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No. 154. August 21, 1915. Price Five Cents.
THE MASK OF DEATH;
Or, NICK CARTER’S CURIOUS CASE.
Edited by CHICKERING CARTER.
CHAPTER I.
A MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY.
“Nick Carter will solve the mystery. No crime is too deep for him. He’ll ferret out the truth and run down the rascals. He will recover your lost treasures, too, Mr. Strickland, one and all of them, take my word for it. If there is one man on earth who can accomplish it, Nick Carter is that one man. So pull yourself together, sir, and face this calamity man fashion. Carter already is on his way here, and he soon will fathom this outrageous and——”
Nick Carter did not wait to hear more. He pushed open the door through which he had heard the above remarks, observing that it was ajar, and he entered without ceremony the apartments of the man to whom they had been addressed.