Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 332 by Maxwel l Grant

Author:Maxwel,l Grant
Language: eng
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The Algerian almost ran out through the hallway that led to the side exit. Margo pursued him.

She bent and drew her small automatic from her stocking. Ahead, Du Neuf went through a curtain and vanished. Margo followed and found herself out in the alley that ran along the side of the cafe. It was a narrow alley littered with debris and corroded garbage cans. Cats scampered 68

for cover. The alley was dark, the only light coming from two windows high up in the next building, and from a street lamp at the alley mouth. The night had turned misty now, and in the alley Margo saw only hazy shadows. One of them moved toward the alley mouth. It was the shape of Jary Du Neuf. The Algerian seemed intent only upon getting away. Margo pursued the shadowy figure down the alley through the mist.

Suddenly there was firing ahead. Margo went to cover, her automatic ready. Jary Du Neuf had vanished. A man stood at the mouth of the alley. Margo recognized the man as one of Marcel Guyot's helpers. Then she saw Jary Du Neuf crouched in the cover of a break in the side wall of the alley. The helper of Guyot came quickly into the alley with his pistol out. He had seen Margo and was coming to her aid. The shots must have been fired by Du Neuf. Too late Margo realized that the agent coming to her aid did not see Jary Du Neuf. She shouted.

"Back! Get back! Take cover!"

Her shout, and Jary Du Neuf's shot, came at the same instant. The man had no chance. At the shout he started to go down, and Du Neuf's bullet slammed into him. The man was hurled back against the alley wall and lay still. The alley became silent. Margo, in the cover of the garbage can, searched for Du Neuf, but the man did not move again to reveal his position. He seemed to do nothing. Margo crept through the mist of the alley toward where she had seen Du Neuf last.

She held her automatic ready, cocked, the safety off. She moved carefully, silently, all the skill of her years of training with the Shadow effective now as she continued to stalk her man in the dark mist of the alley. A faint breeze seemed to stir the silence and mist. A breeze that blew the mist away for a moment, and Margo saw that Du Neuf was not where he had been. Still crouched low, she searched the alley with her eyes. She still saw nothing.

The faint breeze blew again.

Margo blinked, stared toward the far end of the alley where it opened into the dim Parisian street. The faint breeze had blown the mist and she thought she had seen figures. Men coming slowly and silently into the alley. And something else--Jary Du Neuf standing far up the alley and waiting for the men to join him. In the momentary clearing of the mist she saw them clearly now--three men in black and Jary Du Neuf standing with them.

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