New Nick Carter Weekly, No. 40 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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| about to pass on when the officer stopped him: _ **Wait a minute,’’ he said. ‘You've ' been having a scrap yourself, haven’t you?” is ‘fA little one.”’ - **Well, you look likeas if you had been “tun through a picking machine.’’ : = “Dol? _ = “Ves andif you hadn’t satisfied me _ that you were connected with Nick Car- _ ter I should have run you in as a sus- = aes character.’”’ io... nanks,’” said Dan, looking at his ee hands which he saw were bloodstained. suppose my face looks as bad as : Then I'd better clean up before I do r ar ny more work.”’ =. “You had better, if you don’t want to Cu away, where he eseaeTy ed aby necae He didn’t ‘peat this operation = ha had examined the paper which he I had no ; h a hard fight for. vis . He was considerably surprised wack he ‘noticed that the letter was addressed in : & feminine hand, and a good deal more su ‘pr ised when he had read it. ; sh =a t began ‘‘ Dear x Ton, ” and Dan had ad no more than this when he turned _ tothe enveloy “to compare the hand- Ww ‘iting there with that upon the paper. _ They were undoubtedly the same. : 2 Then he laid the letter upon the shelf — In fr ont of me ‘and bendin g over it ‘ a * ~ io a 7 a , — ~~ _ ‘* a’ : 4 , " * r _ s . - 4 a = “ ¥ ; ~ r , f 1 e ; - ‘ . : Ye | = P os . » » - » | , =<, °, 8 — " | ' - : B im pe r . | i ; i - ’ | fe Smt R i a a r 4 ss Ns! " TT a \ = ~ di P - ‘ t , , 7 ° . : é Be . , <= « a » |= — - — 4 — F , ~ -- t will = & rr i y Ml * “il a . = ’ on os @ Py f - - i * a « | = 4) = | A | a a i ' : Fi i - - i | ‘ : = 4 , = 2. i | F - . = 2 | = . — , r , . ... " a > : already been r al ‘* ib : q ; . - . 4 ‘ = a ad es 4 , - NICK CARTER WEEKLY jon. me just where the pobasens beries their money ana 23 There was no address upon the letter, but at the top there was adate which Dan readily remembered was two days before the Johnson House was burned. Again he looked at the envelope. It was addressed to Thomas Kelly at a number on Doyer street. Dan was too surprised at first to take in the full meaning of this letter. In fact a letter was the last thing he had expected to find. According to his theory the man, of men, who had set fire to the Johnson house did so for the sake of getting an opportunity to hunt for treasure there. Kemp had gone there, pried away the mop-boards and found the paper. Dan had supposed, ages that this paper was a key to the hiding place of the treasure. Instead, here was a letter apparently addressed by a girl to her lover, begging ban not to commit a certain crime. “T feel as if I were looking through a fog,’? thought Dan, as he turned from the letter and began to wash his face and hands. After he had cleaned up thorough sat down on a box in the back room of the drug store and read the letter again. He read it until he could have said it back wards. He held it up to the oe to see if there was any writing somehow concea. between the lines. He turned it upside down and tried make sense out of the letters in that posi- It was impossible for a time to give up the lea that chia: piece of paper was a key to hidden treasure, and he was try- ing, therefore, to | nake out that it was a cipher. “Tf I could translate the thing, = _he kept saying to himself, “Gt would show valuables at tl ir of ec a We