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THE TWIN MYSTERY; OR, A Dashing Rescue
THE TWIN MYSTERY; OR, A Dashing Rescue
BY NICHOLAS CARTER AUTHOR OF “A Chance Discovery,” “At the Knife’s Point,” “Lady Velvet,” “A Game of Craft,” “A Klondike Claim,” “A Blow for Vengeance,” etc. NEW YORK STREET & SMITH, Publishers 238 William Street Copyright, 1903 By STREET & SMITH...
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CHAPTER I. THE BROWN ROBIN.
CHAPTER I. THE BROWN ROBIN.
“ Mr. Nick Carter: I have come to town to do business. I give you notice before I begin, because I am quite certain you will be informed immediately after I commence operations. It really makes little difference; you cannot reach me. Really, my dear Nick, I have a contempt for the so-called detective ability. You, with your Ida, Chick and Patsy, are a little better than the rest, but you are in the same running when you undertake to stop me. “ The Brown Robin. ” This letter Nick Carter found in
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CHAPTER II. THE WAY OF THE ROBIN.
CHAPTER II. THE WAY OF THE ROBIN.
Nick’s passage to the Zetler Bank to see the real Mr. Alpheus Cary was in the nature of a procession. He had been impressed with the idea that the caller who had announced himself as Mr. Alpheus Cary, had, by some means, come to know that the real Mr. Cary was in the neighborhood, and had fled because of that. His fleeing seemed to Nick to suggest that in some way this person was either the Brown Robin or some one connected with that person. The audacity of the effort to impersonate Cary in an i
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CHAPTER III. A BLIND CHASE.
CHAPTER III. A BLIND CHASE.
When Patsy took the trail of the young man who had followed Nick to the doors of the bank, the only purpose of it was to find out who he was and with whom he had connection. In taking up the trail Patsy was wary. His first effort was to determine whether the young man feared shadowing, and, if he did, whether he believed himself to be shadowed. For the first ten minutes there were no indications of any kind on the part of the young man. He took up a bee line for Broadway, and, turning into that
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CHAPTER IV. THE REAL THING.
CHAPTER IV. THE REAL THING.
After Nick had talked over the case with Chick and Ida, he had sent Chick to the house in Seventeenth Street to take stock of it and to make inquiries. “Chick,” he had said, “I don’t think you will learn much, for I fancy the house has been abandoned by these people. However, you may learn something in looking it up.” He then went to his house, to find a caller awaiting him. Nick looked at the card, but did not recognize the name. It was Richard F. Mountain. He sent for the caller to come to his
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CHAPTER V. THE BROWN ROBIN DINES.
CHAPTER V. THE BROWN ROBIN DINES.
As the hour of five approached, an elderly gentleman who would have been recognized by any of the directors of the Zetler Bank as Mr. Alpheus Cary, its president, could be seen on the corner of Twenty-eighth Street and Fourth Avenue. He was looking in every direction, and peering into the face of every man who approached him, exhibiting a nervousness and an anxiety which showed that he regarded his mission at that place as everything but pleasant. Frequently he took out his handkerchief and mopp
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CHAPTER VI. AN AUDACIOUS VISITOR.
CHAPTER VI. AN AUDACIOUS VISITOR.
After he had removed his disguise, Nick said to his two aids: “The Cary case will give us little trouble after this. I shall probably continue to play his part in it, but it will amount to little more than shelling out some money. She thinks she has captured him. “She is a wonderfully clever woman, and is using the Cary incident merely as a cover to the big strike on Mountain. “Now, Chick, tell me what you found in Seventeenth Street?” “That the house was empty; that it had been occupied but two
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CHAPTER VII. CHICK’S GREAT DISCOVERY.
CHAPTER VII. CHICK’S GREAT DISCOVERY.
