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= “They are coming after. the stolen ney ad =e puORE NC. ‘“Now, for a sur- CHAPTER VIII. CHICK’S BLOW. nat already arranged the bricks in t little: room so as to conceal the re _ in the wall, and he now concealed a himself i in the adjoining fuel bin. EOD te did this: In e DEgET that he ee ia hear on swatied? eicathn: for the person he had heard coming to enter the base- of ment ¢ door, but no one came. At length, however, . 2 } pen somewhere above, and then came | the sound of a li geht tread on a stairway. ars then remembered that he had no- iced, in is ‘atth of the Las a flight € jeves So See ¥< s stair-— to be lying. gaat oaeee My & = 1 na annibet the 7 man a whe. was dbiren ¥ ~ ding gimes the SPARE TIED Po: and then ed and fas- , : | in i for me to the = Seenatie ON N OK CARTER WEEKLY. he heard a door = a 1e erolibei= based the noise, too “Ves”? said the other, in an alarmed tone, ‘‘I am afraid I hit him too hard. A billy is a bad thing to strike with, un- | less you want to kill a man outright.” a5 hope you haven't killed him,’ said - Adams. ‘‘One murder “is quite eaceit | for one night. Could you see who it was ?”? ‘It’s the same chap that came here with Nick Carter.”’ ‘Chick, thev call him.” eee ‘‘I believe so,’’ replied Gus. ‘Well,’ said Adams, ‘‘let’s get a look at the money. It is getting late, and we must be far away from here before morn- ing.”? Nick saw the men advance to the place where the stolen property had been hidden. As they did so, he crept down the hall- way, and, revolver in hand, concealed himself in the fuel bin nearest to the scene of their operations. ‘Did you look in there?’ asked Gus, pointin g with his finger over his Shoulder : igs | in the direction of the place where they 2 | ao the dead bod y of the aGeIE:; ; we 5 ‘No,’’ said Adams, who was S “bus sy the pile of kindlings. ‘I don’t care near the place.’ Og tS ‘‘I don’t either, for that atte: like to know whether Ve tello or not.”’ ihe does turn up all some foreign the bood said Adams, = t N ick a S ake -pauged i in Seeks