; aus 1e. Ur, rather, if was suggested tome, When the business of openin é Pah Ue rape per oh PPI ng. pie is Sanford, who is one of | and Mr. Hepperson had hag Wr Bowect wenn hanes irectors, gave it to me. is niete g. “Mr ‘te , i cut it from a San Francisco paper.” e, Mrs. Marquhar, re er I have something to explain to you.” “Ves” ashing ton c sae fee Se eee Fite shea and hig men.” » ci é Vas on’t see how you found it out, but it is true. hs aoply paid for his dinner that night with a fifty-dol-!a good reason for keeping them at work, though. Thess t Vest heré is the bill.” was something vou didn’t know about.” | Nick elunced at the bill which M Fhe ah Medi lana Bia ana Bab it ink ouis tie: r. Bowton handed to| “The day after I came back from New York, Leggett so reported to me that he had seen a suspicious-looking “Very well, Mr. Bowton. Now please li | i ’ to Washington to-night.” ; ee wa et rare “Yes.” ‘6 bbe ih “Yes; and I tl LA ig noon to-morrow dismiss Leggett and his agsist-| could about eee a would want to know all you “You will be there then ?” se bikes a saeE pot fo shadow him ?” “ MiLin ' ve es, a ae we his is Wednesday. I shull be there a week from) ‘Did he fi nd OWE? who he was, if possible.” “pnt ‘No: he shadowed him a little whi | BR Saniye to conducs it in TA OE ee ne wanes Tehell a Add hawn't hech seen since?) eo ae Bn. “Certainly. 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