The Shadow - 095 - Death Rides the Skyway by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-15T07:32:01+00:00

Shouts from the touring car as it swung in from the highway. A clatter, like that of a riveting machine, accompanied by rapid jabs of flame, aimed too late for the two who were hurtling toward the embankment. Cardona, carried away by The Shadow's swift sweep, realized that he had been jerked from the path of a machine gun.

Coming out from the direction of the city, the gunners in the cover-up car had pointed their "typewriter" at a forward angle, intending to blaze away as they approached. The Shadow's quick endeavor had not only beaten the opening clatter of the machine gun; it had carried Cardona away from the path of death. Snarling gunners swung their weapons, hoping to loose a deluge of bullets back toward the embankment which they had passed. Their effort was too late.

Already, their would-be victims had reached the edge. Flinging headlong, The Shadow and Joe Cardona were rolling to the mushy soil below the embankment. The machine gun clattered a useless rat-tat-tat; its bullets, aimed for the embankment, were sizzling high. Some of the shots struck the gravelly edge and ricocheted; those bullets, too, went over the heads of The Shadow and Cardona. The two had rolled apart; but both were lying low in darkness. A growl came from the leader of those aboard the touring car. The voice was that of Soup Ramsted, in the front seat beside the driver. The man at the wheel responded; he had applied the brakes to aid the machine gunners; now he released them and gave the car the gas.

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