New Nick Carter Weekly #18 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. as any workingman of the city|at that tube and crawled across to the ght wear. [other end of the tank and proceeded to H is clothing had been changed for him | plug the opening there in the same way. ile he was unconscious. Water still dripped from both tubes, but “TD ve got to stop that water coming/it was coming in much more slowly than , ue exclaimed. lbefore and this eave him his one chance. As noteven a match had been left to} of escape. he had to find the place where the| He tried again to raise the cover but it er was pouring in by feeling along the} held fast. 1 Bot the tank. Fle got upon his feet with his back e found it after a LHOINEBE and by/against the top and exerted all the Sng made out that the water poured in/strength of his powerful young muscles ee a sinall tube near the top of the ‘to break the cover. : It was evidently made of iron and fas- Tri im pressed his thumb against the|tened by metal hasps or something fning and was relieved to find that he | equally strong. pxed the flow instantly. He might as well have tried to ae hy will give me time to think at|overa house. st. ,”? he reflected. Exhausted at last by his efforts he sat He had no sooner got this com fort when | down in the water and thought it over. s heart sank again for he heard dis-| ‘‘This is what became of young brew- “t Ctly the trickling of water at the other|er,’’ he said to himself bitterly; ‘‘put to d of the tank. |Sleep by that rascal’s coffee, he was taken e crawled across a distance of per-|to this tank and allowed to drown; then peeven or eight feet and there found | his body was stripped, other clothing put tr entering through anothertube. = jon. and thrown into the river which 1s a Great Scott!?? he muttered, ‘‘here| not far away. these two openings placed so far apart ‘Probably I haven’t been here very BT can’t ¢ possibly plug them both with long. That means that it is night and as ungers at the same time. | Warren’s flat is on the top floor this tank Tf I-stop one of them the other will os probably oe bE ied b bwn me sure. | _ ““That means that there is no probabil- He that shal: I do about it?’ » ity that anybody will come up to this roof € held his thumb against the opening for more than twelve hours. a sq juatted down upon the floor beneath! «py 7 se | ‘ " : +. _- i. B a iN Before that time has passed enough water will have dripped through those | tubes to fillthe tank and I shall be a gon- er. There’s one thing about it, I can keep There My nose above the surface cf the water * hot even a handkerchief left. /until the last minute and as long as there Vith one hand he quickly undid his| js life there is hope.” : - a nd ; removed it. Then he pulled Om | This was a very philosophical ° way of ocking and crowded tt as well as he) looking at it, but Trim could not deny a i 1to the tube. _| that the hope was a very small article. lf he had hada knife or evenasmall) Ashe paused andthe cloth plugs be- he Treat have pushed the cloth firm- | came more and more soaked they allowed Int o the ee, 2 ‘nore water to drip- through ; besides ; that. the pressure of water in the pipes was constantly forcing the plugs out. Trim did his best to keep the plugs in. seek place by going from one to the other and ie hogever in_-checking | crowding thecloth in. Thus he prevented anc this v was better, the tank iron ) alse a sade eed He was conscious as the ugmcuts : yd age a Be that the wat Tw it t that time the water was four or five| Hes deep in the tank. Tri im felt through his pockets. - could not bring enongh | ith I his erent alone to stuff the oh yould not come |