When Nick had left Chick and Patsy at the hotel, where he had taken off the disguise of Mr. Cary, the two young detectives discussed their own details for the night. “We’re to keep a watch over Mountain,” said Chick. “He seems able to watch over himself,” replied Patsy. “Oh, he’s able enough,” said Chick. “It isn’t that. The chief wants to know the moment he gets the word from the Brown Robin. He believes that the Brown Robin will show up to-night.” “Then we must be on,” said Patsy. “It’s up to
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CHAPTER VIII. A DEEP GAME.
CHAPTER VIII. A DEEP GAME.
For some time, as a matter of convenience for making changes and as a meeting place for himself and aids, Nick had maintained a room in the hotel where, in the late afternoon of the day in which these events took place, he had taken off his makeup as Mr. Cary. It was to this place that Patsy hurried to make the change that would prevent him from being recognized by the Brown Robin. It did not take him long, and when he turned out into the street again, in his dress suit and mustache, he looked l
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CHAPTER IX. THE TRAP.
CHAPTER IX. THE TRAP.
Patsy arrived early the next morning to report to Nick that on the night previous the Brown Robin, still in male attire, had followed Mr. Mountain to his home, after that gentleman had left the theatre with his family. She had been around the front of the house for some little time, and then, as if satisfied that Mr. Mountain was housed for the night, had left, going directly to the corner of Thirty-fourth Street and Sixth Avenue, where she met two men, evidently awaiting her coming. Only a word
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CHAPTER X. HOW THE TRAP WAS SPRUNG.
CHAPTER X. HOW THE TRAP WAS SPRUNG.
Nick sat down and laughed. The over-acting of the cheap actor, hired for the occasion, was ludicrous. But the three ruffians, armed with revolvers, were ugly facts. He now saw the game. The trap had been sprung. It was a device to get him under control while the big strike on Mountain was being worked. Either the Brown Robin feared he had been retained by Mr. Mountain, or she had learned, despite his efforts to the contrary, that he really had been. “Well,” he said, looking at the three brutes,
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CHAPTER XI. AT THE DOG SHOW.
CHAPTER XI. AT THE DOG SHOW.
Next day was “blue Monday” with Nick, and he decided to try the Dog Show at Madison Square Garden as a cure for the “dumps.” After luncheon he set out to visit the Garden, little dreaming what fresh adventures were in store for him as the result of that visit. He had barely entered the hall than a prominent banker, known for the keen interest he took in the development of the dog, and who was one of the officers of the society under whose auspices the dog show was held, greeted him with the rema
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CHAPTER XII. DEAD IN HER CARRIAGE.
CHAPTER XII. DEAD IN HER CARRIAGE.
Nick sat down to study the package Mrs. Constant had given him, having some knowledge of the persons the package was supposed to tell about. He knew Albert Constant had been a man of no occupation in life, living on his income; that his family was wealthy, and about the most exclusive in the city. That his marriage to Blanche had been violently opposed by it, not alone because she was an actress, but because she was of that rank of life which his family believed was much below his own. He also k
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CHAPTER XIII. POSSIBILITIES.
CHAPTER XIII. POSSIBILITIES.
Nick had summoned his faithful aids, Chick, Ida, and Patsy, to meet him at his apartments on his arrival. He found them awaiting him when he got home, and, without waste of time, sat down to tell them the incidents of the new case they were engaged on. “Of course,” he said, in conclusion, “you will see that in the occurrence of this murder, the poisoning of the dogs slips away into minor importance. “Yet, if Mrs. Constant’s suspicions are correct, the same person is responsible for both. “In tha
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CHAPTER XIV. A CHANGE OF FRONT.
CHAPTER XIV. A CHANGE OF FRONT.
Patsy had made his way to the Madison Square Garden at once, and presented his letter to the prominent banker. “I should think,” said the banker, as he folded up the letter, after reading it, “that Mr. Carter would devote his energies rather to finding out who killed Mrs. Constant than to finding out who poisoned her dogs.” “Oh, Mrs. Constant is all right,” replied Patsy. “She wasn’t killed.” “Not killed?” replied the banker. “The papers said so.” “All a mistake,” said Patsy. “Mrs. Constant is w
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CHAPTER XV. CLOSER TO MASSON.
