Shadow 047 - The Black Falcon 02-01-34, 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 Garman Apartments were in full possession of Weston’s forces. Policemen and detectives were everywhere. The commissioner and Detective Joe Cardona were with Rowland Ransdale and his servant, Hazzlett.

Ransdale, a keen-faced man of medium height, was giving the details of the raid. Hazzlett, taller and more powerful than his employer, was standing by with a grim expression on his firm, hard-visaged face.

“This is Terry Rukes,” announced Cardona, pointing out the dead gang leader. “Now we know who was working for The Black Falcon.”

Commissioner Weston surveyed the other mobsters. He turned to Rowland Ransdale.

“These men were the only ones who entered?” he questioned.

“Yes,” assured the mine owner. “Fortunately, Hazzlett and I are good shots. We handle revolvers well out West. But there was another - some one who gave a whistle signal -“

“Where from?” queried Weston eagerly.

“I don’t know,” admitted Ransdale. “It came just before the attack. I heard it while I was listening at the window to the fire tower. I couldn’t trace it from -“

“I think it was from the corridor,” broke in Hazzlett. “I heard it, too - and I was waiting here in the living room.”

“That explains it!” asserted Weston, in a disappointed tone. “The Black Falcon reversed his game tonight. He must have sent his mobsters in first. He was wise enough to hurry away when he heard the firing.”

“He may have had time to get through the cordon,” added Joe Cardona. “Our men were all ready, though, when the shots were fired -“

A gray-haired man appeared at that moment. Cardona stopped speaking as he recognized Inspector Timothy Klein entering from the corridor. With the inspector was a uniformed policeman.

“Officer Dellin,” announced Klein. “He has a report to make on some one who escaped.”

“Bumped into me down below,” declared the policeman, sheepishly. “I was comin’ through a little alley - just wide enough for one man. Answerin’ a whistle, commissioner. This fellow tackles me in the dark an’ throws me head foremost. Out at the far end of the alley - he got to the street before I could follow him.”

“Another officer caught a glimpse of the man,” added Klein. “He had come from the fire tower. They are searching for him now, but apparently he has made a get-away.”

“The Black Falcon,” declared Joe Cardona.

Commissioner Weston nodded.

“He has eluded us again,” declared the official. “This time, however, we have thwarted him. His mobsmen are dead. He cannot afford to defy the law again. My congratulations, Mr. Ransdale, to you and your man Hazzlett, for the work that you have done tonight.”

Joe Cardona was grim. Though he did not voice his thoughts, the detective could not agree with the commissioner. To Cardona, the escape of The Black Falcon was new proof of the master crook’s amazing ability.

The elusiveness with which The Black Falcon had passed through the police cordon; the quick ability which he had shown in dealing with Officer Dellin - these were things of which Cardona believed only The Shadow could be capable.

Greater would have

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