The Night of the Shadow by Maxwell Grant & Walter Gibson

Author:Maxwell Grant & Walter Gibson [Grant, Maxwell & Gibson, Walter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Espionage, Fiction, Thrillers
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1966-02-20T08:00:00+00:00

Margo and Harry Vincent entered the trees at two separate points. Their pursuers paused momentarily, and then split up into groups of four each to follow each of the agents. Soon all of them had faded into the thick forest of trees, leaving the highway silent with its deserted truck, cars and the wrecked car down the slope. Birds flew high, and there were the cries of unseen animals.

Margo plunged steadily ahead through the dense undergrowth. She kept her eyes on the distant sun that could be seen from time to time through the high trees. She moved in a careful wide circle, eventually intending to work her way back to the road. But first there were her pursuers to deal with. She could hear them crashing through the underbrush behind her. They were making no attempt to move silently. Margo smiled. They were too sure of themselves and their ability to catch her. She knew that there were four of them, and she began her plans to escape them.

From the sounds behind her she knew that they were attempting to encircle and cut her off. Two seemed still directly behind her, one moving faster on her right, the fourth coming up on her left. She began to make a trail anyone could follow. After fifty yards of this, she stopped and opened her attaché case. She removed two small canisters no bigger than a spool of thread each, and dug tiny holes in the trail. She buried both canisters very close to the surface, closed her attaché case, moved ahead for another ten yards, then crouched low in the brush and waited. She could hear the two men on the right and left moving noisily to cut her off. She opened her attaché case again and took out a small gas mask. She placed it over her face and waited. She did not have to wait long.

Two men came into sight following her trail eagerly. Each man was armed with a submachine gun. Their eyes were on the ground, following the clear trail. Margo suddenly jumped up, noisily, and pretended to be panicstricken. She turned to run away. The two men raised their guns and ran after her. In their haste they plunged along the trail. There were two faint pops. Clouds of gas rose from the tiny canisters up into their faces. The two men opened their mouths to scream, made half-turns to evade the gas--and collapsed in heaps on the trail. Margo turned and ran back through the thick clouds of gas, her gas mask on. She did not pause to check the two fallen men, the gas was instantly deadly. Both men had died without time for a single scream.

Margo raced back in the other direction. Behind her the other two who had been circling had heard the sounds of their partners running, and now closed in to close their trap. When they did they would find their dead companions. Margo crashed on until she heard the two men stop.

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