Chapter XLI: Black Panther’s End

Buffalo Bill had not seen the last of Black Panther.

Two months after the encounter in Running Water’s village the commandant of Fort McPherson ordered him to go, with a small band of his scouts, to the village of the Bear band of the Sioux nation.

They were threatening to cause trouble, the officer said, and they must be looked after, warned, and over-awed by a show of force. The famous Company B of the Third Cavalry, under command of Captain Meinhold, would go along with the scouts.

The village, when it was at last reached after a toilsome journey, was found to be deserted, except by a few women and children and old men, who, having had experience of the white soldiers before, knew that they had nothing to fear from them.

One of the old men, when closely questioned by Buffalo Bill, admitted that all the braves had gone away on the previous day on the war trail. They had had information from one of their hunters of the approach of the white force, and had concluded that it was too strong for them to meet.

The old man would not say in what direction they had gone, or what point they were aiming for; but it was easy enough for Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill, who was with him, to hit the trail of such a large party and follow it.

Before he left the village the king of the scouts made inquiries as to whether Black Panther was with the war party.

He was told that his enemy was not only with it, but was its leader.

“But I thought that Wolf Claw was the chief of the Bear clan,” said the border king to the squaw who told him this.

“He was,” the woman replied. “But Wolf Claw is dead. He was killed by a grizzly bear while out hunting two moons ago, and the braves chose Black Panther to succeed him. He is a great warrior.”

The squaw did not know what valuable information she had given to the enemy of her people.

Buffalo Bill rode on with the knowledge that the conflict with the Sioux, when he came up with them, would be a more than ordinarily perilous one for him. Either Black Panther or himself would have to “go under.”

He was under no illusions as to the inveterate character of the hatred which the Sioux bore him. He knew that Black Panther would, if necessary, be ready to give his own life in order to take that of the man who had beaten him in wrestling and been the unwitting cause of his disgrace before Running Water’s band.

Who should know better than William F. Cody that an Indian is not wont either to forget or forgive?

After the trail of the Sioux had been followed for a few miles, Buffalo Bill found that the horses of the soldiers in Captain Meinhold’s troop could not keep up with those of the scouts under his own immediate command. The men were not such good riders and the animals were not so good.

He, therefore, suggested that he and his men should ride on ahead and the troopers should follow as quickly as they could.

Meinhold saw the wisdom of this arrangement, for it was imperative that the Indians should be caught up with as speedily as was possible. It was impossible to tell what scheme they had in mind. They might intend to raid one of the settlements within easy reach of such hard riders as they were.

All that day the trail was followed over the prairie, and the scouts kept on far into the night, for it was bright moonlight, and the broad track left by the horses of the Sioux could be followed without difficulty by such experts in the business of Indian fighting as they were.

A few hours’ rest--more for the sake of the horses than of the tough frontiersmen--was at last ordered by Buffalo Bill, and soon after dawn the chase was resumed.

The redskins outnumbered them by more than three to one, as the trail plainly showed; but neither Buffalo Bill nor any of his men cared anything for that. They were used to taking such odds--and far worse ones, too.

Toward the close of the afternoon they sighted the Sioux, who had offsaddled for a rest.

The vedettes of the Indians saw them at the same moment, and hastened in to carry the news to Black Panther.

The chief had no thought of flight. He knew that his braves largely outnumbered the white men, and he was only too glad to accept the gage of battle.

He had heard, too, from his scouts who had reported to him the approach of the white force before he left the village, that the famous “Long Hair” was in command of the white scouts. That alone would have been sufficient inducement to him to fight if there had been no other.

The conflict opened at long range, and the two parties fired at one another for two or three hours, taking such cover as they could behind their horses in the long grass, or behind small hummocks in the otherwise flat expanse of the prairie.

But the Indians found that this way of skirmishing did not pay them. The scouts were far better shots than they were, and possessed better rifles. So at last Black Panther gave the word to force the fighting to close quarters.

Buffalo Bill, like the good general that he was, tried to avoid this; but he could not do so. The horses of his men were jaded, while those of the Indians were fresh from their long rest.

