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Nicholas Carter
Under the Tiger's Claws; Or, A Struggle for the Right
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338063977
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CHAPTER I.
THE MAN AND THE MONEY.
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“Well, my dear Gilsey, I rather think I can land him for you,” declared Nick Carter, with an odd smile lurking in the corners of his keen, gray eyes.
“But that will not do, Nick,” protested Mr. Raymond Gilsey, 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 decisively shook his head.
He was a venerable banker, with a remarkably gentle and benevolent countenance. He was the president of the Milmore Trust Company, a banking-institution located in Forty-second Street, the patrons of which consisted chiefly of business firms in the immediate neighborhood, and of wealthy women, to whom the up-town location of the bank was a convenience.