The Great Spy System by Nick Carter

Author:Nick Carter
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: adventure, Pulp
Publisher: manybooks.net
Published: 2011-08-30T14:09:24+00:00

CHAPTER IX.

NICK CARTER CAPTURES THE FORTY SPIES.

All this that has been described was, of course, enacted in a very short space of time-much less than it requires to tell it.

Nick knew perfectly well that the men could not withstand a continuance of that awful shock for a very great length of time, and he had prepared himself for the end of it.

There were thick-soled rubber shoes for himself and the senator to don; and there were heavy rubber gloves for their hands, ready beside them; and there was a long rope ready for his uses, also.

He seized that now, after having adjusted the rubber shoes and gloves, and having made one end of the rope fast, he hurried down the stairs, and as he passed each man, he hastily threw two half-hitches of the rope he carried over the head of each man as he passed him.

It did not take him long to arrive at the bottom of the stairs, and here again he made fast the other end of the rope; after which he returned rapidly up the stairs again, and hastened into the room where the switchboard was located.

For a moment he turned the current completely off, and then put it ipart way on again; just far enough so

that the imprisoned men could feel that there was still a shock passing through their bodies; just enough so that they would not dare to renew their struggles for liberty.

"Now, senator," he called out, "come here, will you?"

The senator went to him, and the detective continued:

"Will you stand here near the switch?"

"Yes."

"If I call out to you, throw the switch over to this notch. That will be far enough. I only want to be assured that not one of those men is going to get away."

"Have you got the chief?" asked the senator.

"No; he escaped, but we will get him, somehow, before morning."

The detective then returned to the stairway, and at the top he stopped a moment, and said to the men he had used so harshly-for already they were beginning to struggle for liberty.

"Stop that struggling, or I will give you the full force of the current again. Stop, I tell you!"

They obeyed at once, for their terror was almost pitiful to behold. And if you stop to think upon it whose would not be so under like circumstances?

"Now," continued the detective, "listen to me. I am going to begin at the bottom of the stairs, and tie you, one by one, so that none can escape. If any one of you should make an effort to do so the current will instantly be turned on again, and you will all suffer for the act of that one. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Yes," came in a chorus of husky voices from the suffering men on the stairs.

"One by one I shall bring you up the stairs to this floor, where you will be still more firmly bound, and presently there will be policemen here to take you away, and to

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