July 11, 2022 • 32 mins
This episode begins a new chapter in the Nick Carter Mysteries, Nick Carter's Ghost Story as it appeared in Street & Smith's Magnet Library book, The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories - which is available on Project Gutenberg's site to download completely free!
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Hi, everyone.
And welcome to another episodeof forward into the past.
I'm your host and narrator JCRede.
And today we'll be startinganother exciting episode of the
Nick Carter mysteries as itappeared in the weekly story
paper, the New York weekly wayback in 1900.
As I'm sure you know, by now allof these stories are taken from
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project Gutenberg and arecompletely free of copyright.
The story, we just finished thecrime of the French cafe by
Nicholas Carter, was written wayback in 1893.
The story we're about to startnow, Nick Carter's Ghost story,
appeared in the New York weeklyone year later in 1894, again,
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written by Nicholas Carter, astreet and Smith publishing
house pseudonym for any writerscontributing to the Nick Carter
mysteries.
Now on this podcast, you'veheard me mention things like:
story papers, dime novels, thickbooks, pulp magazines, and lots
of other things.
Am I always talking about thesame things.
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Well, yes.
And no.
Story papers have been aroundsince the mid 18 hundreds, even
before the civil war.
Many of the Nick Carter storiesand some of the other ones that
I will hopefully be sharing withyou in future podcasts are
almost all taken from the storypapers in one way or another.
Story papers were likenewspapers.
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Newspapers gave you the news andstory papers gave you stories.
Now, depending on the publisher,the story paper could be
magazine sized or newspapersized, but the weekly paper was
always eight pages worth ofstories front and back.
If the character had a strongfollowing, like Nick Carter.
All chapters of the story mightappear in the very same paper.
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Sometimes it would beserialized, meaning that the
story would be broken up overseveral weeks.
Many times this was not apopular option because families
could not always purchase apaper every week.
It was still of course a luxury,but an affordable one.
Story papers carried with them akind of stigma.
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Because they were a veryaffordable way for a person to
get entertained.
The stories within them wereoften looked at as mindless
drivel and definitely notliterature.
However, the stories containedwithin those pages, as we've
proven in our last story, we'revery well-written and served to
entertain the masses.
This is one of the reasons thatI'm guessing that Nick Carter
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wasn't as big a literary figureas I feel he could've, or
should've been.
Well, we'll just have tocontinue plugging through,
despite what critics may havesaid about our hero.
Here at forward into the past,we're going to place him on a
virtual pedestal and give thedetective a chance to reclaim
some of his former glory.
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Nick Carter's ghost story waswritten in 1894 and appeared in
the weekly story paper, the NewYork weekly.
It is currently part of acompilation of three Nick Carter
stories in one paperback book.
The crime of the French cafe andother stories first published by
street and Smith's magnetlibrary and republished under
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the same title for their newmagnet library series.
The version found on projectGutenberg is the magnet library
version published around 1900.
Chapter one.
The vanishing thief.
Nick Carter's friends often askhim whether in the course of his
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remarkable experience as adetective.
He has ever encountered anythingwhich could not have been the
work of human hands.
Few people nowadays will ownthat they believe in ghosts Yet.
Most of us would be less sureabout it in a graveyard at
midnight, than on Broadway atnoon.
A man who can tell a reasonablestory about having seen a ghost
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may not find many believers, buthe will get plenty of listeners
for, we are all eager to hearabout such things.
So Nick who always likes tooblige his friends does not deny
the existence of spirits when heis asked whether he ever saw any
on the contrary, if he has thetime to spare, he usually tells
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the following story.
A broad shouldered, square jaw,bright young man called on Nick
one afternoon and was usheredinto the study.
His card had gone up ahead ofhim and it bore the name.
Horace G Richmond.
Nick ran his eye over hisvisitor and decided that he was
a fellow who knew the world andwas getting everything out of
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it, that there is in it.
He met Nick's eye with the airof a man who was going to do
something unusual and wants toannounce it at the start that he
can back it up.
I have a case for you, Mr.
Carter, if you will take it, hesaid.
Hmm.
State it, replied Nick.
It's a robbery case and a mightyqueer one.
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I don't pretend to understand itor any part of it.
Who's been robbed.
My uncle Colonel Richmond, orshould I say his daughter?
Mrs.
Pond?
Uh, but the robbery affects myuncle perhaps more seriously
that his daughter.
It is on his account that I amhere.
Tell the story.
I'll do it, but first let me saythat whatever others may think
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of the case, I believe it's justsimply theft.
Mrs.
Pond has a lot of jewelry andsomebody stealing it a piece at
a time, That's my view, but myuncles is different.
He says that these robberies arenot the work of human hands.
Now as for me, I try to keep myfeet on the earth all the time.
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I want you to understand rightat the start that I don't
believe in any stuff aboutghosts and hobgoblins.
In my opinion, ghosts that stealdiamonds ought to be in the jug
and will probably get thereunless they turn over a new
leaf.
My uncle doesn't see, asstraight as that.
Uh, perhaps you remember that.
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Three or four years ago, he fellinto the hands of a couple of
sharks who pretended to bemediums.
He had always believed inspiritualism.
And these crooks caught him justright.
They called up the spooks of allthe dead people he could think
of.
They got messages from thespirit land, seven nights in the
week and two matinees.
My uncle simply went wild aboutit.
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You remember it was all in thepapers.
They worked him beautifully.
And if I had not stepped in andexposed them just in time,
they'd have got every cent hehad.
That would have been quite ahaul, said Nick, Well, I should
remark! He's worth more than$4million.
I tell you those bogus mediumsthought they'd struck something
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very soft.
However I showed them up andconvinced my uncle that they
were rank frauds.
They're in Sing-sing now.
My uncle did not give up hisbelief in spirits.
He said, these people arefrauds, but there are others who
honestly, and truly holdcommunication with the departed.
I tell you we've had a hard timekeeping him out of the hands of
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sharpers since then.
But we've succeeded.
And now by bad luck, this queeraffair has come up and all my
uncle's faith has returned.
