THE LAST TRICK.
"Carter!"
"Kilgore!"
Each man uttered the name of the other, as if with the same breath. The
meeting came so suddenly that, for the bare fraction of a second, both
men were nonplused.
Then both whipped out a weapon.
Crack!
Bang!
They fired together, and both missed, Nick's usually accurate aim being
spoiled by the gloom of the cellar.
Kilgore instantly sprang further away in the darkness, and aimed again.
The hammer of his weapon fell as usual, but there was no report. In his
recent fight at the Venner house he had emptied both of his revolvers,
save the one bullet that had just missed Nick Carter.
Then Kilgore, failing to have found Nick at his mercy, thought only of
making his own escape. He turned and ran toward the open door by which
he had entered.
At that moment Chick's ringing voice sounded from outside.
"This way! this way, Patsy!" he cried, louder than the rolling thunder
overhead. "I've found the rat hole!"
"I'm with you," yelled Patsy.
They were already at the door.
By the frequent flashes of lightning they had, after the fight at
Venner's, succeeded in following Kilgore across the meadows, and they
well knew that he was headed to get even with Nick.
Now Nick's voice rang through the cellar.
"Look out for him, Chick," he commanded. "He's coming that way. Look out
for his gun."
"Hurrah!" roared Chick, the moment he heard Nick's voice. "Let him come,
gun and all!"
Kilgore saw his flight cut off in that direction, but he knew every inch
of the house. He turned like a rat in the darkness, and made for the
stairs leading to the floor above. Up these he hurriedly scrambled.
Nick heard him through the gloom, and followed him, pitching headlong at
the foot of the stairs just as Kilgore opened the door leading to the
hall above.
There the dim rays from a hall lamp revealed the man for an instant, and
showed Nick the way. He was up again and after Kilgore like a hound
after a fox.
Kilgore dashed through the hall, but dared not take time to unlock and
open the front door of the house. He had a profound respect for the
revolver in the hand of his pursuer, who already had reached the hall.
It was a flight for life, and Kilgore knew it.
He turned like a flash and darted up the stairs, making for the second
floor. Three at a stride he covered, and succeeded in reaching the
corridor above before Nick could get a line on him.
Nick followed, gun in hand.
On the second floor Kilgore darted into a dark chamber, and then
through that to one adjoining it, where he waited till he heard Nick
plunging into the one first mentioned.
Then Kilgore slipped out into the hall again, hoping to retrace his
steps downstairs and escape by the front door.
In the way of that, however, Chick and Patsy were now in the lower hall,
the former shouting lustily up the stairs:
"Run him down, Nick! Run him down! We'll cover this way of escape!"
An involuntary oath broke from Kilgore's lips, and at the same moment a
vivid flash of lightning from the inky heavens illumined all the house.
From the chamber in which he stood, Nick again caught sight of his man,
and was after him in an instant.
Kilgore heard him coming, and again fled through the hall and up another
flight of stairs.
"You'd better throw up your hands," roared Nick, as he followed.
The answer came back with a yell of defiance:
"Not on your life!"
"You're a lost dog," cried Nick, hoping to keep him replying.
"You'll not get me alive!"
"Then I'll get you dead!" cried Nick, as he mounted the stairs.
"You haven't got me yet!"
"Next door to it, my man."
This brought no answer.
In a moment Nick reached the second hall, where he briefly paused to
listen. Save the rain beating on the roof of the house, only one sound
reached his strained ears. It was like that of some one hammering
against the side of the house with some heavy object. For a moment the
detective was puzzled. He could not fathom the meaning of such a sound.
Then a gust of damp night air rushed through the hall and swept Nick's
cheek.
"Ah! an open window!" he muttered. "That's easily located."
He groped his way into one of the rear chambers. There the night air was
sweeping in through an open window, to the sill of which Nick quickly
sprang.
Now the noise he had heard was instantly explained.
Cornered like a rat, yet viciously resolute to the last, Kilgore had, in
order to make his escape, resorted to a means from which a less cool and
nervy scoundrel would have shrunk on such a night as that.
