New Nick Carter Weekly, No. 38 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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t ie & i “ See = *; « “a 4... 4 ~ 7 ~@. - : a ™~ » , * < “ Tr - * ‘NEW NICK CARTER WEEKL see the third act of the wealth of Puebla is gathered here to- “You expected to Shis. play,’’ he said, ‘‘but the play will night. _ not goon “Everybody in the theatre is to take “Not one of the actors in the cast is part in my play. able at this" ininute to come before the ‘*Plunder includes everything from dia- oe public. = 6 mounds to pocketbooks and lace handker- - fe ee “Everyone of them is bound and chiefs. - “es = eageed and locked in his dressing room. © “‘My fellow actors, who you see scat- _ “The musicians are bound and gagged, tered about the house, will receive your 32 and locked in their practice room hae contributions.’? _ =u “neath the stage. : is ‘Never!’ cried a_ stern ee “rim, vi d cS i “io = = Sr ete The detective glanced at the box where ~ i Jameson had been sitting. ° One of the. men there had risen and was shaking his fist at the man on the stage. “TI know your voice,’”’ he cried, ‘‘you shall not play any such dastardly trick. “You are Arthur Jaineson——”’ ‘ft am Jan, the Destroyer,’’ interrupted the man on the stage, aiming one of his pistols at the man in the box. ‘*lT am a dead shot at this distance, and voice near : fir re “indiseriminately into the Pe see aad ones T Bae cones if you don’t sit down I'll kill you whiere you stand!’ eve Stnacke sey hinted Sain A shudder of horror ran over the iTious Pp arts 0 the house. house. $ Women lost all control of F themselves. The man in the box sat down at once. 3 non be ‘If you don’t understand it now,’’ con- tinued Jan, addressing the whole audi- | | ence, ‘‘I’]] try to make it clear to you | m1 sat is not over,” es — this theatre is held up. rs ‘masked man; ‘‘but the next The ushers and officials in frontof one in a new W play af my own tile house are taken care of just like the x . Re people on the stage. eee ic, | Ve Fee ‘“The doors are barricaded, Oe 1. € pe formers are amo ig you.” ‘"No words can be got to the police bes = words were evidently a signal to. Na in n’s con fed erates. _ fore we finish our work, aad if that work > 2¥ is not finished to our satisfaciton dyna- Fis fear The? se mite will destroy this place more effec- rs es. “tively than it destroyed the office of Gen- = - eral Blanco last week.”’ ps oie ee: Sg shes a womatl fainted at this terrible Obes with. hy ysteri ical cries began to. remove their cantly and lay t them upon — the box rails in front of them. | _ Jan gave a signal to his masked ke canige le!