CHAPTER VIIIBOUCICAULT’S
At certain times Nick Carter had intuitions that amounted almost to positive knowledge.
It was the “detective instinct,” amplified by years of intelligent practice.
In the present instance he believed that he would be shadowed, and he even figured out to himself the successive links in the chain that brought the conclusion.
Gillman had suspected him and had conveyed his suspicions to the man in the brown derby at the same time that he had reported the result of the assay.
It was this man in the brown derby whom Nick had cast for the part of a shadow, and hence Chick’s instructions to “shadow the shadow.”
The one uncertain element of the situation was Ramsay, or Yasmar, but Nick was depending on Patsy to take care of the Westerner.
Could Nick have been made f
