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NEW MAGNET LIBRARY No. 1164
With Links of Steel
OR
The Peril of the Unknown
by Nicholas Carter
STREET & SMITH CORPORATION
PUBLISHERS
79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York
1904
CHAPTER II CONCERNING SEÑORA CERVERA.
CHAPTER III THE KILGORE DIAMOND GANG.
CHAPTER IV GETTING DOWN TO WORK.
CHAPTER V BEHIND THE SCENES.
CHAPTER VI A SHOT IN THE DARK.
CHAPTER VII A STRATEGIC MOVE.
CHAPTER VIII FOUND DEAD.
CHAPTER IX NICK STRIKES A STARTLING CLEW.
CHAPTER X ON THE TRAIL.
CHAPTER XI THE CRIME AND THE MEANS.
CHAPTER XII CLOSING IN.
CHAPTER XIII CRAFTY CERVERA.
CHAPTER XIV IN A WARM CORNER.
CHAPTER XV THE DIAMOND PLANT.
CHAPTER XVI THE CUNNING OF JEAN PYLOTTE.
CHAPTER XVII THE GAME UNCOVERED.
CHAPTER XVIII AT CROSS-PURPOSES.
CHAPTER XIX HANDS SHOWED DOWN.
CHAPTER XX THE BOOT ON THE OTHER LEG.
CHAPTER XXI AN ONLY RESOURCE.
CHAPTER XXII THE LAST TRICK.
WITH LINKS OF STEEL
CHAPTER I.
A CRAFTY ROBBERY.
"Mr. Venner, sir?"
"Mr. Venner—yes, certainly. You will find him in his privateoffice—that way, sir. The door to the right. Venner is in his privateoffice, Joseph, is he not?"
"I don't think so, Mr. Garside, unless he has just returned. I saw himgo out some time ago."
"Is that so? Wait a moment, young man."
The young man halted, and then turned back to face Mr. Garside, with aninquiring look in his frank, brown eyes.
"Not here, sir, do I understand?" he asked, politely.
Mr. Garside shook his head. He was a tall, slender man of forty, and wasthe junior partner of the firm of Rufus Venner & Co., a large retailjewelry house in New York City, with a handsome store on Fifth Avenue