Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 298 - The Stars Promise Death 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

CHAPTER XII

AFTER giving his own name in response to Colgan’s introduction, Isaac Twambley cackled nervously as the big car shimmied its way across the bridge. Immediately the colonel reassured him.

“The bridge is safe enough,” he declared. “My mishap came about because I inadvertently disobeyed instructions not to cross. There’s no cause for alarm now, none at all.”

The Shadow knew there wasn’t, even if it had been his habit to feel alarm. While the car was testing the bridge, he was doing the same with Twambley’s guise and both were proving solid enough for future use.

At the far side of the bridge they met the car that had used the horn so noisily. It was a light truck that evidently hauled supplies to and from the point. Jerry paused to hold a brief argument with the truck driver, asking him why he had to be so impatient, and the trucker told Jerry that if he’d been waiting a couple of hours, he’d have done the same.

Of course they just didn’t say it in those words, but that was the gist of it. Old Twambley seemed quite unperturbed by his chauffeur’s exchange of profanities with the trucker. He was more interested in why Colgan had needed a car to take him over to the Point.

There were a couple of small rowboats hitched to the shore on this side of the bridge and there were people about who could have rowed them. A car wasn’t necessary to go anywhere on the Point because it wasn’t more than a dozen acres in size and its only buildings were within a stone’s throw of the bridge.

One building was an oversized cottage that served as an undersized hotel, which was pretty well deserted, considering the lack of lights in its windows. Around it were tourist cabins, while off to the flank, Twambley saw a large, rambling structure that bore a smaller but equally rambling sign, with the legend:

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