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TEMPLE OF CRIME
Maxwell Grant
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? CHAPTER I. THE TEMPLE OF AMMON
? CHAPTER II. MURDER EXPLAINED
? CHAPTER III. VANISHED FIGHTERS
? CHAPTER IV. CRIME WITHOUT REASON
? CHAPTER V. THE SHADOW'S THEORY
? CHAPTER VI. THE LAW DECIDES
? CHAPTER VII. VOICE OF AMMON
? CHAPTER VIII. REIGN OF TUMULT
? CHAPTER IX. THE BOOK OF THOTH
? CHAPTER X. WITHOUT A TRACE
? CHAPTER XI. THE CROCODILE GOD
? CHAPTER XII. PATHS THROUGH THE DARK
? CHAPTER XIII. CREATURES OF DOOM
? CHAPTER XIV. IN THE SPHINX ROOM
? CHAPTER XV. A MATTER OF PROOF
? CHAPTER XVI. AMMON STRIKES
? CHAPTER XVII. THE FINAL NIGHT
? CHAPTER XVIII. THE TEMPLE SECRETS

CHAPTER I. THE TEMPLE OF AMMON
STRANGE, solemn was the procession that moved beneath the trees. Figures clad in white, ghostly amid
the darkness, the marchers were revealed as humans only when the glare of flaming torches threw
wavering light upon their stern, fixed faces.

Above, the stirring leaves of the poplar grove rustled a weird greeting. Below, fantastic shapes withdrew
among the tree trunks like slinking ghouls, affrighted by the torches. Perhaps they were nothing more than
shadows of the trees themselves, rendered grotesque and given motion by the shifting light of the passing
torches. But they had the look of real figures.

Robed members of the procession were darting sidelong glances, their own fears roused by the imaginary
things amid the grove. It was as though a terror of their own creation had echoed back to them. A
distinct shudder passed through the marching throng, carried by those most sensitive to imaginary
impressions.

Margo Lane felt the shiver, but did not share it. Nor did she feel that her imagination had gained the
upper hand. She believed that there was reality among the creatures of the grove; that one, at least,
though shadowy, possessed actual substance.

She was thinking of The Shadow.
If it hadn't been for The Shadow, Margo wouldn't have been in tonight's procession. As Lamont
Cranston, New York clubman, The Shadow did not make a practice of joining bizarre organizations like
the Cult of Ammon. He preferred to have other persons associate themselves with such groups, and tell
him the details later.