Soon the two contending forces had closed, and the fighting was furious and animated beyond all description.

Buffalo Bill and Black Panther sought one another out in the middle of the scrimmage, and fought desperately hand to hand.

Then Buffalo Bill found out what a terrible enemy the Sioux chief was. The king of the scouts was wont to say in after years that he was the worst foe he had ever encountered.

Black Panther fired at him and missed. Then, angrily flinging down his gun, he drew his tomahawk and struck at him.

The king of the scouts had fired the last shot in the magazine of his repeater. He raised the weapon, and the blade of Black Panther’s hatchet fell on the stock, shearing the tough wood clean through--so terrible was the force of the blow.

But that blow was broken by the guard, and the tomahawk fell almost harmlessly on Buffalo Bill’s shoulder, merely inflicting a slight flesh wound.

Next moment the heavy breech of the border king’s rifle fell with fearful force on Black Panther’s head, dashing out his brains.

The fall of the chief marked the close of the fight.

The Indians had lost heavily, and when they saw the death of Black Panther the heart was taken out of the remnant of them.

Those who were not lying dead or wounded on the prairie turned to flee; and, as they did so, the sound of a bugle proclaimed the arrival on the scene of Captain Meinhold and his men--too late to take part in the fight, but just in time to assist in the pursuit, at the end of which few indeed of the Sioux were left alive.

Little more of the story remains to be told.

The defeat and almost total annihilation of the Bear clan kept the rest of the Sioux nation quiet for some time to come, and the peaceful and generous-minded Chief Running Water assisted in that task, ruling over his tribe in prosperity and honor for many years, and maintaining a close friendship with Buffalo Bill, who visited his village on many occasions--but was careful never to take any more whisky there.

As for the brave and cheerful Joe Congo, he obtained employment as a cook in the officers’ mess at Fort McPherson, and he was never tired of telling of the stirring times he had in “Cap’n Runnin’ Water’s” village.

THE END.

No. 177 of the BUFFALO BILL BORDER STORIES, entitled “Buffalo Bill’s Mystery Box,” by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, is a thrilling account of the Moqui Indians on the warpath, and the adventures that befell the great scout and his followers in quelling them.

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There is no more brilliant page in American history than the winning of the West. Never did pioneers live more thrilling lives, so rife with adventure and brave deeds as the old scouts and plainsmen. Foremost among these stands the imposing figure of Buffalo Bill.

All of the books in this list are intensely interesting. They were written by the close friend and companion of Buffalo Bill--Colonel Prentiss Ingraham. They depict actual adventures which this pair of hard-hitting comrades experienced, while the story of these adventures is interwoven with fiction; historically the books are correct.

