CHAPTER XXX.

“Margery, the sea is beautiful to-day. Come out, child; it will do you good.”

Miss Lawson spoke in her old abrupt, almost stern way; but she experienced deep, heartfelt pain as she looked at the slight form in its heavy mourning-robe, and at the girlish, beautiful face beneath the widow’s cap.

Margery raised her eyes from her writing.

“I do not care for it, dear,” she answered, gently; “and I must finish these letters for the post. Remember, Wavemouth is not London; we do not go by steam down here.”

“Your letters can wait,” said Miss Lawson. “They are not of such consequence as your health.”

“My tenants at Beecham do not say that,” returned Lady Court, with a faint smile; “but, if you wish it very----”

“I do wish it very much; indeed, I am rather dull, Margery.”

The well-assumed plaintiveness of the elder woman’s last words was most successful.

“Dull!” repeated Margery, putting down her pen at once. “Oh, forgive me! How selfish I am, dear friend!”

“There, don’t waste time in self-reproach! Go and put on your hat--not your heavy bonnet. The fresh air will do you more good than sentimentalizing.”

Miss Lawson brushed away a tear as the slender figure left the room. A year had gone--a sharp and trying spring, a summer of golden splendor, an autumn of cheerless misery, a winter of frost and chill, and spring was come again; and during all that time Margery had lived weighted down by a burden of anguish and sorrow. Miss Lawson had gone to her at the beginning of her grief, and, discarding all other ties, had given herself up to her old pupil, who clung to her so despairingly; and it was the elder woman’s one aim to drive the gloom and despondency from the girlish brow, and bring joy and happiness back to the youthful heart.

She knew Margery’s secret now. Stuart and she were leagued together; but all through the year, though she had tried again and again, she could not bring the lovers and cousins together. Margery shrunk from meeting Stuart--shrunk with a heart full of remorse, pain and morbid gloom. Was it right that she should be glad, have happiness, when one who had loved her so truly and tenderly lay in the grave forgotten? Once, only once, had she spoken on this subject to Miss Lawson; and, like a wise woman, the governess said nothing, but decided to wait.

“It is but natural, after all. Margery’s sensitive, generous spirit has received so terrible a shock that it has shattered all joy in life at one blow.”

So spoke Miss Lawson as she reasoned with Stuart, who hungered for a kind word, a sign, from his early love. He honored her for her fealty to the dead, but he was human, and his heart cried out for peace after so much misery. He had been more than touched by the noble, generous thoughtfulness of the dying man; for, after all was over and the will read, a letter was sent him, and, alone in his chamber, Stuart learned the wish and desire of Nugent, Earl of Court.

The writer told how, on returning earlier than he had anticipated, he had entered the house through the window of his “den” from the grounds. This was barred after him by his servant; and thus he became an unintentional eavesdropper to the sad meeting between his wife and her cousin; and he ended by entreating Stuart to let no obstacle stand in his path, but to consummate Margery’s and his own happiness by a speedy marriage.

With the letter of the dead man close to his heart, Stuart buried all compunction and regret, and waited and longed for Margery to speak; but she was silent. She was racked by conflicting emotions. Day and night the image of her dead husband hardly left her mind; for evidence of his great love still surrounded her, Court Manor being her own house, bequeathed to her when the rest of the estate passed to the next heir. She could not banish the regret and remorse that had seized her. Again and again she longed for the past to return, so that she might act differently. And yet her love for Stuart had not grown less; he was still her hero, her king. It was doubt, and nervous, sensitive pain that kept her from him; and day by day the pain grew greater, till she knew not what to do.

Had she been allowed, Margery would have remained at Court Manor, in spite of the sad memories that clung to it; but Miss Lawson took care not to sanction such an arrangement. She dictated to the young Countess of Court as she had dictated in the old days to Margery Daw; and unconsciously the girlish widow obeyed, as she had always done, and allowed her friend to rule. They had spent the first six months following the earl’s death at Beecham Park; then Miss Lawson took Margery abroad before paying a brief visit to the manor. Now she accompanied Lady Court to Wavemouth, at Margery’s own request. Personally, she thought the little village too quiet for the girl, but Margery seemed to like its peaceful monotony, so she raised no objection. As time went on, however, and she found the sad apathy increase, instead of decrease, the governess began to consider how she ought to act.

Stuart had not been mentioned between them for weeks, though Miss Lawson had to send a daily report to the eager, anxious man. Something must be done, she declared, mentally, as she turned to meet Margery entering the room in her heavy black robe and large black hat, to banish the morbid remorse and sadness that were preying upon the life of the young girl.

