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<h2><SPAN name="CHAPTER_XXII" id="CHAPTER_XXII" />CHAPTER XXII.</h2> <h3>THE LAST TRICK.</h3> <p>"Carter!"</p> <p>"Kilgore!"</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Then both whipped out a weapon.</p> <p>Crack!</p> <p>Bang!</p> <p>They fired together, and both missed, Nick's usually accurate aim being spoiled by the gloom of the cellar.</p> <p>Kilgore instantly sprang further away in the darkness, and aimed again.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>At that moment Chick's ringing voice sounded from outside.</p> <p>"This way! this way, Patsy!" he cried, louder than the rolling thunder overhead. "I've found the rat hole!"</p> <p>"I'm with you," yelled Patsy.</p> <p>They were already at the door.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Now Nick's voice rang through the cellar.</p> <p>"Look out for him, Chick," he commanded. "He's coming that way. Look out for his gun."</p> <p>"Hurrah!" roared Chick, the moment he heard Nick's voice. "Let him come, gun and all!"</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>It was a flight for life, and Kilgore knew it.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Nick followed, gun in hand.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Then Kilgore slipped out into the hall again, hoping to retrace his steps downstairs and escape by the front door.</p> <p>In the way of that, however, Chick and Patsy were now in the lower hall, the former shouting lustily up the stairs:</p> <p>"Run him down, Nick! Run him down! We'll cover this way of escape!"</p> <p>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.</p> <p>From the chamber in which he stood, Nick again caught sight of his man, and was after him in an instant.</p> <p>Kilgore heard him coming, and again fled through the hall and up another flight of stairs.</p> <p>"You'd better throw up your hands," roared Nick, as he followed.</p> <p>The answer came back with a yell of defiance:</p> <p>"Not on your life!"</p> <p>"You're a lost dog," cried Nick, hoping to keep him replying.</p> <p>"You'll not get me alive!"</p> <p>"Then I'll get you dead!" cried Nick, as he mounted the stairs.</p> <p>"You haven't got me yet!"</p> <p>"Next door to it, my man."</p> <p>This brought no answer.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Then a gust of damp night air rushed through the hall and swept Nick's cheek.</p> <p>"Ah! an open window!" he muttered. "That's easily located."</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Now the noise he had heard was instantly explained.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Kilgore, whose courage was worthy a far better cause, already was halfway to the ground.</p> <p>Yet Nick had no idea of letting the knave escape thus, and he raised his weapon to fire.</p> <p>There was no need for a bullet, however, for the hand of the Almighty did the work.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The fiery bolt reached the earth—but it reached it through the rod to which Dave Kilgore was desperately clinging.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Before Nick had fairly recovered from the blinding light and terrific concussion, he heard the voice of Chick yelling loudly from below:</p> <p>"Nick, Nick, come down here! The house is afire. The whole house is afire!"</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>"She's done for, poor wretch!" muttered Nick, as he looked at her bloodless face.</p> <p>He was right.</p> <p>Señora Cervera had danced her last dance—a terrible one it was! She had lapsed into a merciful unconsciousness, from which she never emerged.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>"Lend a hand here," said Nick. "We'll place him with his confederate until we can have them properly removed."</p> <p>"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."</p> <p>"You've got the others?"</p> <p>"Every man of them."</p> <p>"Well done!" nodded Nick, as they raised the lifeless form between them. "Behold the way of the transgressor."</p> <p>"Hark!" exclaimed Patsy. "There goes the fire alarm. In three minutes there'll be a mob about here."</p> <p>"Much good the firemen will do," rejoined Nick. "That house is doomed, and all that's in it."</p> <p>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.</p> <p>There remains but little to complete the record of this strange and stirring case.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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?</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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—</p> <p>Nick Carter.</p> <h5>THE END.</h5> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h3><SPAN name="NICK_CARTER_STORIES" id="NICK_CARTER_STORIES" />NICK CARTER STORIES</h3> <h2>New Magnet Library</h2> <h3>PRICE, FIFTEEN CENTS</h3> <h4><i>Not a Dull Book in This List</i></h4> <p>Nick Carter stands for an interesting detective story. The fact that the books in this line are so uniformly good is entirely due to the work of a specialist. The man who wrote these stories produced no other type of fiction. His mind was concentrated upon the creation of new plots and situations in which his hero emerged triumphantly from all sorts of trouble, and landed the criminal just where he should be—behind the bars.</p> <p>The author of these stories knew more about writing detective stories than any other single person.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>If you do not know Nick Carter, buy a copy of any of the New Magnet Library books, and get acquainted. He will surprise and delight you.</p> <h4><i>ALL TITLES ALWAYS IN PRINT</i></h4> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> <tr><td align='left'>850—Wanted: A Clew</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>851—A Tangled Skein</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>852—The Bullion Mystery</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>853—The Man of Riddles</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>854—A Miscarriage of Justice</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>855—The Gloved Hand</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>856—Spoilers and the Spoils</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>857—The Deeper Game</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>858—Bolts from Blue Skies</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>859—Unseen Foes</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>860—Knaves in High Places</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>861—The Microbe of Crime</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>862—In the Toils of Fear</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>863—A Heritage of Trouble</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>864—Called to Account</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>865—The Just and the Unjust</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>866—Instinct at Fault</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>867—A Rogue Worth Trapping</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>868—A Rope of Slender Threads</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>869—The Last Call</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>870—The Spoils of Chance</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>871—A Struggle With Destiny</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>872—The Slave of Crime</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>873—The Crook's Blind</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>874—A Rascal of Quality</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>875—With Shackles of Fire</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>876—The Man Who Changed Faces</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>877—The Fixed