He had, by reaching far out of the window, been able to grasp an
old-fashioned lightning rod with which the ancient wooden mansion was
provided, and by which he proposed to descend to the ground. Under the
swindler's weight, the beating of this swaying rod against the side of
the house was the sound Nick had heard.
Kilgore, whose courage was worthy a far better cause, already was
halfway to the ground.
Yet Nick had no idea of letting the knave escape thus, and he raised his
weapon to fire.
There was no need for a bullet, however, for the hand of the Almighty
did the work.
From the black vault of the heavens a bolt of liquid fire suddenly shot
earthward, with a crash of thunder that seemed to rend the entire
firmament.
The fiery bolt reached the earth--but it reached it through the rod to
which Dave Kilgore was desperately clinging.
Not a sound came from the doomed man as he went down--or if there was a
sound, it was drowned by the deafening crash and successive
reverberations of thunder.
Before Nick had fairly recovered from the blinding light and terrific
concussion, he heard the voice of Chick yelling loudly from below:
"Nick, Nick, come down here! The house is afire. The whole house is
afire!"
Nick heard and darted for the stairs, at once realizing how well the
lightning had done its terrific work. Before he could reach the lower
hall, dense volumes of smoke were pouring through the house, and one
entire side of the fated dwelling was in flames.
Nick thought of the woman in the cellar below, and, with Chick and Patsy
at his heels, he led the way to the diamond plant. The electric light
had been extinguished by the lightning stroke, but Nick soon located the
body of Cervera, and together the detectives brought her out and laid
her upon the ground some rods away from the burning dwelling.
"She's done for, poor wretch!" muttered Nick, as he looked at her
bloodless face.
He was right.
Señora Cervera had danced her last dance--a terrible one it was! She
had lapsed into a merciful unconsciousness, from which she never
emerged.
Next came Kilgore, and they easily found him. He lay stretched upon the
ground, dead and scorched almost beyond recognition, at the base of the
metallic rod through which he had met his fate.
"Lend a hand here," said Nick. "We'll place him with his confederate
until we can have them properly removed."
"So be it," said Chick, gravely. "It's about the last we can do for
them, and this nearly ends our work on this job."
"You've got the others?"
"Every man of them."
"Well done!" nodded Nick, as they raised the lifeless form between them.
"Behold the way of the transgressor."
"Hark!" exclaimed Patsy. "There goes the fire alarm. In three minutes
there'll be a mob about here."
"Much good the firemen will do," rejoined Nick. "That house is doomed,
and all that's in it."
He was right. With the passing of the tempest, and the first sign of a
star in the eastern sky, all that remained of the house above the
diamond plant was a heap of red, smoldering embers, filling the cellar
and the secret chamber--and blotting out, though perhaps not forever,
the secret art of that misguided genius, Jean Pylotte, dead with a
bullet in his brain, on the floor of Rufus Venner's hall.
There remains but little to complete the record of this strange and
stirring case.
Before morning Nick had lodged Venner and Spotty Dalton in the Tombs,
and had Garside arrested at his residence. The lifeless bodies of their
three confederates,--Cervera having died at dawn--were taken to the
Morgue.
Early the following day, Harry Boyden, the young man arrested for the
murder of Mary Barton, was discharged from custody, and hastened to the
home of Violet Page, to make her happy with the news of his release and
his story of Nick Carter's extraordinary work. Both called upon Nick a
day or two later, and expressed their gratitude and affection in terms
which here need no recital. Incidentally it may be added that they were
married, as planned, the following summer.
How strangely the circumstances and experiences of life are knit and
bound together. But for the vicious crime of a jealous woman, Nick might
have labored long, and possibly vainly, to run down the Kilgore gang and
their extraordinary criminal project, in which Cervera so strongly
figured. It was as Nick said, the two crimes seemed bound together as if
with links of steel.
In the trial which preceded the conviction and punishment of the three
living members of the gang, Nick learned all of the facts of the case.
