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Y aee Si ia eet NICK CARTER LIBRARY. 5 “Yes; Leggett thought so, and so did I.” “ Yes.” | “Would you recognize those men if you saw them?” “You will attend ?” ; a4 think I would. Leggett described them very closely| “I shall.” | to me.” “Will Nick stepped to the back window. Handy: s friend Mee suierree ae So eee “Tg that one of them ?” he asked, pointing to an [rish- Mr. Bowton sent a note ateonce, Rand Mrs. Elton’s man lighting his pipe in the alley behind the bank. answer soon came. She said she would be delighted to ae pe if 1s, sa porous in amazement. meet any friend of Mr. Bowton. 1e Irishman saw them looking at him and hastil **T will call ” slipped around the corner of a building. 4 said Nick. amen hia ave pis Gk. ak accra on bain does this mean, Mr. Carter? Do you understand| At half-pust five that afternoon two foreign-looking it gentlemen entered Savoni’s restaurant, and took seats at Nick drew Mr. Bowton to the side window. a table near one of the westerly windows. “Ts that another of them?” he asked, pointing at a| One of them had a heav ili 2a, c y military mustache. The ot! man with a heavy black beard just coming out of a hall-| wore a Van Dyke beard, and had leat green eatebinees way on the side street. his left eye. 3 eee any word!” exclaimed Mr. Bowton. “Thisis| They conversed in French. mopoderLul. In a few minutes Ed Sanders came in and took his cus- Pe ee Two, is he?’ oe tie at a small table in the darkest corner. Z : \ : , Pavan lex nueated ttmedothes hallwae: 4 fee Pa vaiter took his order aud brought him a good » Mr. Carter, when did you reach Washington ?”’ After Sanders had eaten it and lighted a good cigar, he 3 Half an hour ago. called for his check. The waiter made it out and handed And you already know two of these men. I can’t see|it to him, saying: through it.” ‘“Two-eighty, sah.” _ Lbs perfectly simple.” Sanders drew a bill from his vest pocket. Are they pals of Sanders ?”’ Just as he did so the Frenchman with the mustache ‘““We shall know more about that after a while.” reached across the table foru match. The rays of the The office-boy brought in a card bearing this inscrip-|sun coming in at the window were reflected from a pecu- €ion : liar ring on his finger, and threw a strong light upon the J. LLEWELLAN GREGGORY. bill in Sanders’ hand. ‘ i It was but a flash, such as a mirror makes when it is What does he want?” asked Mr. Bowton. moved in the sunlight, but it was enough, for at just that “Wants to see you,” said the boy. mament the other Frenchman was apparently looking “Tell him lam engaged. Have Mr. Hepperson find out| through the window with one eye, and, as a matter of what he wants.” fact, watching Sanders very closely from under the green The boy came back in a moment. patch with the other. ‘“He won’t see anybody but you, Mr. Bowton, and he} “Did you catch it, Nick?” the Frenchman’ with the says it’s very important.” queer ring signaled to his companion. “Tell him I will be out in a moment,” said Mr. Bowton.| “Yes, Chick,” the other signaled back, “it was a one- The boy disappeared. dollar bill.” “Better let him come in,” said Nick; “I can go out if} From behind the green patch Nick watched the waiter necessary.” with his left eye, while his right one seemed to be looking Nick opened the door and in walked Mr. Greggory, 4/in another direction. young dude with a down mustache, sucking the immense| The waiter slipped the one-dollar bill which Sanders silver head of his cane. had given him out of sight, and took from his palma “Ts this the third one?” said Nick, as he closed the| fifty-dollar bill, which had been there all the time. door. He gave the fifty-dollar bill to the cashier and canried Mr. Bowton dropped back in his chair, completely be-| the change, forty-seven dollars and twenty cents, to San- wildered. ders. “Mr. Carter, you are a wizard,” he said. Sanders gave the twenty cents to the waiter and left “No, I’m not. Sit down, Chick. I want Mr. Bowton to| the room. get acquainted with you.” Nick took his check and Chick’s to the cashier’s desk “ And this is your famous assistant, Mr. Carter?” and laid down a one-hundred-dollar bill. “‘Yes; this is Chick.” “fs that the smallest you have ?” asked the cashier. “And the black-bearded man was——” “Tt is,” said Nick, in broken English. | “Chick.” “Everybody has big bills to-day,” said the cashier, ? “ And the Irishman ?” counting out the change. oe “Who was the Irishman, Chick ?” There was a fifty-dollar bill in it. ‘“Begob, sor, Oi’m afeard that was Chick, too.” Nick looked at it carefully. “And you’ve been here all this time?” exclaimed the; “This is badly worn,” said he. “Could you give mea bank president. better one ?” “T have,” responded Chick. “The chief got me started; “It is the only oneI have. It is perfectly good. I just for this city before you were out of his house.” took it myself.” | a Nick put the bill into his pocket and walked away. 7 Tp SLAG “Now for the bicycles,” he said, when he and Chick were outside. At seven o’clock the night force of waiters came on CHAPTER III. |duty at Savoni’s, and Tom Jackson, who had waited on Sanders at dinner, was relieved. _ In a few minutes he mounted a bicycle and rode away toward the Washington Monument. . But he did not go to the monument. He turned intoa THE RESTAURANT PUZZLE SOLVED. “‘T am an ass,” said Mr. Bowton. dark street near the old Van Ness house and rode up and “No; you are a banker,” Nick answered. down this deserted street several times. “T am not a detective, that is sure. But vou have] Presently a woman came speeding on a wheel from the taught me a lesson which J shall not forget. After this I] monument grounds. will carry out your instructions to the letter.” nay She spun past Jackson and said: “Then L think we shall have no trouble. 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