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1--Buffalo Bill, the Border King By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
2--Buffalo Bill’s Raid By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
3--Buffalo Bill’s Bravery By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
4--Buffalo Bill’s Trump Card By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
5--Buffalo Bill’s Pledge By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
6--Buffalo Bill’s Vengeance By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
7--Buffalo Bill’s Iron Grip By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
8--Buffalo Bill’s Capture By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
9--Buffalo Bill’s Danger Line By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
10--Buffalo Bill’s Comrades By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
11--Buffalo Bill’s Reckoning By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
12--Buffalo Bill’s Warning By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
13--Buffalo Bill at Bay By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
14--Buffalo Bill’s Buckskin Pards By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
15--Buffalo Bill’s Brand By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
16--Buffalo Bill’s Honor By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
17--Buffalo Bill’s Phantom Hunt By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
18--Buffalo Bill’s Fight With Fire By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
19--Buffalo Bill’s Danite Trail By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
20--Buffalo Bill’s Ranch Riders By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
21--Buffalo Bill’s Death Trail By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
22--Buffalo Bill’s Trackers By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
23--Buffalo Bill’s Mid-air Flight By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
24--Buffalo Bill, Ambassador By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
25--Buffalo Bill’s Air Voyage By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
26--Buffalo Bill’s Secret Mission By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
27--Buffalo Bill’s Long Trail By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
28--Buffalo Bill Against Odds By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
29--Buffalo Bill’s Hot Chase By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
30--Buffalo Bill’s Redskin Ally By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
31--Buffalo Bill’s Treasure Trove By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
32--Buffalo Bill’s Hidden Foes By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
33--Buffalo Bill’s Crack Shot By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
34--Buffalo Bill’s Close Call By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
35--Buffalo Bill’s Double Surprise By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
36--Buffalo Bill’s Ambush By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
37--Buffalo Bill’s Outlaw Hunt By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
38--Buffalo Bill’s Border Duel By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
39--Buffalo Bill’s Bid for Fame By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
40--Buffalo Bill’s Triumph By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
41--Buffalo Bill’s Spy Trailer By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
42--Buffalo Bill’s Death Call By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
43--Buffalo Bill’s Body Guard By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
44--Buffalo Bill’s Still Hunt By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
45--Buffalo Bill and the Doomed Dozen By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
46--Buffalo Bill’s Prairie Scout By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
47--Buffalo Bill’s Traitor Guide By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
48--Buffalo Bill’s Bonanza By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
49--Buffalo Bill’s Swoop By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
50--Buffalo Bill and the Gold King By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
51--Buffalo Bill, Deadshot By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
52--Buffalo Bill’s Buckskin Bravos By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
53--Buffalo Bill’s Big Four By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
54--Buffalo Bill’s One-armed Pard By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
55--Buffalo Bill’s Race for Life By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
56--Buffalo Bill’s Return By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
57--Buffalo Bill’s Conquest By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
58--Buffalo Bill to the Rescue By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
59--Buffalo Bill’s Beautiful Foe By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
60--Buffalo Bill’s Perilous Task By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
61--Buffalo Bill’s Queer Find By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
62--Buffalo Bill’s Blind Lead By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
63--Buffalo Bill’s Resolution By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
64--Buffalo Bill, the Avenger By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
65--Buffalo Bill’s Pledged Pard By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
66--Buffalo Bill’s Weird Warning By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
67--Buffalo Bill’s Wild Ride By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
68--Buffalo Bill’s Redskin Stampede By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
69--Buffalo Bill’s Mine Mystery By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
70--Buffalo Bill’s Gold Hunt By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
71--Buffalo Bill’s Daring Dash By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
72--Buffalo Bill on Hand By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
73--Buffalo Bill’s Alliance By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
74--Buffalo Bill’s Relentless Foe By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
75--Buffalo Bill’s Midnight Ride By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
76--Buffalo Bill’s Chivalry By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
77--Buffalo Bill’s Girl Pard By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