He wants to consult mediums andall that sort of thing.
That's the only serious part ofit.
The jewels that have been stolenaren't worth over a couple of
thousand dollars, all told.
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Of course, it's a nuisance tohave such a thing happen in
anybody's house, but we wouldn'tcare much if the mysterious
circumstances would not drivingmy uncle's mind back to his pet
delusion.
What are these mysteriouscircumstances?
Asked the detective.
Why it's like this.
Colonel Richmond's aunt Ms.
Lavina Richmond was a queer oldlady who was once very rich.
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At that time she had a passionfor collecting jewels.
She used to invest her money indiamonds.
Uh, just as another person mightbuy houses or railroad stock.
Only about a 10th, part of afortune was invested so that she
got any income out of it.
In the last part of her life,she lost all that part of her
property.
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So that she hadn't anything ofthe world, but her jewels.
She wouldn't sell one.
And there she was as poor in onesense, as a lodger in city hall
square for she hadn't a cent ofmoney and yet owning diamonds
and other precious stones worthnearly a million dollars.
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She wouldn't borrow on them.
She wouldn't do anything, butkeep them locked up.
And so she had to dependabsolutely on my uncle for the
necessities of life.
He didn't mind that, of course,for he had plenty.
She lived at his house andeventually died there.
She, and my uncle never gotalong in spite of his kindness
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to her.
And she had no friends.
Except for a Mrs.
Stephens and her daughter.
They're related to theRichmond's, but the money is all
in the Colonel's branch of thefamily.
Mrs.
Stevens and Millie, uh, herdaughter are poor.
They have just enough to liveon.
The Colonel would take care ofthem, but they won't have it.
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They're too proud.
Now.
Everybody thought that old missLevina Richmond would leave her
tremendous pile of diamonds toMillie Stevens.
Indeed.
Ms.
Richmond used to say socontinually.
I've heard her say in theColonel's presence that Mrs.
Stephens should have the jewelsthat such was her wish.
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Well, she died suddenly a yearor more ago.
And the only will that could befound was dated many years back
and left everything shepossessed to the Colonel's
daughter.
It was the greatest surprisethat you can imagine.
We all knew that such a will hadbeen made, but we hadn't the
slightest idea that it stillexisted.
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And that she had made no other.
On the contrary.
We knew positively that she hadmade a much later will in favor
of Millie Stephens.
But the document couldn't befound.
And so the old one was submittedfor probate.
The Colonel expected a contest,but the Stevenses did not make a
murmur.
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It must've been a tremendousdisappointment to them, but they
bore it with perfect goodnature.
They didn't seem to feel half sobadly about it as my uncle did.
If he had had his way, he wouldhave given all the jewels to Ms.
Stephens.
He'd said over and over again.
That he believed it was hisaunt's wish that the girl should
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have them.
And I can tell you there's noman so particular as he is about
respecting the wishes of thedead.
Mrs Pond would have turned overthe whole lot to Millie Stevens.
I believe if it hadn't been forher husband.
Mr pond isn't a rich man and hedidn't feel that he could afford
to yield up a million dollarsworth of property that had been
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thrown at him in that way.
And to speak plainly he isn'tthe sort of man to let go of
anything that comes within hisreach.
My uncle offered to do the fairthing out of his own pocket.
But as I've said, the Stevenseswouldn't touch his money and
they're the cases stood eversince.
The most valuable of the jewelsare in the vaults of the central
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safe deposit company in thiscity.
Some of the smaller pieces arein Mrs.
Pond's possession.
She is a woman who likes to weara lot of jewelry and by Jupiter,
she can do it.
Now, if she likes for, she ownsmore diamonds than the Astor's.
Mr.
And Mrs.
Pond live in Cleveland.
Mrs Pond as I've told you is nowvisiting her father.
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You know, he bought the oldPlummer place on the shore of
Hempstead Harbor, long island.
She's been with him for abouttwo weeks.
She has two rooms on the secondfloor of that house, a sitting
room and a bedroom.
Uh, the bedroom opens off thehall.
It has only one other door,which leads to her sitting room.
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The first robbery occurred onthe second day after she had
arrived.
It was late in the afternoon.
Mrs pond had been out riding.
When she returned, she hurriedup to her room to dress for
dinner.
She took off some of herjewelry.
Uh, some rings pins and thatsort of thing, and laid them on
the dressing table.
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Then she went to her sittingroom.
Now remember.
I'm telling this just as shetold it how much of it is fact
and how much of it is hysterics.
I can't say.
She was scared half out of herwits by what happened afterwards
and may have got mixed up in hernarrative.
Now this is what she told us.
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When she had been in the sittingroom about a minute.
She turned toward the bedroomand saw the door slowly
shutting.
She was surprised at this for,she had locked the other door of
the bedroom and it did not seempossible for anybody to be in
there.
In fact, such a thing did notcome into her mind.
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She supposed that a draft of airwas swinging the door.
She hastened toward it.
But it closed before she gotthere.
She turned the knob and tried toopen the door, but was unable to
do so.
It did not seem to resist firmlyas it would have if it had been
fastened.
Instead, it gave slightly as ifsome person had been holding it.
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If that was the case, he wasstronger than she was for.
She didn't succeed in openingthe door.
Then she screamed such a yell.
I've never heard another womanutter.
I was in my own room, which isover hers and I jumped nearly
out of my skin.
It startled me so! I wasdressing and was in my
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underclothes.
So it took me a minute, I shouldsay, to get a pair of pantaloons
on.
Then I ran out into the hall anddown the stairs.
At the same moment, my uncle ranup from the ground floor.
I mentioned these facts becausethey seem to me to be important.
You see, we approach that roomby two ways by the only two
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ways, except that by which Mrs.
Pond came.
Just as I got to the hall doorof her bedroom, she opened it
and fell into my arms in afaint.
She lost consciousness only fora moment.
And oncoming to herself.
She cried out that a thief hadbeen in her room.
By this time there were three orfour servants in the hall below.
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One of them stayed there by myuncles orders.