Venner & Co., it appeared, were on their last legs, and went into the
game to square themselves, the design being to market vast quantities of
the artificial diamonds. With this project in view, Venner had purchased
the house at the rear of his own, under the name of Dr. Magruder, and
there had established the plant. How well the scheme would have
succeeded, but for Nick Carter, will never be known.
At all events, in the stock of Venner & Co. were found numerous stones
which only the most proficient experts could prove to be artificial; and
even to this day it is intimated that, among the bejeweled women of New
York there are some unconsciously wearing the manufactured diamonds of
Jean Pylotte. What matters, however, since where ignorance is bliss it
is folly to be wise?
Jean Pylotte: His art died with him, alas! For in the ruins of the
diamond plant there could be found no evidence sufficient to reveal his
great secret.
Surely it had opened the way to a great swindle, the possibilities of
which can hardly be conceived. But, fortunately, in the way of it had
come--
Nick Carter.
THE END.
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situations in which his hero emerged triumphantly from all sorts of
trouble, and landed the criminal just where he should be--behind the
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The author of these stories knew more about writing detective stories
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Following is a list of the best Nick Carter stories. They have been
selected with extreme care, and we unhesitatingly recommend each of them
as being fully as interesting as any detective story between cloth
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If you do not know Nick Carter, buy a copy of any of the New Magnet
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850--Wanted: A Clew By Nicholas Carter
851--A Tangled Skein By Nicholas Carter
852--The Bullion Mystery By Nicholas Carter
853--The Man of Riddles By Nicholas Carter
854--A Miscarriage of Justice By Nicholas Carter
855--The Gloved Hand By Nicholas Carter
856--Spoilers and the Spoils By Nicholas Carter
857--The Deeper Game By Nicholas Carter
858--Bolts from Blue Skies By Nicholas Carter
859--Unseen Foes By Nicholas Carter
860--Knaves in High Places By Nicholas Carter
861--The Microbe of Crime By Nicholas Carter
862--In the Toils of Fear By Nicholas Carter
863--A Heritage of Trouble By Nicholas Carter
864--Called to Account By Nicholas Carter
865--The Just and the Unjust By Nicholas Carter
866--Instinct at Fault By Nicholas Carter
867--A Rogue Worth Trapping By Nicholas Carter
868--A Rope of Slender Threads By Nicholas Carter
869--The Last Call By Nicholas Carter
870--The Spoils of Chance By Nicholas Carter
871--A Struggle With Destiny By Nicholas Carter
872--The Slave of Crime By Nicholas Carter
873--The Crook's Blind By Nicholas Carter
874--A Rascal of Quality By Nicholas Carter
875--With Shackles of Fire By Nicholas Carter
876--The Man Who Changed Faces By Nicholas Carter
877--The Fixed Alibi By Nicholas Carter
878--Out With the Tide By Nicholas Carter
879--The Soul Destroyers By Nicholas Carter
880--The Wages of Rascality By Nicholas Carter
881--Birds of Prey By Nicholas Carter
882--When Destruction Threatens By Nicholas Carter
883--The Keeper of Black Hounds By Nicholas Carter
884--The Door of Doubt By Nicholas Carter
885--The Wolf Within By Nicholas Carter
886--A Perilous Parole By Nicholas Carter
887--The Trail of the Fingerprints By Nicholas Carter
888--Dodging the Law By Nicholas Carter
