Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 213 - Forgotten Gold by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Detective, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Adventure, Thriller
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

FEINTING toward the crooks, The Shadow suddenly changed tactics. Tossing one gun aside, he hooked Herkimer with his arm and whirled him away from danger. Shooting as he went, The Shadow let Herkimer sprawl to a corner and kept going in the opposite direction, deep into the room.

The crooks didn’t wait; they fled out through the doorway to the hall. One staggered, clipped by a bullet that The Shadow delivered, but managed to keep on.

Only Case showed daring. Out in the hall, he paused as his men clattered on toward the stairs. Then, thrusting his gun back through the door, Case tried to get The Shadow with a last shot, the only one remaining in his gun.

Case saw The Shadow, but aimed too hastily. His finger faltered, his aim swerved, as he finally tugged.

In that momentary interval there was a high-pitched shout, and a figure leaped wildly from the corner. It was Herkimer, back in again, and he reached the path of aim as Case fired.

Taking the bullet, Herkimer staggered, and Case made a mad dash for the stairs. He was lucky again for The Shadow’s own aim was halted by the eccentric zigzag staggers of Herkimer, who was between him and the door.

When The Shadow finally reached the hall, Case was gone. Looking back, the cloaked fighter saw Professor Herkimer gasping on the floor. Of two choices - pursuit of crooks or first aid to the chance victim - The Shadow preferred the latter.

As be stooped above the wounded professor, The Shadow could hear the clatter of fleeing mobsters outside the house. The last that they heard was a vengeful laugh that spurred them on to flight. That tone boded future doom for Case Barbel and his tribe. The laugh of The Shadow!

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