New Nick Carter Weekly, No. 39 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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_ He was on his feet and moving toward : a- “the courageous detective, when Vhiola’s 4 pee of warning rang out. i Nick turned to face the 3 Feast as the knife descended. It struck him in the side, just over the new danger _. A sharp metallic sound accom panied __ the blow. Nick knew what that meant. of his watch, and he had sustained no in- jury. Billy Silk was about to follow up the oe thrust with another, not being aware that _ - the blade of his knife was broken, when 4 -Nick’s two strong arms Saederie tite 5 _ waist, and he was hurled violently to the og ‘The ex-convict was a wiry fellow, and She tried his best to wriggle out of the 4 oe tective’s embrace. _ All to no purpose. as ~ Nick had his knees on the rascal’s ¢ chest and his hands at his throat, and would have speedily had the cords on hi m again but for the return to sense and E aed of the eee partners, La- -Betor Nick could turn his head, the f Lafarge’s pistol descended on it, “an 1d} 1¢ Was stretched senseless beside the 3s A mome: nt later and Viola Laroche was in a her prison-room gain, with the door cked a2 her. . : i we nl i | J f | al : ‘ om = J : - > a T * = , c =. =< , 2 “ ort conference with his subor- af ge saw all three of them NEW NICK CARTER 5 s he knife’s point had struck tHe case cabinet aperture, while Lafarge remained in the hole. | When he stepped from the car of the cabinet, Nick, lying on his side, saw that he carried a lighted lantern in one hand and something which looked like a large cigar box in the other. He placed the box F lantern in another. a ‘‘T see you are curious to know what that box contains,’? he remarked, when he had squatted on the floor, a few feet p ~from the prostrate detective. : Nick made no reply. ‘Before I tell you what is in it, I want to inform you that this world is not wide enough for two such men as you and me. | ‘‘Alive you area standing menace to my schemes of enrichment. ‘‘T intend shortly to widen the circle of my operations, but it will be necessary before I make a move that your case should be effectually settled. ‘“When I leave this room, it will be to enter the apartment where Miss Laroche is now crying her eyes out. | ‘‘T have no design against her life, and I shall, therefore, conduct her to’ some other place which is more sequestered, and where she can be furnished with hg more of the everyday conveniences of this. practical life. 2 ‘‘As for you, Nick Carter, the end of — your life will come in one hour. yee ‘That box contains a dynamite petard, and a lot of interesting machinery. ‘“It is set to go off at three o’clock.”’ ‘The assassin looked at his watch. You have one hour and five minutes,” he resumed, ‘‘in which to say your pray- ers and do a heap of re thinking, ‘‘And now good-by. If we meet again — it will be where a fire is unnecessa ity.” eee these } one corner, the