889--A Crime in Paradise By Nicholas Carter
890--On the Ragged Edge By Nicholas Carter
891--The Red God of Tragedy By Nicholas Carter
892--The Man Who Paid By Nicholas Carter
893--The Blind Man's Daughter By Nicholas Carter
894--One Object in Life By Nicholas Carter
895--As a Crook Sows By Nicholas Carter
896--In Record Time By Nicholas Carter
897--Held in Suspense By Nicholas Carter
898--The $100,000 Kiss By Nicholas Carter
890--Just One Slip By Nicholas Carter
900--On a Million-dollar Trail By Nicholas Carter
901--A Weird Treasure By Nicholas Carter
902--The Middle Link By Nicholas Carter
903--To the Ends of the Earth By Nicholas Carter
904--When Honors Pall By Nicholas Carter
905--The Yellow Brand By Nicholas Carter
906--A New Serpent in Eden By Nicholas Carter
907--When Brave Men Tremble By Nicholas Carter
908--A Test of Courage By Nicholas Carter
909--Where Peril Beckons By Nicholas Carter
910--The Gargoni Girdle By Nicholas Carter
911--Rascals & Co. By Nicholas Carter
912--Too Late to Talk By Nicholas Carter
913--Satan's Apt Pupil By Nicholas Carter
914--The Girl Prisoner By Nicholas Carter
915--The Danger of Folly By Nicholas Carter
916--One Shipwreck Too Many By Nicholas Carter
917--Scourged by Fear By Nicholas Carter
918--The Red Plague By Nicholas Carter
919--Scoundrels Rampant By Nicholas Carter
920--From Clew to Clew By Nicholas Carter
921--When Rogues Conspire By Nicholas Carter
922--Twelve in a Grave By Nicholas Carter
923--The Great Opium Case By Nicholas Carter
924--A Conspiracy of Rumors By Nicholas Carter
925--A Klondike Claim By Nicholas Carter
926--The Evil Formula By Nicholas Carter
927--The Man of Many Faces By Nicholas Carter
928--The Great Enigma By Nicholas Carter
929--The Burden of Proof By Nicholas Carter
930--The Stolen Brain By Nicholas Carter
931--A Titled Counterfeiter By Nicholas Carter
932--The Magic Necklace By Nicholas Carter
933--'Round the World for a Quarter By Nicholas Carter
934--Over the Edge of the World By Nicholas Carter
935--In the Grip of Fate By Nicholas Carter
936--The Case of Many Clews By Nicholas Carter
937--The Sealed Door By Nicholas Carter
938--Nick Carter and the Green Goods Men By Nicholas Carter
939--The Man Without a Will By Nicholas Carter
940--Tracked Across the Atlantic By Nicholas Carter
941--A Clew From the Unknown By Nicholas Carter
942--The Crime of a Countess By Nicholas Carter
943--A Mixed Up Mess By Nicholas Carter
944--The Great Money Order Swindle By Nicholas Carter
945--The Adder's Brood By Nicholas Carter
946--A Wall Street Haul By Nicholas Carter
947--For a Pawned Crown By Nicholas Carter
948--Sealed Orders By Nicholas Carter
949--The Hate That Kills By Nicholas Carter
950--The American Marquis By Nicholas Carter
951--The Needy Nine By Nicholas Carter
952--Fighting Against Millions By Nicholas Carter
953--Outlaws of the Blue By Nicholas Carter
954--The Old Detective's Pupil By Nicholas Carter
955--Found in the Jungle By Nicholas Carter
956--The Mysterious Mail Robbery By Nicholas Carter
957--Broken Bars By Nicholas Carter
958--A Fair Criminal By Nicholas Carter
959--Won by Magic By Nicholas Carter
960--The Piano Box Mystery By Nicholas Carter
961--The Man They Held Back By Nicholas Carter
962--A Millionaire Partner By Nicholas Carter
963--A Pressing Peril By Nicholas Carter
964--An Australian Klondyke By Nicholas Carter
965--The Sultan's Pearls By Nicholas Carter
966--The Double Shuffle Club By Nicholas Carter
967--Paying the Price By Nicholas Carter
968--A Woman's Hand By Nicholas Carter
969--A Network of Crime By Nicholas Carter
970--At Thompson's Ranch By Nicholas Carter
