NICK CARTER STORIES
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| No. 143. | NEW YORK, June 5, 1915. | Price Five Cents. |
THE SULTAN’S PEARLS;
Or, NICK CARTER’S PORTO RICO TRAIL.
Edited by CHICKERING CARTER.
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CHAPTER I.
THE MAN WHO WAS LOST.
“Man overboard!”
Nick Carter—known to the captain and crew of the tramp steamerCherokee as Sykes, the bos’n—heard this shout, taken up by manafter man, as he lay stretched out on the foc’s’le head, in the earlymorning, just as the ship nosed her way into San Juan harbor, on thenorthern coast of Porto Rico.
The thrilling warning that somebody has fallen into the sea, whichalways sends a shock through both crew and passengers whenever heard,does not permit any ordinary person to remain quietly dozing.
The famous detective was one of the first to rush over to the side ofthe ship when the alarm had been given.
Close by him were