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From: The Shadow, The Unseen Killer, 12/1/34



Double Chocolate

by Roswell Brown





Gangster guns killed Grace Culver's father, but they could not kill the

detective spirit which was a part of the Culver blood.







"And the double chocolate soda goes where?" the blonde waitress

demanded, shifting her weight from one foot to the other with a swinging

movement of the hips. She balanced a trayful of soda and shortcake expertly, her

china blue eyes staring off into the distance.

Grace Culver had been making a snake out of the paper wrapper from

her soda straw. She looked up quickly, with a gleam in her eyes as they fixed on

the double chocolate. But she answered the question another way.

"Mrs. Moody wanted the shortcake, Stella."

"Oh, yeahЧI remember now." Dishes clanked on the glass top of Ye

Blue Bird Tea Shoppe's front table.

and the swinging hips undulated indifferently in the direction of the kitchen

once more. Maggie Moody regarded her shortcake with a two-hundred- pound

sigh of satisfaction.

"Sure, it's a good thing not to be so weighty you got to be worrying over