“I am glad to see you are sensible,” she observed, nodding at sight of the hat. “Now come along; it is a beautiful afternoon.”

Margery smiled faintly at the sharp words yet gentle voice, and together they left the house.

They walked on in silence to the very edge of the sea, and stood watching the sunlit-crested waves come rolling in. Margery was deep in thought, and Miss Lawson watched her anxiously. Her heart prompted her to speak out, to urge the girl to cast off her burden of gloom and turn once more to joy and happiness, but the sad young face looking across the sea stopped her.

The afternoon sun descended lower and lower, and still Margery stood gazing at the sea.

“The great sea, faultless as a flow’r, Throbs trembling under beam and breeze And laughs with love of th’ am’rous hour.”

At last, as a gray cloud obscured the golden light for a time, she turned to Miss Lawson.

“Let us go back,” she said, hurriedly, with a little shudder. “I am tired now.”

Miss Lawson walked with her in silence.

“I am an old woman,” she mused to herself, “this is beyond me. We have waited long and wearily, and yet she gets no better. I shall give in, and leave the rest to Stuart.”

* * * * *

A message sped swiftly from the fishing village to the great city. It was short, yet it brought a thrill of intense joy to Stuart Crosbie’s aching heart. There was no hope breathed in the words, but hope lived within his breast, as it had lived through all his weary waiting. He longed impatiently for the night to be gone--for the morning to come, and when the sun rose over the still sleeping city, he was speeding away from it to the sea.

“Where shall we land you, sweet? On fields of strange men’s feet, Or fields near home, Or where the fire-flow’rs blow, Or where the flow’rs of snow, Or flow’rs of foam? We are in love’s hand to-day.”

So sang his heart in glad anticipation of its joy. Happiness had been so long absent, it must come now. Misery, despair, sorrow, were all forgotten--he lived again!

* * * * *

“You will be back to-night?” asked Margery, as she put a waterproof round Miss Lawson’s form. “You promise me?”

“I promise,” said Miss Lawson, briskly. “Ugh, what a day! Margery, take my advice; don’t go out.”

“It will not hurt me; I like the wind and the spray.”

“Then wrap up well. Pauline”--turning to the maid--“if her ladyship does go out, see that she puts on something sensible.”

“How little you trust me!” said Margery, with a faint smile. “But are you sensibly clad, may I ask?”

“Two shawls, a waterproof, goloshes, and an umbrella,” observed Miss Lawson, quietly. Inwardly she felt a thrill of satisfaction; Margery seemed brighter, more natural, more her old self to-day.

“Then good-by, dear.” Margery put her lips to the elder woman’s. “Give my love to Mrs. Fothergill and the doctor.”

Miss Lawson nodded and walked away.

“I am an old fool,” she declared, savagely, to herself, as she felt a tear roll down her cheek, “and I only hope I shall keep out of the way for some good!”

Left alone, Margery stood for a while at the window, gazing at the rough, angry sea; then she asked Pauline for her cloak and hat.

“Will miladi that I go with her?” asked the maid, in her broken English.

Margery shook her head.

“I shall not go far; and this wind does you no good, Pauline.”

“Miladi is so kind. If she will permit, I think that hat will not be wise. See this _capuchon_--so warm! It will be best.”

Margery agreed, and tied the comfortable hood round her delicate, lovely face, looking sweetly fair with her halo of red-gold curls and her deep, lustrous blue eyes. She turned toward the shore; the roaring and dashing of the sea exhilarated her, the strong, soft wind seemed to blow away the clouds of doubt and pain that hung over her. Her sorrow was lost in the pleasurable excitement that thrilled her as she stood, wind-blown and rain-drenched, and watched the great waves come rolling in, with their thunderous voices and mountains of spray. The tempest seemed to suit her humor; she reveled in the freedom and wildness of the elements as in the birth of a new life--a life with hope springing glorious within.

She moved on as quickly as the wind would allow, stopping every now and then to gather her cloak closer around her. The gale had blown her curls in rough fashion all over her hood; there was a light in her eyes, a glow of color on her fair cheeks; for the moment she looked the Margery of old, not the sad girl-widow of present days.

Few of the fisher-folk were about; but in the distance she could see some children running to and fro on the shore, and the wind now and then wafted their voices to her ears. Tired at last, her breath almost spent, she turned inland in a cross direction, determining to rest at one of the cottages before going home. The wind blew her along at times, almost taking her off her feet; and she had to drop upon the wet beach more than once to gather strength. At last she sighted the cottages, and struggled to the first one. The women knew her well; she was a great favorite, and they were never tired of dwelling on her youth, beauty, sad history, and goodness and generosity.