971--The Crossed Needles By Nicholas Carter
972--The Diamond Mine Case By Nicholas Carter
973--Blood Will Tell By Nicholas Carter
974--An Accidental Password By Nicholas Carter
975--The Crook's Bauble By Nicholas Carter
976--Two Plus Two By Nicholas Carter
977--The Yellow Label By Nicholas Carter
978--The Clever Celestial By Nicholas Carter
979--The Amphitheater Plot By Nicholas Carter
980--Gideon Drexel's Millions By Nicholas Carter
981--Death in Life By Nicholas Carter
982--A Stolen Identity By Nicholas Carter
983--Evidence by Telephone By Nicholas Carter
984--The Twelve Tin Boxes By Nicholas Carter
985--Clew Against Clew By Nicholas Carter
986--Lady Velvet By Nicholas Carter
987--Playing a Bold Game By Nicholas Carter
988--A Dead Man's Grip By Nicholas Carter
989--Snarled Identities By Nicholas Carter
990--A Deposit Vault Puzzle By Nicholas Carter
991--The Crescent Brotherhood By Nicholas Carter
992--The Stolen Pay Train By Nicholas Carter
993--The Sea Fox By Nicholas Carter
994--Wanted by Two Clients By Nicholas Carter
995--The Van Alstine Case By Nicholas Carter
996--Check No. 777 By Nicholas Carter
997--Partners in Peril By Nicholas Carter
998--Nick Carter's Clever Protégé By Nicholas Carter
999--The Sign of the Crossed Knives By Nicholas Carter
1000--The Man Who Vanished By Nicholas Carter
1001--A Battle for the Right By Nicholas Carter
1002--A Game of Craft By Nicholas Carter
1003--Nick Carter's Retainer By Nicholas Carter
1004--Caught in the Toils By Nicholas Carter
1005--A Broken Bond By Nicholas Carter
1006--The Crime of the French Café By Nicholas Carter
1007--The Man Who Stole Millions By Nicholas Carter
1008--The Twelve Wise Men By Nicholas Carter
1009--Hidden Foes By Nicholas Carter
1010--A Gamblers' Syndicate By Nicholas Carter
1011--A Chance Discovery By Nicholas Carter
1012--Among the Counterfeiters By Nicholas Carter
1013--A Threefold Disappearance By Nicholas Carter
1014--At Odds With Scotland Yard By Nicholas Carter
1015--A Princess of Crime By Nicholas Carter
1016--Found on the Beach By Nicholas Carter
1017--A Spinner of Death By Nicholas Carter
1018--The Detective's Pretty Neighbor By Nicholas Carter
1019--A Bogus Clew By Nicholas Carter
1020--The Puzzle of Five Pistols By Nicholas Carter
1021--The Secret of the Marble Mantel By Nicholas Carter
1022--A Bite of an Apple By Nicholas Carter
1023--A Triple Crime By Nicholas Carter
1024--The Stolen Race Horse By Nicholas Carter
1025--Wildfire By Nicholas Carter
1026--A _Herald_ Personal By Nicholas Carter
1027--The Finger of Suspicion By Nicholas Carter
1028--The Crimson Clew By Nicholas Carter
1029--Nick Carter Down East By Nicholas Carter
1030--The Chain of Clews By Nicholas Carter
1031--A Victim of Circumstances By Nicholas Carter
1032--Brought to Bay By Nicholas Carter
1033--The Dynamite Trap By Nicholas Carter
1034--A Scrap of Black Lace By Nicholas Carter
1035--The Woman of Evil By Nicholas Carter
1036--A Legacy of Hate By Nicholas Carter
1037--A Trusted Rogue By Nicholas Carter
1038--Man Against Man By Nicholas Carter
1039--The Demons of the Night By Nicholas Carter
1040--The Brotherhood of Death By Nicholas Carter
1041--At the Knife's Point By Nicholas Carter
1042--A Cry for Help By Nicholas Carter
1043--A Stroke of Policy By Nicholas Carter
1044--Hounded to Death By Nicholas Carter
1045--A Bargain in Crime By Nicholas Carter
1046--The Fatal Prescription By Nicholas Carter
1047--The Man of Iron By Nicholas Carter
1048--An Amazing Scoundrel By Nicholas Carter
1049--The Chain of Evidence By Nicholas Carter
1050--Paid with Death By Nicholas Carter
