New Nick Carter Weekly #24 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. The young detective had devoloped a/| “theory of the case that was undoubtedly | correct, except possibly as to details and | him by a pawnbroker in a distant he had proven that the prisoner whom | the city. the police believed to be guilty was inno- cent, but when it came to catching the real criminal, luck seemed to be dead| against him. Of course Richard De Leon was not} was false. _teleased after Trim’s investigation of the drops of blood. to catch the same car back. He was still held on a charge of being | an accomplice in the crime, for the sight of the fake stone in his room and other evidence was sufficient for holding him. For two days after his interview with the chief, Trim was busy in making visits to pawnbrokers and to dealers in precious | hoping to find a livery stable or to come stones. : across a stray hack. He had called on all such persons in} ‘There was no stable within a couple of the city before going to Mr. Grey’s party, | miles, and as luck would have it, no hack to warn them to be on the lookout for a| happened to be out that way. fake emerald. | gee ee Under ordinary circumstances these They all agreed to do so and to let him | facts would not have disturbed him, and Know if anything suspicious occurred. he would have walked back to the city _ It seemed as if a good many suspicious cheerfully; but now he was blue, for it things occurred, for every time Trim went | seemed as if fate was determined that ; into the ot. Charles Hotel he found a /every little thing should become an ob- message waiting for him from some dealer | stacle to his plans and hopes. distance of the place. | When he arrived something had gone wrong with the truck \of the car so that it could not be moved. No other car would be up from the city for half an hour. Trim looked around the neighborhood = or pawnbroker. It was shortly after noon, and as he hat” , He faithfully looked up every matter) breakfasted early he had ‘not walked far thus brought to his attention, but in| before he realized that he was hungry; 3 every case found that whatever it was then he kept his eyes open for a hotel or F that had aroused the sepia of the|restaurant, and it was so long before he ripe ‘powubroker, it had nothing to do with|came to one that he began to think that a the dD this was another piece of bad luck. i e Spent two. or three times daily to| ‘‘Just because I want a square meal,’” = = = the: eee apartment house to inquire 1 ‘he reflected, grimiy, ‘‘the restaurant De Leon’s health. 1a De The answer keepers in this art: of the town "was the sam 2 every time: gone out of business. ”? She was resting quietly and doing as} He came to a restaurant at last, = ‘well as could be expected — under the cir-|ever, and went in. af was s the t time Seki the em aking their dinner. a= ie Stitcdntisne cothane happenc ed oi -po’s ehesdance apart he ti me e set by Nick Carter’ hae all ( was n0 _further along ha th beginning . Trim had never been so anxious c 1 his life. | Be ec SES: ce ‘worst of it” was oe he could do| tt nothing exce tor soar rep the false | ' = = > : | ef “Is there any way that I can ge ig to eat gsce in a hurr ” prow the cashier I ssponc c up when he set out from his hotel to look up another clew ‘that had been cent . : A street car took him to within a short | | there it took him but | ‘a few minutes to discover that the clew He hurried back to the car line, hoping - He was greatly annoyed to find that Every seat at every table was occupied ; ~ employes of a Trim turned in exasperation 2, the ; cashier: . | | > ae a & ~ = ‘| were anldaia their | turns to sit dows pero