New Nick Carter Weekly #24 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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_ * | * ‘ + as “a - a ri ~~. * 7 > . } NEW NICK CARTER that car, but I’ve seen my man, and I’ll| Men women were hurrying in tne _ know him again and will find him, too.’’/same. direction that the carriage was a Thinking thus, he took the fake taking, and presently the driver stopped. emerald from his pocket and examined it.| ‘‘I can’t goany further,’’ he explained, é On one of its many faces he saw some and Trim looked out to see what was the marks that had not been there when he/| matter. head and the = gave it to the De Leons. ‘“There’s a fire just These marks were not easily made} police have roped off the,street.”’ : out, but after examining them with a} Trim got out, and climbing to the: : magnifying glass as he walked along, driver’s seat, looked over the heads of the ie Trim saw. that they represented two crowd and saw that the car he was — = knives crossed. ‘chasin eg had been stopped just within the “The sign of the Nanigos,’’ he said to fire lines. peo -atiselt, * It was less than a block away. eS | suspicions are correct, then.| ‘‘Of course the fellow has left the car >a Campo is connected with the secret by this time,’’ he thought, ‘‘but I may society of criminals that I had dealings get some information about him from the with in Mexico, and his man who threw conductor.”’ the piece of glass at meis one of the He accordingly paid his driver and _ gang. forced his way through the jam to the eS “There is no doubt that Campo dis- rope, where he had no difficulty in per- | aes covered this fake before he got around to | syading a policeman to admit him within - offer it for sale or for a loan. ‘the lines. . ¥’ ae «. w 7 _ » wiiwe ou | PAL - _ : i. a a” j - 2 __ “When he realized that he had been) ‘Phe car was deserted » by all pace pt the ere fooled he scratched the picture of the ‘conductor and driver. Trim learned from them that no pas- senger. had left the car until they came to the fire lines; then all had got out and scattered in different directions. The nasaidiabdias thinight he remem- red that the particular passenger about whom Trim asked had gone in one direc- tion, but the driver was quite as certai that he had gone in another. ‘This is the worst run of luck I have } ever known,’’ thought Trim as he left | the car and looked about for the m 3 convenient way of getting through the Bet y aaa fire lines. oe a ie Et , on, As he was about to step from the street = _ ¢ab that he could hire, and at last found to the sidewalk, a line of hose burst and | ee aes seek the driver t = SOMO W ang 28¢ the full force of the water ———— acum’ q = The fg * him stumbling act he walk > edie: ae. ip pe 5 wot | “Hey was s drenched t iro igh | but 3 not t burt, 7 to poet as quickly as “possible, ; i) re as. as wiping the water from his_ eyes, he Thee ned to stand so that he was looking — _|at the burning buildi Yee a oad was on the OPE osite | dagger on the glass with a diamond and got one of his men to throw it at me. _ Ee . ‘*This is encouraging; it shows that: aS Dm watched by the scoundrels and if I give | % = them time enough they’ll make other _ attempts upon my life and so give mea .. chance to catch them. ae - “The trouble is that I can’t give them Pe aE ime enough. I must overhaul the man_ = hay who t ate ew this at me before the day is a. Sap: =; tas By t ) s | time the street car Ago the | im gare on, looking always fora e ad ecer Satiy'3 gone along | are th at there was a) —_— f e | . et | be. t | tene 1ement | house > and a4 2