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THE GREEN BOX
Maxwell Grant
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? CHAPTER I. CONVICT 9638
? CHAPTER II. THE SHADOW PLANS
? CHAPTER III. THE SHADOW TRAILS
? CHAPTER IV. IN SOUTHFIELD
? CHAPTER V. THE DEAL
? CHAPTER VI. THE LOST TRAIL
? CHAPTER VII. THE SHADOW ARRIVES
? CHAPTER VIII. MEN MEET
? CHAPTER IX. MEN OF WEALTH
? CHAPTER X. THE VIGIL
? CHAPTER XI. THREE THREATS
? CHAPTER XII. CRIME BREAKS
? CHAPTER XIII. THE RAID
? CHAPTER XIV. COMING CRIME
? CHAPTER XV. HAWKEYE MEETS THE SHADOW
? CHAPTER XVI. ROWLING GIVES ORDERS
? CHAPTER XVII. AGENTS WATCH
? CHAPTER XVIII. THE THIRD CRIME
? CHAPTER XIX. GRIFF DECIDES
? CHAPTER XX. TABLES TURN
? CHAPTER XXI. FRUITS OF CRIME
? CHAPTER XXII. THE BREAK
? CHAPTER XXIII. GRIFF'S STRATEGY
? CHAPTER XXIV. THE PRICE OF CRIME

CHAPTER I. CONVICT 9638
THE air seemed thick within the prison cell. Rays of dull-yellow light from the central cellroom faded on
the threshold, as though shrinking from the confinement of the cell itself.

Bolder was the pallid moonlight that trickled through the window. It formed a whitish splash across the
cell floor - a luminous pool that was marked with lines of black, as grim reminders of the bars between
which the moonlight came.

Eyes were upon that patch of light. Two men were staring toward it, fascinated by this token of the
outside world. Moonlight was the only privilege that these prisoners could share with free men in the
world beyond the penitentiary walls.

One man, his dull face rendered overly pale by reason of the moonlight, was staring from a lower bunk.
His clutching hands - trembling talons - were closed about the side of the iron bedstead.
The other, stationed in the berth above, was gazing toward the floor in patient fashion. Of the two, he
seemed less troubled by his plight.

"Sammy" - the man below was speaking in a wheezy whisper - "Sammy -"