Nick Carter at Headquarters

by Carter Nick

As the boat was capsized, he dove like a fish beneath the water.

Then he swam with all his strength before again coming to the surface.

He knew that his own boat had not been overturned, and he believed that he could reach it, clamber in and be rowed safely away before the police would know exactly what had happened.

There were a few sputtering cries of dismay, a few curses, and then silence.

Then four heads bobbed up on the surface of the water.

Three were close to the overturned boat. The other was close to the boat which contained Chick and Red Rob.

CHAPTER VI.

The Rat-Hole.

The scheme worked exactly as Nick had planned it.

Dumped so and so unceremoniously into the river, the police at first were without other thought than that of saving themselves.