New Nick Carter Weekly, No. 38 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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NEW NICK CA wht I might help.’’ “Very ell: here is what he wrote.”’ | They were now in front of the Alcazar. geht from its windows was suffi- cient to read by. _ Trim took the ae on which the eneral had scribbled from his pocke The latter unfolded it with an apps * “The moment he ‘enced at the paper he gave a start of astonishment. ie 5 my soul!’? he exclaimed, “it’s Bless ie ease pas. oS 4, = a. I Gia: % a 4 can’t make out a word,’’ continued tn Se a Trim, oSJust a ne of oe marks. o- 5 * " ~ “Did fas **You certainly said ef os ind, but there’s nothing on this piece of oF Pe me r that one could make head or tail ghe | perhaps it was some kind Ten varked Trim, sarcastically, ite | tha ec translate if you are far iat with he general’ s affairs.” . onsense, Mr. Carter,» exclaimed _ Jameso er andi the paper back, “‘this ile is absolutely valueless, ee it shows that _ the gene 30 unbalanced by _ what has | ‘ C secured that even if he should say anyt sing. a would be valueles Then it was a ‘mere blu when you said that you had got a clew?”’ Be 0, al it that if you like. ” = ey can’t think of anything better to call it than. that, Mr. Carter, but 1} hope & oa epee | in getting som rething m erento —— Taal * » bes a “th. . 4, ’ , a f it Fo ee 5 é “nig hn a = , if . . fi oi a ; 4 4 x 4 | i = = Le. os . : ' , * = i - . 3 « « i . ; , P ie , ? — ? ee. ‘ wl % a “ “a . oe 4 7 | | 4 a * : 7 “ . ~ 7 a = at F : a = “5 d ’ a eT fT -"'— S ee a ea Sea ft FF 2 = = FF ee 4 PP i fk >| ‘it looks like a baby’ Ss scrawl. something of that ‘enough to Trim. a =< ‘learned that it was less than a year since — ~ ‘Tf he is that man [’1l enimeelg aS “a certainty.” his « own suspicio 1s ti 0 WEEKLY. out all I can about Mr. Arthur Jameson and it’s a thousand to one that Mr. Arthur Jameson knows that that is ex- actly what I’m going to do.’’ ; CHAPTER VIII. JAMESON SEEMS TO BE A-WHITE MAN. . Before he went to bed Trim had a con- versation with the hotel clerk: Without appearing to make any in- quiries he learned that Jameson was a new - comer in Puebla. It seemed that he was an Englishman who had come to invest in Mexican prop- erties. He had formed a com yany of which he was president, called The Mexican Im- provement Company. It was the pan of this concern to buy real estate, invest in mines,. ‘build rail- roads and so on. The company.was so new that there nad not been time for it to do much, but a great deal was expected of it, and] aine- son stood high in the opinion of the citi- zens. This 1 information was matealertoee He was more than pleased when ee Jameson had turned up in Puebla. It would be great stuff,’’ thought the detective as he went to bed Fie iden- tify him as Jan the Destroyer. | Perez called early the beet” mornin o. He reported that General Blanco was ~ in about the same condition as usual. ‘He seems more quiet and ‘hopeful,’? remarked Perez, ‘‘but of course _that means nothing to us.”’ | *Now, Mr. Carter, © what to help along your investigation ?’ There was a one thine that Perez etd do for Trim, _ but the detective did 10t mention it directly as he did not want come known, : So hess pant =.