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THE BLACK MASTER
Maxwell Grant
? CHAPTER I. TERROR GRIPS MANHATTAN
? CHAPTER II. THE MAN WHO FEARED DEATH
? CHAPTER III. THE POLICE SEEK EVIDENCE
? CHAPTER IV. THE HANDS OF THE SHADOW
? CHAPTER V. A HAND INTERVENES
? CHAPTER VI. DOCTOR ZERNDORFF ACTS
? CHAPTER VII. THE HUNTED MAN
? CHAPTER VIII. SHOTS IN THE DARK
? CHAPTER IX. THE SECOND MURDER
? CHAPTER X. KILLER BRYAN SPEAKS
? CHAPTER XI. THE MAD MILLIONAIRE
? CHAPTER XII. DOCTOR ZERNDORFF AGREES
? CHAPTER XIII. HARRY OBSERVES
? CHAPTER XIV. THE UNSEEN HARD
? CHAPTER XV. HARRY OBEYS ORDERS
? CHAPTER XVI. THE BLACK MASTER STRIKES
? CHAPTER XVII. DOCTOR ZERNDORFF IS AMAZED
? CHAPTER XVIII. MYSTERY HOUSE
? CHAPTER XIX. ENTER THE SHADOW
? CHAPTER XX. THE MASTER MAKES TERMS
? CHAPTER XXI. THE SHADOW RETURNS
? CHAPTER XXII. THE SHADOW'S TURN
? CHAPTER XXIII. A SECOND TO SPARE

CHAPTER I. TERROR GRIPS MANHATTAN
IT was morning on Wall Street. Crowds of people were moving hurriedly along the pavements of that
man-made ravine that threads its way through the heart of New York's financial district. Viewed from the
buildings above, they appeared as tiny creatures.

Two men turned into the thoroughfare from a side sweet. They jostled their way through a cluster of
people who were waiting on the curb, and walked leisurely, side-by-side, down Wall Street.

There was nothing in the appearance of these men to attract attention. They seemed typical of the drab
passers-by who are seen constantly in that part of Manhattan.

One man was carrying a briefcase. That, alone, distinguished him from his companion.

Both were oblivious of their surroundings. They paid no attention to the walls of the huge buildings that
loomed on either side of them. They came to a spot where construction was underway and they were
forced to cross to the other side of the narrow street.

The crowd had thinned for the moment. The men were nearing a corner. They stopped an instant as their
path was blocked by a man hurrying in the opposite direction. Then they moved by him in single file,
forced to the middle of the sidewalk by two large ashcans that stood against the wall of the building.
The man with the briefcase brushed shoulders with the man who was going the other way.

It was one of those unnoticed passings. A few seconds later, each would have forgotten the existence of
the other, had the usual law of the city held true. But this passing was the forerunner of an unusual event.