New Nick Carter Weekly #15 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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| divided this room from the one occupied | | by Dr. Walker. _ When Trim arrived there he looked in| } asurprised way at the | | and then at the ceiling just above him. _ ‘**What is that?’ he asked, pointing -a small hole in the wall just above the! B bed and an inch or two below the ceiling. ‘That is for ventilation,’’? answered | PMisc Edith. ‘} ‘‘No murderer could hev gone through | _thet,’’ remarked Stormy, who had been | looking on with great interest. Et reckon a % got stuck tryin’to get through thar.’ CP hink so?’ responded Trim indiffer- | ventilator. ; abe ut 1 iT. 1 pittle holes, cut just sake of ventilation, and. there was no | a doubt whatever that as Stormy had said, = passage was too smé ll for a large- Ss sized Bie Soe a . | th the ventilator. "He onus j see through into the doctor’s| Toom. er: Rr ” te remarked to himself, ‘that Phere should be a ventilator : sim ply | Setween two rooms. 2 _ “Tf they wanted to get fresh air in here | * t would connect with the outside ?’’ + oO oment got down again. a a = “That ventilator, ? he remar espot ded: Miss Walker with a}. a eee rti m3 il | "It doesn’t x pat icularly new, im, ‘‘but I was quite ing had | been n made recently. What is | » SO “that oe , - acne \. . ly hi 4 of _. oo . e —_— ui ra ; a r sa | ‘ " - ~ ” . 7 ; | Ld - Ll i“ ] te 5 a 7 . - P| : i Py i a — wy | - a ” 4 -_ - 5 4 ee = ‘NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. Hoor for a moment. good-sized mouse would ent , who had his eyes fixed upon the | There seemed to be iktion unusual | the Ceath In many buildings he had seen like that for the d own,’ better to 6.5 don’t underst: u,’’. said Miss Walk 22 and you,’’ said Mis: ‘Ss stepped upon “the Weadbourd of the bed| ind thus brought his eyes upon a level | ant by “that ‘few ni ‘fect te come near hj | theref go and ter’s Wway,”? hy didn’t they put the ventilator so that | said nothing, however, and after a | bell or that she had.”’ when bbs uncle to the’ ittle i iron it is | there i is firm in | with ercing | 1 lup ‘Set 7 i = i : tl ‘ ’ is oom We , at . |! * od all # = -- - . _ = ~_? ‘ ’ ; Bt > P > ° . “ &, , - *.: 21 ‘That’s a bell pull,’ said Miss | Walker, “that communicates with the kitchen. 1? Trim gave the cord a yank. ‘IT wouldn’t do that,’’ exclaimed Miss . Walker, alarmed, “for the servant who 1S now in the bite het might answer it and findin g that you were here, might re- | port the matter to my uncle.”” é¢ The servant won’t answer it,’’. re- ‘Sponded Trim. | What makes you think so?’? Pll ask you first if this bell pull Wasn’t put up here at the time the ven- tilator Was made.” res, it Was. ’? And were both arranged previously to of your sister ?’’ “Ves.” Trim Save the cord another yank, Y ve a good mind to pull the ay ’ he said, ‘but I reckon it will be leave it where it is.”’ “Why, didn’t you ever summon aserv- pulling it?” Vou must remem ber,’ ’? she answered, I have occupied this room but a ightsand as the servants have a per- Tror of my uncle, they don’t like to S room unless they have to; ore when I want to get anything. I get it myself, and that was my sis- ‘“*T don’t think that I. ver pulled that “It wouldn’t have done you any good ‘if - you had,’’ remarked Trim. “Why not ?? ie ‘“Because it’s a dummy. | mean that it is not attached : tly what I mean. That is tied to above that it the wall. “The bell pull doesn’t com ununicate hy, I “So do I. eu S3 wonder “Miss Wai cer led the | rmy followed hers cs wonder what nae ange _ it :