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NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. posed to be a respectable business man! while in the other hand he had the iron with offices far down town. ‘bolt, the cord to which it was tied was Trim was well satisfied that the man, reeled up and held loosely across his even if he feared that one of the Carters’ palm. was after him, would make no attempt to. Looking straight up from where he leave town that night, ‘stood he could just see the network of Accordingly he took dinner at a hotel ‘telegraph wires considerably above his and late in the evening returned to his, head. office, : | : Balancing himself for a moment he He let himself into the building by the threw the iron bolt as hard as he could Broadway entrance and climbed the long Up into the air. flights ot stairs to the empty roum that | As it went up the cord tnreeled and his he had rented. ‘hand closed hard over the free end. When he arrived there the first thing) He heard a little twang as the bolt : that he did was to look across to the : struck one ot the wires, then it began to building on the other side of New Street. | t went straight down past him and at last stopped when all the cord had been ee SU ON was hipsine Nobod Trim’ s first experiment was a failure. at Biaht & are as “quiet as a eatery a: | lage. ' He pulled the bolt up again, reeled the Nevertheless Trim waited for 3 couple cord and again threw the of hours before putting his plan into, ‘This time the little piece of. he not operation. only went up as far as the network | of He wanted to be certain that what he | wires, but in falling went over one of the was about to do should not be seen by any | Wites dragging the cord with it. chance passer in the street below. | The result was that when it came down The plan he had made was avery dar- it cane down only as far as Trim would - ing one. He was about to risk his life permit it to, for he held on to the other in order to get a sighs of what was in- end of the cord which was now running side the office across the street. across a telegraph wire. When he a looked out of the win-| Presently, therefore, he had the bolt dow ¢ > his office at the time he was ex- back in his hand. amining it, he had seen that telegraph. | When he had accomplished this he tied _ and telephone wires ran from the top of the clothes line to the cord and then pulled ie ~ his building to the top of the other. on the cord until the clothes line rose up 5 A perfect network of them crossed to the telegraph wire, crossed it and came New Street just at this point. They were down leaving the two ends in Trim’s far above | pee bead. hands. / ihe ‘ go His. room ; Which. he _ It was ther slack and Trim assumed oer with the sagging of the wire and than h fic fe of ‘the clothes Ae 2 the “Prim 3 was canes cnafidet that he ‘ends aria fall just about as low as the da lish what he was about to level ot the window across the street. r midnight he made Before he went furth « with his experi- end: he got aae xe room agary. and o his office was a wi ed a a small iron line. | ul. yi t cloth sch This was to decide whether the wire above was strongly enough fastened to 10 ght. It proved to be firm. | en ie. was satisfied of this the de- Ded tective made a slip noose in each end of | the Slothes jige and thrust his a arms in. =