The others went outside and madea circuit of the house.
We led Mrs.
Pawn back into her room and shepointed to her dressing table.
There lay two or three rings anda pin.
But the most valuable ring thatshe had put there was gone.
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It was a queer old fashionedring in the form of a snake.
And in its mouth was a Rubyworth about$250.
The eyes were made of smalldiamonds.
She declared that she had leftthe ring there.
She told us how the door betweenthe two rooms had closed.
It appears that after she hadstruggled to open it for several
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minutes, it's suddenly yieldedand she almost fell into the
room.
Of course, she expected to rushstraight upon the thief.
He had been holding the door andnaturally he couldn't have gone
far after releasing it.
She was inside just as soon asthe pressure on the other side
was removed, but the room wasempty.
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She thought of her jewels atonce.
She rushed to her dressing tableand instantly missed the Ruby
ring.
Now.
That's all that is to it.
We hunted high and low for thethief and did not find a trace
of him.
How did he get away?
That's where I give up theriddle.
The door in the hall was lockedon the inside and practically
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guarded by my uncle and myself.
At the other door.
Stood Mrs.
Pond.
There is only one window.
It looks out on a sort of courtwith the house on three sides of
it.
A man with a wagon was almostunder the window all the time.
He was delivering groceries tothe cook.
It's absurd to suppose thatanybody got in or out by that
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window.
No thief would have been foolenough to try it at that time of
day.
And as I've told you, there weretwo persons who would have been
perfectly sure to have seen himif he had.
And he couldn't have got in orout without a ladder.
I admit that it looked veryqueer.
What do you make of it mr.
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Carter?
Are you sure the ring was reallytaken.
Couldn't she have been mistakenabout it.
That's the idea that occurred tome, but it happens that when
Mrs.
Pawn came back from the drive,my uncle banded her out of the
carriage and he distinctlyremembers seeing the ring on her
finger.
She went straight to her roomand she couldn't have lost the
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ring by the way for there was aguard ring on the outside of it.
And that we found on thedressing table.
Of course we hunted for the Rubyring.
We took up the carpets.
We made such a search as I'venever saw before.
The ring was not there.
I don't think there's a shadowof doubt that the ring was
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stolen, but I can't form an ideaof how it was done.
The more I think about it, themore confused I get.
To my mind, the queerest part ofit is that somebody held the
door and then let go of it andvanished in a quarter of a
second.
How are we going to explainthat?
Didn't the thief, put somethingagainst the door.
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I thought of that and try towork out that theory, but it's
impossible.
Not a piece of furniture was outof place and there wasn't a
stick or a prop of any kind inthat room that could have been
used for such a purpose.
Hm.
Well, that's strange.
I must admit set Nick.
I guess it will be necessary forme to go down and look the
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ground over.
That's just what we want.
Come along then.
I'm ready.
Chapter two.
Nick is boldly challenged.
Nick knew the old Plummermansion well.
There is not a house to match itin this country.
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A hundred years and more ago, itmust have been the scene of
strange adventures.
It was built certainly by onewho did not expect a peaceful
and quiet life within it.
The thick stone walls, whichlook so unnecessarily massive
are really double.
There are secret passages andmovable panels and trap doors
enough in that house to hide aman if a regiment of soldiers
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was after him.
Evidently such a place offeredevery chance to shrewd criminals
who might have a motive forplaying upon the superstitious
belief of the presentproprietor.
Anybody who couldn't get up arespectable ghost in the old
plumber house must be a verypoor faker.
The mere fact that all the doorsand windows of a room were
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closed, did not prevent anyperson from going in or out at
will.
If he knew the secrets of thehouse.
Nick thought of these things ashe rode down there in the cars
and he prepared himself for aninteresting time, chasing bogus
ghosts through the secret doorsand panels.
But a surprise awaited him uponhis arrival.
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Colonel Richmond met him at thedoor and by Nick's request, took
him at once to the room fromwhich the articles had been
stolen.
It was a modern room in a newpart of the house.
Nick was entirely unprepared forthis.
He did not know that the Colonelhad built any additions to the
old mansion.
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Colonel Richmond spoke of thisremarkable feature of the case
at once.
If this thing had happened inthe old part of the house, he
said, I shouldn't have thoughtthat it was anything but an
ordinary robbery.
Every room there can be enteredin a secret manner and no doubt,
there are plenty of panels andpassages, which even, I do not
know, but there's nothing of thekind here.
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This wing was built under myeye.
And from my own design, I sawthe beams laid and the floors
nailed down.
There is absolutely no way toenter the room in which we now
stand.
Except by the two doors and thewindow.
My nephew has told you about therobberies.
You know that the doors and thewindows were practically guarded
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all the time.
I don't believe that any mortalbeing could have got in here and
out again without being seen.
As for myself, I understand thecase perfectly.
My belief will seem strange toyou because you do not see with
the eye of the spirit.
Everything has to be done byhuman hands.
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According to your matter of factnotion.
I know better.
And I tell you that these jewelswere taken by the spirit of my
deceased aunt and that she didit to show me that my daughter
was wrongfully in possession ofthem.
When a healthy hearty old manwho seems to be as sane as
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anybody else in the world standsup and talks such nonsense as
this.
What can one say to him?
It is useless to tell him thathe is wrong about the whole
matter.
It is folly to attempt to reasonwith them.
The only way to do is to showhim a perfectly natural
explanation of the mystery.
And simply make him see it.
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That was the task which Nick hadbefore him.
And it must be owned that.
At the first glance, he did notsee how he was going to
accomplish it.
He examined the room andsatisfied himself that it had no
secret entrances.
Such being the case.
Nick was unable to form a theoryof the robbery, which would fit
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the facts as they had beenstated to him.
After looking at the rooms, hewent with Colonel Richmond to
the parlor on the ground floor.
And there proceeded to questionhim about the mysterious
occurrences.
There have been three robberiesin all, said the Colonel.
And they have been exactly,alike.
In every case, my daughter hasleft some articles of jewelry on
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the dressing table in herbedroom.