She knocked at the rough door, and it was opened immediately.

“May I come in and rest, Mrs. David?” she asked, leaning back against the doorpost, almost breathless.

“Lor’ bless me, my lady, in course! Come in at once!” exclaimed the buxom fisherwoman. “It is a sight too wild for you to be out. It is rough here, too, my lady. The chair is hard; but----”

“It is most acceptable,” sighed Margery, sinking, with a sigh of fatigue, into the great wooden chair. “I have been walking along the shore. How rough the sea is to-day! And how have you been, Mrs. David? You look sad--are you in trouble? Oh”--catching sight of a small form covered with blankets lying in a warm corner by the fire--“your child is ill?”

Mrs. David put her apron to her eyes.

“He is better now, my lady,” she replied, with a sob in her voice; “but he was all but gone this morning. Oh, dear me, it fair broke my heart to see him--him, my only one, my lady!”

“What happened?” asked Margery, quickly, her heart full of sympathy. She knew the child well--a beautiful, rosy-cheeked boy, the very light and joy of his parents’ life. “Is he very ill?”

“He went out the morning, your ladyship. My mind misgive me as I saw him go; but he loves the sea. My man is away over to the town to-day; and Jim he begged to go out and watch the waves; and he went too near, my lady, and got drawed in by the tide, and would have been washed away if a strange gentleman--Heaven bless him!--hadn’t tore off his coat and plunged in. I thought my Jim was dead when I see him carried in white and all dripping; but the gentleman he rubbed him, and rolled him in blankets. And now he’s sleeping like a lamb, you see, my lady. But; oh, I nearly died!”

“It was dreadful!” said Margery, gently, rising and putting her soft, white hand on the rough, tanned arm of the mother. “But don’t cry, Mrs. David. Jim is all right now, poor little fellow. You are nervous and upset. Can you send up to my house this evening? I will have some nice things put together for him that will soon make him well.”

“Heaven bless you for your goodness, my lady!” returned Mrs. David. “I ain’t one to give way to tears often; but you can understand----”

“Yes, I understand,” whispered Margery, standing and looking down at the sleeping child, while Mrs. David went on with her account of the accident.

“It were just the merest chance the gentleman were on the spot,” she said. “He’d come from the town, and was walking to Wavemouth, along the shore, when he saw little Jim washed off his feet, and he was in the water in an instant.”

“He was brave!” Margery interjected, quietly.

“Ay, that he was; and it’ll never be forgotten by us, though we live to hundreds! But won’t you sit down, my lady? I expects the gentleman here every minute to inquire after Jim.”

“I am rested now, and I think I will make a start.”

Margery walked to the little window and looked out. The wind was raging just as fiercely as ever, and the rain was beating furiously against the panes.

“Let me give you some tea, my lady,” urged Mrs. David. “I’ll have it ready in an instant.”

Margery shook her head.

“No, thank you, Mrs. David; I must be gone. I will----”

A sharp knock came at the door, and for some strange reason she moved round so that nothing could be seen but her back, draped in the hood and cloak, while Mrs. David bustled to the door.

“It is you, sir! Come in and welcome! He’s sleeping sound now, sir. Ah, Heaven give you happiness, as you have given it to me to-day!”

A curious sensation stole over Margery’s heart--a sensation that brought a vague touch of joy. The next moment the joy increased, for a voice spoke, the tones of which recalled all the golden dream of her early love.

It was Stuart, her lover! Her hands, clasped together, were clasped against her throbbing heart, her lips murmured his name silently; but still she stood motionless; and Stuart’s eye went from the unknown woman in the hood and cloak to the child.

“He’s all right now, Mrs. David; there is no fever. You will have him as jolly as ever in a day or two.”

“Oh, thank you, sir! And you yourself, sir--you ain’t got no harm?”

“Not a bit,” laughed Stuart, cheerily. “Sea water does not hurt me; I am used to it. I have been in a gale or two at sea, you know. It is rough weather, though, to-day, Mrs. David.”

“That it is, sir. Here’s her ladyship, sir, quite done up by the wind. She’s honored me with resting a while.”

Stuart stared. How blind he had been! How could he have overlooked that slender figure? His heart burned within his breast, he could hardly restrain his joy. And Margery? In a moment her doubts, her sad misgivings vanished; she knew that her love lived again in all its strength and sweetness. It had been clouded, not overcome. She moved from the window and put out her hand.

“I know this gentleman, Mrs. David,” she said, steadily, though her limbs were trembling. “He is my cousin.”

