Nick Carter Stories No. 121, January 2, 1915: The call of death; or, Nick Carter's clever assistantCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 121, January 2, 1915: The call of death; or, Nick Carter's clever assistant
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
“I have,” spoke up the girl. “He’s my uncle. His name is Clark now, and
he lives in Chicago. Why?”
“Oh, nothing,” said Dunn, as he walked out of the office, making notes
on his cuff.
Dunn and Detective Edeburn came to Chicago. With the assistance of
Captain Halpin, of the detective bureau, and two other Chicago
detectives, they began to hunt for “Clark.” They located the man. His
arrest followed. Then Miss Reese arrived in Chicago with Detective
Clark.
“That’s Uncle Joe,” she said, when she confronted “Clark” in Captain
Halpin’s office. “He came back to Pittsburgh to visit us last spring.
Why is he arrested?”
“He is wanted for the murder of your Uncle Frank,” replied the captain.
The girl fainted.
Meanwhile, the man--whether Clark, Gantt, or Ghent, as the Pittsburgh
newspaper twenty-two years ago called him--is silent except to insist
that he is Frank J. Clark and not Gantt. He refuses to recognize the
girl.
During the last twenty-two years the man says he has lived “clean.” He
worked all over the country. He served his country against Spain in ’98.
He fought at Santiago as a member of the Fifth Mississippi
Volunteers--known as “the Immunes,” because all the men in it were
immune to tropical fevers.
Last of all, Gantt married and settled down in a little home at 2128
West Harrison Street. He has been working as a structural ironworker.
His wife is a deaf mute--the man himself is now approaching the
sixty-year mark--and the smile of the kindly Fate has faded.
Ocean-to-ocean Auto Travel.
With the exception of such slight improvements as may be made during the
winter months, the principal transcontinental routes are now in
approximately the shape they will be at the beginning of the heavy
travel to the Pacific Coast Exposition early next year.
Late reports to the American Automobile Association from all quarters
indicate that the road improvements on the principal cross-country lines
during 1914 have been underestimated. This is particularly the case on
the western end of the “Northwest Trail.”
The cities, counties, and towns on the line of the Lincoln Highway in
the Far West have also made very great improvements. The “All-Southern
Route” as a whole has been greatly improved during 1914, and will not
present very serious difficulties to tourists who decide to go leisurely
across that way in 1915.
Maps and specific information can be had by addressing A. A. A.
headquarters, Riggs Building, Washington, D. C.
Indian Waif-king to Assemble Tribe.
He is king of the remnant of a great race now scattered to the
winds--David Seattle, of the Snohomish tribe. Lean as a wolf was the
king, and footsore with far travels, when he entered the office of the
_Seattle Star_, asking that paper to help him in locating his widely
dispersed tribesfolk.
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