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By means of their secret wire, he had been informed of Cervera's arrival at the diamond plant, and of Kilgore's designs upon Nick, and Venner at that moment suspected that he might be under the eye of the detective. For nearly half an hour Nick waited for some sign of this artifice, but Venner in no way betrayed it.
Very odd, was it not? But, dear me! a man murdered in our barn? You don't tell me! How terrible!" His constrained, overdone manner was not calculated to abate Mrs. Kilgore's astonishment, and she continued to stare at him with an expression in which a vague terror began to appear. There are few shorter transitions than that from panic to anger.
On the other hand, Venner might be entirely ignorant of Kilgore's identity, and without any serious suspicions of Cervera, being himself a blind victim of these notorious criminals. "If the latter is the case," reasoned Nick, "the gang may stand in fear of me, and perhaps are afraid that I shall foil some scheme they have in operation, or are about to undertake.
Kilgore's eyes studying him very intently. Her manner indicated that her indignation at his behavior and language earlier in the afternoon had been quite neutralized by her curiosity as to its cause. "There 's nothing in the paper to-night but the murder, and I know that already," exclaimed Silas, finally. "Maria, where's there something to read? Hullo! what's this?"
It was nearly sunset one Monday afternoon, and almost two weeks subsequent to the incidents last depicted. That at least one of Dave Kilgore's suggestions had been adopted, and he and his gang had become rigorously guarded, appears in that the Carters had utterly failed to accomplish anything against them in the interval mentioned.
The cops are upon us!" "Kilgore's voice, or I'm a liar," muttered Nick, over his shoulder. Both detectives were still fifty yards from the scene of the furious conflict, and were running at the top of their speed along the rough road.
Yet, despite the unexpected characters in which he now beheld them, the nerve of the polished knave did not weaken, nor his countenance in any way betray him. He at once proceeded to follow Kilgore's instructions. "Ah! yes, I recognize both you and your interpreter," said he, in reply to Nick's dignified greeting.
He turned sharply about in his chair, and cried: "Here you, Pylotte! Come and give us your ear! I have work for you to-night!" Both Pylotte and Cervera quickly turned and hastened to join the gang at the table. For twenty minutes Kilgore's project for outwitting and securing Nick Carter was earnestly discussed, and every detail of the plan carefully laid.
"Again before the dawn he climbed into the tower, and, listening when the voices of the world were still, heard clear and sweet, like far-blown elfin horn, another summons. "'Ederyn! Ederyn! One awaits thee at the midnight hour beside black Kilgore's water. Keep tryst! "Again to gain his squire's permission he toiled with double care.
In the way of that, however, Chick and Patsy were now in the lower hall, the former shouting lustily up the stairs: "Run him down, Nick! Run him down! We'll cover this way of escape!" An involuntary oath broke from Kilgore's lips, and at the same moment a vivid flash of lightning from the inky heavens illumined all the house.
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