“Are you sure you are right?”

“Did you ever know me to make a mistake?”

“No.”

“This is not an exception.”

“Did you recognize Carter?”

“Yes; by the other one.”

“What do you mean?”

“I knew Chick once, and I had not forgotten his face. When he removed his disguise, I recognized him instantly.”

“And—”

“Why, simply if he is Chick, Nick Carter's assistant, the other one must be Nick Carter himself. I have a faculty for never forgetting faces; I knew the young cub the moment I saw him without a disguise.”