Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 005 by Maxwel l Grant

Author:Maxwel,l Grant
Language: eng
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CHAPTER XV. THE SHADOW HEARS

A NEW tenant moved into the Escadrille Apartments the morning after Schultz and Spirak had been killed. He was an advertising man from Boston, named Howard Blake.

Like all new tenants, he paid a large rental for his small furnished apartment. There were no cut prices at the Escadrille. Nick Savoli believed that the place should be kept exclusive.

The name of every new tenant was turned over to Mike Borrango, who checked up on the applicant.

Borrango learned that Howard Blake was a wealthy man who intended to expand his business by opening an office in the Middle West.

Blake had chosen an apartment on the third floor. He was immediately listed by the men on duty downstairs.

None of those who lived in the apartment house realized the surveillance that existed. In fact, none of them knew that Nick Savoli lived there regularly.

It was understood that he owned the apartment house, and that he had the entire fourth floor; but he never appeared openly. He was generally supposed to be somewhere else.

Late in the afternoon of the second day following the killing of Schultz and Spirak, an unexpected visitor arrived at the Escadrille. This man was recognized immediately by the elevator operator, and the fellow whistled to himself, when he realized the consequences that might result from this visit.

For the man who entered the lobby was none other than Mike Larrigan, himself. There was no mistaking him. A huge, tall Irishman, whose freckled face bore a hardened, determined expression, and whose reddish hair showed beneath the slouch hat that he wore. That was Mike Larrigan.

Where he appeared, trouble brewed. Yet it was the first time that Larrigan had ever called upon Nick Savoli in the Escadrille Apartments. Intrepid though he was, the big Irishman had never dared to invade the camp of his avowed enemy.

But to-day it was different. Larrigan had been approached several times by Mike Borrango, who had met him as an emissary of peace. He had received telephone calls from Borrango. He had been assured that Savoli desired friendship.

Even after the raid that Hymie Schultz and Four-gun Spirak had made upon Marmosa's gambling place, Borrango had called Larrigan and had repeated promises of good things for all if peace should be arranged.

In fact, the enforcer had gone so far as to offer his services in Larrigan's behalf if the Irishman should

desire it.

"If there's anything that isn't just right," Borrango had said, "let me know about it. Come and see me. I'm your friend. Nick is your friend."

MIKE LARRIGAN was not subtle. Yet he could recognize those who were. There was something about Borrango's invitation that had placed him on the defensive.

He had an idea that a man could go into Savoli's apartment and not come out. He likened the entrance of the Escadrille to a one-way street that had no ending.

He had expected some sudden attack from the Savoli gangsters. Now it had come. Mike Larrigan visualized purpose behind the murders of his two lieutenants, Schultz and Spirak.

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