"You trust me for that, Nick," cried Chick, laughing.
"Meantime, Chick, I'll have a look at the show from the front," added Nick. "And after Cervera does her turn, in case Venner is there, and she departs with him, you then may leave the couple to me. I'll be waiting for them at the stage door."
"Right you are, Nick. So here goes!"
Shrewd deductions, indeed, those of Nick Carter.
Plainly enough, Garside was quite justified in his apprehension that Rufus Venner had barked up the wrong tree.
CHAPTER V.
BEHIND THE SCENES.
Nick Carter had a double object in the work laid out for that night. If Señora Cervera was indeed in league with the Kilgore gang, and in any way responsible for the diamond robbery, Nick was resolved to secure positive evidence of it.
While her letter to Venner appeared to implicate her, since it had taken him from his store just at the time of the robbery, it seemed hardly probable that this brilliant Spanish girl, whose extraordinary grace and whirlwind dances had made her the talk of the town, could be identified with a gang of criminals notorious the world over. Yet the bare possibility existed, and Nick never ignored even the shadow of a clew.