And one of them has vanished,never more than one at a time.
Twice it happened while she wasin the adjoining room.
The bedroom door, which opensinto the hall was locked on
these occasions.
The third time she was in thehall talking with my nephew.
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He was standing in the upperhall, leaning over the banister
rail.
They were discussing a plan fora drive out to the country.
Quite a party was to go.
Horace had just received wordfrom a gentlemen whom they had
invited that he would now beunable to go.
He had read the note in hisroom.
And he called downstairs to mydaughter to tell her about it.
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That was how they happened to bestanding in the hall.
Presently, she went back intoher room and almost immediately
notice that a small locket setwith diamonds had been taken.
She screamed at Horace and Icame running to her room.
We searched it thoroughly.
There was nobody there.
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The door between the bedroom andthe sitting room was open.
But the other door of thesitting room, which opens into
the old portion of the house waslocked and bolted on the inside.
Now.
I submit to you, Mr.
Carter, whether in that case,any other way of entrance or
exit was possible?
Except by the windows.
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I'm bound to admit, respondedNick, that if the doors were in
the condition, you describe noperson could have entered or
left those rooms except by thewindows.
Well, it had been raining hardand the ground was soft.
We looked carefully under allthe windows.
There was no sign of a footprintand nobody could have walked
there without making tracks.
Oh, it is clear enough.
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Why do we waste your time in asearch for invisible spirits of
the dead?
He rambled on in this way forseveral minutes.
And Nick did not try to stophim.
The Colonel was at lastinterrupted, however, by the
entrance of his daughter, Mrspond had been out driving.
She learned on her return that astranger had come to the house
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and she hurried into the parlorsuspecting who was there.
I am delighted to see you, Mr.
Carter.
She exclaimed.
You will clear up thisabominable mystery and relieve
my father's mind from thesedelusions.
Then you do not share hisopinions, said Nick.
Mrs pond laughed nervously.
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No indeed, she said.
And yet I must admit that I amquite unable to explain the
facts.
I suppose you have heard thestory.
Yes.
What do you think about it?
It is much too early in the casefor me to express an opinion.
But there are one or twoquestions that I should like to
ask you.
Oh, do so by all means! It wasat my request that you were
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called in.
At your request?
Yes.
I talked with Horace about itand at last we agreed to ask you
to take the case.
He didn't believe in it at firstfor, he did not want to let
anybody into our family secrets.
She glanced at her father as shespoke.
It was evident that the familywas a good deal ashamed of
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Colonel Richmond'sspiritualistic delusions and
wanted to keep quiet about them.
I talked Horace into it after awhile.
Mrs.
Pond continued.
And at last he became asenthusiastic as myself.
We know that you will find thethief.
Thank you responded, Nick.
Uh, there is one point, whichseems peculiar to me.
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After you had been robbed once,why did you continue to leave
the jewels unwatched in the veryplace from which one of them had
been previously taken?
I insisted upon it said ColonelRichmond.
I told my daughter that she mustmake no change in her habit of
wearing or caring for my auntsjewels.
I wish to show that we were notfoolishly trying to hide them
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from the eye of a spirit, butthat we wish to learn the desire
of my departed aunt as soon aspossible.
It was by your order then, saidNick.
That your daughter continued toput the jewels on her dressing
table when she laid them asidefor any reason?
It was.
I have just left some of themthere now.
said Mrs pond.
I went to my room after my rideand took off a light cloak,
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which was fastened with threepins.
Each having a diamond in itshead.
I stuck them all into a cushionon that dressing table.
Is the room locked.
Asked Nick.
Yes replied Mrs.
Pond and she produced the key ofthe door, which opened from the
hall above.
Will you allow me to go up therenow?
Certainly.
She handed the key to Nick.
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He took it and walked out of theparlor.
Nick had already formed a sortof working theory in the case.
He scarcely believed that itwould hold water, but it would
do for a starter.
The most probable explanationthat had come to him was that
Mrs.
Pond had not really been robbedat all.
It might be that she had somemotive for making these articles
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vanish.
Perhaps she had some need ofmoney and was secretly selling
them against the wish of herhusband and her father.
So, when Nick took that key andwent toward the room.
He did not expect to find thethree diamond pins in the
position described by the lady.
He found the door locked and heopened it by means of the key.
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Then he locked it behind himleaving the key in the lock.
He turned at once to a dressingtable.
The three pins were there justas Mrs.
Pond had said.
Nick laughed softly to himself.
That looks bad for my first shotat this queer case, he said, but
perhaps she didn't dare work thegame while I was in the house.
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He glanced out of the window ofthe room.
Two servants were in the yard.
They seem to be explaining therobberies to a new driver of a
grocery man's wagon.
For, they had one of his arms,apiece and were pointing to the
window.
Nick walked into the sittingroom and spent some minutes
examining the walls andespecially the door leading
toward the old part of thehouse.
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He found nothing at all toreward his search.
There absolutely was no secretentrance.
The detective decided thatnothing further could be done in
that room.
He walked toward the other.
To his astonishment.
He found that the door had beenclosed while he had been busy
with his investigations.
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He sprang against it.
The door yielded a little andyet he could not open it.
Some person stronger than heseemed to be holding it on the
other side.
He drew back for a spring.
That door would have gone tosplinters if it had stood in his
way again.
Instead it swung open theinstant he touched it.
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And the force of his lunge tookhim nearly to the middle of the
room.
In an instant, he was on guard.
But he saw no one.
The room was quiet and it wasempty.
The door into the hall waslocked as he had left it.
All was the same, except that onthe dressing table was the
cushion bearing.
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To diamond pins instead ofthree.
The robbery had been done as onemight say, under the nose.
Of the greatest detective in theworld.
Well, this takes my breath away,Said Nick to himself.
It's the nerviest challenge thatwas ever sprung on me.
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Wow.
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Bye for now.
Hi, everyone.
And welcome to another episodeof forward into the past.
I'm your host and narrator JCRede.
