A Battle for Right; Or, A Clash of Wits

The original spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been retained, with the exception of apparent typographical errors which have been corrected.

For convenience, a table of contents, which is not present in the original, has been included.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	AT A GAME OF POKER.	5
II.	REMORSE.	11
III.	WHO KILLED JARVIS?	17
IV.	THE WHITE FEATHER.	25
V.	A CONFESSION.	32
VI.	DOOR AND WINDOW.	37
VII.	TRACED BACK.	44
VIII.	IN THE OLD HOUSE.	49
IX.	THROUGH THE CELLARS.	57
X.	INVESTIGATION.	60
XI.	THE RAID.	68
XII.	NICK SPRINGS A SURPRISE.	73
XIII.	NICK CARTER’S QUIET HAND.	78
XIV.	WITH THE TIDE.	84
XV.	TRACKED!	89
XVI.	A SECRET OFFER.	95
XVII.	WHAT NICK CARTER KNEW.	101
XVIII.	A LOVELY SCRAP.	108
XIX.	A WELL OF FIRE.	114
XX.	FIVE SECONDS FROM DEATH.	118
XXI.	ANOTHER KINK.	125
XXII.	ANOTHER SCHEME.	131
XXIII.	WHICH WAS WHICH?	137
XXIV.	BY UNDERGROUND.	142
XXV.	DOUBTS.	148
XXVI.	GHOSTLY VISITANTS.	152
XXVII.	A FIGHT IN THE DARK.	159
XXVIII.	THE ELDER JARVIS.	165
XXIX.	THE INSURGENTS.	171
XXX.	NICK CARTER’S WORD.	178
XXXI.	NICK CALLS A COUNCIL.	184
XXXII.	MURDER WILL OUT.	190
XXXIII.	STILL HUNTING.	196
XXXIV.	THE GIRL IN THE CASE.	201
XXXV.	GETTING A FOCUS.	206
XXXVI.	WHERE THEY FOUND HIM.	211
XXXVII.	THE RIGHTFUL HEIR.	216

NICK CARTER STORIES

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850—Wanted: A Clew	By Nicholas Carter
851—A Tangled Skein	By Nicholas Carter
852—The Bullion Mystery	By Nicholas Carter
853—The Man of Riddles	By Nicholas Carter
854—A Miscarriage of Justice	By Nicholas Carter
855—The Gloved Hand	By Nicholas Carter
856—Spoilers and the Spoils	By Nicholas Carter
857—The Deeper Game	By Nicholas Carter
858—Bolts from Blue Skies	By Nicholas Carter
859—Unseen Foes	By Nicholas Carter
860—Knaves in High Places	By Nicholas Carter
861—The Microbe of Crime	By Nicholas Carter
862—In the Toils of Fear	By Nicholas Carter
863—A Heritage of Trouble	By Nicholas Carter
864—Called to Account	By Nicholas Carter
865—The Just and the Unjust	By Nicholas Carter
866—Instinct at Fault	By Nicholas Carter
867—A Rogue Worth Trapping	By Nicholas Carter
868—A Rope of Slender Threads	By Nicholas Carter
869—The Last Call	By Nicholas Carter
870—The Spoils of Chance	By Nicholas Carter
871—A Struggle With Destiny	By Nicholas Carter
872—The Slave of Crime	By Nicholas Carter
873—The Crook’s Blind	By Nicholas Carter
874—A Rascal of Quality	By Nicholas Carter
875—With Shackles of Fire	By Nicholas Carter
876—The Man Who Changed Faces	By Nicholas Carter
877—The Fixed Alibi	By Nicholas Carter
878—Out With the Tide	By Nicholas Carter
879—The Soul Destroyers	By Nicholas Carter
880—The Wages of Rascality	By Nicholas Carter
881—Birds of Prey	By Nicholas Carter
882—When Destruction Threatens	By Nicholas Carter
883—The Keeper of Black Hounds	By Nicholas Carter
884—The Door of Doubt	By Nicholas Carter
885—The Wolf Within	By Nicholas Carter
886—A Perilous Parole	By Nicholas Carter
887—The Trail of the Fingerprints	By Nicholas Carter
888—Dodging the Law	By Nicholas Carter
889—A Crime in Paradise	By Nicholas Carter
890—On the Ragged Edge	By Nicholas Carter
891—The Red God of Tragedy	By Nicholas Carter
892—The Man Who Paid	By Nicholas Carter
893—The Blind Man’s Daughter	By Nicholas Carter
894—One Object in Life	By Nicholas Carter
895—As a Crook Sows	By Nicholas Carter
896—In Record Time	By Nicholas Carter
897—Held in Suspense	By Nicholas Carter
898—The $100,000 Kiss	By Nicholas Carter
899—Just One Slip	By Nicholas Carter
900—On a Million-dollar Trail	By Nicholas Carter
901—A Weird Treasure	By Nicholas Carter
902—The Middle Link	By Nicholas Carter
903—To the Ends of the Earth	By Nicholas Carter
904—When Honors Pall	By Nicholas Carter
905—The Yellow Brand	By Nicholas Carter
906—A New Serpent in Eden	By Nicholas Carter
907—When Brave Men Tremble	By Nicholas Carter
908—A Test of Courage	By Nicholas Carter
909—Where Peril Beckons	By Nicholas Carter
910—The Gargoni Girdle	By Nicholas Carter
911—Rascals & Co.	By Nicholas Carter
912—Too Late to Talk	By Nicholas Carter
913—Satan’s Apt Pupil	By Nicholas Carter
914—The Girl Prisoner	By Nicholas Carter
915—The Danger of Folly	By Nicholas Carter
916—One Shipwreck Too Many	By Nicholas Carter
917—Scourged by Fear	By Nicholas Carter

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A Battle for Right

OR,

A CLASH OF WITS

NICHOLAS CARTER

Author of the celebrated stories of Nick Carter’s adventures, which are published exclusively in the New Magnet Library, conceded to be among the best detective tales ever written.

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