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