Shadow, the Mysterious Detective
n the dive I met a lady on the street, at
fore; in fact, felt that I had o
h
orris!"
tled at being thus addressed. Then I saw h
istaken," I said. "You
who became a detectiv
hen I walked along beside
some days, but at sight of
inquired
in some time," Mrs.
g seen him, and then s
d her hum
Several mornings before she had awakened to find an envelope thrust beneath
imed, in surprise. "Will you le
tain
hadow. I remembered some of the bills, and was c
y w
ed was in the roll of bills she han
and Shadow being one and the same person w
and how I had last seen Shadow-or Mat-for I knew
ney, the mother's confidence in her son was so great that she felt
n toward finding our Helen?"
constantly before me, and my ears always open, when I vis
found no clew, nor had I h
at though I did not see him he saw me
he pursued the one object o
d a certain description, he would persistently shadow until he
ain was he d
sfied gesture with his hand, and
n! Success mus
n, pursuing some unknown person who
from a feeling of resentment toward the whole tribe of evil-doer
talking about some "job" on entering t
had talked freely before him-it
the robbery of a bank with
in which the bank was located, they opened an oyster
o the cellar, and until break of day would
ortar between the bricks, first one and then another was pried out, until at last only one layer of f
omplished on
ntended entering, knowing that in all probability they wo
themselves, a pair of k
e those
me. It was from the mysterious being, whom
was ver
mply
nue at eleven o'clock to-night, with a do
ad
getting ready to act upon the commu
ile the required number of men were scattered about in the conc
ot long
for I had not seen or heard him approach, yet on turn
nearest lamp, so that I could plainly see what he w
underst
of thus talking with the fingers, and I have once been able to do al
that I could recall the
under
low me. When I cough, quietly
, and several blocks away I saw a fe
said, and placed my revo
not mi
hed. Quick as a flash, I wheeled and planted the muzz
of noise-or I'll put a
e men were walking, handcuffed him, and sent him to the station in char
l followe
on his fingers. "In five minutes
dmitted him to a hall connecting with the bogus oyster sal
into ten, twelve, fifteen, and
detected a
I opened the door and en
althy steps,
ened by some one, and in the big strong
was covered, and we-the silent witne
his life? I thought of Mrs. Mor