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Frank Lucius Packard. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
Table of Contents
PART ONE: THE MAN IN THE CASE
PART TWO: THE WOMAN IN THE CASE
The Gray Seal
PART ONE: THE MAN IN THE CASE
PART ONE: THE MAN IN THE CASE
CHAPTER II. BY PROXY
CHAPTER III. THE MOTHER LODE
CHAPTER IV. THE COUNTERFEIT FIVE
CHAPTER V. THE AFFAIR OF THE PUSHCART MAN
CHAPTER VI. DEVIL'S WORK
CHAPTER VII. THE THIEF
IS AC PELINA
CHAPTER VIII. THF MAN HIGHER UP
CHAPTER IX. TWO CROOKS AND A KNAVE
CHAPTER X. THE ALIBI
CHAPTER XI. THE STOOL-PIGEON
Below the Dead Line
PART TWO: THE WOMAN IN THE CASE
PART TWO: THE WOMAN IN THE CASE
CHAPTER II. THE CALL TO ARMS
CHAPTER III. THE CRIME CLUB
CHAPTER IV. THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER
CHAPTER V. ON GUARD
CHAPTER VI. THE TRAP
CHAPTER VII. THE HOUR
CHAPTER VIII. THE TOCSIN
CHAPTER IX. THE TOCSIN'S STORY
CHAPTER X. SILVER MAG
CHAPTER XI. THE MAGPIE
CHAPTER XII. JOHN JOHANSSON—FOUR-TWO-EIGHT
CHAPTER XIII. THE ONLY WAY
CHAPTER XIV. OUT OF THE DARKNESS
CHAPTER XV. RETRIBUTION
CHAPTER XVI "DEATH TO THE GRAY SEAL!"
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Frank Lucius Packard
Published by Good Press, 2020
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The boy tiptoed across the room, opened a connecting door a little, peered inside, opened it a little wider—and looked over his shoulder at Jimmie Dale.
Jimmie Dale crossed to the boy, looked inside the other room—and his lip twitched queerly, as the sight sent a quick, hurt throb through his heart. A young woman, younger than the boy, lay on a tumble-down bed, a rag of clothing over her—her face with a deathlike pallor upon it, as she lay in what appeared to be a stupor. She was ill, critically ill; it needed no trained eye to discern a fact all too apparent to the most casual observer. The squalor, the glaring poverty here, was even more pitifully in evidence than in the other room—only here upon a chair beside the bed was a cluster of medicine bottles and a little heap of fruit.
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