Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 046 by Maxwel l Grant

Author:Maxwel,l Grant
Language: eng
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Strange crime was brewing to-night; Tex and Rabbit, presumed enemies, were to be separate participants in a common cause. The laugh of The Shadow, soft within the coupe, came as an unheard challenge to the machinations of these evil crooks.

The Shadow, too, had planned as he had listened in the darkness. The Shadow was on his way to counter crime.

CHAPTER XII. TRAILS DIVERGE

APPROXIMATELY a half hour after his departure from the Hotel Spartan, Tex Lowner appeared upon Park Avenue. The gang leader had discharged his cab at the corner of a side street. He began to stroll along the brightly lighted boulevard that represented Manhattan's wealthy residential district.

Tex, well dressed in a gray suit and boasting a large, expensive soft hat that was in keeping with his nickname, seemed quite at home upon this thoroughfare. His face, when observed closely, marked him as a ruffian; otherwise, Tex appeared quite in keeping with these surroundings.

The gang leader relished the change from the underworld. Although he had chosen the bad lands for his habitat, he was accustomed to other districts also. He eyed the buildings that he passed. He seemed to find them familiar. He slowed his pace as he came to a doorway that was level with the street.

An unobtrusive sign in the window marked this as the place which Tex had come to visit. The sign bore the name:

WESLEY HARLOW, M. D.

In careless fashion, Tex turned the knob of the door that led from the street. The door opened. Tex stepped into a hallway. There was a door at the left. It also bore Harlow's name. Tex opened it and

entered a well furnished waiting room. He caught the sound of a buzzer from an inner room.

Tex smiled as he sat down in a comfortable chair. He had been in this suite of rooms before. There were three altogether; the waiting room, the office, and a small laboratory beyond. All lay alongside the hall. It was probable that Harlow was in one of the inner rooms. So Tex conjectured, while he waited.

Tex had entered here quite boldly. He had paid no attention to matters outside. Hence he had failed to see a man who was loitering across the street— a stocky individual who had been watching the entrance to Doctor Harlow's office.

THE watcher was Detective Joe Cardona. The sleuth, too far away to see Tex's face closely, had, none the less, decided that this visitor could better be observed at close range. Hence, while Tex Lowner sat in Harlow's waiting room, Joe Cardona walked rapidly along Park Avenue, crossed the street at a corner, and doubled back on the same side as Harlow's office.

Cardona, the observer, was, in turn, observed. The detective, when he moved from his position in the opposite doorway, did not realize that a new pair of eyes had spotted him. A tall figure, blending with the darkened front of buildings as it came along the street, paused suddenly to take notice of Cardona's action.

While the detective was

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