Gordon Elopement; or, Nick Carter's Three Of A Kind

Excerpt: "Nick Carter did not interrupt the sobbing girl. He listened patiently, grave and attentive, letting her run on in broken, desultory phrases, until her first paroxysm of grief immediately following his arrival should abate sufficiently for her to tell him connectedly what had occurred. “They may say what they will—what they will, Mr. Carter, but I cannot believe it, will not believe it,” ...