New Nick Carter Weekly, No. 27 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. {himself to mn nore than once. °“Trim can} although no admission fee has been guise his voice just as wellas he can|charged to this show, there will be no lise hist ‘ace, and here lhe is prancing |collection taken up. 1 public with a disguise that] ‘‘Of course I’m here for business, but I ng any effort, | performances. | See, to conceal his voice. | ‘All I wish to do 1s to show vou the av doe Of course the|existence of this power that we call : eee in Kanha 3 City have never|second sight, and then I shall hope that 1 if Te heard him speak and it|some of you may be interested enough in it 1 aes any diflerence to them/|the matter to’ engage me for private the detective appears one way or| work.”’ ther, but suppose that people he is} A man stood up in the audience and B chawta be in t the hall now? |said: te Seems to me quite certain that they | “‘Say, ‘professor,’ 2 droga him. Well, I suppose Trim | teller??? w> 8 Dt MRNESS, but it dc IES look as if | Trim pretended to be greatly offended. vere making a mistake!’ } ‘Pm not,’’ he answered, coldly. ‘‘I ig for a|don’t preteitd to read the lines on your era in which he | several | hands, or to see the future through a pack ie x ori S ey wouiestel ate: at second | of cards. eapat had een Bese in the past, he| “Tt “is a fact, however, that I have a s about to prove the} ojft that other men do not possess and ee so nce of this ny sterious power, and | | T?’m eo1ng to prove it to you. ‘ - tder to make it perfectly clear he| W hen I have done so you can see for EP REC that dozen or more of his listeners. yourselves whether it 1s likely that I can CHIC ould come to the platform and act as a) ook into the future.’ CLO Hnitt ee to watch his movements and | This was just the kind of talk to arouse Mace that h he he did not deceive them. — the poratest interest. 4 Bie: he said this he looked the audience lf the ‘‘professor’’ could do. strange Pe Mia am Ee his eyes rested for amoment) things in public, everybody would feel a con's. that i it was more than likely that he could atte ught he understood the} do stranger things in private. ae a soak he rose and went) prim turned at once to his com ial pee atiorni, be _ land looked them over. ~ i Hat’; ht,’’ the ‘professor’? €X-] cy will experiment : tS Ba" other, > he said, ro outse it will be more interesting to [everybody for me to work with those who fare “ston ger. “Twill begin with you, if you please. S Saying this he looked toward Ge rdon. | The latter came forward. | **Do you live in Kansas City ?”’ asked | Trim, gravely. 2 SEND, Chicago,”’ answered Gordon. “Ah! that is too bad; I hoped — twenty y yon the stage. =P 9 ™ ‘I sho uld be olad, & the “profess sor’ said, solemnly, as “he Jooked them over, | ie fae. Is ay would = on the com- we Fs] make any difference, I’I] make: a haps ning Faas a 19 me comipleteiy,’’ he said} ‘*I want you all to understand that. pangws ad well can see|don’t expect to take money at my public are you a fortune niittee _ with ine after an- NS _| *It sometimes happens that ate; are. }minds that cannot be read quickly and of were well known here. However, it it ‘won't _ : Ls ‘ =a i @!