The Plot That Failed; or, When Men Conspire

“Yes,” he thundered, “but then I was not aware that the shy and modest Louise Calhoun was a common adventuress. Truly, you would be a nice woman to grace my home and be a second...

Seated around the room, the night following that of the abduction of the old banker, were seven or eight men, while at a rude table in the middle of the shed were two others eng...

The fellow swam nearly a mile before determining to leave the water, and then he pulled himself on board of a low-lying canal boat, anchored at the foot of Thirty-fourth Street.

On the evening of the second day, the detective was sauntering across the park at Union Square when a gentleman, walking hurriedly, his eyes bent on the ground, collided with him.

“She said,” volunteered the servant, “that you would not know her by her name, but that it was a matter of importance both to you and to herself that she should see you.”

“Well, I want you to follow her and come back and tell me where she stops,” commanded Nick. “She has looked back several times, and I am afraid she recognizes me.”

“You would like to be rich?” he said. “But that is a foolish question; we all want money, and the more we get the better appetite we have for more. It never surfeits a fellow.”

It was a neat cottage to which Hilton Field was conducted, and so innocent were its exterior and surroundings that the passer-by would most certainly scoff at the suspicion that...

“Well, me and the bloke put in yesterday in Wall Street,” answered Tambourine Jack; “the night before we were at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, he was inside and I was outside. Last ni...

He found Tambourine Jack waiting for him, and, telling the youth to follow, the detective went through an alleyway that led to the courtyard, into which Elmer Greer had leaped.

“I am confined in a house near Norwalk, known as Sophie’s; she is my son Wilbur’s wife. My life is in danger. To the person who gives this to a police officer I will pay ten tho...

“Oh, yes. Greer and the others were caught,” said Smith; “there are three of them on the tier below this. The police took the money from them and it is now at headquarters.”

“The fellow I intend to go to is all right,” replied Dick; “and there is no danger of others seeing us, because he lives in the woods, half a mile back of the settlement. I will...

Then they sought Skip Brodie and Dick Denton, but, although they searched the country for miles around and questioned everyone they met, not a trace of the fleeing villains coul...

“That you shall never know,” answered Nick; “but I can inform you of one thing, and that is, nothing that you have done since carrying off the banker has escaped me. I charge yo...

One morning, twenty-four years after the kidnaping of Hilton Field, Nick Carter was sitting in his office examining some important papers when one of his assistants placed a tel...

Where the body had been lying in the room, it had been surrounded by a pool of blood. But, when being dragged across the floor toward the door there had been no dropping of the...

So far as appearance went it was in her favor, but the detective had learned in a hard school not to trust in the slightest degree to appearances, and from the fact of this girl...

He first took out the ink bottle and carried it to the better light near the window. It was a jet-black ink of heavy consistency, showing that a considerable quantity of gum ara...

“And I know better. If he is in I promise you he will see me, while if he is out I will not waste my time waiting for your red tape.”

“Yes, or rather that portion of it in ordinary use. The remainder of it was under the care of Mr. Field personally, who retained the key to the safe in which it is kept.”

“She came to the door and inquired for Miss Doane. She did not give her name or attempt in anyway to explain who she was, but the woman who saw her exclaimed: ‘You are my lady!’”

If he could learn absolutely that Lorton was in the city something would be gained. And if it should prove that the goods he had disposed of included the silverware that had bee...

Nick drew back further into the doorway, but he kept his eye on the man, and noticed that he carried a large and what seemed to be a heavy bundle under his arm.