My next move was to try and find Shadow, whom I next saw under very peculiar circumstances.
[CHAPTER XXIII.]
WEAVING THE NET.
Was the hour of Shadow's vengeance at hand?
It would seem so, from the expression which came into his face as he passed nearer to the man whom he believed he had at last recognized.
An intense but suppressed excitement marked his every movement.
"Thank Heaven!"
He had thus exclaimed a moment before while he was earnestly scrutinizing the face of this person.
The fact that he could be surprised into breaking his long and well-maintained silence spoke very strongly for his belief that he had at last found the man he was in search of.