A Woman at Bay; Or, A Fiend in Skirts
By Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Classic work by Carter, Nicholas (House name).
Table of Contents
THE KING OF THE YEGGMEN. Four men were seated around a camp fire made of old railroad ties, over which a kettle was boiling merrily, where it hung from an improvised crane above t...
THE YEGGMEN'S CAMP FIRE. Each of the detective's three assistants understood thoroughly that Nick Carter's reason for directing them to do as he did was that they might each have ...
THE "KING'S" LIEUTENANT. The moment was an ominous one, and no one was better aware of the fact than Nick Carter. Everything depended now upon the perfection which his three assis...
THE OUTLAW'S HOME. A dead silence reigned around that camp fire for several moments after the two departed; but then the seven strangers who were left seated themselves in various...
NICK'S WONDERFUL STRENGTH. When Nick Carter gazed upon the woman who stood before them, with her hands clasped behind her, he thought that he had never seen another like her. She ...
NICK CARTER ROBS A BANK. The instant the strange machine was brought to a stop--and it was done wonderfully soon, considering the speed at which they had been traveling--the three...
THE DETECTIVE'S PREDICAMENT. When Nick Carter was shown a place to sleep that night--or, rather, that morning, for it was well toward daylight by the time Handsome and he returned...
THE DETECTIVES FACE A CRISIS. Chick had committed the folly of not being entirely thorough in the creation of his disguise; so also had Ten-Ichi; and the soap and scrubbing brushe...
THE ESCAPE FROM THE SWAMP. In the meantime, Patsy had been in half a dozen different kinds of a brown study. He realized that now the entire situation depended solely upon him, an...
ESCAPE OF THE HOBO QUEEN. It was about a week later that Nick Carter received a note from the president of the railroad which caused him great astonishment. It was brief and to th...
PATSY'S DANGEROUS MISSION. When Nick Carter and Patsy left the office of the railway president, they strolled in silence down the street until they came to a restaurant, and, ente...
BILL TURNER, THE WOODSMAN. When Nick Carter arrived at Calamont, he was disguised as a lumberman. It was not exactly the season of the year for lumbermen to enter the woods, unles...
BLACK MADGE'S LIEUTENANT. The detective passed the remainder of that day, and much of the night, in old Bill Turner's company, and during that time they talked incessantly about t...
BLACK MADGE GIVES JUDGMENT. It was a strange scene upon which the light of a huge camp fire shone that night, in the mountain retreat of the outlaws. A stake had been set in the ...
NICK'S CLEVEREST CAPTURE. Nick Carter made his way as rapidly back through the cavern as he had gone through it with Patsy; but when he arrived at the entrance he came to a stop, ...
NICK MAKES BAD MEDICINE. Handsome had also recovered from his paroxysm of rage by this time, for he was one who had the gift of knowing when he was beaten, and the logic to accept...
A WHOLESALE ROUND-UP. "Patsy," said the detective, when they reentered the cabin, after watching their punch consumed almost to the dregs, "this is about the biggest capture I was...
BLACK MADGE'S THREAT. Nick Carter had entirely forgotten Black Madge's threat when he was forcibly reminded of it one morning by the following letter which he found on his breakfa...
THE BAND OF HATRED. Down on the East Side of New York, in Rivington Street, and some distance east of the Bowery, on the second floor of one of the oldest buildings in the city, a...
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. A strange series of accidents began the night of the day following the receipt of the letter, and Nick Carter had no doubt whatever that it was the first a...
CURLY JOHN, THE BANK THIEF. Mike Grinnel's place in Rivington Street was at that time one of those monstrosities which were permitted to exist within the limits of New York City n...
AT MIKE GRINNEL'S DIVE. When Curly John knocked at the door of the Sunday-night entrance to Mike Grinnel's dive in a peculiar manner, that was evidently full of significance to th...
BLACK MADGE'S DEFIANCE. It was a crucial moment for each of the three men who were seated at that table, and it affected each of the three quite differently. Chick was concerned ...
THE FLIGHT THROUGH THE CELLAR. The action of Black Madge was so sudden and so unlooked for that it came as an entire surprise, even to Nick Carter, and the act which overturned th...
THE MAN IN THE BED. The detective knew in that instant that he could no longer hope to save his prisoner; that is, to escape with her, and that the chances were about a thousand t...
THE CRIMINAL'S COMPACT. "How long have you been here in this room?" asked the detective sharply. "I told you about a minute ago," was the surly reply. "About an hour." "Where we...
THE GLARE OF A MATCH. When the bartender had taken his departure, Nick found a cigar in one of his pockets, and seated himself to smoke quietly until Phil should return. But when ...
BLACK MADGE CAUGHT IN A TRAP. But the flaring up of the match also developed another rather startling fact, and that was the presence of Curly, who, with the bartender, Phil, was ...