CHAPTER 10A DESPERATE MOVE
It was nearly noon.
Less than three hours had passed since Nick Carter and his two assistants set to work on that eventful morning.
There was a change in the scene in Captain Casper Dillon’s library.
Nick Carter was seated in one of the large chairs near the wall, tied to it and with his arms secured behind him. His strong, clean-cut face, nevertheless, wore an expression of absolute indifference. He sat listening without concern to the discussion that was in progress.
There was another prominent figure in it at that time. He was seated near the library table, on which still lay the plans Nick had brought there, and the safety of which was all that then gave him any uneasiness. This figure was that of the Baron Esterveldt, who had followed Irma Valaska there