And today we'll be startinganother exciting episode of the
Nick Carter mysteries as itappeared in the weekly story
paper, the New York weekly wayback in 1900.
As I'm sure you know, by now allof these stories are taken from
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project Gutenberg and arecompletely free of copyright.
The story, we just finished thecrime of the French cafe by
Nicholas Carter, was written wayback in 1893.
The story we're about to startnow, Nick Carter's Ghost story,
appeared in the New York weeklyone year later in 1894, again,
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written by Nicholas Carter, astreet and Smith publishing
house pseudonym for any writerscontributing to the Nick Carter
mysteries.
Now on this podcast, you'veheard me mention things like:
story papers, dime novels, thickbooks, pulp magazines, and lots
of other things.
Am I always talking about thesame things.
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Well, yes.
And no.
Story papers have been aroundsince the mid 18 hundreds, even
before the civil war.
Many of the Nick Carter storiesand some of the other ones that
I will hopefully be sharing withyou in future podcasts are
almost all taken from the storypapers in one way or another.
Story papers were likenewspapers.
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Newspapers gave you the news andstory papers gave you stories.
Now, depending on the publisher,the story paper could be
magazine sized or newspapersized, but the weekly paper was
always eight pages worth ofstories front and back.
If the character had a strongfollowing, like Nick Carter.
All chapters of the story mightappear in the very same paper.
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Sometimes it would beserialized, meaning that the
story would be broken up overseveral weeks.
Many times this was not apopular option because families
could not always purchase apaper every week.
It was still of course a luxury,but an affordable one.
Story papers carried with them akind of stigma.
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Because they were a veryaffordable way for a person to
get entertained.
The stories within them wereoften looked at as mindless
drivel and definitely notliterature.
However, the stories containedwithin those pages, as we've
proven in our last story, we'revery well-written and served to
entertain the masses.
This is one of the reasons thatI'm guessing that Nick Carter
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wasn't as big a literary figureas I feel he could've, or
should've been.
Well, we'll just have tocontinue plugging through,
despite what critics may havesaid about our hero.
Here at forward into the past,we're going to place him on a
virtual pedestal and give thedetective a chance to reclaim
some of his former glory.
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Nick Carter's ghost story waswritten in 1894 and appeared in
the weekly story paper, the NewYork weekly.
It is currently part of acompilation of three Nick Carter
stories in one paperback book.
The crime of the French cafe andother stories first published by
street and Smith's magnetlibrary and republished under
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the same title for their newmagnet library series.
The version found on projectGutenberg is the magnet library
version published around 1900.
Chapter one.
The vanishing thief.
Nick Carter's friends often askhim whether in the course of his
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remarkable experience as adetective.
He has ever encountered anythingwhich could not have been the
work of human hands.
Few people nowadays will ownthat they believe in ghosts Yet.
Most of us would be less sureabout it in a graveyard at
midnight, than on Broadway atnoon.
A man who can tell a reasonablestory about having seen a ghost
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may not find many believers, buthe will get plenty of listeners
for, we are all eager to hearabout such things.
So Nick who always likes tooblige his friends does not deny
the existence of spirits when heis asked whether he ever saw any
on the contrary, if he has thetime to spare, he usually tells
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the following story.
A broad shouldered, square jaw,bright young man called on Nick
one afternoon and was usheredinto the study.
His card had gone up ahead ofhim and it bore the name.
Horace G Richmond.
Nick ran his eye over hisvisitor and decided that he was
a fellow who knew the world andwas getting everything out of
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it, that there is in it.
He met Nick's eye with the airof a man who was going to do
something unusual and wants toannounce it at the start that he
can back it up.
I have a case for you, Mr.
Carter, if you will take it, hesaid.
Hmm.
State it, replied Nick.
It's a robbery case and a mightyqueer one.
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I don't pretend to understand itor any part of it.
Who's been robbed.
My uncle Colonel Richmond, orshould I say his daughter?
Mrs.
Pond?
Uh, but the robbery affects myuncle perhaps more seriously
that his daughter.
It is on his account that I amhere.
Tell the story.
I'll do it, but first let me saythat whatever others may think
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of the case, I believe it's justsimply theft.
Mrs.
Pond has a lot of jewelry andsomebody stealing it a piece at
a time, That's my view, but myuncles is different.
He says that these robberies arenot the work of human hands.
Now as for me, I try to keep myfeet on the earth all the time.
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I want you to understand rightat the start that I don't
believe in any stuff aboutghosts and hobgoblins.
In my opinion, ghosts that stealdiamonds ought to be in the jug
and will probably get thereunless they turn over a new
leaf.
My uncle doesn't see, asstraight as that.
Uh, perhaps you remember that.
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Three or four years ago, he fellinto the hands of a couple of
sharks who pretended to bemediums.
He had always believed inspiritualism.
And these crooks caught him justright.
They called up the spooks of allthe dead people he could think
of.
They got messages from thespirit land, seven nights in the
week and two matinees.
My uncle simply went wild aboutit.
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You remember it was all in thepapers.
They worked him beautifully.
And if I had not stepped in andexposed them just in time,
they'd have got every cent hehad.
That would have been quite ahaul, said Nick, Well, I should
remark! He's worth more than$4million.
I tell you those bogus mediumsthought they'd struck something
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very soft.
However I showed them up andconvinced my uncle that they
were rank frauds.
They're in Sing-sing now.
My uncle did not give up hisbelief in spirits.
He said, these people arefrauds, but there are others who
honestly, and truly holdcommunication with the departed.
I tell you we've had a hard timekeeping him out of the hands of
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sharpers since then.
But we've succeeded.
And now by bad luck, this queeraffair has come up and all my
uncle's faith has returned.
He wants to consult mediums andall that sort of thing.
That's the only serious part ofit.
The jewels that have been stolenaren't worth over a couple of
thousand dollars, all told.
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Of course, it's a nuisance tohave such a thing happen in
anybody's house, but we wouldn'tcare much if the mysterious
circumstances would not drivingmy uncle's mind back to his pet
delusion.
What are these mysteriouscircumstances?
Asked the detective.