78--Buffalo Bill’s Private War By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
79--Buffalo Bill’s Diamond Mine By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
80--Buffalo Bill’s Big Contract By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
81--Buffalo Bill’s Woman Foe By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
82--Buffalo Bill’s Ruse By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
83--Buffalo Bill’s Pursuit By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
84--Buffalo Bill’s Hidden Gold By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
85--Buffalo Bill in Mid-air By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
86--Buffalo Bill’s Queer Mission By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
87--Buffalo Bill’s Verdict By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
88--Buffalo Bill’s Ordeal By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
89--Buffalo Bill’s Camp Fires By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
90--Buffalo Bill’s Iron Nerve By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
91--Buffalo Bill’s Rival By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
92--Buffalo Bill’s Lone Hand By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
93--Buffalo Bill’s Sacrifice By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
94--Buffalo Bill’s Thunderbolt By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
95--Buffalo Bill’s Black Fortune By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
96--Buffalo Bill’s Wild Work By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
97--Buffalo Bill’s Yellow Trail By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
98--Buffalo Bill’s Treasure Train By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
99--Buffalo Bill’s Bowie Duel By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
100--Buffalo Bill’s Mystery Man By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
101--Buffalo Bill’s Bold Play By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
102--Buffalo Bill: Peacemaker By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
103--Buffalo Bill’s Big Surprise By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
104--Buffalo Bill’s Barricade By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
105--Buffalo Bill’s Test By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
106--Buffalo Bill’s Powwow By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
107--Buffalo Bill’s Stern Justice By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
108--Buffalo Bill’s Mysterious Friend By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
109--Buffalo Bill and the Boomers By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
110--Buffalo Bill’s Panther Fight By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
111--Buffalo Bill and the Overland Mail By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
112--Buffalo Bill on the Deadwood Trail By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
113--Buffalo Bill in Apache Land By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
114--Buffalo Bill’s Blindfold Duel By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
115--Buffalo Bill and the Lone Camper By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
116--Buffalo Bill’s Merry War By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
117--Buffalo Bill’s Star Play By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
118--Buffalo Bill’s War Cry By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
119--Buffalo Bill on Black Panther’s Trail By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
120--Buffalo Bill’s Slim Chance By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
121--Buffalo Bill Besieged By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
122--Buffalo Bill’s Bandit Round-up By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
123--Buffalo Bill’s Surprise Party By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
124--Buffalo Bill’s Lightning Raid By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
125--Buffalo Bill in Mexico By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
126--Buffalo Bill’s Traitor Foe By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
127--Buffalo Bill’s Tireless Chase By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
128--Buffalo Bill’s Boy Bugler By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
129--Buffalo Bill’s Sure Guess By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
130--Buffalo Bill’s Record Jump By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
131--Buffalo Bill in the Land of Dread By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
132--Buffalo Bill’s Tangled Clue By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
133--Buffalo Bill’s Wolf Skin By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
134--Buffalo Bill’s Twice Four Puzzle By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
135--Buffalo Bill and the Devil Bird By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
136--Buffalo Bill and the Indian’s Mascot By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
137--Buffalo Bill Entrapped By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
138--Buffalo Bill’s Totem Trail By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
139--Buffalo Bill at Fort Challis By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
140--Buffalo Bill’s Determination By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
141--Buffalo Bill’s Battle Axe By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
142--Buffalo Bill’s Game with Fate By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
143--Buffalo Bill’s Comanche Raid By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
144--Buffalo Bill’s Aerial Island By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
145--Buffalo Bill’s Lucky Shot By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
146--Buffalo Bill’s Sioux Friends By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
147--Buffalo Bill’s Supreme Test By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
148--Buffalo Bill’s Boldest Strike By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
149--Buffalo Bill and the Red Hand By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
150--Buffalo Bill’s Dance with Death By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
151--Buffalo Bill’s Running Fight By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
152--Buffalo Bill in Harness By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
153--Buffalo Bill Corralled By Col. Prentiss Ingraham
154--Buffalo Bill’s Waif of the West By Col. Prentiss Ingraham

