New Nick Carter Weekly, No. 27 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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<—s = —— Leo ¢ os - all : ‘ = > 1 ; | -_ EW ‘wiox’? CARTER WEEKLY. | Murder - is” a . serious matter; ‘*Yes, I think Iwill.” al ae Se ‘“Then I want to ask a favor of you.”’ nd ie: e's Siueradly a good fee for| ‘‘What is it, Charley?” king up sich a thing, isn't there: 2” in-| **Let me go along ?”? ee Gordon. ‘“Why of course I shall-be glad to have ‘‘Oh, sometimes, but that doesn’t really} you do so, but vou mustn’t think that wae BDy difference; of course I work for | I’m going to Jet you get into any scrape. and Pm going to getasmuchasI! ‘‘If it’s a case that involves danger I'l ; 1 nt if the « case ae me I have you iocked up before letting you ‘take any risks.”’ = ‘I’m not a detective,’’ responded Gor- | don, “but I reckon I knew how to take : icare of myself.’ pe teens ') “Tf you can take care of yourself as well as you play billiards, you’ll get along. 'Let’s look up the time tables.” They did so, and when they found that a train that would bring them to Kansas City before noon of the following day 1;/Trim telegraphed to J. V. Dent to say ithat he would undertake the case, and e * e J ; J ‘ « 4 - hb 4 be = i. - a | . « a . “ Ls . + = r i ate ] 80 a to ‘the readin nl was taking. rego t all. the: morning an _ ft giespanion.” ak ae Look through every COlnE y “hel see if you can find anything | that he would arrive by the train men- tioned. ~- The young men then made ready for a <% yent several minutes in this/their journey, matter which caused work vend found several dispatches from | 'Trim very little time, for he was always he western town, but not one of them |prepared to be on the move, and along in | 52 Se d any hint of the murder. the evening they were taking their piaces ne ‘Wo « “ ’clock in the afternoon,’ said |in a sleepi ng car. ae I. am. “TI his message was filed at about}. Trim had bought a handful of evening +e on eee ° TASS eee ipapers, and these he looked over as the a der may not have occurred |train got under way. | is nothing in them about a ‘murder i in Waneis City. > —**Seems to me that’s a little odd, * he | said, ‘‘and yet come to think of it, if a- nurder had taken place as late as noon it ~— eioht be a pretty difficult matter to get < ere I was staying telegrams into Chicago in time for print- Same 4 that = the murder was comi-/|ing in an afternoon edition. wi AN i ecine time this forenoon , and that! ‘‘I guess the thing is all dene eS he ive no time in trying to get a detec- how, we’ll know to-morrow mot © matter. Hess before we get to Rar nsa: e: caks well for Dent. I must! anal; be able: to ae n next train goes to Kansas. | d erhaps it had only | » ' 4 ' : = © 7 2 rf y ’ » | li ' Lal ad . i " = | ‘ig ¥ coal = a i « “a . - ¢ — 3 = - ‘ t hel . a) + . a : w 4 ; & age ¢ A ve i _- , “ a : - " i ‘ . = bas bs * * . we! ih * 4