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NICK CARTER WEEKLY. teres according to Aci of Congress in the year 1897 by Street & Smith, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. Entered as second class Maller at rs New York, N. Y., Post Office. Se Issued weekly. Subseriplion price, $2.50 per year. February 27, 1897. No. 9. SrrrET & SMITH, Publishers. em ON EW YC eee ee RK, 29 Rose St., N. ¥. _ 2 Cents Cents TRIM IN CAPE TOWN: @ _ The Man With a Stranee Limp By the Athy of **NICK CARTER.”’ CHAPTER I. The boy had no objection whatever to MUDNING ON “THE- HOT WATER. pursuing his chosen calling further wher- ever the work might lie, for he had The royal mail steamship Wada! finally determined that he would make steamed into the harbor of Cape Town, | detective work his business. South Africa, just as the sun was, setting| Nevertheless, he honestly intended to MS Waris evening in February. do nothing more at it until he shoulde ~ Gn that side of the world February 1s| have arrived at New York and consulted a warm month; it comes just at the close| with his father and Nick Carter as to the of summer and long before the chills of |}pest method of entering regularly upon autumn have set in. * the profession. The Matta was bound from Melbourne It was his intention to. stop over in | nd other Australian ports to Southamp-| Cape Town and take the next north- , England. bound steamer in order to have a few days mong her passengers was a young in: which to see South African people and riean who had plunged unexpectedly y | places. . into detective work in Alaska several) As the steamer dropped anchor to await months» before, and who had continued the visit of quarantine officials before pro- ___ his investigations i in Australia during the ceeding to her dock, Trim stood on the © fir tof the year, main deck forward, leaning upon therail > Trim, who had | become a general | and watching the distant town. a = favorite with fhe passengers, had declared Back of it was the famous Table Moun- _ more than once thee he me, on his ay tain, of which he had read many times, se fie h ome, | land it was even now partly hidden by a ote: oe : saad; an 1 was - in- perfectly white cloud that made its ap-. 3 gic olin ed to | at the good-hum jored | pearance to a gigantic dining table sost, ei wagers of some of | had heard | striking. © e * - that he| It is a long run from Melbourne across ae 1ere withont the Indian Ocean to Cape Town, and dur- See the seis i ict Say couldn't. go on | 1} Se. pesine * mixed up in crime nitating. - 4g : a + , le i,