JOHN R. CORYELL Ultimate Collection: Murder Mysteries, Thrillers & Detective Stories (Including Complete Nick Carter Series). John R. Coryell
the doctor had, by some fiendish trick, succeeded in overcoming his powerful watcher, and he was now removing all trace of the body, preparatory to his own flight to the ends of the earth.
The horror of this thought was almost too much for Nick’s iron nerves.
If this was Chick’s body, all human help was now vain.
What should be done to secure the most certain retribution?
Plainly the corpse, or what remained of it, must be recovered before the fire had completely made away with it.
Nick was about to leap forward, and interrupt the dreadful work which was in progress under his eyes, when suddenly a new inspiration came to him.
With a bound as noiseless as a tiger’s, he was at the top of the stairs. In another instant he stood beside the sheeted form upon the slab.
He withdrew the cloth.
The body was Chick’s.
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