Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 257 by Maxwel l Grant

Author:Maxwel,l Grant
Language: eng
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CHAPTER XII. CHASE OF DEATH

IF ever The Shadow had undertaken a blind chase, this was it. So far as he knew, Wight's valet, Henry, was the man who had come down the fire tower, rather than Wight himself. For Wight was already diving into the car and burying himself, ostrich fashion, when Perry began shooting at the fire-tower exit.

As for Perry, he might have been Henry. The Shadow could only identify him as a man with a bag, who also was armed with a gun. He saw the chauffeur reach the car, fling the bag in back, and turn to fire two more shots. Then, slamming the rear door, Perry leaped into the front, which was already open. He pulled that door shut and started to drive away.

Gun in hand, The Shadow was speeding out through the alley, his chase still blind. He had at least gained one purpose: to stop the car before it reached the corner. In all this web of vengeance for past crime, wreaked by Bert and Timothy upon men who certainly deserved it, The Shadow was following one impartial rule.

The Shadow wanted to crack the situation wide open at any time when the law would profit thereby. Just as he had attempted to stop Bert and Timothy when they made their getaway from Rayne's, it was The Shadow's duty to halt Wight's car. No one should have left Wight's apartment, nothing should have been taken from the place, while the police were engaged in protective service there.

To Bert and Timothy, The Shadow's surge was quite as much a mystery as the identity of the unknown being in black. Vaguely, they linked him with the affair at Rayne's; but, more definitely, they were concerned with matters of their own. They wanted to get away with the bag of loot that they had so neatly wrested from Wight. Together, Bert and Timothy ran for the same outlet that The Shadow had chosen.

By the time they were really started, Perry had pulled Wight's car away and The Shadow was leaving the alley. Though he hadn't seen Bert or Timothy, The Shadow was taking no chances on enemies behind him. The sideward whirl that he made from the alley's mouth had the appearance of a vanish into thin air.

What made it more remarkable was the fact that The Shadow was totally gone from view despite the blaze of light that suddenly flooded the rear street. The patrol car had swung around the corner, bucking the one-way traffic, which was fair enough, considering that its occupants were answering the sound of gunfire.

They didn't see The Shadow, for he turned his spin into a perfect fade to the shelter of a basement entry.

Instead, the police saw Bert and Timothy as the two popped from the hotel alley.

Bert began shooting immediately, and Timothy's gun joined in. Whether either, or both, were aiming for Wight's car as it scudded past the police patrol, was something for later discussion. The cops thought that the gun blasts were meant for them, and they spurted their car across the sidewalk.

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