Nick Carter needed to hear no more than the significant remarks already made, nor really needed to have heard them, in fact, to convince him that his earlier suspicions and deductions, as well as the theory he had formed concerning the terrible crime were almost absolutely correct.
Nick now felt reasonably sure, too, since learning that Cora Cavendish had sent the three crooks out there, that Patsy must have got on her track before that was done, and he was borrowing no trouble as to the outcome of his own situation.
The only point that Nick now wanted to clear up, in fact, was the precise relations that had existed between Madison and this g**g of thugs, and he knew that he was in a fair way of doing so.
John Madison had not stirred from the swivel chair in which he was seated. Nor had
