Maxwell Grant - The Shadow 209 by Crime Over Miami

Author:Crime Over Miami [Miami, Crime Over]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-11-14T23:20:16+00:00

CHAPTER XI. DOUBLE DOUBLE

SOMETHING seemed wrong in the royal suite. It made June Marwyn wonder if she had come too soon. Her knock had not been answered; instead, the door had yielded under her light taps. She was stepping into the outer room, only to find it empty and rather gloomy.

All was so still that June felt that she had entered a huge mausoleum. Unwilling to disturb the silence, she waited, hoping that someone would come to greet her.

Trying to analyze her dread, she remembered an odd impression that had gripped her in the hallway. As June recalled it, things had begun when she stepped from the elevator.

The corridor itself was gloomy. Its blackness had actually seemed to move. Shuddering at her recollection, June stepped farther into the living room, gave an anxious look back over her shoulder.

Again a sense of the uncanny gripped her. She saw the half-opened doorway, but no glow beyond it.

Some ghostly thing, a mighty living blot, was encroaching on the suite, following close upon June’s own footsteps!

The girl gave a stifled cry, fearful that the menace would take on some horrible shape. Her gasp brought an answer, not from the door but from deeper in the suite itself. A raspy, low-pitched voice challenged her with the words:

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