MAGNET LIBRARY No. 436
A weekly publication devoted to Detective literature.
March 21, 1905.
UNDER THE TIGER’S CLAWS;
OR,
A Struggle for the Right
BY
NICHOLAS CARTER
AUTHOR OF
“The Great Enigma,” “Hounded to Death,” “The Price of a Secret,” “The Man of Mystery,” “Run to Earth,” “Sealed Orders,” “The Seal of Death,” “Driven from Cover,” etc.
NEW YORK
STREET & SMITH, Publishers
79-89 Seventh Avenue
Copyright, 1905
By STREET & SMITH
CONTENTS
- I. The Man and the Money 5
- II. Where Tides Meet 15
- III. The Tiger’s Claws 31
- IV. A Friend in Need 39
- V. A Turn of Luck 48
- VI. A Startling Sequence 63
- VII. The Wages of Sin 72
- VIII. By Whose Hand? 83
- IX. Under Oath 98
- X. A Mysterious Disappearance 109
- XI. New Clues 123
- XII. Driven to the Wall 133
- XIII. Nick Calls the Turn 143
- XIV. Two Bad Eggs 159
- XV. Secret Work 170
- XVI. Trapped 178
- XVII. The Girl and the Crime 188
- XVIII. Closing In 198
- XIX. The Right Man 208
UNDER THE TIGER’S CLAWS.
CHAPTER I.
THE MAN AND THE MONEY.
“Well, my dear Gilsey, I rather think I can land himfor you,” declared Nick Carter, with an odd smile lurkingin the corners of his keen, gray eyes.
“But that will not do, Nick,” protested Mr. RaymondGilsey, with an immediate display of apprehension.
“Not do, sir?”
“It may not be what I want.”
“Not what you want?”
“Not exactly, Nick,” and Mr. Raymond Gilsey decisivelyshook his head.
He wa