Toying With Fate; Or Nick Carter's Narrow Shave, Part 4

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In this episode, Detective Carter receives a tip from Dora Ferris that points to Simeon Rich and Dick Darwin as suspects in a crime that took place on New Year's Eve. Dora offers to take Carter to her flat to inspect Darwin's clothing for clues, and they discover that Darwin has already left, taking all his belongings. However, Carter finds some papers on the floor that suggest Rich and Darwin may be implicated in the murder of Lawrence at the Red Dragon Inn. Specifically, a note written the day before New Year's indicates that Rich was at the Grand Central that afternoon, followed Lawrence downtown, and placed a party on his trail.
Carter sees this note as an important piece of evidence, as it shows that Darwin and Rich had dined together at the Knickerbocker Cottage. He also believes that Darwin's hasty removal of his things from the flat could be an indication of guilt. Carter then asks Dora if she knows where Rich and his sister reside, which she does. He follows Darwin to a tenement on the east side of town and discovers that he had been looking for Lena Peters, a singer who had been wrongfully accused of a robbery and murder.
Carter eventually tracks down Lena and clears her name. She reveals that her brother, Edward, had discovered the truth about the plot to falsely accuse Alfred Lawrence, and that he and his friend George Blanchard were both murdered under suspicious circumstances. Lena tells Carter that she had discovered a memorandum that Edward had written about Blanchard's confession and that it was her brother who left the signed documents in a package at the Red Dragon Inn.
To keep Lena safe, Carter instructs her to stay at his mansion and conducts interviews with the waiter at the Knickerbocker Cottage, the messenger boy who delivered a message to two men matching the descriptions of Simeon Rich and Dick Darwin, and the bartender at McKeever's Saloon where Rich and Darwin met up with Brockey Gann, the man hired to murder Nick Carter! This episode is full of twists and turns as new clues are uncovered, and the investigation into Lawrence's murder takes on a new urgency.

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