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| NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. il upon the bottom of the ambulance and tim of the accident or the strange fellow then jumped out. | who had suddenly risen in the ambulance This was surprising enough but it was' and fought his way out. not all of it. _ He described the man who had escaped The surgeon would have taken his oath | from the ambulance as well ashe could, 3 that the man who ‘leaped up and floored jand the ticket chopper thought he had him was not the victim of the accident. | ‘seen such a man board the last down When the surgeon arrived at the train. a laundry he found thete on the ironing! This was all the information the sur- table the unconscious body of a young | geon could get, and so he had to return “man, ‘to the hospital, where he made the best “ z- supposed that it was this man that report he could under the circumstances. : had been carried on the stretcher into the; Meantime the detective was not a bit ambulance, but the person who assaulted satisfied with the way his scheme had him so unexpectedly and leaped out had | worked. a short gray beard upon his chin, wrinkles) It did not do him any good to reflect > upon his face and a big red nose, very. that he had disguised himself quickly : unlike that of the pale young fellow who | and got out of the ambulance without de- 3 had been hit with the sign. Tay , for, although he had hurried with all The surgeon scrambled to his feet and. his might the man whom he wished to called excitedly to the dtiver to stop. shadow had arrived at the station platform ‘The driver looked around, saw that the | just in time to step Bs ate a downtown 2 supposed victim was missing, and pplied | train and when Trim there the train ee up at the curb on the other side of th e had passed > avenue. Another one was just coming in, and 4 ‘What in thunder is the matter?’’ he’ Trim got on it in order to avoid just the etied. pursuit that the ambulance surgeon made. **Blest if I know,’’ the surgeon an- = = swered in great confusion. ‘‘He’s gone, > = (Or somebody’ s gone.’’ Fas ane fellow that was most killed ?’’ CHAPTER FY. ON AND OFF THE SCENT, Hie do I know? Who in the world) « This is tough luck, and no mistake,” ee oe it you pur in here ?’? ‘grumbled Trim to himself, as his train 2S SSA put in the man who was lying in : rolled downtown. ‘‘I’d be willing to bet = “ | the laundry, of course.”? m iollar that that man knew more “*Well, that’s what I thou my last | ce ae 4 ght, but that ) ert ‘the falling of the sign than any- ir se Ween t the fellow that got out just now.’’ body else in.the crowd, and ee eet Sere who was it ?’’ gone and lost him. ee y asked stupid, excited ¢ questions | “However, it couldn’t be helped. I Of each” other rfor a minute or two, while should have spoiled all my chances if I Sasa _ gathered around trying to, had shown any consciousness while he Ww tat was the cause of the dis-| was looking on, and it was simply a bit = of bad luck that he gor: a train ahead of | | ft we Deal : ' | >. i 7 . * . ins | ol ai _ - ¥ = ea > d , j “as 7 . . ~ a e = * “ 3 = ' c. “+ Sa : 45 7 . — de. = . J & § .* ‘ - Bs j 4 . : i “" | iq , ” | a] ; : “a . 7g " =. : senses suimciently . - ' bles _ || : a. , ’ # ~ a a = : .< es s « ~ “a sad : o be * - ’ ; 4 , - , al ud . > of * | ‘ “ d 7 = - - —_- * ui ad ; : , fl vil . . \ | Lh . * ‘ a a I pontier, , for if it was a Poy up ' oe 4 > 3 ~~ ' ' = i | ‘ ae “ 7 Ft. j *. | | 7, a at Y | le aD... as a= = = “- J ‘ : * « : 7 / r . od — _ , eel = > ’ , al = ) ; : ' aii . _ . | = - | . . * | 7. 1i no sf fis " > | : ! ‘ . 7 4 a i + 7 evate d hee ‘on See was sae ™ - jest ho declared i that he pee seeii somebody |_ ‘s 5 that. Dm out tof his WAY: y} “Pll get on to him soon mist BS i he ic a : dead sure, and me fg ess. ene suxzeon, however, did not ge y with my investigs j en st Cleat information upon the matter, and} Be 90d. = - although he went up to the elevated sta-/ di not find there either the vic-| | t tra un n this 1s, anyway.” here I’ve ‘No use of wasting any. more e thought |