CHAPTER XV. CLOSER TO MASSON.
Chick was present when Patsy made his report of the afternoon’s work, and listened with interest to the remarks Nick made on it. “Patsy has settled one end of the case in pretty short order,” said Nick. “The dogs were poisoned by these two men, Crummie and Graff, who were hired to do it by Masson. What further work there is to be done on that line is only that of making the proof strong. Patsy’s work was quickly done, and well done.” “I had a good deal of luck with me,” said Patsy, modestly, tho
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CHAPTER XVI. IDA IN TROUBLE.
CHAPTER XVI. IDA IN TROUBLE.
When Patsy set out to be present at the departure for Chicago of his two new acquaintances, Crummie and Graff, Nick and Chick accompanied him to the station, in order that they might become familiar with the appearance of Masson. Under Edith’s recital of the tale told her by Blanche Constant of Masson’s persecutions, the latter person had assumed a new importance in Nick’s eye. Arriving at the station, Patsy quickly espied the two East Side toughs. They were roaming about the large room, evident
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CHAPTER XVII. A NEW SIDE.
CHAPTER XVII. A NEW SIDE.
Ida met with an experience unusual to her on her trip to Philadelphia. While riding on the cars she perceived that a man and woman, fellow-passengers, were eying her with no little curiosity. What had attracted their attention she was at a loss to know, and for a time it irritated her. But, turning to the window, she, by interesting herself in a magazine, tried to forget it. And, becoming interested in her story, she did forget it, and was only started from her interest by seeing a man seat hims
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CHAPTER XVIII. IN DURANCE VILE.
CHAPTER XVIII. IN DURANCE VILE.
Ida was led a little distance from the neighborhood in her next call, and to a part of the city that differed in appearance from that in which, up to this hour, she had spent her time. It was more sparsely settled, the houses further apart and the buildings larger. As she reached the address of the person she was next to call on, she was met by a rather rough-looking young man, who asked her who she was looking for. Ida did not like the looks of the fellow, and, as she answered, her hand stole t
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CHAPTER XIX. A DASHING RESCUE.
CHAPTER XIX. A DASHING RESCUE.
It was after midnight before Nick and Chick reached the streets of Philadelphia. Before they drew into the station, Nick had said: “We’ll waste no time, but go directly to the neighborhood in which Ida was to do her work.” “If it’s not in the main streets, the people will have been asleep these two hours,” said Chick. “All the same,” said Nick, “if Ida is in trouble, as we believe, I don’t know the girl if she won’t find some way of letting us know where she is, if we get into our neighborhood.”
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CHAPTER XX. PATSY’S TRIUMPH.
CHAPTER XX. PATSY’S TRIUMPH.
While these events were transpiring in Philadelphia Patsy was endeavoring to set out as a yachtsman. Chick said that Patsy was like a cat, since he always fell on his feet, no matter how you threw him. Leaving Nick and Chick starting for their Philadelphia trip, he wandered over to Broadway and from caprice turned into the hotel café where he had left the man who had brought to Masson the news of the change in the arrangements for the funeral of Ethel Romney. Rather to his surprise than otherwis
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CHAPTER XXI. THE MURDERER.
CHAPTER XXI. THE MURDERER.
Events developed rapidly in Philadelphia while Patsy was having his fight with Masson and defeating the abduction scheme. Before they had discussed Ida’s information long both Nick and Chick had arrived at the same conclusion. They believed they had found the murderer in Philadelphia, and that Nick’s instinct that Masson was not the person guilty of the murder of Ethel Romney had been right from the first. “We must move without delay, Chick,” said Nick. “Our rescue of Ida will inform this man th
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