New Nick Carter Weekly #18 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Rie. 2 from the moment when the racers for ‘ie in hice s ny Mephisto is entered a fev ales Treadwell Plate left their stables to exer-| days later.” B i cise before the start. _ This conversation took place at about | He did not join in the conversation of | noc n, just when the bookmakers were those around him and expressed noj|beginning to arrive and set up ei | opinion as to the result of the event. | stands 1 in the | oe es No one watched it however, more care-| Trim had been summoned by tele. fully than he. | graph. + Like the majority in the crowd he| Accordingly he had spent a part of the, seemed to be most interested in Starlight! time previous to the beginning of the; for he followed that horse with his glass} races in strolling about the course, simply } constantly. keeping his eyes open for anything eR of } 2h He had not tisked a dollar on the race | | might be useful to him later. ested in it as oF ee: Bay that afternoon. _ This young man was Trim Carter, the | Reactive.” He had been summoned hastily to the| place by O’Brien, Starlight’s owner. _ O’Brien, who was a very suspicious = 5 se man, had become fearful that an attempt | cae. Beaks Pe would be made to trick him out of the! og race, and had hoped that Trim might be, e able either to prevent crooked work or} _ detect it in case it should happen. rim did not take much stock in| bs 2 O’Brien’s suspicions and plainly told the| * et ue horse owner that it was really too late to| _ summon a detective. ie oe e: be mul) We ch’ antahe race,’ ” ne as | and| « May Sie will have to ake his = chances." 4h AIT business, while ictlotiives me to mah Ph __-but he was nevertheless as much inter-| anybody who went to| | vestigation. if the horse i is stil | in mgood ‘con- £ ar had 1 investigated: hic spies with : |the , murderer, wi len as a ‘It looks to me,’’ he said to himeciés . “fas if I shall ies a fine afternoon’ |sport and with mighty little work to do | for it. ‘i wa good many things that inter- , ested him and that it seemed might come | |in handy in case he had to make an at There is no need to mention them all. — One point only is worth noting at this time because it led to one of the clever- fest pieces of detective work that Trim ihad yet done. | Among the bookmakers was a init t whose face immediately struck him as familiar. | Fora moment Trim could not p | but after a little thought he saw rinat the | bookmaker, if he wore a beard and mus- | tache, would look ‘exactly ine a nan with | 01 he had had some deali Th: 1is man was Henry Warren, of the TH of awe & Warren, commission | isult of exposing a good deal | ‘rors talaga: until nea ot the end