CHAPTER IX.
BODY AND LIMBS.“Chick, I’m hit with an idea!”
This exclamation came from Nick Carter about ten o’clock one morning, two days after the highway robbery last reported, and the talk that followed showed with what remarkable insight this great detective arrived at the subtle deductions which contributed largely to his success.
Chick and Patsy had arrived in Boston two days before, and both were now present with Nick in his room at the Adams House.
Both had been fully informed of the facts thus far learned by him, moreover, as well as of his interview with the Badgers, and his visits to Madame Victoria.
When he uttered the above exclamation Nick was seated at one of the windows of his room.
In one hand he held the photograph that figured so curiously in the case, and which wou