1051--A Fight for a Throne By Nicholas Carter
1052--The Woman of Steel By Nicholas Carter
1053--The Seal of Death By Nicholas Carter
1054--The Human Fiend By Nicholas Carter
1055--A Desperate Chance By Nicholas Carter
1056--A Chase in the Dark By Nicholas Carter
1057--The Snare and the Game By Nicholas Carter
1058--The Murray Hill Mystery By Nicholas Carter
1059--Nick Carter's Close Call By Nicholas Carter
1060--The Missing Cotton King By Nicholas Carter
1061--A Game of Plots By Nicholas Carter
1062--The Prince of Liars By Nicholas Carter
1063--The Man at the Window By Nicholas Carter
1064--The Red League By Nicholas Carter
1065--The Price of a Secret By Nicholas Carter
1066--The Worst Case on Record By Nicholas Carter
1067--From Peril to Peril By Nicholas Carter
1068--The Seal of Silence By Nicholas Carter
1069--Nick Carter's Chinese Puzzle By Nicholas Carter
1070--A Blackmailer's Bluff By Nicholas Carter
1071--Heard in the Dark By Nicholas Carter
1072--A Checkmated Scoundrel By Nicholas Carter
1073--The Cashier's Secret By Nicholas Carter
1074--Behind a Mask By Nicholas Carter
1075--The Cloak of Guilt By Nicholas Carter
1076--Two Villains in One By Nicholas Carter
1077--The Hot Air Clew By Nicholas Carter
1078--Run to Earth By Nicholas Carter
1079--The Certified Check By Nicholas Carter
1080--Weaving the Web By Nicholas Carter
1081--Beyond Pursuit By Nicholas Carter
1082--The Claws of the Tiger By Nicholas Carter
1083--Driven From Cover By Nicholas Carter
1084--A Deal in Diamonds By Nicholas Carter
1085--The Wizard of the Cue By Nicholas Carter
1086--A Race for Ten Thousand By Nicholas Carter
1087--The Criminal Link By Nicholas Carter
1088--The Red Signal By Nicholas Carter
1089--The Secret Panel By Nicholas Carter
1090--A Bonded Villain By Nicholas Carter
1091--A Move in the Dark By Nicholas Carter
1092--Against Desperate Odds By Nicholas Carter
1093--The Telltale Photographs By Nicholas Carter
1094--The Ruby Pin By Nicholas Carter
1095--The Queen of Diamonds By Nicholas Carter
1096--A Broken Trail By Nicholas Carter
1097--An Ingenious Stratagem By Nicholas Carter
1098--A Sharper's Downfall By Nicholas Carter
1099--A Race Track Gamble By Nicholas Carter
1100--Without a Clew By Nicholas Carter
1101--The Council of Death By Nicholas Carter
1102--The Hole in the Vault By Nicholas Carter
1103--In Death's Grip By Nicholas Carter
1104--A Great Conspiracy By Nicholas Carter
1105--The Guilty Governor By Nicholas Carter
1106--A Ring of Rascals By Nicholas Carter
1107--A Masterpiece of Crime By Nicholas Carter
1108--A Blow For Vengeance By Nicholas Carter
1109--Tangled Threads By Nicholas Carter
1110--The Crime of the Camera By Nicholas Carter
1111--The Sign of the Dagger By Nicholas Carter
1112--Nick Carter's Promise By Nicholas Carter
1113--Marked for Death By Nicholas Carter
1114--The Limited Holdup By Nicholas Carter
1115--When the Trap Was Sprung By Nicholas Carter
1116--Through the Cellar Wall By Nicholas Carter
1117--Under the Tiger's Claws By Nicholas Carter
1118--The Girl in the Case By Nicholas Carter
1119--Behind a Throne By Nicholas Carter
1120--The Lure of Gold By Nicholas Carter
1121--Hand to Hand By Nicholas Carter
1122--From a Prison Cell By Nicholas Carter
1123--Dr. Quartz, Magician By Nicholas Carter
1124--Into Nick Carter's Web By Nicholas Carter
1125--The Mystic Diagram By Nicholas Carter
1126--The Hand That Won By Nicholas Carter
1127--Playing a Lone Hand By Nicholas Carter
1128--The Master Villain By Nicholas Carter
1129--The False Claimant By Nicholas Carter
1130--The Living Mask By Nicholas Carter
