Kenneth Robeson - The Avenger 06 by The Blood Ring

Author:The Blood Ring
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-20T15:01:17+00:00

He turned to them, an awesome figure, a gray steel bar of a man.

“Nellie, get all the information you can concerning Doctor Cornelius Marlowe. Rosabel, check on the movements in the Caine household?father’s and son’s. Josh, you will spend the rest of the night in the Egyptian room at the museum, watching. Mac, dig up everything possible on Senator Blessing.”

Benson went out to the big car with the giant Smitty. They went to the scene of the cop’s defeat at hands from the tomb.

The last call from headquarters had contained something more important than a mere tale of a cop’s defeat. There had been murder, too. That was what The Avenger was coming to investigate.

Senator Blessing’s groundsman lay in the arbor near the garage, at the rear of the rented house. A little after the cop had recovered and called for help, he and another patrolman had found the corpse.

A man of early middle age, foreign-looking, in worn but clean corduroy, he had met his death precisely as Bill Casey had met his in the museum.

There was a slim, neat incision in the man’s back, where a knife blade had reached his heart. And in addition the throat had been deeply, hideously cut.

Benson stared long at the throat wound.

Dead flesh has not the resilience of living substance. When it is pressed out of shape it stays that way. Some of this dead flesh, at the very edge of the deep throat wound, had been so pressed.

Something oval and small, like a copper penny stretched sideways, had been pressed there for a moment and pressed hard. But The Avenger knew it wasn’t a distorted penny. He knew precisely what the small oval was that had made the mark.

The cornelian seal of the Ring of Power. The ghastly thing had had its powers renewed in the life blood of Senator Blessing’s gardener.

Had the Senator, with a name revered from coast to coast for honesty and independence, anything to do with this repulsive act? The Avenger’s dead face and icy eyes gave no hint of his thoughts on the subject.

He went back to his temporary headquarters. Even this inhuman personage needed sleep occasionally. Also, in this case, The Avenger needed time for his aides to correlate their reports and bring them in.

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