A Mystery Story for Boys
The
SHADOW PASSES
By
ROY J. SNELL
The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago
COPYRIGHT 1938
BY
THE REILLY & LEE CO.
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I The Silver Fox 11
- II Blackie’s Story 32
- III Fat and Furious 38
- IV The Capture of Old Silver 53
- V Johnny Fights for Fun 68
- VI Smokey Joe’s Blue Bears 77
- VII A Strange Battle 85
- VIII The Stormy Petrel’s First Prize 98
- IX Fate Lends a Hand 103
- X A New World 111
- XI The Fall of Red McGee 119
- XII A Ptarmigan Feast 128
- XIII The Shadow 141
- XIV A Voice in the Fog 147
- XV A Roar from the Deep 158
- XVI Looming Peril 166
- XVII Trapped 174
- XVIII Five Rounds and a Friend 181
- XIX Ordered Below 189
- XX A Battle in the Dark 194
- XXI Wall of Glass 201
- XXII Dreams 209
- XXIII In the Blue Bear’s Cave 216
- XXIV Overtaking a Shadow 225
- XXV “Bill” Returns 233
THE SHADOW PASSES
CHAPTER I
THE SILVER FOX
“And then I saw it—the Shadow.”
The speaker’s eyes appeared to snap.Johnny Thompson leaned forward in his chair.“It glided through the fog without a sound.”The voice droned on, “Not a sound, mind you!We had a small boat with powerful motors.I stepped on the gas. Our motors roared. Wewere after that shadow.”
“And then?” Johnny Thompson whispered.
“For all I know,” the black-eyed man murmured,leaning back in his chair, “we mighthave cut that shadow square in two. Anyway,that’s the last we saw of it for that day.
“But think of it!” he exclaimed after a second’spause. ”Think of the thing just disappearingin the fog like that!”
He was a romantic figure, t