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The author of these stories knew more about writing detective stories than any other single person.

Following is a list of the best Nick Carter stories. They have been selected with extreme care, and we unhesitatingly recommend each of them as being fully as interesting as any detective story between cloth covers which sells at ten times the price.

If you do not know Nick Carter, buy a copy of any of the New Magnet Library books, and get acquainted. He will surprise and delight you.

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850--Wanted: A Clew By Nicholas Carter
851--A Tangled Skein By Nicholas Carter
852--The Bullion Mystery By Nicholas Carter
853--The Man of Riddles By Nicholas Carter
854--A Miscarriage of Justice By Nicholas Carter
855--The Gloved Hand By Nicholas Carter
856--Spoilers and the Spoils By Nicholas Carter
857--The Deeper Game By Nicholas Carter
858--Bolts from Blue Skies By Nicholas Carter
859--Unseen Foes By Nicholas Carter
860--Knaves in High Places By Nicholas Carter
861--The Microbe of Crime By Nicholas Carter
862--In the Toils of Fear By Nicholas Carter
863--A Heritage of Trouble By Nicholas Carter
864--Called to Account By Nicholas Carter
865--The Just and the Unjust By Nicholas Carter
866--Instinct at Fault By Nicholas Carter
867--A Rogue Worth Trapping By Nicholas Carter
868--A Rope of Slender Threads By Nicholas Carter
869--The Last Call By Nicholas Carter
870--The Spoils of Chance By Nicholas Carter
871--A Struggle With Destiny By Nicholas Carter
872--The Slave of Crime By Nicholas Carter
873--The Crook’s Blind By Nicholas Carter
874--A Rascal of Quality By Nicholas Carter
875--With Shackles of Fire By Nicholas Carter
876--The Man Who Changed Faces By Nicholas Carter
877--The Fixed Alibi By Nicholas Carter
878--Out With the Tide By Nicholas Carter
879--The Soul Destroyers By Nicholas Carter
880--The Wages of Rascality By Nicholas Carter
881--Birds of Prey By Nicholas Carter
882--When Destruction Threatens By Nicholas Carter
883--The Keeper of Black Hounds By Nicholas Carter
884--The Door of Doubt By Nicholas Carter
885--The Wolf Within By Nicholas Carter
886--A Perilous Parole By Nicholas Carter
887--The Trail of the Fingerprints By Nicholas Carter
888--Dodging the Law By Nicholas Carter
889--A Crime in Paradise By Nicholas Carter
890--On the Ragged Edge By Nicholas Carter
891--The Red God of Tragedy By Nicholas Carter
892--The Man Who Paid By Nicholas Carter
893--The Blind Man’s Daughter By Nicholas Carter
894--One Object in Life By Nicholas Carter
895--As a Crook Sows By Nicholas Carter
896--In Record Time By Nicholas Carter
897--Held in Suspense By Nicholas Carter
898--The $100,000 Kiss By Nicholas Carter
899--Just One Slip By Nicholas Carter
900--On a Million-dollar Trail By Nicholas Carter
901--A Weird Treasure By Nicholas Carter
902--The Middle Link By Nicholas Carter
903--To the Ends of the Earth By Nicholas Carter
904--When Honors Pall By Nicholas Carter
905--The Yellow Brand By Nicholas Carter
906--A New Serpent in Eden By Nicholas Carter
907--When Brave Men Tremble By Nicholas Carter
908--A Test of Courage By Nicholas Carter
909--Where Peril Beckons By Nicholas Carter
910--The Gargoni Girdle By Nicholas Carter
911--Rascals & Co. By Nicholas Carter
912--Too Late to Talk By Nicholas Carter
913--Satan’s Apt Pupil By Nicholas Carter
914--The Girl Prisoner By Nicholas Carter
915--The Danger of Folly By Nicholas Carter
916--One Shipwreck Too Many By Nicholas Carter
917--Scourged by Fear By Nicholas Carter
918--The Red Plague By Nicholas Carter
919--Scoundrels Rampant By Nicholas Carter
920--From Clew to Clew By Nicholas Carter
921--When Rogues Conspire By Nicholas Carter
922--Twelve in a Grave By Nicholas Carter
923--The Great Opium Case By Nicholas Carter
924--A Conspiracy of Rumors By Nicholas Carter
925--A Klondike Claim By Nicholas Carter
926--The Evil Formula By Nicholas Carter
927--The Man of Many Faces By Nicholas Carter
928--The Great Enigma By Nicholas Carter
929--The Burden of Proof By Nicholas Carter
930--The Stolen Brain By Nicholas Carter
931--A Titled Counterfeiter By Nicholas Carter
932--The Magic Necklace By Nicholas Carter
933--’Round the World for a Quarter By Nicholas Carter
934--Over the Edge of the World By Nicholas Carter
935--In the Grip of Fate By Nicholas Carter
936--The Case of Many Clews By Nicholas Carter
