Francis Worcester Doughty

“ Success must come at last!"
And then he would go relentlessly on, pursuing some unknown person who was even more shadowy than himself.
Besides searching for this one person, Shadow had devoted himself from a feeling of resentment toward the whole tribe of evil-doers, to the exposure of villainy whenever and wherever he found it.
The two burglars whom I had overheard talking about some "job" on entering the dive, were being cared for by Shadow. ”

“ Some few days subsequent to my adventure in the dive I met a lady on the street, at sight of whose face I gave a slight start.
I had seen the face somewhere before; in fact, felt that I had once been quite familiar with it.
Ah!
"Mrs. Morris!" I said. ”

“ Steadily, although slowly, he pursued the one object of his present mode of life.
Any man who was known to be "crooked," and who at all resembled a certain description, he would persistently shadow until he knew that the person was not guilty of that particular crime. ”