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NEW NICK CARIER WE REKLY Sehouti be picked up in two places in one ‘error,’’ he thought, as he hastened away - day. = __ (from the stairway into the crowd. | The voice was that of the man with | “Tf I had kept on my countryman’s ‘hom the detective had made the bets. uniform they would have regarded that You're a suspicious chap, Fein zy | break I made as the result of curiosity on said the first voice. ‘‘Ever since you. ‘the part of a country chump out to see made that twenty-thousand dollar day-. the town, and I might have learned light hau] down on Wall Street you think something more about that twenty- ~~ lie = —-_ << ¥ 4 - ‘*Well, Pll go and make the bet in the | Street.’ _ morning, then.’’ a Nick, anxious to get a view of the sth piper Fr man whose voice he did not recognize, | sded on a table to look: A HOWLING SWELL. ~ é 7. = | ——__ se. i 7 -~ Promptly at eight o'clock next morn- “The table gave way beneath his eral: Carter’s private office, He had the appearance of a man who | night of it, but was still ’ aa w In a moment the men im the room be- = - yond » were on their feet. sprang to the door through which | shad had a hard ed the room, closed and full of pluck. im Rie let tieedes a doah-for ‘Did everthing go all right?’’ Nick asked. ‘*Yes, I was peasonahly succesatell 4 “Well” for my ] scored any very Cotiant success after we f separated. Atter a good deal of hard work I struck just the place I wanted, and then a table broke down with ime, —_ “At the bor: he was met by two eim- __ ployees of the place whose attention had a - - we ¢ : acted by asl noise of the fall. 1 asked, eedty. _ **Phat ain’t Pomp,’’ shouted the other, <a saie for wee pistol; ‘‘that’s sont? . _ aa bullet.” ‘ After receiving his assistant’s report out ard and quick, and’ Nick dressed himself in the costume in gota 1 mi ne 4 went | ms which he had first met the Wall pe , and took his way to that gentle- man’s office. - 7 ‘Tell Mr. Wheeler,’’ he said to the clerk in the outer of ae se “fore the men at the table could get. ‘man upon t hi “ir feet, or get where they could ta nak any effort to stop him, the detec- . ‘S % ve was at the outer door confronting | ea os egro who had admitted him. ; es id ky: sprang to the door as though | deal.” t his. exit. uzzle of a revolver pressed against his room _ temp! €, al d sank trembling to the floor. The broker appeared to be awaiting Ss ee As Ni ick stepped out and bounded the arrival of te SSE ; down the st 11 Ss a bullet struck the wall. a ae ita. Ta me: af f mind. nePp - - 7 everybody in town is after your money.’’ thousand-dollar daylight haul on Wall and fel] sy floor with a crash. ‘ing Chick made his appearance at Nick part, I don’t think [ and I got out of the joint just ahead ot a ce, ‘‘that I want to see him in regard to that Lackawanna bes F ori | ‘“You’re to be shown in at once,”’ said = ae Bie pext moment he’ felt the cold the clerk, opening the door to the innet nd