New Nick Carter Weekly #24 — page 16: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

, — — ~~ —— _= i | » > - ——_— w« Ee ee a =): ye = ‘ | 5 EK = F . of - a > a <r . f - <li ind : — = a *~ CARTER WEEKLY. landlord of the hotel entered SEN vineed that the brother had knowledge of _ by a policeman. ‘thé robbery. ) _ *What’s going on any way?’’ the | “If he sees,’’ thought Trim, ‘‘that the © -_ Jandlord demanded. ‘evidence points all toward himself, he Pil tell you after I’ve searched this will be likely to confess what he knows a room, ” Trim answered with a significant | and turn suspicion upon his accomplice. ’’ glance at the landlord. Aloud he said: - The latter knew. that Trim wasade-| ‘‘Miss De Leon aud her mother had — tective and accordingly nodded his head. spent the evening at a friend’s house; Trim let go of the clerk and made a they returned shortly after midnight. hasty tour of the room. All he wished to _ “Within an hour before they returned | =, do was to satisfy himself that nobody was it is known that this man, Richard De concealed there. 'Leon, called at the flat to see his sis- _ This took but a few seconds, and when} ter ——’’ | ie returned to De Leon’s sitting Re } on’s sitting room he | ‘‘I went away before she. returned, = found the policeman helping De Leon to interrupted De Leon. 4 ~ his feet. 4 | “You pretended to,’’ Trim responded” ‘‘Handcuffed | ’’ exclaimed the landlord | quickly. ‘*Miss De Leon had not been in at a iu amazement. ‘Why, Mr. Carter, what;her room more than a very few minutes does all this mean ?”’ iwhen she was attacked. : “ Ss _**That’s what I should like to know!’’ A knife was driven into her bod _ muttered De Leon in a low voice. she was left for dead. Tim was ree as certainas he could, ‘“‘The emerald I speak of was stolen Sey be that De Leon had an accomplice who from her dressing case, and when I came se lad heater in the chamber while the strug-|into this room a few minutes ago w= gle was going on in the sitting room, and lying on the table there. who had come into the sitting room, ‘It has sinee disappeared, but that _ Bo up the stone and gone off with it doesn’t make any difference, for I saw it Eada Trim’s attention was taken with with my own eyes rolling across the floor — De toward the ehathber. a De Leon darted a trghtened — —- — = = ie hoped to fore some information ee about this <iea st from De Leon, so ‘toward the chamber. Will he tell what he knows?” though bery and at- Trim anxiously. on Surdex at “the Cemcent apart-| After a moment of hesitation, De ! ei on asked : ‘*Will my sister recover: re ees ae criminal succeeded in getting an. ee _ vom eet one aetna si: thousand dol- — my wearing ae ‘<Small chances, < responded - Trim. SIs_ there. any ne wate aan i 7 ee 7 aon . | , A to - >. > . : 7 . | Cc ij al «, ie ' 4 i. ail man eeoitld not make an ae | this time. was exactly what Trim had t hoped: for, de diate Slime put it did- ae result as the detective | oa eee ei 7; name See RE pee standing around an istening, 4 perhaps se Sa | theme were ott er reasons. ae or was “th e sli test chance that his sis! ioht r ma: uld ke Pr ly ; . Ud tell | ny |) r as he was $ conce uid tell m any | | Delief that s sO far as he wa rne © 8 ee a = —— ee goon noe a . 4 ~ \ . nf 1 ana = =. s ' '