Copyright, 1905

By STREET & SMITH

Out of Death's Shadow

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OUT OF DEATH'S SHADOW.

CHAPTER I.
A MAN WITHOUT A SECRET.

On the shady veranda of an old-fashioned Southern house, on the outskirts of St. Louis, two men in the prime of life were enjoying their cigars one fine morning.

One, the younger, with a fair, full face and honest, gray eyes, after a long period of silence, said: