Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
The detective had not moved. He was sitting with his back against a rock, a cigar in his mouth, and silently contemplating the small fire that he had consented to have made.
The two men, secure in the big, lamp-lighted room, stared expectantly into one another’s eyes. Hooker was trembling, his face white, despite the tan. He attempted to roll a ciga...
2. CHAPTER II.When they walked across the drawbridge at the nearest of the four great gates of the city, and passed under the portcullis, escorted by a dozen of the guards of the high priest...
7. CHAPTER VII.“According to custom, there must be a challenge before any person of high degree may be put to death. The next victim on the list is the wife of that man who ran amuck in the st...
11. CHAPTER XI.This was an unnecessary reminder. Nick had seen at a glance what the trouble was all about, and he hurled himself into the thick of the fighting with a vigor that sent half a do...
4. CHAPTER IV.“Outwardly we are on good terms,” was the answer. “But who can trust Calaman? He trusts me, I believe, because once I did him a service—it matters not what. But if once he got a...
1. CHAPTER I.The detective had not moved. He was sitting with his back against a rock, a cigar in his mouth, and silently contemplating the small fire that he had consented to have made.
5. CHAPTER V.“I have my long knife in my sash, where it is hidden,” whispered Jai Singh to Nick Carter, who was next to him. “I could stick that fat pig at my side before he knew what I mean...
3. CHAPTER III.This was a feeler that the detective knew meant mischief if the priest were able to follow it up. But there was no way of blocking the game just then. So Nick seemed to accept i...
8. CHAPTER VIII.“Does any man dare challenge the Golden Scarab of Shangore to mortal combat? A touch of its horns means death. Is there any one bold enough to join issue with this antagonist? I...
10. CHAPTER X.It was just as Nick Carter’s friends rushed to his side, to help him in case there should be any hostile demonstration, that Lord Slava, with his men, came swarming into the are...
6. CHAPTER VI.Lord Slava took no notice of the detective’s words. He seemed to be thinking of other days, and as if he had forgotten where he was or to whom he was talking.
16. CHAPTER X.An interruption at this critical moment put an end to further argument. One of the subforemen, with a roll of blue prints, engaged Hooker’s attention, and Nash, aware of the tim...
9. CHAPTER IX.“Because a bullet would be of no use against that heavy shell,” replied Chick. “The only way to kill that animal would be to aim under it, and that could hardly be done while it...
13. CHAPTER VII.Nash accepted his new responsibilities in a manner that won him instant favor, not alone from his superiors, but from the men under him—the motley siftings of many races. And in...
14. CHAPTER VIII.One day the foreman left for Los Angeles on business, returning the same evening. The moment he caught sight of him, Nash’s heart sank. Hooker was so intoxicated that two of the...
15. CHAPTER IX.The next day Hooker was both sober and repentant. He seemed to remember faintly what had transpired the night previous; and when Nash had finished breakfast, he called him aside.
12. CHAPTER VI.After supper in the main shack with the others of the constructing force, Nash sought the seclusion of his own little cabin. His trunks had been brought up from San Fernando sev...