"I simply called to ask you to meet me[Pg 54] in room seventy-five at the Adams House at three o’clock."
"I shall be there, Mr. Carter."
Nick did not delay one moment, but hastened to his hotel.
Here he lay upon a lounge and gave himself up to a moment of reflection.
"What a sell they will all get!" he mused. "But it will be an agreeable one. The poor doctor will be sold because his misery will end almost before it had begun.
"And young Rogers!
"Ah! He is a weak subject, and no mistake.
"If he hadn’t deceived me about the woman’s visits, I could have finished yesterday.
"However, he will feel sold when he learns how I have found him out, although he will, at the same time, be freed from his Cuban wife.
"As for the three Cubans!