Alibi</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>878—Out With the Tide</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>879—The Soul Destroyers</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>880—The Wages of Rascality</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>881—Birds of Prey</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>882—When Destruction Threatens</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>883—The Keeper of Black Hounds</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>884—The Door of Doubt</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>885—The Wolf Within</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>886—A Perilous Parole</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>887—The Trail of the Fingerprints</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>888—Dodging the Law</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>889—A Crime in Paradise</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>890—On the Ragged Edge</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>891—The Red God of Tragedy</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>892—The Man Who Paid</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>893—The Blind Man's Daughter</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>894—One Object in Life</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>895—As a Crook Sows</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>896—In Record Time</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>897—Held in Suspense</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>898—The $100,000 Kiss</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>890—Just One Slip</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>900—On a Million-dollar Trail</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>901—A Weird Treasure</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>902—The Middle Link</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>903—To the Ends of the Earth</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>904—When Honors Pall</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>905—The Yellow Brand</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>906—A New Serpent in Eden</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>907—When Brave Men Tremble</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>908—A Test of Courage</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>909—Where Peril Beckons</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>910—The Gargoni Girdle</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>911—Rascals & Co.</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>912—Too Late to Talk</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>913—Satan's Apt Pupil</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>914—The Girl Prisoner</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>915—The Danger of Folly</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>916—One Shipwreck Too Many</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>917—Scourged by Fear</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>918—The Red Plague</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>919—Scoundrels Rampant</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>920—From Clew to Clew</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>921—When Rogues Conspire</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>922—Twelve in a Grave</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>923—The Great Opium Case</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>924—A Conspiracy of Rumors</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>925—A Klondike Claim</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>926—The Evil Formula</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>927—The Man of Many Faces</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>928—The Great Enigma</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>929—The Burden of Proof</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>930—The Stolen Brain</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>931—A Titled Counterfeiter</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>932—The Magic Necklace</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>933—'Round the World for a Quarter</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>934—Over the Edge of the World</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>935—In the Grip of Fate</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>936—The Case of Many Clews</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>937—The Sealed Door</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>938—Nick Carter and the Green Goods Men</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>939—The Man Without a Will</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>940—Tracked Across the Atlantic</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>941—A Clew From the Unknown</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>942—The Crime of a Countess</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>943—A Mixed Up Mess</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>944—The Great Money Order Swindle</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>945—The Adder's Brood</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>946—A Wall Street Haul</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>947—For a Pawned Crown</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>948—Sealed Orders</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>949—The Hate That Kills</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>950—The American Marquis</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>951—The Needy Nine</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>952—Fighting Against Millions</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>953—Outlaws of the Blue</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>954—The Old Detective's Pupil</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>955—Found in the Jungle</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>956—The Mysterious Mail Robbery</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>957—Broken Bars</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>958—A Fair Criminal</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>959—Won by Magic</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>960—The Piano Box Mystery</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>961—The Man They Held Back</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>962—A Millionaire Partner</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>963—A Pressing Peril</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>964—An Australian Klondyke</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>965—The Sultan's Pearls</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>966—The Double Shuffle Club</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>967—Paying the Price</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>968—A Woman's Hand</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>969—A Network of Crime</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>970—At Thompson's Ranch</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>971—The Crossed Needles</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>972—The Diamond Mine Case</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>973—Blood Will Tell</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>974—An Accidental Password</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>975—The Crook's Bauble</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>976—Two Plus Two</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>977—The Yellow Label</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>978—The Clever