Maxwell Grant - The Shadow 298 by The Stars Promise

Author:The Stars Promise
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-11-15T00:46:18+00:00

Confident that Twambley - if still awake - had observed how the land narrowed, Jerry ventured more data.

"We're almost to the Point," he explained. "It isn't exactly a point, because there's sort of a creek called the Narrows that cuts it off. Too shallow, though, for boats, the Narrows. They have to go around the Point to get to the Channel."

For the first time, Twambley spoke, just when Jerry had fully decided he was asleep; hence the two-timing cabby was more or less jolted.

"All very interesting," remarked Twambley, crisply, "and how, may I ask, do we go across the Narrows that you mention?"

"Why, there's a bridge there," returned Jerry. "At least there should be a bridge" - he hesitated, as though worried that he was talking too much. "Well, here it is, the bridge, you can see it for yourself."

As the automobile stopped, Twambley saw the bridge or what there was of it. The structure had evidently suffered from the hurricane of the year before, but that didn't fully account for its present condition. Apparently the bridge had been repaired; now it was going to pieces again, because a group of workmen were busy fixing it.

"Guess we can't get across," apologized Jerry. "Maybe I should have remembered that they were putting in the new planking. Still, it ought to have been done by now."

Why it wasn't done was explained by sight of an old coupe that had apparently started across the planking that Jerry mentioned. The result was that the woodwork had caved and the car was half sunk in the debris. A brawny foreman came up to the big car to make sure Jerry didn't make the same mistake.

"It's going to take us half the night to haul that buggy out," the foreman grouched. "But if you don't make the same mistake, and just sit tight, we'll have a temporary job ready for you. Ought to be ready now" -

the man increased his grumble - "except for those two clucks who don't know how to set planks in a line!"

By "clucks" the foreman meant two workers in overalls who were toiling in the light of strong lanterns and from the window of his car, The Shadow recognized them. They were the pair of riders who had accompanied Jerry when he drove the blue Green Cab!

Jerry didn't seem to notice his former pals, nor blow his horn to make them hurry up. But the discovery of these two men who fitted into The Shadow's pattern of crime analysis, was only a prelude to the next find.

It happened just after a raucous horn began to squawk impatiently from the other side of the Narrows, the horn incidentally serving as a tonic to the slow men who were probably better in a brawl than at building a bridge. They solved the riddle of the planks and set them straight so rapidly that the foreman almost forgot something.

He remembered it as Jerry was nosing the big car forward.

"Hey, wait!" called the foreman. "Here's the gent who bogged his car through the bridge.

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