Excerpt.....The girl who had caught Nick Carter’s eye was striking not alone because of her facial expression at that moment, but because of her remarkable grace and beauty. She was about nineteen, a pronounced blonde, with regular features, large, blue eyes, and a sensitive mouth, a pink-and-white complexion, an abundance of wavy, golden hair, crowning a shapely head, finely poised on a graceful, slender, yet well-developed figure, then clad in a navy-blue skirt and a dainty white waist.
It was the expression on her fair face, however, that had riveted the detective’s attention, though he could see her only in part profile.
Nick never had seen a look of more poignant anguish on a human face.....
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