“Yes.”
“Very well. Now, go ahead and don’t waste any time, for I have none to spare.”
The servant departed, and soon returning, escorted Nick into the professor’s office.
The person alluded to as the professor was one of New York’s most celebrated chemists.
He came forward, with a smile, to meet Nick Carter, explaining heartily:
“Glad to see you, Carter. It is all of two months since I have set eyes on you.”
“So am I glad to see you! Yet I would not be here if it were not that business made it necessary.”
“Business, eh?”
“Yes.”
“You are the greatest fellow to have your hands full of business I ever saw. Well, what is it this time?”