Celestial</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>979—The Amphitheater Plot</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>980—Gideon Drexel's Millions</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>981—Death in Life</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>982—A Stolen Identity</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>983—Evidence by Telephone</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>984—The Twelve Tin Boxes</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>985—Clew Against Clew</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>986—Lady Velvet</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>987—Playing a Bold Game</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>988—A Dead Man's Grip</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>989—Snarled Identities</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>990—A Deposit Vault Puzzle</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>991—The Crescent Brotherhood</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>992—The Stolen Pay Train</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>993—The Sea Fox</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>994—Wanted by Two Clients</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>995—The Van Alstine Case</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>996—Check No. 777</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>997—Partners in Peril</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>998—Nick Carter's Clever Protégé</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>999—The Sign of the Crossed Knives</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1000—The Man Who Vanished</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1001—A Battle for the Right</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1002—A Game of Craft</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1003—Nick Carter's Retainer</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1004—Caught in the Toils</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1005—A Broken Bond</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1006—The Crime of the French Café</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1007—The Man Who Stole Millions</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1008—The Twelve Wise Men</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1009—Hidden Foes</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1010—A Gamblers' Syndicate</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1011—A Chance Discovery</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1012—Among the Counterfeiters</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1013—A Threefold Disappearance</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1014—At Odds With Scotland Yard</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1015—A Princess of Crime</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1016—Found on the Beach</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1017—A Spinner of Death</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1018—The Detective's Pretty Neighbor</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1019—A Bogus Clew</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1020—The Puzzle of Five Pistols</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1021—The Secret of the Marble Mantel</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1022—A Bite of an Apple</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1023—A Triple Crime</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1024—The Stolen Race Horse</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1025—Wildfire</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1026—A <i>Herald</i> Personal</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1027—The Finger of Suspicion</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1028—The Crimson Clew</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1029—Nick Carter Down East</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1030—The Chain of Clews</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1031—A Victim of Circumstances</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1032—Brought to Bay</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1033—The Dynamite Trap</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1034—A Scrap of Black Lace</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1035—The Woman of Evil</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1036—A Legacy of Hate</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1037—A Trusted Rogue</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1038—Man Against Man</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1039—The Demons of the Night</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1040—The Brotherhood of Death</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1041—At the Knife's Point</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1042—A Cry for Help</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1043—A Stroke of Policy</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1044—Hounded to Death</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1045—A Bargain in Crime</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1046—The Fatal Prescription</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1047—The Man of Iron</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1048—An Amazing Scoundrel</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1049—The Chain of Evidence</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1050—Paid with Death</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1051—A Fight for a Throne</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1052—The Woman of Steel</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1053—The Seal of Death</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1054—The Human Fiend</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1055—A Desperate Chance</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1056—A Chase in the Dark</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1057—The Snare and the Game</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1058—The Murray Hill Mystery</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1059—Nick Carter's Close Call</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1060—The Missing Cotton King</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1061—A Game of Plots</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1062—The Prince of Liars</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1063—The Man at the Window</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1064—The Red League</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1065—The Price of a Secret</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1066—The Worst Case on Record</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1067—From Peril to Peril</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1068—The Seal of Silence</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1069—Nick Carter's Chinese Puzzle</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1070—A Blackmailer's Bluff</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1071—Heard in the Dark</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1072—A Checkmated Scoundrel</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1073—The Cashier's Secret</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1074—Behind a Mask</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1075—The Cloak of Guilt</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1076—Two Villains in One</td><td align='left'>By Nicholas Carter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>1077—The Hot Air Clew</td><td 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Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>34—Frank