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No. 121. NEW YORK, January 2, 1915. Price Five Cents.
THE CALL OF DEATH;
Or, NICK CARTER’S CLEVER ASSISTANT.
Edited by CHICKERING CARTER.
CHAPTER I.
A CURIOUS LETTER.
“There’s no question in my mind, inspector, as to who did the job,” saidNick Carter.
“You feel sure of it, then?”
“As sure as water runs downhill. I refer, of course, to the mechanicalpart of the work. I looked it over on the morning following theburglary, every part of the looted vault, and I am as sure of thecracksman’s identity as if I had seen him getting in his work. Only oneyegg in the business has the mechanical genius to crack a vault as thatwas cracked.”
“James Nordeck?”
“Surely. I have seen Nordeck’s work before, and I know it when I see it.It is invariably stamped with his mechanical ingenuity. Jim Nordeck isin a class of his own at that business.”
“Here is his mug, front and profile, chief, also his record. Have a lookat them.”
The last came from Chick Carter, the celebrated detective’s seniorassistant, and the remarks of both were addressed to Inspector Mallory,then head of the detective force identified with the New York policedepartment.
They were discussing the recent burglary of a savings bank up inWestchester County, a crime committed about a week before, in which theremarkably skillful drilling of the vault for the use of explosives, aswell as other details of the felonious work, plainly showed it to havebeen that of professional cracksmen.
As may be inferred from the remarks he had just made, it revealedsomething more to Nick Carter—the identity of one of the criminals, atleast, with certain characteristics of whose skillful work along suchinfamous lines the detective was already familiar.
Though discovered before having completed