Shadow, the Mysterious Detective
d among the tightest I count that night, when in the old sugar-house, conver
w I commenced retreating, even while Cap was com
, who, as Shadow had informed me, was already there, a fact unkn
ayed me, and my heart swelled with gratitude to
the guard, it would not be Shadow's fault
learned that a young fellow answering his description was kept
nt as rapidly as I could witho
ed it a
hed the spot where h
ould take Cap to grow impatient at not seeing me
d I'm much obliged for it," I said,
e h
es
rig
es
of his black h
should
wrong, wa
ered. "What's the matter wit
or another one-you see we keep this place well guarded-no
as I've got one or two mes
rec
hand was o
of turning it when
pass?" he
e w
e p
t pa
out a new pass, and none go thro
ed, clenching my fists unseen by the guard. "It's a
get through here until the cap'n gives me ord
my t
e I was not going to
out!" I
n't d
e out,
hout the cap'n's orders. So
e densely dark place I
you?" cap was im
s no tim
owl
" returned
somebody was h
led with mistrust, and making a d
last and
my clen
p
en the eyes, and felled hi
he yelled, as
ard th
me flying, drawing hi
rtunity, and seizing and turning the knob, I flun
man I might chance to meet would be more likely friends of the pirates than friends
at side of the building,
ed was Dick Stanton,
iar snuffle that had long b
g to my feet, and dropping all
ere was no chance of his being rescued by the pirat
re you
rning swiftly, glanced keenly at me, pausing be
en?" I asked, with a laugh,
war
rre
guise is
own mother
e world do you manage to ge
ne. I say, Dick, go
N
hen, will you? Mine I forg
t mine also. I haven't got so good
kly drawing a revolver, placed it to his t
you mean?"
show
e of yours," said t
oke for you," said I.
at
'em
of the revolver against
nce of the movement, and lo
umed angry tone, to carry out the idea that he
ief is bad enough, but to call yourself a detective and then be in league with a gang of cut-throats, rive
n's ja
nered and
" he g
head, he walked dumb
on me?" he pleaded, humbly,
ain by it?" I
turns State's evidence," he said, e
ed I was wi
o sooner found out than he was r
an tell me what you please, and if I then think your
fellow," he said, fawnin
do exactly
he promptl
ad occurr
specific charge against him-to take him to a secret place of confinement, and there keep him unti
ssary to retrace some of our steps, and we once again
member, was willing to be treacherous toward his pals, so, now,
r name in that locality-he suddenly pursed up his lips and whis
ntended it
not mi
men dashed out of the "boozing ken" t