DETECTIVE NICK CARTER'S CASES - 7 Book Collection: The Great Spy System, The Mystery of St. Agnes' Hospital, The Crime of the French Café, With Links of Steel, Nick Carter's Ghost Story…. John R. Coryell

could not be any but Chick’s!

      Evidently the doctor had, by some fiendish trick, succeeded in overcoming his powerful watcher, and he was now removing all trace of the body, preparatory to his own flight to the ends of the earth.

      The horror of this thought was almost too much for Nick’s iron nerves.

      If this was Chick’s body, all human help was now vain.

      What should be done to secure the most certain retribution?

      Plainly the corpse, or what remained of it, must be recovered before the fire had completely made away with it.

      Nick was about to leap forward, and interrupt the dreadful work which was in progress under his eyes, when suddenly a new inspiration came to him.

      With a bound as noiseless as a tiger’s, he was at the top of the stairs. In another instant he stood beside the sheeted form upon the slab.

      He withdrew the cloth.

      The body was Chick’s.