Why it's like this.
Colonel Richmond's aunt Ms.
Lavina Richmond was a queer oldlady who was once very rich.
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At that time she had a passionfor collecting jewels.
She used to invest her money indiamonds.
Uh, just as another person mightbuy houses or railroad stock.
Only about a 10th, part of afortune was invested so that she
got any income out of it.
In the last part of her life,she lost all that part of her
property.
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So that she hadn't anything ofthe world, but her jewels.
She wouldn't sell one.
And there she was as poor in onesense, as a lodger in city hall
square for she hadn't a cent ofmoney and yet owning diamonds
and other precious stones worthnearly a million dollars.
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She wouldn't borrow on them.
She wouldn't do anything, butkeep them locked up.
And so she had to dependabsolutely on my uncle for the
necessities of life.
He didn't mind that, of course,for he had plenty.
She lived at his house andeventually died there.
She, and my uncle never gotalong in spite of his kindness
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to her.
And she had no friends.
Except for a Mrs.
Stephens and her daughter.
They're related to theRichmond's, but the money is all
in the Colonel's branch of thefamily.
Mrs.
Stevens and Millie, uh, herdaughter are poor.
They have just enough to liveon.
The Colonel would take care ofthem, but they won't have it.
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They're too proud.
Now.
Everybody thought that old missLevina Richmond would leave her
tremendous pile of diamonds toMillie Stevens.
Indeed.
Ms.
Richmond used to say socontinually.
I've heard her say in theColonel's presence that Mrs.
Stephens should have the jewelsthat such was her wish.
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Well, she died suddenly a yearor more ago.
And the only will that could befound was dated many years back
and left everything shepossessed to the Colonel's
daughter.
It was the greatest surprisethat you can imagine.
We all knew that such a will hadbeen made, but we hadn't the
slightest idea that it stillexisted.
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And that she had made no other.
On the contrary.
We knew positively that she hadmade a much later will in favor
of Millie Stephens.
But the document couldn't befound.
And so the old one was submittedfor probate.
The Colonel expected a contest,but the Stevenses did not make a
murmur.
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It must've been a tremendousdisappointment to them, but they
bore it with perfect goodnature.
They didn't seem to feel half sobadly about it as my uncle did.
If he had had his way, he wouldhave given all the jewels to Ms.
Stephens.
He'd said over and over again.
That he believed it was hisaunt's wish that the girl should
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have them.
And I can tell you there's noman so particular as he is about
respecting the wishes of thedead.
Mrs Pond would have turned overthe whole lot to Millie Stevens.
I believe if it hadn't been forher husband.
Mr pond isn't a rich man and hedidn't feel that he could afford
to yield up a million dollarsworth of property that had been
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thrown at him in that way.
And to speak plainly he isn'tthe sort of man to let go of
anything that comes within hisreach.
My uncle offered to do the fairthing out of his own pocket.
But as I've said, the Stevenseswouldn't touch his money and
they're the cases stood eversince.
The most valuable of the jewelsare in the vaults of the central
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safe deposit company in thiscity.
Some of the smaller pieces arein Mrs.
Pond's possession.
She is a woman who likes to weara lot of jewelry and by Jupiter,
she can do it.
Now, if she likes for, she ownsmore diamonds than the Astor's.
Mr.
And Mrs.
Pond live in Cleveland.
Mrs Pond as I've told you is nowvisiting her father.
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You know, he bought the oldPlummer place on the shore of
Hempstead Harbor, long island.
She's been with him for abouttwo weeks.
She has two rooms on the secondfloor of that house, a sitting
room and a bedroom.
Uh, the bedroom opens off thehall.
It has only one other door,which leads to her sitting room.
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The first robbery occurred onthe second day after she had
arrived.
It was late in the afternoon.
Mrs pond had been out riding.
When she returned, she hurriedup to her room to dress for
dinner.
She took off some of herjewelry.
Uh, some rings pins and thatsort of thing, and laid them on
the dressing table.
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Then she went to her sittingroom.
Now remember.
I'm telling this just as shetold it how much of it is fact
and how much of it is hysterics.
I can't say.
She was scared half out of herwits by what happened afterwards
and may have got mixed up in hernarrative.
Now this is what she told us.
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When she had been in the sittingroom about a minute.
She turned toward the bedroomand saw the door slowly
shutting.
She was surprised at this for,she had locked the other door of
the bedroom and it did not seempossible for anybody to be in
there.
In fact, such a thing did notcome into her mind.
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She supposed that a draft of airwas swinging the door.
She hastened toward it.
But it closed before she gotthere.
She turned the knob and tried toopen the door, but was unable to
do so.
It did not seem to resist firmlyas it would have if it had been
fastened.
Instead, it gave slightly as ifsome person had been holding it.
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If that was the case, he wasstronger than she was for.
She didn't succeed in openingthe door.
Then she screamed such a yell.
I've never heard another womanutter.
I was in my own room, which isover hers and I jumped nearly
out of my skin.
It startled me so! I wasdressing and was in my
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underclothes.
So it took me a minute, I shouldsay, to get a pair of pantaloons
on.
Then I ran out into the hall anddown the stairs.
At the same moment, my uncle ranup from the ground floor.
I mentioned these facts becausethey seem to me to be important.
You see, we approach that roomby two ways by the only two
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ways, except that by which Mrs.
Pond came.
Just as I got to the hall doorof her bedroom, she opened it
and fell into my arms in afaint.
She lost consciousness only fora moment.
And oncoming to herself.
She cried out that a thief hadbeen in her room.
By this time there were three orfour servants in the hall below.
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One of them stayed there by myuncles orders.
The others went outside and madea circuit of the house.
We led Mrs.
Pawn back into her room and shepointed to her dressing table.
There lay two or three rings anda pin.
But the most valuable ring thatshe had put there was gone.
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It was a queer old fashionedring in the form of a snake.
And in its mouth was a Rubyworth about$250.
The eyes were made of smalldiamonds.
She declared that she had leftthe ring there.
She told us how the door betweenthe two rooms had closed.
