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THE CRIME RAY
Maxwell Grant
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? CHAPTER I. CRIME FROM BELOW
? CHAPTER II. CRIME'S MYSTERY
? CHAPTER III. FACTS FOR THE LAW
? CHAPTER IV. THE CONTACT
? CHAPTER V. THE VANISHED HORDE
? CHAPTER VI. THREADS TO CRIME
? CHAPTER VII. THE RAY MACHINE
? CHAPTER VIII. STRIFE IN THE DARK
? CHAPTER IX. CRIME'S NEW DEMAND
? CHAPTER X. THE DEMONSTRATION
? CHAPTER XI. DARK TAKES THE SHADOW
? CHAPTER XII. THE DOUBLE DILEMMA
? CHAPTER XIII. THE MASTER CROOK
? CHAPTER XIV. UP THE RIVER
? CHAPTER XV. WESTON DECIDES
? CHAPTER XVI. THE PRISON BREAK
? CHAPTER XVII. CURBED CRIME
? CHAPTER XVIII. TORMEON SUSPECTS
? CHAPTER XIX. THE UNDERGROUND REALM
? CHAPTER XX. SHATTERED CRIME

CHAPTER I. CRIME FROM BELOW
THE cruising coupe was not the type of car to attract attention. It was a two-year-old model of an
inexpensive make; its color was a dark-green, that passed for black as the car rolled along sparsely
lighted side streets.

Even when it reached the avenue and followed it, the coupe was inconspicuous. So, for that matter, were
the car's two occupants. They had a wary way of huddling low, that driver and the man beside him,
whenever they passed a brightly lighted area.

Their faces, it happened, had been mugged too often. They didn't care to show them when police were
about, for fear that some sharp-eyed officer might identify them as visages that he had seen among
rogues' gallery portraits.

Tonight, police were on hand in this secluded section of Manhattan. Too many of them to suit the two
men in the car. The driver emphasized that, as he swung into a side street:

"Take a gander through the back, Butch. See if that hackie is still tailing us."

"O.K., Jerry," returned Butch. "Keep your own eye peeled for the bulls. Seems like there's twict as many
as there was when we made our last round."

Jerry's grunt was one of agreement. As he piloted the car, he counted uniforms. It appeared that cops
had been moving steadily into the area centered by the Midtown National Bank. At this rate of influx,