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No. 152. August 7, 1915. Price Five Cents.
THE FORCED CRIME;
Or, NICK CARTER’S BRAZEN CLEW.
Edited by CHICKERING CARTER.[Pg 2]
CHAPTER I.
A TALE OF BURGLARS.
“You say this burglar has got into your bedroom three times?”
“Yes, Carter. Three times that I know of. He may have got in oftener for aught I know.”
“Hardly likely, Mr. Bentham. If you woke up three times and saw him, it indicates that there is something in his presence which affects you even in your sleep. It is a psychological influence, evidently.”
Professor Matthew Bentham, one of the most learned scientists in Brooklyn, shook his head. He knew too much about psychology to believe it was an agent in his case.