937--The Sealed Door By Nicholas Carter
938--Nick Carter and the Green Goods Men By Nicholas Carter
939--The Man Without a Will By Nicholas Carter
940--Tracked Across the Atlantic By Nicholas Carter
941--A Clew From the Unknown By Nicholas Carter
942--The Crime of a Countess By Nicholas Carter
943--A Mixed Up Mess By Nicholas Carter
944--The Great Money Order Swindle By Nicholas Carter
945--The Adder’s Brood By Nicholas Carter
946--A Wall Street Haul By Nicholas Carter
947--For a Pawned Crown By Nicholas Carter
948--Scaled Orders By Nicholas Carter
949--The Hate That Kills By Nicholas Carter
950--The American Marquis By Nicholas Carter
951--The Needy Nine By Nicholas Carter
952--Fighting Against Millions By Nicholas Carter
953--Outlaws of the Blue By Nicholas Carter
954--The Old Detective’s Pupil By Nicholas Carter
955--Found in the Jungle By Nicholas Carter
956--The Mysterious Mail Robbery By Nicholas Carter
957--Broken Bars By Nicholas Carter
958--A Fair Criminal By Nicholas Carter
959--Won by Magic By Nicholas Carter
960--The Piano Box Mystery By Nicholas Carter
961--The Man They Held Back By Nicholas Carter
962--A Millionaire Partner By Nicholas Carter
963--A Pressing Peril By Nicholas Carter
964--An Australian Klondyke By Nicholas Carter
965--The Sultan’s Pearls By Nicholas Carter
966--The Double Shuffle Club By Nicholas Carter
967--Paying the Price By Nicholas Carter
968--A Woman’s Hand By Nicholas Carter
969--A Network of Crime By Nicholas Carter
970--At Thompson’s Ranch By Nicholas Carter
971--The Crossed Needles By Nicholas Carter
972--The Diamond Mine Case By Nicholas Carter
973--Blood Will Tell By Nicholas Carter
974--An Accidental Password By Nicholas Carter
975--The Crook’s Bauble By Nicholas Carter
976--Two Plus Two By Nicholas Carter
977--The Yellow Label By Nicholas Carter
978--The Clever Celestial By Nicholas Carter
979--The Amphitheater Plot By Nicholas Carter
980--Gideon Drexel’s Millions By Nicholas Carter
981--Death in Life By Nicholas Carter
982--A Stolen Identity By Nicholas Carter
983--Evidence by Telephone By Nicholas Carter
984--The Twelve Tin Boxes By Nicholas Carter
985--Clew Against Clew By Nicholas Carter
986--Lady Velvet By Nicholas Carter
987--Playing a Bold Game By Nicholas Carter
988--A Dead Man’s Grip By Nicholas Carter
989--Snarled Identities By Nicholas Carter
990--A Deposit Vault Puzzle By Nicholas Carter
991--The Crescent Brotherhood By Nicholas Carter
992--The Stolen Pay Train By Nicholas Carter
993--The Sea Fox By Nicholas Carter
994--Wanted by Two Clients By Nicholas Carter
995--The Van Alstine Case By Nicholas Carter
996--Check No. 777 By Nicholas Carter
997--Partners in Peril By Nicholas Carter
998--Nick Carter’s Clever Protégé By Nicholas Carter
999--The Sign of the Crossed Knives By Nicholas Carter
1000--The Man Who Vanished By Nicholas Carter
1001--A Battle for the Right By Nicholas Carter
1002--A Game of Craft By Nicholas Carter
1003--Nick Carter’s Retainer By Nicholas Carter
1004--Caught in the Toils By Nicholas Carter
1005--A Broken Bond By Nicholas Carter
1006--The Crime of the French Café By Nicholas Carter
1007--The Man Who Stole Millions By Nicholas Carter
1008--The Twelve Wise Men By Nicholas Carter
1009--Hidden Foes By Nicholas Carter
1010--A Gamblers’ Syndicate By Nicholas Carter
1011--A Chance Discovery By Nicholas Carter
1012--Among the Counterfeiters By Nicholas Carter
1013--A Threefold Disappearance By Nicholas Carter
1014--At Odds With Scotland Yard By Nicholas Carter
1015--A Princess of Crime By Nicholas Carter
1016--Found on the Beach By Nicholas Carter
1017--A Spinner of Death By Nicholas Carter
1018--The Detective’s Pretty Neighbor By Nicholas Carter
1019--A Bogus Clew By Nicholas Carter
1020--The Puzzle of Five Pistols By Nicholas Carter
1021--The Secret of the Marble Mantel By Nicholas Carter
1022--A Bite of an Apple By Nicholas Carter
1023--A Triple Crime By Nicholas Carter
1024--The Stolen Race Horse By Nicholas Carter
1025--Wildfire By Nicholas Carter
1026--A _Herald_ Personal By Nicholas Carter
1027--The Finger of Suspicion By Nicholas Carter
1028--The Crimson Clue By Nicholas Carter
1029--Nick Carter Down East By Nicholas Carter
1030--The Chain of Clues By Nicholas Carter
1031--A Victim of Circumstances By Nicholas Carter
1032--Brought to Bay By Nicholas Carter
1033--The Dynamite Trap By Nicholas Carter
1034--A Scrap of Black Lace By Nicholas Carter
1035--The Woman of Evil By Nicholas Carter
