Double Z by Maxwell Grant & Walter Gibson

Author:Maxwell Grant & Walter Gibson [Grant, Maxwell & Gibson, Walter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Espionage, Fiction, Thrillers
ISBN: 9780515037005
Amazon: 0515037001
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1932-06-15T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XII. THE HIDE-OUT

WHEN Clipper Tobin and Cliff Marsland left the Club DeLuxe, the toughened gangster who headed the two-man expedition led his companion to a taxi. They rode rapidly down the avenue and alighted at the corner of a side street. Here Clipper conducted Cliff along the street, away from the brilliant lights.

Hardly had they moved into obscurity before another man followed the same path. He stepped from a doorway near the corner and moved swiftly in pursuit. Only for a brief moment did his face show beneath a corner light. It was Sneaks Rubin, secret director of the crime that was about to transpire.

Neither Clipper nor Cliff knew any thing of his presence. Clipper was simply following a carefully laid-out plan, in which the time element had been taken into account. Cliff, in turn, was following Clipper's instructions.

As a precaution, Cliff, always wary, glanced behind him as he moved along. Clipper did not consider the action strange. It was to be expected. But Cliff saw nothing, for Sneaks Rubin knew where the other men were going, and kept well out of sight.

"We're goin' to cut in the back way," said Clipper in a low voice. "There's a fire tower that's easy to get into. Nobody sees us comin'– nobody sees us leavin'. This will be a soft get-away."

The course taken by Clipper led across another avenue; then through an alley in back of a garage. Clipper had discharged the cab sufficiently far from the apartment house where Arnold Bodine lived to ward off possible suspicion of the driver.

Now, ahead of the two men, showed the lighted windows of the building for which they were bound.

"You can't see Bodine's apartment from here," whispered Clipper in the darkness. "The garage runs right up against the apartment house. Bodine's apartment is one story above the top of the garage–on the fourth floor."

Cliff understood this as they turned a corner of the alley. The old garage building fronted on the next avenue. So did the apartment house. The garage had an L-shaped front, the projection being an extension which abutted against the lower stories of the apartment building.

The alley ran down to this, ending in a cul-de-sac. Clipper stopped at the beginning of the short blind alley. They had reached the entrance to the fire tower.

Clipper pointed almost straight upward, toward the front of the apartment. He designated lighted windows on the fourth floor.

"See?" came his whisper. "That's the place. Take it easy until we get into the fire tower. There ain't nobody around here, but we gotta play it safe. This is our way out–don't forget that!"

Cliff gazed into the black space that ended with the garage wall and realized that there could be no escape by that direction. The path which they had followed was their one means of leaving. He smiled grimly to himself. Clipper Tobin expected an easy escape. He did not know what he was about to encounter.

For Cliff was positive that by this time The Shadow had arrived.

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