It appears that after she hadstruggled to open it for several
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minutes, it's suddenly yieldedand she almost fell into the
room.
Of course, she expected to rushstraight upon the thief.
He had been holding the door andnaturally he couldn't have gone
far after releasing it.
She was inside just as soon asthe pressure on the other side
was removed, but the room wasempty.
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She thought of her jewels atonce.
She rushed to her dressing tableand instantly missed the Ruby
ring.
Now.
That's all that is to it.
We hunted high and low for thethief and did not find a trace
of him.
How did he get away?
That's where I give up theriddle.
The door in the hall was lockedon the inside and practically
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guarded by my uncle and myself.
At the other door.
Stood Mrs.
Pond.
There is only one window.
It looks out on a sort of courtwith the house on three sides of
it.
A man with a wagon was almostunder the window all the time.
He was delivering groceries tothe cook.
It's absurd to suppose thatanybody got in or out by that
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window.
No thief would have been foolenough to try it at that time of
day.
And as I've told you, there weretwo persons who would have been
perfectly sure to have seen himif he had.
And he couldn't have got in orout without a ladder.
I admit that it looked veryqueer.
What do you make of it mr.
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Carter?
Are you sure the ring was reallytaken.
Couldn't she have been mistakenabout it.
That's the idea that occurred tome, but it happens that when
Mrs.
Pawn came back from the drive,my uncle banded her out of the
carriage and he distinctlyremembers seeing the ring on her
finger.
She went straight to her roomand she couldn't have lost the
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ring by the way for there was aguard ring on the outside of it.
And that we found on thedressing table.
Of course we hunted for the Rubyring.
We took up the carpets.
We made such a search as I'venever saw before.
The ring was not there.
I don't think there's a shadowof doubt that the ring was
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stolen, but I can't form an ideaof how it was done.
The more I think about it, themore confused I get.
To my mind, the queerest part ofit is that somebody held the
door and then let go of it andvanished in a quarter of a
second.
How are we going to explainthat?
Didn't the thief, put somethingagainst the door.
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I thought of that and try towork out that theory, but it's
impossible.
Not a piece of furniture was outof place and there wasn't a
stick or a prop of any kind inthat room that could have been
used for such a purpose.
Hm.
Well, that's strange.
I must admit set Nick.
I guess it will be necessary forme to go down and look the
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ground over.
That's just what we want.
Come along then.
I'm ready.
Chapter two.
Nick is boldly challenged.
Nick knew the old Plummermansion well.
There is not a house to match itin this country.
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A hundred years and more ago, itmust have been the scene of
strange adventures.
It was built certainly by onewho did not expect a peaceful
and quiet life within it.
The thick stone walls, whichlook so unnecessarily massive
are really double.
There are secret passages andmovable panels and trap doors
enough in that house to hide aman if a regiment of soldiers
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was after him.
Evidently such a place offeredevery chance to shrewd criminals
who might have a motive forplaying upon the superstitious
belief of the presentproprietor.
Anybody who couldn't get up arespectable ghost in the old
plumber house must be a verypoor faker.
The mere fact that all the doorsand windows of a room were
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closed, did not prevent anyperson from going in or out at
will.
If he knew the secrets of thehouse.
Nick thought of these things ashe rode down there in the cars
and he prepared himself for aninteresting time, chasing bogus
ghosts through the secret doorsand panels.
But a surprise awaited him uponhis arrival.
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Colonel Richmond met him at thedoor and by Nick's request, took
him at once to the room fromwhich the articles had been
stolen.
It was a modern room in a newpart of the house.
Nick was entirely unprepared forthis.
He did not know that the Colonelhad built any additions to the
old mansion.
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Colonel Richmond spoke of thisremarkable feature of the case
at once.
If this thing had happened inthe old part of the house, he
said, I shouldn't have thoughtthat it was anything but an
ordinary robbery.
Every room there can be enteredin a secret manner and no doubt,
there are plenty of panels andpassages, which even, I do not
know, but there's nothing of thekind here.
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This wing was built under myeye.
And from my own design, I sawthe beams laid and the floors
nailed down.
There is absolutely no way toenter the room in which we now
stand.
Except by the two doors and thewindow.
My nephew has told you about therobberies.
You know that the doors and thewindows were practically guarded
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all the time.
I don't believe that any mortalbeing could have got in here and
out again without being seen.
As for myself, I understand thecase perfectly.
My belief will seem strange toyou because you do not see with
the eye of the spirit.
Everything has to be done byhuman hands.
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According to your matter of factnotion.
I know better.
And I tell you that these jewelswere taken by the spirit of my
deceased aunt and that she didit to show me that my daughter
was wrongfully in possession ofthem.
When a healthy hearty old manwho seems to be as sane as
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anybody else in the world standsup and talks such nonsense as
this.
What can one say to him?
It is useless to tell him thathe is wrong about the whole
matter.
It is folly to attempt to reasonwith them.
The only way to do is to showhim a perfectly natural
explanation of the mystery.
And simply make him see it.
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That was the task which Nick hadbefore him.
And it must be owned that.
At the first glance, he did notsee how he was going to
accomplish it.
He examined the room andsatisfied himself that it had no
secret entrances.
Such being the case.
Nick was unable to form a theoryof the robbery, which would fit
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the facts as they had beenstated to him.
After looking at the rooms, hewent with Colonel Richmond to
the parlor on the ground floor.
And there proceeded to questionhim about the mysterious
occurrences.
There have been three robberiesin all, said the Colonel.
And they have been exactly,alike.
In every case, my daughter hasleft some articles of jewelry on
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the dressing table in herbedroom.
And one of them has vanished,never more than one at a time.
Twice it happened while she wasin the adjoining room.
The bedroom door, which opensinto the hall was locked on
these occasions.
The third time she was in thehall talking with my nephew.
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He was standing in the upperhall, leaning over the banister
rail.
They were discussing a plan fora drive out to the country.
Quite a party was to go.
Horace had just received wordfrom a gentlemen whom they had
invited that he would now beunable to go.
