New Nick Carter Weekly, No. 40 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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_ A little way down the street there was an electric light on a high pole; as | sometimes happens this light had died | down for a moment, leaving the street “ almost dark. ~ Dan had not noticed it when he hid | himecit in the doorway, and now it blazed — suddenly and threw its rays fully Se Rarber and Kemp were in the act of . } Sepping from the street to the sidewalk _ when the lamp flared up. Dan stood perfectly still, they would not notice isa, : S It looked as if they didn’t, though Bar- <j turned suddenly around so that his Sick was to Dan, and taking Kemp by the arm, turned him around also. _ Then Barber said something ina low voice to Kemp that Dan could not catch. : = Kemp replied 1 in the same tone and Dan 3 sae stened in vain. 2a eg At the same time he looked in both =. di irections along the line* of buildings to ce whether there were any other place . “he could dodge into while the men had * bap - backs turned to him. ay every other place seemed to be lighter ae an this one, so he stood where he was, ae ill hoping that they would move on i#pr paeoy without discovering him. At length Barber said in a tone that could hear: ‘Well, I’m afraid there’s saitbe’: we | about it, but it’l] go hard with hoping that mas aH Da: - a> sat bea = >. Ur | - a a | — = ad ~ ; = — a 4 ‘, . ~~ ~ = BS “Poor Tom,’ ” thought Dan, yh mi isehiet is that? There must bea third Man in the scheme. Perhaps it was the ae Ewio. was Hct away from the a id aft eer in ihe eguhie ewelit ‘to, too; Pm sorrry for him.”’ _ “So ar veal cs ee owing “but bes a - mediately plac The men turned as if to go in opposite directions. Dan was trying to make up his mind which of them he would shadow when both wheeled about and leaped directly toward him. He saw that he was discovered and 1m- iced himself against the wall with both hands up to make as good a defence as possible. The sidewalk was so narrow that they were upon him with one bound, and he had no time to draw a weapon of any kind. For that matter Nick had advised him oe rather slow in using a revolver. ‘A detective,’’ he had said, ‘‘should be able to get along with his fists under most circumstances, and only use his re- volver when there is absolutely no other way.”’ Dan had taken this advice as seriously as he had the rest of the great detective’s instructions, and, therefore, had not stood with his hand on the buttof his revolver, as he might have done had he been more experienced. He was a good boxer for his years and weight, and for the first moment or two he made things mighty interesting for his assailants. Kemp got a crack on his real nose that caused the blood to flow, and Barber gasped and staggered from a blow on his chest.. Both men kept up the attack, however, and fought like fiends. There was no question at all as to what they were trying to do. They closed with Dan repeatedly, and on every occasion one or both tried to get ‘at his pockets. Seeing that was what they wished, to vet possession of the letter he had taken from them, he fought in such a way as to keep his pockets propectet. as far as rae ble. peyathoms realizing it he pr TF is move, OT st strike ¢ out so hard “with “his s he would if he Pets hot Cen ut himself in