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RIVER OF DEATH
Maxwell Grant
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? CHAPTER I. MINSTRELS OF DEATH
? CHAPTER II. THE MAN ON THE FERRY
? CHAPTER III. VISITORS FOR MR. HOLLISTER
? CHAPTER IV. THE VANISHING BOOK
? CHAPTER V. A BEAUTIFUL MERMAID
? CHAPTER VI. THE CHINESE LAMP
? CHAPTER VII. CREATURE OF THE DEEP
? CHAPTER VIII. THE FLOATING FOLLIES
? CHAPTER IX. A DANGEROUS WOMAN
? CHAPTER X. THE ISLAND OF MUD
? CHAPTER XI. THE COVERED PIER
? CHAPTER XII. THE SHADOW'S GEOMETRY
? CHAPTER XIII. THE INNER LOCK
? CHAPTER XIV. THE SUPREME FOE
? CHAPTER XV. BEHIND THE MASK



CHAPTER I. MINSTRELS OF DEATH
THE Hudson River was a broad expanse of darkness. The hour was long past midnight. A haze of fog
drifted low on the surface of the river. Nothing was visible except the hazy pier lights of Manhattan and
the fainter gleams that twinkled on the New Jersey side.

Through that protecting darkness a speedboat moved downstream.

The boat was painted jet-black. The men in the boat were black, too. There were four men. Burned
cork had darkened their faces so that they looked like colored minstrels. But there was nothing comic
about the gleam of their watchful eyes.

These men were criminals. Their speedboat was a floating arsenal.

Their goal was a pier on the New York side of the river, about a mile from the pointed tip of Manhattan.
Pier A was down at that tip - the headquarters of the harbor police. But the thugs aboard the black
speedboat were ready for water cops. Nor were they worried about rival crooks. A whispered name,
passed furtively from lip to lip, would scare small-fry river pirates from the misty blackness of the
Hudson.

Davy Jones!

The speedboat veered suddenly. It began to glide unseen toward the Manhattan pier line. Voices
whispered to one another in the black craft. The name of Pike was mentioned.

Pike was the leader of these mobsmen of Davy Jones. He sat crouched in the bow, directing the
progress of the speedboat. From the clipped talk that passed between Pike and his men, it was evident