New Nick Carter Weekly, No. 38 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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NEW NICK CARTER WEE You were not very slow in sending a message to New York about this affair.” “Well, *» responded Perez, ‘‘it was three or four hours ales the event before I got my wits together. ‘“‘As soon as I did, however, I sent a long cipher dispatch to our consul.’’ ‘*T suppose you consulted with mem- bers of the family or friends about it ?”’ “*Oh, no!’ “Didn't you tell anybody that you were going to send that message ?’’ “Then Tt suppose you told Mr. Jame- son about it later ?’’ ‘““A day or two later, yes. duced the matter himself. i 4 ‘Inde =~] py3 “Ves. Pll tell you about it because | might fear that others beside Jam knew that you had been sent for.”’ ‘*] did fear that a little.’’ os _ **You need not, for Jameso: § one in the secret. nies was on Bac thrash of the ee ares He intro- a | “He said that he had taken the hb- _ erty of f asking a well-known New York = ( o come down and work up the aS a didn’t think it would be a very - good thing to have two different detec- “tives at work and so I told him that I had already sent for vou.** Sig a, ae did he oe to that?” He remarke« og yw fortunate, it was Re FN tel Se a 7 a , r k | = ys . Py : : . “ : in ; . 4. i ae : (me hes ont = oe him to sa Y Be 3 yor ur r coming 2 and he tained t + -AEhis ink rmation went far to clinching That gave him every chance to be on his guard, and I shouldn’t wonder if that would account for the attack upon me in the forest.”’ At the police station they learned that the squad sent out by the chief to search the forest, had found no trace of the driv- er’s body. . They said they had come to a “spot where footprints indicated a severe strug- gle, but there was nothing else. The chief was greatly disturbed about it and rather anxious that a further inves- tigation should be made. It was clear that the driver’s compan- ious had got after the fight and taken away his bod: After a hittle thought on the matter, Trim decided to go out into the forest and make an investigation for himself. Accordingly, most of the day was spent in this search. He learned no more than the police had learned. It was nearing evening © turned to the city. As‘he was walking toward his hotel h saw Jameson turn into the street a little way ahead of him and come toward him. After a moment, Jameson halted sud- denly as 1f he had thought of something, wheeled about and went rapidly in the other direction. ‘*‘He’s trying to dodg to himself: ‘Tf that’s shadowing.’’ Accordingly for the next half hour or so Trim dodged Jameson’s steps from street to street. _ The detective used all his skill in this rerk, and was satisfied that Jameson ° was not aware that "e was being followed. g At length the suspected man went, to — the outskirts of the city aud a approz thes a granite quarry. This was a big hole in the side of a hill surrounded by laborer’s shantie: No stone was being cut there at the time. Bayes ie gee Bess eared eme,’’ said Trim ase Yl just do a little the