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No. 154. August 21, 1915. Price Five Cents.
THE MASK OF DEATH;
Or, NICK CARTER’S CURIOUS CASE.
Edited by CHICKERING CARTER.
CHAPTER I.
A MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY.
“Nick Carter will solve the mystery. No crime is too deep for him. He’llferret out the truth and run down the rascals. He will recover your losttreasures, too, Mr. Strickland, one and all of them, take my word forit. If there is one man on earth who can accomplish it, Nick Carter isthat one man. So pull yourself together, sir, and face this calamity manfashion. Carter already is on his way here, and he soon will fathom thisoutrageous and——”
Nick Carter did not wait to hear more. He pushed open the door throughwhich he had heard the above remarks, observing that it was ajar, and heentered without ceremony the apartments of the man to whom they had beenaddressed.
They denoted that he was on the threshold of an extraordinary case, oneshrouded in mystery and involving a great loss, and the scene withinseemed to warrant all that he had overheard.
The entrance hall through which he had passed led into a beautifullyfurnished parlor overlooking Fifth Avenue. It was one of the front roomsof an apartment occupying the entire second floor of the spacious andmagnificent old Vanhausen mansion, turned to other than strictly privateresidential uses since the encroachment of commercial interests uponthat part of the fashionable New York thoroughfar