MAGNET LIBRARY No. 436
A weekly publication devoted to Detective literature.
March 21, 1905.
UNDER THE TIGER’S CLAWS;
OR,
A Struggle for the Right
BY
NICHOLAS CARTER
AUTHOR OF
“The Great Enigma,” “Hounded to Death,” “The Price of a Secret,” “The Man of Mystery,” “Run to Earth,” “Sealed Orders,” “The Seal of Death,” “Driven from Cover,” etc.
NEW YORK
STREET & SMITH, Publishers
79-89 Seventh Avenue
Copyright, 1905
By STREET & SMITH
CONTENTS
[I. The Man and the Money] 5 [II. Where Tides Meet] 15 [III. The Tiger’s Claws] 31 [IV. A Friend in Need] 39 [V. A Turn of Luck] 48 [VI. A Startling Sequence] 63 [VII. The Wages of Sin] 72 [VIII. By Whose Hand?] 83 [IX. Under Oath] 98 [X. A Mysterious Disappearance] 109 [XI. New Clues] 123 [XII. Driven to the Wall] 133 [XIII. Nick Calls the Turn] 143 [XIV. Two Bad Eggs] 159 [XV. Secret Work] 170 [XVI. Trapped] 178 [XVII. The Girl and the Crime] 188 [XVIII. Closing In] 198 [XIX. The Right Man] 208
UNDER THE TIGER’S CLAWS.
CHAPTER I.
THE MAN AND THE MONEY.
“Well, my dear Gilsey, I rather think I can land him for you,” declared Nick Carter, with an odd smile lurking in the corners of his keen, gray eyes.