1036--A Legacy of Hate By Nicholas Carter
1037--A Trusted Rogue By Nicholas Carter
1038--Man Against Man By Nicholas Carter
1039--The Demons of the Night By Nicholas Carter
1040--The Brotherhood of Death By Nicholas Carter
1041--At the Knife’s Point By Nicholas Carter
1042--A Cry for Help By Nicholas Carter
1043--A Stroke of Policy By Nicholas Carter
1044--Hounded to Death By Nicholas Carter
1045--A Bargain in Crime By Nicholas Carter
1046--The Fatal Prescription By Nicholas Carter
1047--The Man of Iron By Nicholas Carter
1048--An Amazing Scoundrel By Nicholas Carter
1049--The Chain of Evidence By Nicholas Carter
1050--Paid with Death By Nicholas Carter
1051--A Fight for a Throne By Nicholas Carter
1052--The Woman of Steel By Nicholas Carter
1053--The Seal of Death By Nicholas Carter
1054--The Human Fiend By Nicholas Carter
1055--A Desperate Chance By Nicholas Carter
1056--A Chase in the Dark By Nicholas Carter
1057--The Snare and the Game By Nicholas Carter
1058--The Murray Hill Mystery By Nicholas Carter
1059--Nick Carter’s Close Call By Nicholas Carter
1060--The Missing Cotton King By Nicholas Carter
1061--A Game of Plots By Nicholas Carter
1062--The Prince of Liars By Nicholas Carter
1063--The Man at the Window By Nicholas Carter
1064--The Red League By Nicholas Carter
1065--The Price of a Secret By Nicholas Carter
1066--The Worst Case on Record By Nicholas Carter
1067--From Peril to Peril By Nicholas Carter
1068--The Seal of Silence By Nicholas Carter
1069--Nick Carter’s Chinese Puzzle By Nicholas Carter
1070--A Blackmailer’s Bluff By Nicholas Carter
1071--Heard in the Dark By Nicholas Carter
1072--A Checkmated Scoundrel By Nicholas Carter
1073--The Cashier’s Secret By Nicholas Carter
1074--Behind a Mask By Nicholas Carter
1075--The Cloak of Guilt By Nicholas Carter
1076--Two Villains in One By Nicholas Carter
1077--The Hot Air Clue By Nicholas Carter
1078--Run to Earth By Nicholas Carter
1079--The Certified Check By Nicholas Carter
1080--Weaving the Web By Nicholas Carter
1081--Beyond Pursuit By Nicholas Carter
1082--The Claws of the Tiger By Nicholas Carter
1083--Driven From Cover By Nicholas Carter
1084--A Deal in Diamonds By Nicholas Carter
1085--The Wizard of the Cue By Nicholas Carter
1086--A Race for Ten Thousand By Nicholas Carter
1087--The Criminal Link By Nicholas Carter
1088--The Red Signal By Nicholas Carter
1089--The Secret Panel By Nicholas Carter
1090--A Bonded Villain By Nicholas Carter
1091--A Move in the Dark By Nicholas Carter
1092--Against Desperate Odds By Nicholas Carter
1093--The Telltale Photographs By Nicholas Carter
1094--The Ruby Pin By Nicholas Carter
1095--The Queen of Diamonds By Nicholas Carter
1096--A Broken Trail By Nicholas Carter
1097--An Ingenious Stratagem By Nicholas Carter
1098--A Sharper’s Downfall By Nicholas Carter
1099--A Race Track Gamble By Nicholas Carter
1100--Without a Clew By Nicholas Carter
1101--The Council of Death By Nicholas Carter
1102--The Hole in the Vault By Nicholas Carter
1103--In Death’s Grip By Nicholas Carter
1104--A Great Conspiracy By Nicholas Carter
1105--The Guilty Governor By Nicholas Carter
1106--A Ring of Rascals By Nicholas Carter
1107--A Masterpiece of Crime By Nicholas Carter
1108--A Blow For Vengeance By Nicholas Carter
1109--Tangled Threads By Nicholas Carter
1110--The Crime of the Camera By Nicholas Carter
1111--The Sign of the Dagger By Nicholas Carter
1112--Nick Carter’s Promise By Nicholas Carter
1113--Marked for Death By Nicholas Carter
1114--The Limited Holdup By Nicholas Carter
1115--When the Trap Was Sprung By Nicholas Carter
1116--Through the Cellar Wall By Nicholas Carter
1117--Under the Tiger’s Claws By Nicholas Carter
1118--The Girl in the Case By Nicholas Carter
1119--Behind a Throne By Nicholas Carter
1120--The Lure of Gold By Nicholas Carter
1121--Hand to Hand By Nicholas Carter
1122--From a Prison Cell By Nicholas Carter
1123--Dr. Quartz, Magician By Nicholas Carter
1124--Into Nick Carter’s Web By Nicholas Carter
1125--The Mystic Diagram By Nicholas Carter
1126--The Hand That Won By Nicholas Carter
1127--Playing a Lone Hand By Nicholas Carter
1128--The Master Villain By Nicholas Carter
1129--The False Claimant By Nicholas Carter
1130--The Living Mask By Nicholas Carter
1131--The Crime and the Motive By Nicholas Carter
1132--A Mysterious Foe By Nicholas Carter
1133--A Missing Man By Nicholas Carter
1134--A Game Well Played By Nicholas Carter

