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[The cover names the book The Girl Kidnapper. The words kidnaper, kidnaped and kidnapingare spelled with one p through out the eBook.— Ebook transcriber's note.]

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NICK CARTER STORIES

Issued Weekly. Entered as Second-class Matter at the New York PostOffice, by Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Ave., New York.

Copyright, 1915, by Street & Smith. O. G. Smith and G. C. Smith,Proprietors.

Terms to NICK CARTER STORIES Mail Subscribers.

(Postage Free.)

Single Copies or Back Numbers, 5c. Each.

3 months65c.
4 months85c.
6 months$1.25
One year2.50
2 copies one year4.00
1 copy two years4.00

How to Send Money—By post-office or express money order, registeredletter, bank check or draft, at our risk. At your own risk if sent bycurrency, coin, or postage stamps in ordinary letter.

Receipts—Receipt of your remittance is acknowledged by proper change ofnumber on your label. If not correct you have not been properlycredited, and should let us know at once.

No. 124. NEW YORK,January 23, 1915 Price Five Cents.

THE GIRL KIDNAPER;
Or, NICK CARTER’S UP-TO-DATE CLEW.

Edited by CHICKERING CARTER.

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CHAPTER I.

THROUGH LOCKED DOORS.

“The thing seems impossible!”

“Yet it’s true.”

“You mean to tell me that——”

“I mean to tell you that Mrs. de Puyster van Dietrich, who retired toher room in this hotel last night at eleven o’clock, was not there thismorning when her maid went to call her, and that her doors were allbolted and locked, with the keys inside.”

“What about the windows?”

“Mrs. van Dietrich’s rooms are on the fourth floor.”

“Well?”

“She did not jump out, Mallory, if that’s what you mean. They overlookthe sea, and there are jagged rocks immediately beneath her windows. Shewould surely have been killed if she had gone that way. Anyhow, she is awell-balanced woman, who enjoys life, and a multimillionaire. Why shouldshe commit suicide?”

“I don’t know why she should, Savage. That’s nothing. Seventy-five outof a hundred suicides seem to have no good reason behind them—untilinvestigation is made afterward.”

“She did not jump out of the window, I tell you.”

“Perhaps she fell out,” suggest

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