He had read the note in hisroom.
And he called downstairs to mydaughter to tell her about it.
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That was how they happened to bestanding in the hall.
Presently, she went back intoher room and almost immediately
notice that a small locket setwith diamonds had been taken.
She screamed at Horace and Icame running to her room.
We searched it thoroughly.
There was nobody there.
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The door between the bedroom andthe sitting room was open.
But the other door of thesitting room, which opens into
the old portion of the house waslocked and bolted on the inside.
Now.
I submit to you, Mr.
Carter, whether in that case,any other way of entrance or
exit was possible?
Except by the windows.
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I'm bound to admit, respondedNick, that if the doors were in
the condition, you describe noperson could have entered or
left those rooms except by thewindows.
Well, it had been raining hardand the ground was soft.
We looked carefully under allthe windows.
There was no sign of a footprintand nobody could have walked
there without making tracks.
Oh, it is clear enough.
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Why do we waste your time in asearch for invisible spirits of
the dead?
He rambled on in this way forseveral minutes.
And Nick did not try to stophim.
The Colonel was at lastinterrupted, however, by the
entrance of his daughter, Mrspond had been out driving.
She learned on her return that astranger had come to the house
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and she hurried into the parlorsuspecting who was there.
I am delighted to see you, Mr.
Carter.
She exclaimed.
You will clear up thisabominable mystery and relieve
my father's mind from thesedelusions.
Then you do not share hisopinions, said Nick.
Mrs pond laughed nervously.
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No indeed, she said.
And yet I must admit that I amquite unable to explain the
facts.
I suppose you have heard thestory.
Yes.
What do you think about it?
It is much too early in the casefor me to express an opinion.
But there are one or twoquestions that I should like to
ask you.
Oh, do so by all means! It wasat my request that you were
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called in.
At your request?
Yes.
I talked with Horace about itand at last we agreed to ask you
to take the case.
He didn't believe in it at firstfor, he did not want to let
anybody into our family secrets.
She glanced at her father as shespoke.
It was evident that the familywas a good deal ashamed of
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Colonel Richmond'sspiritualistic delusions and
wanted to keep quiet about them.
I talked Horace into it after awhile.
Mrs.
Pond continued.
And at last he became asenthusiastic as myself.
We know that you will find thethief.
Thank you responded, Nick.
Uh, there is one point, whichseems peculiar to me.
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After you had been robbed once,why did you continue to leave
the jewels unwatched in the veryplace from which one of them had
been previously taken?
I insisted upon it said ColonelRichmond.
I told my daughter that she mustmake no change in her habit of
wearing or caring for my auntsjewels.
I wish to show that we were notfoolishly trying to hide them
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from the eye of a spirit, butthat we wish to learn the desire
of my departed aunt as soon aspossible.
It was by your order then, saidNick.
That your daughter continued toput the jewels on her dressing
table when she laid them asidefor any reason?
It was.
I have just left some of themthere now.
said Mrs pond.
I went to my room after my rideand took off a light cloak,
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which was fastened with threepins.
Each having a diamond in itshead.
I stuck them all into a cushionon that dressing table.
Is the room locked.
Asked Nick.
Yes replied Mrs.
Pond and she produced the key ofthe door, which opened from the
hall above.
Will you allow me to go up therenow?
Certainly.
She handed the key to Nick.
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He took it and walked out of theparlor.
Nick had already formed a sortof working theory in the case.
He scarcely believed that itwould hold water, but it would
do for a starter.
The most probable explanationthat had come to him was that
Mrs.
Pond had not really been robbedat all.
It might be that she had somemotive for making these articles
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vanish.
Perhaps she had some need ofmoney and was secretly selling
them against the wish of herhusband and her father.
So, when Nick took that key andwent toward the room.
He did not expect to find thethree diamond pins in the
position described by the lady.
He found the door locked and heopened it by means of the key.
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Then he locked it behind himleaving the key in the lock.
He turned at once to a dressingtable.
The three pins were there justas Mrs.
Pond had said.
Nick laughed softly to himself.
That looks bad for my first shotat this queer case, he said, but
perhaps she didn't dare work thegame while I was in the house.
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He glanced out of the window ofthe room.
Two servants were in the yard.
They seem to be explaining therobberies to a new driver of a
grocery man's wagon.
For, they had one of his arms,apiece and were pointing to the
window.
Nick walked into the sittingroom and spent some minutes
examining the walls andespecially the door leading
toward the old part of thehouse.
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He found nothing at all toreward his search.
There absolutely was no secretentrance.
The detective decided thatnothing further could be done in
that room.
He walked toward the other.
To his astonishment.
He found that the door had beenclosed while he had been busy
with his investigations.
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He sprang against it.
The door yielded a little andyet he could not open it.
Some person stronger than heseemed to be holding it on the
other side.
He drew back for a spring.
That door would have gone tosplinters if it had stood in his
way again.
Instead it swung open theinstant he touched it.
(29:35):
And the force of his lunge tookhim nearly to the middle of the
room.
In an instant, he was on guard.
But he saw no one.
The room was quiet and it wasempty.
The door into the hall waslocked as he had left it.
All was the same, except that onthe dressing table was the
cushion bearing.
(29:56):
To diamond pins instead ofthree.
The robbery had been done as onemight say, under the nose.
Of the greatest detective in theworld.
Well, this takes my breath away,Said Nick to himself.
It's the nerviest challenge thatwas ever sprung on me.
(30:17):
Wow.
What in the heck's going on?
Did Nick actually encounter aghost?
What do you think is going on?
Send me a message on Facebook orthe podcast website with your
thoughts.
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It's true.
Well, I guess we'll have to waituntil the next episode to
continue the story of NickCarter's ghost story.
(30:39):
Once again, a huge shout out tothe tireless volunteers for
project Gutenberg for providingthis and all additional stories
for this podcast and for yourown personal enjoyment.
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(31:24):
podcast.
Well until next time, folks.
Thanks for listening.
Keep sharing the stories and bea good human.
Bye for now.
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