CHAPTER XII.
THE ROAD TO CANTON.It was precisely two o’clock when Nick Carter arrived at Vic Clayton’s rooms in Tremont Street.
Naturally, Nick did not so much as dream that she had been informed of his designs against her. That treachery existed at police headquarters was farthest from his thoughts.
In asking Vic Clayton to take him to the place where she and Claudia Badger claimed to have been robbed, Nick had several motives.
To begin with, he wished to see if she would willingly consent to do so.
Nick reasoned that, in case she readily consented, it would indicate a bare possibility that he in some way had misinterpreted the curious features that he had detected in the photograph, and that the picture might not be as incriminating in its significance as he had inferred.
While eve
