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No. 157. NEW YORK, September 11, 1915. Price Five Cents.
A HUMAN COUNTERFEIT;
Or, NICK CARTER AND THE CROOK’S DOUBLE.
Edited by CHICKERING CARTER.
CHAPTER I.
WHY WAS IT DONE?
“Extraordinary—that doesn’t half express it. I know of no word that would. To some extent, Nick, at least, men’s motives are usually discernible in their conduct. But in this case—why, there was nothing to it. It is utterly inexplicable. It was like a horrid dream, a hideous nightmare, or the mental abnormalities of a dope fiend.”
Nick Carter laughed and spread his napkin, with a significant glance at his chief assistant, Chick Carter, who sat at one side of the table, that of a private dining room in a new and fashionable New York hotel.