Shadow, the Mysterious Detective
me portions of the metropolis are as much of a myster
gular statement, yet it
e seen, which could not but be as surprising as interesting
l their glory, side by side wi
ind abound, and here is th
e building is to be found, save small offic
more lonesome, or more inviting to
treet ferry, stood, and still stands, a little shanty,
h to convey the reader,
being about half of the entire floor, and two smaller
at a deal table, before him a half-emptied soda-bottle and a glass. The bot
ng around to get him something to eat. "A bully good job, and no mistake. I
'm a-thinkin'," remarked Mrs. McGinnis, as s
ined. "Whin he pays me that sum of money jist to capture the girl, yez can jist
wife, admiringly. "Now, shure, I'd never a-thought of the likes o
ng me occupation. Walls sometimes have ears, so they do. But, I say, be liv
Ginnis had just lighted his pipe,
innis, as he started for th
ing lawyer, who had asked Helen if he had not see
iftly, and himself hastily closed the d
the center of the apartment, rubbing
!" with a h
is you
is,
be depe
s meself, sor. No fe
the g
s pointed downward, to signify that H
and the rascally la
antin' to see her?"
es
a look at the two small windows to see that the curtains were closely drawn, a
hich came a rush of damp, cold air, which alm
ed to see the girl, for it woul
e was about to descend caused him to suddenly p
McGinnis was
opportunity of putting it forever o
tartling r
was going, nobody had seen him enter this shanty-facts
and wife no sign of tr
ld tru
They will not kill the goose that lays the g
ed them
beneath the house, of so little depth that it
McGinnis, who was ahe
la
forgot that the tide is up, and th
I'm wet up to my knees. Does the
es the water comes up close to
then the villainous abd
we are
he light, Brown saw the fair young girl, stretched on a pallet of stra
sked Brown, in a
n two hours ago when the old woma
ht she surely was dead, until having drawn very c
r H
n slumber in the three days which had elapsed si
from the more public thoroughfares, and then had suddenly turned on her, and pu
ad kept her there until after midnight, and then had fo
he light into her
d in mind, and then appeared
at the expense of so much trouble and risk, but she could not but
ting position and gl
s face, and before he could turn and hide h
e asked, in a tone that trembled with a mixture of indignation and f
to see the girl and make sure he had abducted the right one. Well, since you
te Helen w
peculiar
he could find no clew from his fa
t all of it," she
vely no
to rise before me, as if seen through a mist. But it never la
smile flitted acros
above, leaving Helen alone in that dark and damp and dank
sides which the wind was in the right di
which crept up around her and saturated her clothing, until it reached he
up with a
, as he raised the trap-door a little. "Quiet, I say, or
re trembling, with lips pallid and heart at almost a standsti
s, and even here did not stop. Higher still