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CROOKS GO STRAIGHT
Maxwell Grant
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? CHAPTER I. ABOARD THE LIMITED
? CHAPTER II. BACK TO LIFE
? CHAPTER III. THE NEW WAY OPENS
? CHAPTER IV. OUT OF THE PAST
? CHAPTER V. FRIDAY NIGHT
? CHAPTER VI. THE SHADOW'S SEARCH
? CHAPTER VII. THE BAD LANDS RISE
? CHAPTER VIII. CROOKS MOVE
? CHAPTER IX. THE ONLY CLUE
? CHAPTER X. NEXT NOON
? CHAPTER XI. THE HUNTED MAN
? CHAPTER XII. THE SHADOW ADVISES
? CHAPTER XIII. DELHUGH'S VISITOR
? CHAPTER XIV. WEDNESDAY NIGHT
? CHAPTER XV. THE MOB PREPARES
? CHAPTER XVI. VANISHED SWAG
? CHAPTER XVII. GUNS IN THE DARK
? CHAPTER XVIII. FROM THE SANCTUM
? CHAPTER XIX. THE SHADOW TALKS
? CHAPTER XX. A HOUSE OF DOOM
? CHAPTER XXI. STRATEGY BY NIGHT
? CHAPTER XXII. SQUADS SET FORTH
? CHAPTER XXIII. LUCKY IS LUCKY
? CHAPTER XXIV. THE SHOW-DOWN
? CHAPTER XXV. THE SHADOW REVEALS
CHAPTER I. ABOARD THE LIMITED
THE Eastern Limited was driving through the night. To scattered passengers, seated in the lounge of the
observation car, the whistle of the locomotive came as a distant blare from far ahead. The train, though
long and heavy, was maintaining its fast schedule.

Two men were chatting over newspapers. Strangers who had met aboard the train, they were discussing
subjects of common interest. One news story seemed to have impressed them both.

"Well," one passenger was saying, "I can't criticize the governor of this state for pardoning those two
convicts. He must have studied their cases mighty closely."

"Both men were lifers," objected the second passenger. "It seems a bit radical to put them back into
circulation. They were chronic offenders -"
"Wait a moment," put in the first man. He tapped the newspaper. "The facts are right here. These chaps
only went up for short terms to begin with. Steve Zurk was in for a bank robbery"тАФthe speaker paused
and referred to a columnтАФ "and Jack Targon was a swindler."

"They broke jail together, didn't they?"