“He is not a detective.”
“Who or what is he, then?”
“He is the man who had your father carried off,” replied Nick Carter.
The girl screamed and the servants rushed in, but she ordered them out.
“And does this woman know he did it?” asked Mignon.
“Yes,” replied the detective, “and she had a very large hand in the affair herself, or I am greatly mistaken.”
“Heavenly powers! can such things be?” cried the banker’s daughter, “and the traitress dares pollute his grief-stricken home with her presence!”
“She is capable of doing anything—that is, anything that this Elmer Greer, who is really her husband, tells her to do.”
“And you would advise me to go to her house?”
“I most certainly would,” answered the detective.