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No. 158. NEW YORK, September 18, 1915. Price Five Cents.
CHAPTER I.
REMARKABLE TRICKERY.
Nick Carter listened without interrupting.
The man addressing the famous detective was not one to be wiselyinterrupted. His strong face, his broad, thin-lipped mouth and squarejaw, the glint of his steel-blue eyes, his portly and imposingfigure—all denoted that he was the type of man that insists upon havinghis way, his inning at the bat, as it were, but who then wouldgraciously accord the same privilege to another.
“The danger, Mr. Carter, cannot be overestimated,” he was forciblysaying. “It really is very terrible. We are living in constant peril.That man is a perpetual menace. Unless he can be wiped out of existence,or put behind prison bars, there is no telling what he might accomplish,no possible way to anticipate it and guard against it. I cannot for thelife of me understand how he got by a detective as marvelously keen anddiscerning as you. I cannot, Carter, on my word.”
Nick smiled and knocked the ashes from his cigar.
“It is not very difficult to understand,” he replied, with patienceunruffled. “There were two reasons for it, Mr. Langham.”
“Two reasons?”
“Yes. One, because the likeness between Chester Clayton and DavidMargate, or Doctor David Guelpa, in which character this exceedinglyclever rascal then was posing, is a most extraordinary one. I doubt thattwo other persons could be found, not excluding the most perfect oftwins, who look so precisely alike.”
“But you already knew of that extraordinary resemblance, Mr. Carter,when Margate eluded you and made his escape.”
“Very true,” Nick admitted. “B