Nick Carter Weekly: The Little Glass Vial — page 43: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

= —"! c..Ctrer _— "Absurd! If I did, I should not have given it to you." "It was well you did," said Nick, "or we might never have been able to locate where this point came from." "It makes very little difference one way or the other," said the doctor, who was now beginning to feel bored. "Don’t you remember," said Nick, "that I said it was of Spanish make?" "Well, what of that?" "Had you not a Spanish visitor the day before yesterday?" The doctor started. "What do you mean?" he cried. "T was thinking that perhaps he might have left 1t behind. And if you gave me his address, doctor, I would call upon him and offer to mend it." Dr. Lord laughed and said: "Yes, I had a Spanish visitor the day before yesterday. But it wasn’t a man. It was a lady." "I found a new kind of fluid in this little syringe, doctor," said Nick, adroitly changing the subject. "Indeed?" "Yes. You know that people who understand surgical instruments usually go in for a little chemistry, too. When I examined the cylinder of this syringe I noticed a small 43 comicbooe S CO