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No. 158. NEW YORK, September 18, 1915. Price Five Cents.
THE BLUE VEIL;
Or, NICK CARTER’S TORN TRAIL.
Edited by CHICKERING CARTER.
CHAPTER I.
REMARKABLE TRICKERY.
Nick Carter listened without interrupting.
The man addressing the famous detective was not one to be wisely interrupted. His strong face, his broad, thin-lipped mouth and square jaw, the glint of his steel-blue eyes, his portly and imposing figure—all denoted that he was the type of man that insists upon having his way, his inning at the bat, as it were, but who then would graciously accord the same privilege to another.