Nick Carter Weekly: The Little Glass Vial — page 80: what you’re looking at

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

—— —! c..COtrer —_ "Yes, sir, and another man." "Send them in guarded." The door between Nick’s room and his assistant’s was immediately opened, and Moreno and Gonzales were marched in, handcuffed to the two detectives. "Nick Carter!" cried both prisoners, simultaneously. "Yes, gentlemen," said Nick. "I shall now explain why I have invited you all to be present at this meeting." No one uttered a word. Everybody was too much astonished. But they were even more astounded when Nick said: "Everybody in this room knows, in part, a good deal of what I know concerning Mr. Rogers’ death, and the criminal events surrounding it; but not one of you can even guess all that I do know. "In the first place, Mr. Rogers was not murdered. "Three people in this room knew, from the very beginning, that he was not murdered. "These are Anita Moreno, Manuel Alvarez and the conspirator in chief, Moreno himself." Had a thunderbolt fallen in the room it could not have caused more consternation and amazement. Nick then continued, in the same cool manner: 80 comicboolk CO