1131--The Crime and the Motive By Nicholas Carter
1132--A Mysterious Foe By Nicholas Carter
1133--A Missing Man By Nicholas Carter
1134--A Game Well Played By Nicholas Carter
1135--A Cigarette Clew By Nicholas Carter
1136--The Diamond Trail By Nicholas Carter
1137--The Silent Guardian By Nicholas Carter
1138--The Dead Stranger By Nicholas Carter
1140--The Doctor's Stratagem By Nicholas Carter
1141--Following a Chance Clew By Nicholas Carter
1142--The Bank Draft Puzzle By Nicholas Carter
1143--The Price of Treachery By Nicholas Carter
1144--The Silent Partner By Nicholas Carter
1145--Ahead of the Game By Nicholas Carter
1146--A Trap of Tangled Wire By Nicholas Carter
1147--In the Gloom of Night By Nicholas Carter
1148--The Unaccountable Crook By Nicholas Carter
1149--A Bundle of Clews By Nicholas Carter
1150--The Great Diamond Syndicate By Nicholas Carter
1151--The Death Circle By Nicholas Carter
1152--The Toss of a Penny By Nicholas Carter
1153--One Step Too Far By Nicholas Carter
1154--The Terrible Thirteen By Nicholas Carter
1155--A Detective's Theory By Nicholas Carter
1156--Nick Carter's Auto Trail By Nicholas Carter
1157--A Triple Identity By Nicholas Carter
1158--A Mysterious Graft By Nicholas Carter
1159--A Carnival of Crime By Nicholas Carter
1160--The Bloodstone Terror By Nicholas Carter
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Nick Carter is justly famous. He stands as one of America's foremost
literary characters. He is the close companion of some of America's
leading professional and business men. Statesmen of high and low degree
have called him "Nick," and do not hesitate to say that he has given
them more satisfaction and pleasure than any other character in fiction.
The Nick Carter stories, therefore, hold a great deal for you. Any in
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46--Frank Merriwell's Duel By Burt L. Standish
47--Frank Merriwell's Double Shot By Burt L. Standish
48--Frank Merriwell's Baseball Victories By Burt L. Standish
49--Frank Merriwell's Confidence By Burt L. Standish
50--Frank Merriwell's Auto By Burt L. Standish
51--Frank Merriwell's Fun By Burt L. Standish
52--Frank Merriwell's Generosity By Burt L. Standish
53--Frank Merriwell's Tricks By Burt L. Standish
54--Frank Merriwell's Temptation By Burt L. Standish
55--Frank Merriwell on Top By Burt L. Standish
56--Frank Merriwell's Luck By Burt L. Standish
57--Frank Merriwell's Mascot By Burt L. Standish
58--Frank Merriwell's Reward By Burt L. Standish
59--Frank Merriwell's Phantom By Burt L. Standish
60--Frank Merriwell's Faith By Burt L. Standish
61--Frank Merriwell's Victories By Burt L. Standish
62--Frank Merriwell's Iron Nerve By Burt L. Standish
63--Frank Merriwell in Kentucky By Burt L. Standish
64--Frank Merriwell's Power By Burt L. Standish
65--Frank Merriwell's Shrewdness By Burt L. Standish
66--Frank Merriwell's Set Back By Burt L. Standish
67--Frank Merriwell's Search By Burt L. Standish
68--Frank Merriwell's Club By Burt L. Standish
69--Frank Merriwell's Trust By Burt L. Standish
70--Frank Merriwell's False Friend By Burt L. Standish
71--Frank Merriwell's Strong Arm By Burt L. Standish
72--Frank Merriwell As Coach By Burt L. Standish
73--Frank Merriwell's Brother By Burt L. Standish
74--Frank Merriwell's Marvel By Burt L. Standish
75--Frank Merriwell's Support By Burt L. Standish
76--Dick Merriwell At Fardale By Burt L. Standish
77--Dick Merriwell's Glory By Burt L. Standish
78--Dick Merriwell's Promise By Burt L. Standish
79--Dick Merriwell's Rescue By Burt L. Standish
80--Dick Merriwell's Narrow Escape By Burt L. Standish
