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OR,

A FATAL MISCALCULATION

BY

NICHOLAS CARTER

Author of the celebrated stories of Nick Carter’s adventures, which

are published exclusively in the New Magnet Library, conceded

to be among the best detective tales ever written.

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HIDDEN FOES.

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Nobody had heard the report of a pistol.

There had been no disturbance; in fact, no audible altercation, no startling cry for help, or even a groan of sudden, terrible distress.

The man lay there as motionless, nevertheless, as if felled by a thunderbolt. His life had been snuffed out like the flame of a candle by the fury of a whirlwind. Death had come upon him like a bolt from the blue. By slow degrees his face underwent a change—but it was not the change that ordinarily follows sudden death, that peaceful calm that marks the end of earthly toil and trouble.