“Tell me, I tell you!” he finished. “You thought your nephew was killed, and you kept the matter a secret; and you tried to kill me and my assistant in Boucicault’s last night——”

“Before Heaven, Carter——” began Montgomery.

“Where were you to meet him to-night?” demanded Nick.

“The Obelisk, Central Park.”

“What time?”

“Eight-thirty.”

“Who were to be there?”

“Himself, Starlick, Gillman.”

“You were to exchange money for a deed?”

“Yes.”