In order that there may be no confusion, we desire to say that the books listed below will be issued during the respective months in New York City and vicinity. They may not reach the readers at a distance promptly, on account of delays in transportation.

To Be Published in July, 1924.

1135--A Cigarette Clew By Nicholas Carter
1136--The Diamond Trail By Nicholas Carter
1137--The Silent Guardian By Nicholas Carter

To Be Published in August, 1924.

1138--The Dead Stranger By Nicholas Carter
1139--A Scientific Forger By Nicholas Carter

To Be Published in September, 1924.

1140--The Doctor’s Stratagem By Nicholas Carter
1141--Following a Chance Clew By Nicholas Carter

To Be Published in October, 1924.

1142--The Bank Draft Puzzle By Nicholas Carter
1143--The Price of Treachery By Nicholas Carter

To Be Published in November, 1924.

1144--The Silent Partner By Nicholas Carter
1145--Ahead of the Game By Nicholas Carter

To Be Published in December, 1924.

1146--A Trap of Tangled Wire By Nicholas Carter
1147--In the Gloom of Night By Nicholas Carter

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Transcriber’s Notes

The Table of Contents at the beginning of the book was created by
the transcriber.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

Page 2: “A Congress of Rough-riders of the World” changed to “A
Congress of Rough Riders of the World”.

Page 91: Removed double quote after “meet with a fall”.

Page 105: “reenforce” changed to “reënforce”.

Page 106: “Th lion’s share” changed to “The lion’s share”.

Page 129: “litttle” changed to “little”.

Page 158: Question mark changed to exclamation point after “Ute
warriors can fight”.

Page 175: “Capain” changed to “Captain”.

Page 216: “appointmnet” changed to “appointment”.

Page 217: Removed extra period after “wind and wave”.

Page 257: Double quote added after “what I want said to them”.

Page 268: Removed extra word in “to be little less less”.

Page 270: “when be advanced” changed to “when he advanced”.

Page 309: Changed “Wild Bill Hicock” to “Wild Bill Hickok”.