Merriwell on the Road</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>35—Frank Merriwell's Own Company</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>36—Frank Merriwell's Fame</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>37—Frank Merriwell's College Chums</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>38—Frank Merriwell's Problem</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>39—Frank Merriwell's Fortune</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>40—Frank Merriwell's New Comedian</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>41—Frank Merriwell's Prosperity</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>42—Frank Merriwell's Stage Hit</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>43—Frank Merriwell's Great Scheme</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>44—Frank Merriwell in England</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>45—Frank Merriwell on the Boulevards</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>46—Frank Merriwell's Duel</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>47—Frank Merriwell's Double Shot</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>48—Frank Merriwell's Baseball Victories</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>49—Frank Merriwell's Confidence</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>50—Frank Merriwell's Auto</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>51—Frank Merriwell's Fun</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>52—Frank Merriwell's Generosity</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>53—Frank Merriwell's Tricks</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>54—Frank Merriwell's Temptation</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>55—Frank Merriwell on Top</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>56—Frank Merriwell's Luck</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>57—Frank Merriwell's Mascot</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>58—Frank Merriwell's Reward</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>59—Frank Merriwell's Phantom</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>60—Frank Merriwell's Faith</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>61—Frank Merriwell's Victories</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>62—Frank Merriwell's Iron Nerve</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>63—Frank Merriwell in Kentucky</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>64—Frank Merriwell's Power</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>65—Frank Merriwell's Shrewdness</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>66—Frank Merriwell's Set Back</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>67—Frank Merriwell's Search</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>68—Frank Merriwell's Club</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>69—Frank Merriwell's Trust</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>70—Frank Merriwell's False Friend</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>71—Frank Merriwell's Strong Arm</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>72—Frank Merriwell As Coach</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>73—Frank Merriwell's Brother</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>74—Frank Merriwell's Marvel</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>75—Frank Merriwell's Support</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>76—Dick Merriwell At Fardale</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>77—Dick Merriwell's Glory</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>78—Dick Merriwell's Promise</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>79—Dick Merriwell's Rescue</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>80—Dick Merriwell's Narrow Escape</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>81—Dick Merriwell's Racket</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>82—Dick Merriwell's Revenge</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>83—Dick Merriwell's Ruse</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>84—Dick Merriwell's Delivery</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>85—Dick Merriwell's Wonders</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>86—Frank Merriwell's Honor</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>87—Dick Merriwell's Diamond</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>88—Frank Merriwell's Winners</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>89—Dick Merriwell's Dash</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>90—Dick Merriwell's Ability</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>91—Dick Merriwell's Trap</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>92—Dick Merriwell's Defense</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>93—Dick Merriwell's Model</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>94—Dick Merriwell's Mystery</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>95—Frank Merriwell's Backers</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>96—Dick Merriwell's Backstop</td><td align='left'>By Burt. L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>97—Dick Merriwell's Western Mission</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>98—Frank Merriwell's Rescue</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>99—Frank Merriwell's Encounter</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>100—Dick Merriwell's Marked Money</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>101—Frank Merriwell's Nomads</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>102—Dick Merriwell on the Gridiron</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>103—Dick Merriwell's Disguise</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>104—Dick Merriwell's Test</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>105—Frank Merriwell's Trump Card</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>106—Frank Merriwell's Strategy</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>107—Frank Merriwell's Triumph</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>108—Dick Merriwell's Grit</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>109—Dick Merriwell's Assurance</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>110—Dick Merriwell's Long Slide</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>111—Frank Merriwell's Rough Deal</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>112—Dick Merriwell's Threat</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>113—Dick Merriwell's Persistence</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>114—Dick Merriwell's Day</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>115—Frank Merriwell's Peril</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>116—Dick Merriwell's Downfall</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>117—Frank Merriwell's Pursuit</td><td align='left'>By Burt L. Standish</td></tr> </table> <h2>SPORTS</h2> <p>There is a greater appreciation of athletic sports among Americans than among people of any other nationality.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h3>STREET & SMITH CORPORATION</h3> <h4>79 Seventh Avenue New York City</h4> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2><SPAN name="Bill_Cody" id="Bill_Cody" />Bill Cody</h2> <p>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."</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This is the character whose adventures are dealt with in Buffalo Bill's Border Stories.</p> <p>Read them. You will find them of true historical value.</p> <h3>STREET & SMITH CORPORATION</h3> <h4>79 Seventh Avenue New York City</h4> <p> </p> <hr class="full" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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