CHAPTER VNOLAN MAKES A DISCOVERY
Jerry Nolan proved as good as his word, in so far as what he had been directed to accomplish was concerned.
He followed Nick Carter and Lord Waldmere from the quarters of the loan company, and something like an hour following their departure after their apparently vain mission, Nolan put in an appearance in the upper section of Amsterdam Avenue, where he had been directed to await the coming of Mr. Morris Garland.
If one were to have judged from the expression on Nolan’s sinister face, however, one would have felt reasonably sure that he could not be wisely trusted, that he had sized up the circumstances from his own evil standpoint, and was bent upon taking further advantage of them than he seemed likely to derive. In other words, Nolan appeared to susp
