The Shadow - 138 - Teeth of the Dragon by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1937-11-21T23:00:00+00:00

Ming Dwan saw. She acted as The Shadow expected. The girl made a quick step backward, raised her left sleeve to her eyes and jabbed her gun in The Shadow’s direction. One second later, she was tugging the revolver trigger, stabbing blind shots toward the wall.

The Shadow was no longer there.

With Ming Dwan’s fire came a shuddering, outlandish laugh, that quivered from every wall. The Shadow had wheeled to the center of the corridor. He took a long lope, at an angle to the right, past Ming Dwan.

Blinking at sight of nothingness, the girl spun about.

She threw her back against the wall on her right, as she saw The Shadow blend with the void across the corridor. The guns of the Jeho Fan were blasting, too late to halt The Shadow’s surprise dive into the right-angle passage. Only Ming Dwan was in position to deliver direct fire after The Shadow. The girl emptied her revolver into the darkness.

Surging forward, the others of the Jeho Fan had reached Ming Dwan, when they heard The Shadow’s laugh resound from darkness. The redoubtable Ying Ko had turned a corner in his new passage, away from Ming Dwan’s fire.

The Tao clicked off the spotlight. Electric torches gleamed instead, from the fists of the Chinese who formed the vengeful council of the Jeho Fan. Armed pursuers sprang into the side passage.

Ming Dwan, hastily reloading her revolver in the darkness, was joined by the Tao. They, too, took up pursuit.

THE chase led through a maze of passages, which were puzzling even to the members of the Jeho Fan.

Only the Tao’s constant shouts directed them. At intervals, pursuers sighted The Shadow and fired useless shots. Ying Ko was elusive in this labyrinth.

At one turn, The Shadow came face to face with a foeman. The fellow shouted as he aimed; The Shadow was upon him before he could fire. A few seconds later, the Chinaman lay slugged by his own gun.

The Shadow gained a flashlight with the weapon. Pausing only to fire at pursuers who poked their faces from a corner, The Shadow was off again.

He came to a door where a huge guard stood on duty. This underground watcher had a revolver; he aimed it for The Shadow’s light. The Shadow beat him to the shot. Above the guard’s slumped body, he unbolted the door and took a stairway to a higher level, just as pursuers began to fire from the rear.

New passages brought The Shadow to a big brass door with ornamental facing. The Shadow could find no catch to open it. He rapped a summons on the door with his gun handle, thinking that the signal would be heard by some one on the other side.

It was; but the guard was foxy.

The floor moved beneath The Shadow’s feet. Only his quick clutch of the door saved him, as a trap dropped. The revolver went through the hole; The Shadow needed both hands to claw the facing of the door.

As his toes dug in, he heard the gun splash, far below.

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