MAGNET LIBRARY No. 436 A weekly publication devoted to Detective literature. March 21, 1905. UNDER THE TIGER’S CLAWS; OR, A Struggle for the Right BY NICHOLAS CARTER AUTHOR OF “The Great Enigma,” “Hounded to Death,” “The Price of a Secret,” “The Man of Mystery,” “Run to Earth,” “Sealed Orders,” “The Seal of Death,” “Driven from Cover,” etc. NEW YORK STREET & SMITH, Publishers 79-89 Seventh Avenue Copyright, 1905 By STREET & SMITH CONTENTS I. The Man and the Money 5 II. Where Tides Meet 15 III. The Tiger’s Claws 31 IV. A Friend in Need 39 V. A Turn of Luck 48 VI. A Startling Sequence 63 VII. The Wages of Sin 72 VIII. By Whose Hand? 83 IX. Under Oath 98 X. A Mysterious Disappearance 109 XI. New Clues 123 XII. Driven to the Wall 133 XIII. Nick Calls the Turn 143 XIV. Two Bad Eggs 159 XV. Secret Work 170 XVI. Trapped 178 XVII. The Girl and the Crime 188 XVIII. Closing In 198 XIX. The Right Man 208 UNDER THE TIGER’S CLAWS. CHAPTER I. THE MAN AND THE MONEY. “Well, my dear Gilsey, I rather think I can land him for you,” declared Nick Carter, with an odd smile lurking in the corners of his keen, gray eyes. “But that will not do, Nick,” protested Mr. Raymond Gilsey, with an immediate display of apprehension. “Not do, sir?” “It may not be what I want.” “Not what you want?” “Not exactly, Nick,” and Mr. Raymond Gilsey decisively shook his head.