Shadow 066 - Doom On The Hill 11-15-34, The by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street and Smith
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE train was a heavy one. The wheels of the big Mogul spun when the locomotive started forward after the brief stop. Zach Hoyler remained on the platform, watching the long line of black milk cars move slowly by. As the rear of the train was nearing, a figure sprang outward from between two cars. Perry Nubin waved a good-bye to the station agent.

Hoyler watched the train curve around the nearby bend, its speed still low. He walked back into the station, to close up for the night. He did not see two events which took place outside.

The first concerned Perry Nubin. It was something that Hoyler could not possibly have observed, because of the intervening bend. Three hundred yards up the track, the railroad dick dropped from his perch and landed sprawling beside the right of way. He crouched there until the train had passed; then lingered, planning to return toward the station after the agent had gone.

The second occurrence was one that Hoyler might have witnessed had he been outside the station. From the darkness beside the waiting-room window, a spectral figure moved across the platform. For a few brief moments, lights showed the vague outline of The Shadow. Then the phantom shape merged with the darkness. The Shadow had headed along the tracks in the direction from which the Dairy Express had come.

Shortly afterward, the station was blotted out by darkness. Zach Hoyler had started for town in his old roadster. No one was near the station. Perry Nubin had approached; then made a short cut over toward the road. The Shadow was far along the track.

Later, a light glimmered in the old shack halfway to the grade crossing. The Shadow had entered the little building. His keen eyes were studying odd scraps of newspaper and empty bottles. Some of these objects had been moved. Someone had visited the shack.

A soft laugh crept from The Shadow’s lips. The little light went out. The Shadow moved away from the shack. His course led him back to the station. Finding that all was silent there, The Shadow began a stealthy course in the direction of the Breck house.

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