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SHIPS OF DOOM
Maxwell Grant
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? CHAPTER I. CRIME FORESEEN
? CHAPTER II. TRAGEDY AT NIGHT
? CHAPTER III. PARTED TRAILS
? CHAPTER IV. FACTS FOR THE LAW
? CHAPTER V. FEDS ON THE JOB
? CHAPTER VI. THE HEAT OF BATTLE
? CHAPTER VII. THANKS TO THE SHADOW
? CHAPTER VIII. TRAILS TO COME
? CHAPTER IX. THE SHOWDOWN
? CHAPTER X. FALSYTHE'S ALIBI
? CHAPTER XI. THE WRONG MAN
? CHAPTER XII. THE FORCED TRAIL
? CHAPTER XIII. FOES IN THE DARK
? CHAPTER XIV. FRIENDS IN THE LIGHT
? CHAPTER XV. THE SHADOW'S GOAL
? CHAPTER XVI. PLIGHTS REVERSED
? CHAPTER XVII. CRIME TURNS THE TIDE
? CHAPTER XVIII. THE WRONG SHADOW
? CHAPTER XIX. CRIME'S ANSWER
? CHAPTER XX. BLASTED CRIME
? CHAPTER XXI. SUNKEN EVIDENCE

CHAPTER I. CRIME FORESEEN
SHINY, white, and sleek, the liner Salvador was moving slowly from her North River pier. Under the
control of straining tugs, the great motorship looked like a huge beast held in leash.

Even when she reached midstream, the M.S. Salvador seemed impatient. Her prow turned toward the
sea, the ship began a slow, though majestic, pace. Not until she passed the confines of New York harbor
would the Salvador demonstrate the greyhound speed of which she was deemed capable.

In a sense, this was the liner's maiden voyage. True, the Salvador had crossed the Atlantic, to reach New
York; but on that journey she had carried neither passengers nor freight. Though built in a foreign land,
the Salvador was the property of American owners. Designed for trade between the United States and
South America, she was the first of a good-will fleet that would serve to link two continents.

Like the white luxury liner, the flag that the ship flew was new. Her American owners were operating her
under a foreign flag.

The flag bore five stripes of yellow and blue; it stood for a newcomer in the nations of Europe, the
Protectorate of Balthania. Behind that banner loomed the sinister operations of a land-hungry Power that
had wrested provinces from a weaker country. Formed into a single unit, those provinces were named
Balthania; behind the five-striped flag lay the grim, but hidden, emblem of the Great Power which
controlled the puppet state.