New Nick Carter Weekly, No. 40 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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Dan looked sharply at the prisoner. **Go over dere and see for yourself,’’ a Kelly, impudently, ‘‘and you'll find _ dat you ain’t so fly as you t?ink you are.’ With this Kelly sat down on the ei , his cell and stretched himself out at full length as if he had told all he knew about the matter and nothing more could = got out of him. _ Dan did not try to get anything more “The ‘young detective felt that there — must be something in what Kelly said, : and he could not rest until he had tested _ the crook’s story. So he went at once to the Essex street a Seiation. By inquiry there he learned that ~ ‘Thomas Kelly had been arrested on the fe _ day before the Johnson house fire and that he had been under lock and key from 7 that time until three days after the fire, when he was discharged in the Essex Market court. ~ oe ‘What’s the matter?’’ asked the ser- ke eant, when he had told this to Dan. © “Oh, nothing much,’’ answered the E : . you look as if you’d lost your — sy don’t: know but I have,” said Dan, 3 s he wondered what Nick Carter would i Sa when he learned that after all his Menriés and efforts he had arrested a man eo could not possibly have had any z Yt and in the case. - “DP ve had iny try at it,’? thought Dan, ~ gloomily, ‘‘and I’ve been thrown down. ~ Tcan’t do anything about it but go and teil Nick and con fess to him that I’m no M4 xe) z's "HEORY. pee _ his heat : \ * : 7 4 " , ? " ) " . . ‘ | 4 = " i i ‘e - ar ? ~ - ’ , q | ' ~ @ | 7 _ sf b - ie me _ mh ‘ —_ z : " 7 Wt Z -_ : fj “ r e- “, : - | ' i; i 1, > ; — ' my be p j ’ fe = 7 4 "i ; = oo _ . ~ ; nd 62 t. around - ae ne ; ? f % . — > e » > “ a ™ * * - . a" —— — —_ * sii ; | > _— 7 ¥ | . ll , a ig j ' oe % | . a > = | . - | Cl . — = _ . La Ww D LC +1 a 4 cae 4 ~~ re = y @ 9 a os 4 sl i é‘ =e - - & - = _ > ‘ . ’ a NICK CARTER his own work toughs and crooks, the letter from Kell - jt on the table without a “daybreak and Dan went detective. 22 when he thought it was the proper time to do so, he went up to Nick’s house and determined tu make a clean breast of the matter and not excuse himself in any way. : Nick was waiting for him. ‘*T didn’t know but I’d be too early, Mr. Carter,’’ Dan began. ‘Never too to talk business, my boy,’’ interrupted Nick. ‘‘In this case nothing has been lost by your delay, but next time remember to come and consult me just as soon as you get to the point where you need to, no matter what time it is.”’ “oy 1 remember,’’ said Dan sadly, ‘‘if Iever have a chance to report to you again.’’ ‘‘Why, what’s the matter, Dan ?’’ ‘*T’ve slumped.” ‘*No!? exclaimed Nick. hth, sir. It’s a clean case of dead o, from start to finish, and the worst Sf it is that I’ve gone and pulled ina man who was behind the bars at the time the fire occurred.’’ Nick did not look in’ the least sur- prised. ‘That doesn’t show,’’ he’ said, ‘‘that your man didn’t have something to do with the job,”? ‘But how could he ?’’ asked Dan. ‘*We’ll see later; tell me all about it.” Dan hesitated just an instant, dreading to hear Nick’scomments on his mistakes, and then started in with a history of his night’s adventures. He told everything, omitting no detail except that he did not make much of in his encounters with the course of the story he produced *s sweetheart “and handed it to Nick, who read it and Jaid word. “Ts that all?’’ asked Nick, after Dan In had told about - proving Kelly? s alibi. “Ves, sir, and I should think it was enough to prove that I’m the biggest chump that Pig Bayne he could be a Nick laughed a little and answered : Sees es ait, my" boy ; with | Sets excep- —