New Nick Carter Weekly #18 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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| | NEW NICK CARTER WEEKL 7 €Veffort of Warren and tis clerk, Frank ik rection, paying no attention to the result | = perk to conceal the crooked dealings of of the race. The steeple chasers in the field kicked ria, had given Trim a bogus clew up such a cloud of dust as they came “i Which he had followed much more suc- down the home stretch that he could not cessfully than they had | 1 for. distinguis clearly where the jockey, le The details of this unusual case have Matthews, lay for a moment. ae -n ore on record in ‘“‘Trim in Cincin-| When the dust cleared away he saw a ? No. 17 New Nick Carter Li-| ‘number of race-track employees and other dy, rary, and they need to be referred to| Persons running to the jockey’s S assist- me here pear * sot the reason that when he| ance. ““had finished with the Hardy murder} He also saw O’Brien hurrying with a case. “Trim had made up his mind that’ few friends from the betting ring across , Warren and Beck would bear watching. | the track to the same spot. Ss He al: iga-| Half a dozen men coming from differ- “tion of their business methods, which|ent directions, came up to Matthews at »showed that their commission business | just about the same time. i aS ceed the most ] part a nck apie scheme} At that instant the cloud of dust of arn _ |eleared sufficiently for Trim to see them. Just then a clumsy man standing beside | Trim joggled his elbow so that his glass was disturbed, and more than that, the _ suit} n lost his balance and clutched at }|‘Trim’s arm for support. The result was that the glass fell. atio “the busin ss was - given up en an x disappeared. willing to Dring | eit tisfied that: ahey sae Sak atte te ti heir swindling operations again in Cin- | i cinnati. —piar, ye? . ; ta. x r- Pye a 'should have been able to see that face | more clearly. i . = | ; ‘ a, 3 * ‘ee ‘ f , 7 bs “ Matthews now that I might as well _ course, he would| up the glass and go out there m yself.”” see whether Warren| Accordingly he put the glass in case, slung it over his shou okedness at as « -_— ‘4 _ nt) / a 7 i 4 ' ia - “3 By ‘thie Gese he had wee tees th ‘Matthews had been hited up Dy | | men ob were err r ying hi 7? : ? i ? ® d ‘ | ¥ ~ ” ° \ = F a , ' S . | = , , hones Hl i - | jesion , asaie . t, is likely |. cee. it comes san betti iehe * e boo il was i in any| cith O’! 3rien Byers “ede t. did_not give i. Wagner ao ee, - OL < ; | Ys 7.5 ‘ A 4 , ~ a — — a ae ee AU + are mt | me SS ce 4 1, .. » 2 is INM ft i x ee bree & AS - “ ——— > # me ater a ei ode aa ais Eat See fe * Tad r ~ al eng ee Ga fa # i \ —— ; R = il” ae! V4 Ps | = _ 1 te F . — «| xf - 2. : = e 5 - 1 . . " 3 - * = ‘ ‘“Confound it!’ thought Trim as he | picked the glass up, ‘‘if this clumsy idiot _ ve Therefore he paid attention to other | could have waited a half second longerI ‘There are so many men. arou id | Ider and made. his way. 1 a the = gt : ds stand to the: open > a . A Ne te Same” , 4 ra u . i : Ce ay . =" wey : __ ‘ « . = a 4 d a . < ” —_— ¥ of y = | F yy | . = . * ’ ’ = ‘ ‘ “~ t ra u . », = a | : + —_— ~ ot Oe , c. : oe a — 7 —_— = . 7» 4 y A sell y : 7 ~~ et toe Ale Lee ee § ' - 1) v i - ——— . —— - > ar E aa , ioe ff a "a ‘ ; . ; ~ vi