“You mean Isabel?” asked Tom.
“Yes. Isabel Benton. Mark my words, she will yet be heard from.”
But during the days which followed, there came no sign of Isabel Benton, nevertheless.
* * * * * * *
Not until the afternoon of the day following the fight did Nick Carter take Mercedes into his confidence and tell her all that had happened. He had imposed silence upon the mother, who was the only one in the house who had not partaken of the drug. It remained only necessary for him to tell all to Mercedes.
And he did.
I will leave the reader to imagine how he told it. How he dwelt on the heroism of Tom Danton, whom he promised should see her and talk with her as soon as he could be made to consent to do so.
THE END.
In the New Magnet Library there will next appear an exciting story of love and crime under the title of “Nabob and Knave,” No. 1171, by Nicholas Carter.