“Your ladyship’s cousin?” exclaimed the woman, in surprise. “Oh, sir, that brings you closer to my heart! I’ve told my lady all about it.”

“How brave you were!” murmured Margery, as she drew her hand from Stuart’s firm clasp.

“Brave! I did nothing. But, come, cousin--you ought to be going. Shall I see you home? Will you let me?”

“If you please.”

Margery bent and kissed the child softly, then put out her hand to Mrs. David.

“I will come to-morrow and see how he is. Don’t forget to send to-night.”

“I will not, thank you again and again, my lady!”

Margery smiled, and walked to the door. The small, homely room seemed suddenly illumined by a strange, mysterious light, golden and strong as the sun. Stuart drew the door after them, then put out his hand without a word, and Margery placed her own in his.

He led her from the cottage to a sheltered spot, and then stood looking down at her with eyes that shone like stars in the passion of his love.

“Margery,” he said, quietly, “I have come to you. Have you no word of hope for me?”

She stood silent for an instant, then raised her lovelit eyes to his.

“One word,” she whispered--“stay!”

“My darling, my own, my own forever, it has come at last!”

THE END.

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Burke Collins 1053--From Tears to Smiles By Ida Reade Allen 1054--When Love Dawns By Adelaide Stirling 1055--Love’s Earnest Prayer By Geraldine Fleming 1056--The Strength of Love By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1057--A Lost Love By Wenona Gilman 1058--The Stronger Passion By Lillian R. Drayton 1059--What Love Can Cost By Evelyn Malcolm 1060--At Another’s Bidding By Ida Reade Allen 1061--Above All Things By Adelaide Stirling 1062--The Curse of Beauty By Geraldine Fleming 1063--Her Sister’s Secret By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1064--Married in Haste By Wenona Gilman 1065--Fair Maid Marian By Emma Garrison Jones 1066--No Man’s Wife By Ida Reade Allen 1067--A Sacrifice to Love By Adelaide Stirling 1068--Her Fatal Gift By Geraldine Fleming 1069--Her Life’s Burden By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1070--Evelyn, the Actress By Wenona Gilman 1071--Married for Money By Lucy Randall Comfort 1072--A Lost Sweetheart By Ida Reade Allen 1073--A Golden Sorrow By Charlotte M. Stanley 1074--Her Heart’s Challenge By Barbara Howard 1075--His Willing Slave By Lillian R. Drayton 1076--A Freak of Fate By Emma Garrison Jones 1077--Her Punishment By Laura Jean Libbey 1078--The Shadow Between Them By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1079--No Time for Penitence By Wenona Gilman 1080--Norna’s Black Fortune By Ida Reade Allen 1081--A Wilful Girl By Lucy Randall Comfort 1082--Love’s First Kiss By Emma Garrison Jones 1083--Lola Dunbar’s Crime By Barbara Howard 1084--Ethel’s Secret By Charlotte M. Stanley 1085--Lynette’s Wedding By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1086--A Fair Enchantress By Ida Reade Allen 1087--The Tide of Fate By Wenona Gilman 1088--Her Husband’s Other Wife By Emma Garrison Jones 1089--Hearts of Stone By Geraldine Fleming 1090--In Love’s Springtime By Laura Jean Libbey 1091--Love at the Loom By Geraldine Fleming 1092--What Was She to Him? By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1093--For Another’s Fault By Charlotte M. 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Drayton 1129--True Love Endures By Ida Reade Allen 1130--The Battle of Hearts By Geraldine Fleming 1131--Better Than Riches By Wenona Gilman 1132--Tempted By Love By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1133--Between Good and Evil By Charlotte M. Stanley 1134--A Southern Princess By Emma Garrison Jones 1135--The Thorns of Love By Evelyn Malcolm 1136--A Married Flirt By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1137--Her Priceless Love By Geraldine Fleming

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The author of these stories knew more about writing detective stories than any other single person.

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 covers which sells at ten times the price.

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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 899--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 Clue By Nicholas Carter 1029--Nick Carter Down East By Nicholas Carter 1030--The Chain of Clues 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 Clue 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

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To Be Published in July, 1923.

1109--Tangled Threads By Nicholas Carter 1110--The Crime of the Camera By Nicholas Carter

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Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.

Table of contents has been added and placed into the public domain by the transcriber.

The first word on page 97 (before “Margery” in the sentence “but, Margery, I am not sane, now!”) is illegible and has been omitted.

The word “gnawing” at the end of page 216 is a best guess; the source text is nearly illegible.

Some inconsistent hyphenation has been retained from the original.