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NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. 27 method of committing crime without de-| ‘That was why I thrashed the wall so tection, provided he f ~ the means of| hard, hoping to break his back. _ keeping his snake out of view. | “What I did was to drive him back 4 ‘That is Just what the doctor looked | through the ventilator. Then his master, out for here. - The easing te —— =) ‘suddenly aware that something trouble- course simply to permit the snake to|}some had happened, probably was too “crawl through and that du my pape? an hasty In trying to get control of the snake was hung for the purpose of making agai _ something down which the snake could] At all events the reptile turned upon - glide to the bed. | his master and finished his career at _ **Now the doctor might put ws — sasre Be eee ugh, | certain in’ I ever up to that hole and ‘Start him t pre es heerd of» inly : ren ry ee: _ but he could not compel the snake to are bh remarke orlmy with a ieng _ especially as the reptile was rather tame; | "be : se , SO the doctor had to take chances. 1, ame here, but it doesn’t show us _ “He could set the snake into this room | Ww a Ping i a5 4 crowing pertectly well that if the pet-| Sie Da t git him out of yer head, can son sleeping in the bed. should acci-| | ers “No, ? 1 ‘8 _ dentally turn or in some other way dis- | ae ; and I shan’t until I have got him _ turb the reptile that a bite would follow) *™ ’"y ke RPS PEE - and cause death a ' 0 back into the doctor’s room 5 ey ie tikely, however, and as|? ™Mute, or if you have any objection y ’ ou c ae _ I can see it did hap] Jen, that the paialen }Y cc ae — and fs, lad.” _ would come into this room, stay a while, Pea rake “ 2 gece: : tee pier ee Aan tks io taut aeteves tle. but they did not need to remain there “That explained doctor’s Wig 4 long. Se w d the, sn "ie pey that) He had ake trained se obey Lying ¢ open upon the. desk where the \doctor had bh “The doctor would. let the snake ‘Te- memorandum book shewsag ie as es 2 Main in here for a while and then call self had been the real leader of the gang him bz and the reptile mnew om that with which Ping had been at work - signal that he was about to be fed. — | throughout the country. i _ **Now you can understand “why Twas; All the others, several of who: ac = t how to get at this. © |been im prisoned already, were. merely aken legal means for confederates, pen ing the doctor’ s safe and hac Le und This man, Dr. Walker, had 4 ‘mained in the out-of-the-way ranch, di- recting things and having no hand in the amined work excepting a: he managed a t lawless Mexicans whose opera- tions were mainly in the way of horse Sdecrehaes g. Sea proof that “the. reptile wa & i minal Berne att af he © danger v was s th lat the reptis : Se oting him, for. = sy didn rr dare tor ee the docto a AER a ieee. life and their | Such creatures have a Pe poison might have § 50! ee ire tion ; sol tho ight | 1 7. = ‘a doctor had rec foes reports from ‘the many branches of the organization and on \One page and another Trim found re- | marks about-himself, twigs.” - It all showed that while Ping a a ‘Great med. Stormy, most active leader j in the gang t “but. ys ou, “took se ¢ chanees, srg was the unseen chief. | ; Cia It had evidently b ‘the risk in it, | ‘arrange an or li ha ing g but that the snake} plunder all ois the venti ator right at gee the ganization ‘that i cesgaies : +» - ; /* ? a di j 4 | j _ ail + ca ‘ \. » ~~ ee a a " — ” " . 4 s — . . i ' Ps * “= : ¢ _ | * = = |