CHAPTER 24THE SON RETURNS
It was ten o’clock next morning before Nick Carter reached Dr. Abbott’s office, and then he found the doctor absent on his daily round among his patients.
At noon he went back, with better success.
“I have promised to accompany Mrs. Mackenzie to New York with her husband’s remains this evening, Ketchum. Can you remain here till we return?”
“When will that be?”
“To-morrow morning. The remains will be incinerated tonight. We must stay in the city over night and come back early to-morrow forenoon.”
“I think I will have to return. But I’ll run up again in a few days,” said Nick, after pretending to study over the situation a little while.
“Then go to New York with us.”
“What time does the train leave Elmwood?”
“At four o’clock.”
“All right. I’ll be on hand.