81--Dick Merriwell's Racket By Burt L. Standish
82--Dick Merriwell's Revenge By Burt L. Standish
83--Dick Merriwell's Ruse By Burt L. Standish
84--Dick Merriwell's Delivery By Burt L. Standish
85--Dick Merriwell's Wonders By Burt L. Standish
86--Frank Merriwell's Honor By Burt L. Standish
87--Dick Merriwell's Diamond By Burt L. Standish
88--Frank Merriwell's Winners By Burt L. Standish
89--Dick Merriwell's Dash By Burt L. Standish
90--Dick Merriwell's Ability By Burt L. Standish
91--Dick Merriwell's Trap By Burt L. Standish
92--Dick Merriwell's Defense By Burt L. Standish
93--Dick Merriwell's Model By Burt L. Standish
94--Dick Merriwell's Mystery By Burt L. Standish
95--Frank Merriwell's Backers By Burt L. Standish
96--Dick Merriwell's Backstop By Burt. L. Standish
97--Dick Merriwell's Western Mission By Burt L. Standish
98--Frank Merriwell's Rescue By Burt L. Standish
99--Frank Merriwell's Encounter By Burt L. Standish
100--Dick Merriwell's Marked Money By Burt L. Standish
101--Frank Merriwell's Nomads By Burt L. Standish
102--Dick Merriwell on the Gridiron By Burt L. Standish
103--Dick Merriwell's Disguise By Burt L. Standish
104--Dick Merriwell's Test By Burt L. Standish
105--Frank Merriwell's Trump Card By Burt L. Standish
106--Frank Merriwell's Strategy By Burt L. Standish
107--Frank Merriwell's Triumph By Burt L. Standish
108--Dick Merriwell's Grit By Burt L. Standish
109--Dick Merriwell's Assurance By Burt L. Standish
110--Dick Merriwell's Long Slide By Burt L. Standish
111--Frank Merriwell's Rough Deal By Burt L. Standish
112--Dick Merriwell's Threat By Burt L. Standish
113--Dick Merriwell's Persistence By Burt L. Standish
114--Dick Merriwell's Day By Burt L. Standish
115--Frank Merriwell's Peril By Burt L. Standish
116--Dick Merriwell's Downfall By Burt L. Standish
117--Frank Merriwell's Pursuit By Burt L. Standish
SPORTS
There is a greater appreciation of athletic sports among Americans than
among people of any other nationality.
We have had definite proof of this in the correspondence occasioned by
our publication of the adventures of Frank and Dick Merriwell. These two
boys are active athletes. They are proficient in every line of sport,
and they play fair or not at all.
This last feature of the Merriwell stories fills our daily mail with
letters from readers who say that they appreciate the integrity and
fairness of the Merriwells more than words can tell.
These books, while of greatest interest to the right-thinking boy are
educational and make for the development of a character which will
enable the average boy to meet his fellows fairly and squarely in the
battle of life.
STREET & SMITH CORPORATION
79 Seventh Avenue New York City
Bill Cody
At a rough estimate there are 400 million civilized human beings who
have heard of Bill Cody, not under his real name, but by the name
everybody called him, "Buffalo Bill."
His character made him an outstanding figure during a period of the
development of America when a strong character was a matter of vital
necessity.
We doubt, however, whether the man's work is fully appreciated, or ever
has been. In the rush and bustle that followed the introduction of the
railroad to the West, the results of Buffalo Bill's work were more or
less overlooked, but a time is coming when this remarkable man's
achievements will be fully appreciated.
This is the character whose adventures are dealt with in Buffalo Bill's
Border Stories.
Read them. You will find them of true historical value.
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79 Seventh Avenue New York City