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No. 150. July 24, 1915. Price Five Cents.
THE HOUSE OF FEAR;
Or, NICK CARTER’S COUNTERSTROKE.
Edited by CHICKERING CARTER.
CHAPTER I.
THE DEAD ALIVE.
"I say, shir! Can you let me have a match?"
"I think so."
The last speaker was Nick Carter, the famous detective.
The first was an erect, well-built, fashionably clad man, apparently inthe forties and somewhat the worse for liquor. His crush hat had arakish cant. His Inverness hung awry over his shoulders. His cravat hada disorderly twist, and his brown, Vandyke beard had lost its carefullycombed appearance.
Nick Carter sized him up as a society man who had been on the bat, andwho was returning home on foot to walk off the effects of it. Hisappearance and the hour seemed to warrant this conclusion, for it wastwo o’clock in the morning.
Nick was rather roughly clad. His strong, clean-cut face was soartistically treated with grease paint as to effectively disguise himand give him a decidedly sinister aspect. He had spent most of the nightin searching for a crook, on whom he very much wanted to lay his hands,but his efforts had been futile, and he was returning to his residencein Madison Avenue.
He had turned a corner of Fifth Avenue only a few moments before, whenhe saw the stranger approaching, walking a bit unsteadily, and then theonly person to be seen in the fashionable street.
Nick saw him fishing out a cigar