Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 116 by Maxwel l Grant

Author:Maxwel,l Grant
Language: eng
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CHAPTER XI

DEATH'S TRIANGLE

NOBBY'S quick thrust was made with definite purpose. He wanted to drill The Shadow, point-blank, at the closest possible range. Nobby had heard much talk of this formidable foeman; how The Shadow had seemingly dodged bullets that came in his direction. Nobby did not intend to give The Shadow a chance.

He was coming onward when The Shadow wheeled, ready to cut loose with his gun. It seemed impossible for The Shadow to escape the finish that Nobby had designed for him. The cloaked fighter could neither dodge nor fire before Nobby

came upon him. Yet; in one split-second, The Shadow found a way to meet the thrust.

While he wheeled, he drove. Lashing from the pillar, he came like a living

thunderbolt straight for Nobby's gun. Before the crook could halt his own swift

impetus, The Shadow met him. A slashing upward stroke of an automatic found Nobby's gun wrist; the jolt paralyzed the crook's trigger finger at the very instant when it tried to tug.

The swift blow almost disarmed Nobby. At that moment, The Shadow had rendered his enemy helpless. The fact that Nobby remained in the fray was due to another move The Shadow made. Not sure that his clipping blow would do the damage that it did, The Shadow twisted sidewise as he made the stroke, falling away in case Nobby managed to fire.

The side shift gave Nobby a lucky opportunity. Still plunging forward, Nobby made a wild grab for The Shadow's gun arm and nabbed it. Snarling as he grappled, Nobby tried to follow up his good fortune. Regaining his grip on his

revolver, he slashed a hard blow for The Shadow's head.

A free hand shot upward, stopped Nobby's stroke with the action of a trip hammer. Each fighter had an even grip but The Shadow had lost ground. He was reeling backward, off balance. Fighting to regain his footing, he was driven through the archway straight for the rear of the penthouse roof.

THEY were past the pillars when The Shadow rallied. Clutching Nobby in a fighting grip, he twisted the crook about, until Nobby's back was toward the rear of the roof. The move was quick strategy on The Shadow's part. Across Nobby's shoulder he could see the other roof, where a crouching figure had paused at the first sounds of the fray.

It was plain that the master crook - he who called himself Intimidation, Incorporated - had recognized both fighters.

The intimidator knew that The Shadow had been lying in wait for him. He must have pictured how Nobby had luckily managed to learn that The Shadow had come to the neighborhood of Judge Noy's penthouse; how Nobby had come up through the office building, leaped the gap, and kept his own watch for The Shadow.

His ladder withdrawn, the supercrook produced a revolver and held it leveled as he crouched. However The Shadow fared with Nobby Kilgan, the man on the far roof was ready to become master of the fray. He was waiting until one fighter downed the other; then he could promptly dispose of the victor.

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