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DOUBLE Z
Maxwell Grant
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? CHAPTER I. THE HUNTED MAN
? CHAPTER II. OVER THE WIRE
? CHAPTER III. DOUBLE Z STRIKES
? CHAPTER IV. BURKE BRINGS ACTION
? CHAPTER V. CARDONA ENCOUNTERS CRIME
? CHAPTER VI. THE SHADOW PREPARES
? CHAPTER VII. THE SHADOW AT WORK
? CHAPTER VIII. MANN LEARNS FACTS
? CHAPTER IX. GANGSTERS TALK BUSINESS
? CHAPTER X. CARDONA PREPARES
? CHAPTER XI. THE TIP-OFF
? CHAPTER XII. THE HIDE-OUT
? CHAPTER XIII. THE SHADOW'S FIGHT
? CHAPTER XIV. DOUBLE Z PLOTS
? CHAPTER XV. AT LOY ROOK'S
? CHAPTER XVI. TWO MEN TRAPPED
? CHAPTER XVII. THE THIRD SNARE
? CHAPTER XVIII. THE PIT OF DEATH
? CHAPTER XIX. CARDONA'S RUSE
? CHAPTER XX. CARDONA'S TRIUMPH
? CHAPTER XXI. THE SHADOW'S WORK

CHAPTER I. THE HUNTED MAN
THE hand that held the key trembled. At last it found the lock. The key turned. A tall man stepped into
the dim hallway, and closed the door behind him.

A slight sigh came from his lipsтАФlips thin and parched, that showed above the heavy muffler which
covered the man's neck, even to his chin.

Slowly, the man moved along the hallway. He turned suspiciously as he reached the stairs, glancing back
at the door. The glass transom above it worried him.

He thought of the dark vestibule, which obtained its only rays of light through that very transom. He
remembered the nervousness that had gripped him while he had fumbled with the key. He listened, as
though he expected some one else to unlock the door.

Now the man laughed nervously. He started up the stairs, his fears banished. His tall, stoop-shouldered
figure seemed to stalk upward like a mechanical dummy.

At the landing, halfway to the second floor, he stopped; then continued on his journey, with that same
slow, methodical stride.

Another key grated in the lock of the vestibule door. The slight sound began just after the man on the
landing had again moved toward the second floor.