New Nick Carter Weekly #24 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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ll - — 5 BG 2 se ont Reta ‘dish shat Trim had a Se to aiter to bring it. preci dish. | The detective leaned back in his chair! a little so as to allow the waiter to clear the table and set the new dish down. _ The waiter, who had his d dishes, stumbled and in trying to keep » from falling held his hands so far forward | that his dishes came against Trim. sche detective dodged a little back, and > waiter losing his balance entirely, let srvthing fall to the floor. A little exasperated, but _ at the e accident, Trim stooped pic ‘the wreck. over tol help —_ asia ’ in the s window at his back and something | Le flew across. the room, hit the opposite] ~ wall and fell to the floor. ioe Tt had 1 come with tremendous force, for he hole it made in the glass was a sriall | e anda deep dent on the wall showed x here oo apa Bae SSPUCK. = So poser sieht of it as it fell to the a or or and ett to the window. ag Te was: just in time to see a man! dressed 1i - an ordinary workman dodg-| | ris ight mister,” thought the detec- gall know you again,”? Then he stepped quickly across the ‘room a nd fo onnd the article that had been, bd - 27 - ; « . »* _ 4 _ - . «ir ~ le TR 3 0} ‘oN THE TELNORAPH WIRE. a tossed a bil] to the waiter anc 1 down the stairs: to the main ee was then some delay in serving | his ut the tical came at ae , and he ae and he re ordered the| roa Belare the waiter vetnried witl ie ta dificulty for him in the pursuit of the 1ands full of he bent down there was a crash | °*T thoug NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. 25 “That don’t go! Yon pay your bil] here or you’ll cet into trouble.’ = Well, qT hate to ee three or = Sos ina hier lve wot to.” He accordingly oie a bill into the Sheers waiter’s hand and was then allowed tvery second of delay meant greater man who had hurled the fake emerald through the window. As the detective dashed out of the door a inan who had been standing there idly turned about suddenly to enter and Trim ‘eollided with him; no harm was done ex- cept that the detective was delayed a little ‘more. Having recovered from the shock of | running against this man, Trim went on | across ‘the street and turned the corner 'where he had seen the workman. On the groud just around the corner was a sling such as boys sometimes use for throwing stones at birds. Trim picked it up as he ran. ht that piece of glass came in with more force,’’ he reflected, ‘‘than it exX- | ‘could have done if it had been throws by a man’s hand alone.” , | He thrust the sling in a pocket where \he already had the fake emerald and con- ‘tinued on at full speed. He saw his man not much more than ‘two hundred yards ahead of him, also on ‘the dead run. _It was just after Trim had turned the or tee ‘appeared ona cross street’two blocks away. The fugitive ‘aboard. ‘Trim ee” s | conductor either | i ' 4 houted for it, but the a3 ax would ‘seed 1 ' were, car was far away C aa ‘corner and caught sight of the fugitive = that a street car going ower the city z hailed this car ict jumped