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Excerpt from The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Could there be any doubt that Jimmie Dale was innately a gentleman? It was evening, and Jimmie Dale sat at a small table in the corner of the St. James Club dining room. Opposite him sat Herman Carruthers, a young man of his own age, about twenty-six, a leading figure in the newspaper world, whose rise from reporter to managing editor of the morning News Argus within the short space of a few years had been almost meteoric. They were at coffee and cigars, and Jimmie Dale was leaning back in his chair, his dark eyes fixed interestedly on his guest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The most puzzling bewildering, delightful crook in the annals of crime That's what Herman Carruthers, the editor of the Morning News-Argus, had called the Grey Seal over his after-dinner coffee at the St. James Club with rich man-about-town Jimmie Dale. He cracked safes, this Grey Seal. He wore a mask. And although he left his mark at each job -- he never actually took any loot. What Carruthers could not have known was the handsome man he was talking to was the Grey Seal. Nor that Jimmy Dale, blackmailed by a mysterious woman who knew his secrets, was about to start a war on the men who ran the underground of New York City . . . The Crime Club Here is the first volume of the exciting stories of the pulp hero Father of all Masked Crimefighters from the Shadow to Batman to the Lone Ranger -- Jimmy Dale