A Stolen Name; Or, The Man Who Defied Nick CarterCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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A Stolen Name; Or, The Man Who Defied Nick Carter
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories; Dime novels; Popular literature
“Tell that judge in New York, and others, that the real Ledger
Dinwiddie died a natural death in a cottage called ‘The Willows,’ at
Palmetto Peach, in Florida, and is buried in the churchyard of the
village of Tyrone, under the name of John Brown; that the man who
represented himself as Ledger Dinwiddie is really the James Duryea you
claimed he was—Bare-Faced Jimmy, etc.; that I assisted in the plot by
which Jimmy passed himself off as Dinwiddie; that sufficient proof of
all this is buried in a cigar box behind the small headstone of that
grave, where I placed it, secretly.
“I sign myself, for the sake of this message,
“JUNO DINWIDDIE.”
The detective caught the same boat from Calais to Dover that Mouquin
had taken with his charge, and he rode up to London with them; but
before leaving Paris he called again upon the chief of the secret
police and showed him the letter that Juno had written.
“Let her go,” said the chief. “She will not remain in Paris, and what
she does elsewhere I do not care. She was more considerate of you than
she has been of others, Carter. Beware of her if you come in contact
with her again.”
At Gray’s hotel, in London, Nick found Nan Nightingale awaiting him.
“You were right, Mr. Carter,” she told him, when they met. “The girl,
Sarah, who was called Siren, did not die. I have proof of it here.
She became a diplomatic spy, and has served many governments as such.
Her reputation is not savory, but there is nothing said against her
personal purity. Throughout Europe she is known by a name that was
bestowed upon her by the French police—‘The Leopard.’ She is the Juno
who married Jimmy; and Jimmy—you know who he is.”
“Yes. I know now,” was the reply.
Jimmy had, in fact, proven entirely practicable, and continued to do so
as long as he was assured that he was being taken to the Seine. In that
belief he took passage with Nick Carter for New York; arrived there in
due time and was permitted to plunge head foremost into the swimming
pool of a Turkish bath. He came out of it, presently, clothed in his
right mind, with the spell of hypnotism gone from him, entirely.
If there was ever a madder man in the United States than Bare-Faced
Jimmy, when he discovered all that had happened to him since that
moment in the parlor with Juno when he was cast under the spell she
imposed upon him, Nick Carter has never succeeded in finding him.
He was taken from that Turkish-bath plunge straight to the Tombs;
and this time there was no difficulty in proving him to be the real
Bare-Faced Jimmy, for in addition to the proof that Nick was able to
produce, Chick and Patsy had found sufficient evidence that James
Duryea did not die, and, therefore, was not buried, on the island in
the Sound.
Nan Nightingale did not return to America at once.
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