Nick Carter Weekly: The Little Glass Vial — page 62: what you’re looking at

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

a a + oy; 1. "Brace up, doctor. You have nothing to fear, nor need you feel even worried." The doctor took Nick’s hand 1n his and expressed his warmest thanks. He was pouring out his gratitude, when Nick interrupted him by saying: "Do you remember the terms of the agreement they wished you to sign, doctor?" "Yes. It stipulated that upon condition that the Alvarez woman or her brother would not breathe a suspicion about the finding of the hypodermic syringe point, I was to pay to her the sum of fifty thousand dollars on the morning of my marriage with Miss Rogers. I need not tell you that signing such a document would incriminate me and give them a perpetual handle for blackmail." "You only know one-half of their scheming, doctor. But they are clever. They wished to make certain of at least one person from whom they could levy tax. However, the question of Mr. Rogers death must be sifted to the end, and 1f young Rogers is in any way implicated, I may need your assistance." "You shall have it if it 1s necessary. But it strikes me, Mr. Carter, that the first thing to be ascertained is, was Mr. Rogers murdered?" 62 comicboolk CO