New Nick Carter Weekly, No. 28 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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19 “Will you Fans me fifty if yer win ?’’ ‘“Why, yes.”’ ‘Well, den, you bet on Daisy for de 2 ai the s ne ws over town. oe “Tt's | oo early for news over town. 7 [here ATE. much going on there till Hiandicap to-morrow. ”’ - afternoc yn. You mean ee the races, of, ‘‘But, my deah sir, what’s the mattah - course: with Denver Bay ?”’ : : “pd like % know how to win a couple _ “De hoss ain’t in it.” of hundre | “ py his name is on the cah d, deah { faa “*VYou won't find A troin ime if you, boy.’ _ stand there all day.’ ‘I tell you,’’ said the other, pounding ; long,’? said the other, |his fist on the table in drunken imps : - losing ¢ whe door with a bang. ‘‘I didn’t|tience, ‘‘de hoss ain’t in it!” _ know but what de dude might 5 ti be But, my deah boy, I’ve got money 2 _treat, " he added, sneaking back to his’ bet c on Denver ten. now.” = 3 “SAW, e ged Nick, as the fellow disap- | Ad font see how. = : ‘“Tust touch the bell and we'll ‘“If de-hoss don’t start all de arg will SRE Senitthing more to drink.’’ be declared off, won’t dey ?’? _ =. By this - time Morris was considerably! Nick sat for some moments in silence. Sander the influence of liquor. “Here are the two schemes,’’ he 3 He swallowed his &hisky sullenly, and thought. ‘“‘Johnson wants the horse to z Joo sed at his companion after the wise ‘tun and be-beaten, and Brower does not ; . manner of half-drunken men. want the beast to start.’” —**¥ou didn’t get a ‘“Wa’'t do you say ?”’ with a hiccough. Nick was thinking fast, and did not — Ee. aarawe's what I’m waiting for. You answer for some time. : promised, you know.” _ ‘‘I’m responsible for the Brower end of — ou, pardner, I took you imto/the scheme,’’ he thought. ‘The fellow at poolroc o vou out of a couple! doesn’t dare to risk his ten thousand er 32 “of hundred, and Pda got forty fer doin’ lars. a s < alae eee .. The detective smiled as he thought ser ‘That's esite awful!’’ exclaimed Nick, | how little confidence crooked sporting wing Mp3 ie hands 1 in astonish went. | men have in each other’s word. _ “Tn this case,”’ he t Chom, “it t IBY be o=: bet yet, ” he said, J ab 4 a = ; _ 4 T" t (; ; ‘. Ts L.0T WH. ia » | | A L. a é - . : a.’ ~—— , .*; _ tt ’, y ey — square in bringing me here, SO that fix the Bez: He s ‘afraid of 3 some 2 SS : in the plan at the last moment.”? | 24 10 The detective now ha plat Yes ; cen ‘re a man of your word,. ‘select ae we: aoe es | Brower Shae pS see that aoa rac race wot 1d ; a el then, I want you to prom ise be a square one, or he could ee Bro BE ae me pie will give me half a century to have bis way, 9 Aare canise = , iz ae m get. your money.’? iS to be des ae ly, m Ww yy Fa Pie that. too Paha ee The ei | |