Francis Worcester Doughty

“ I guess I kin fetch the grub as fast as you kin stow it away."
With Shadow's departure from the restaurant we must drop him for a while. But we again introduce him, disguised as a mulatto, as he glided up to the writer of these lines, and, with extended hand, simply said:
"Shadow!"
Was this Shadow?
I could hardly believe my eyes.
Adept as I was myself in the arts of disguise, if this was the mysterious detective, he was able to equal if not even outdo my ability.
"Shadow!"
So he repeated, when I allowed a full minute to pass without having spoken a word.
"Are you Shadow?" ”

“ More than once the secret listener shuddered on hearing the tales that were told.
It seemed to him as if all the crimes that were ever committed could not sum up as large a total as these men boasted of having committed. ”

“ That they were able to laugh over descriptions of bloodshed and death was ample evidence of the manner of men they were, and Shadow more fully realized the peril which surrounded him so long as he should remain in the old sugar-house. ”