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Title: Triple Spies

Author: Roy J. Snell

Release Date: October 27, 2004 [EBook #13880]

Language: English

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_Mystery Stories for Boys_

Triple Spies

By ROY J. SNELL

The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago
1920

[Illustration: Roy J. Snell, and his sledge-team of Alaskan Huskies.]

CONTENTS

I THE DEN OF DISGUISES
II THE MYSTERIOUS RUSSIAN
III TREACHERY OUT OF THE NIGHT
IV A NARROW ESCAPE
V "FRIEND? ENEMY?"
VI "NOW I SHALL KILL YOU"
VII SAVED FROM THE MOB
VIII WHEN AN ESKIMO BECOMES A JAP
IX JOHNNY'S FREE-FOR-ALL
X THE JAP GIRL IN PERIL
XI A FACE IN THE NIGHT
XII "GET THAT MAN"
XIII BACK TO OLD CHICAGO
XIV THE MYSTERY OF THE CHICAGO RIVER
XV THE CAT CRY OF THE UNDERWORLD
XVI CIO-CIO-SAN BETRAYED
XVII A THREE-CORNERED BATTLE
XVIII HANADA'S SECRET
XIX "I SEEN IT--A SUBMARINE!"
XX AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
XXI THE OWNER OF THE DIAMONDS

TRIPLE SPIES

CHAPTER I

THE DEN OF DISGUISES

As Johnny Thompson stood in the dark doorway of the gray stone
court-yard he shivered. He was not cold, though this was
Siberia--Vladivostok--and a late winter night. But he was excited.

Before him, slipping, sliding, rolling over and over on the hard packed
snow of the narrow street, two men were gripped in a life and death
struggle. They had been struggling thus for five minutes, each striving
for the upper hand. The clock in the Greek Catholic church across the
way told Johnny how long they had fought.

He had been an accidental and entirely disinterested witness. He knew
neither of the men; he had merely happened along just when the row
began, and had lingered in the shadows to see it through. Twelve, yes,
even six months before, he would have mixed in at once; that had always
been his way in the States. Not that he was a quarrelsome fellow; on the
contrary he was fond of peace, was Johnny, in spite of the fact that he
carried on his person various