The Shadow - 140 - Racket Town by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1937-11-30T23:00:00+00:00

Mart gestured with the garments that he held. He turned savagely toward the door of the jewelry store.

“We’ll go in there ourselves, Brace!”

“Shh! Hold it, Mart.”

Brace’s warning was timely. They had made too much noise. The watchman must have heard them and put in a call for police. A whistle shrilled from the front street. Mart legged for the parking lot, carrying the cloak and hat.

Brace wasn’t far behind him.

They could hear the pounding foot-beats of police, coming to the spot where Dingo’s body lay. But there was something else that caught Mart’s ears while he was on the run. It was a strange, sibilant laugh that came from some untraceable spot.

“Hear it, Mart?” panted Brace, as he overtook the big shot. “The Shadow!

He was around here, after all! He must have spotted Dingo and let him go through!”

Mart was shoving the starter of the coupe when Brace added:

“I’m going back after the guy. I’ve been waiting for this chance -“

“Not with those coppers,” snapped Mart. “You’ll get your chance when our own guys are around to cover. The stunt’s queered tonight; but that don’t matter. Forget what I said about you being yellow. You won’t have long to wait,

Brace. To-morrow -“

Mart didn’t add the details of what was due to-morrow. He was driving from

the parking lot, putting on speed to avoid police cars that wailed from that vicinity. But the snarled oaths that fumed from the big-shot’s lips were proof to Brace that Mart intended plenty.

Tonight, The Shadow had outguessed Dingo Swark, thereby staving off a thrust of crime. He had let Mart himself eliminate the thug assigned to the job.

To-morrow, The Shadow would have more to deal with. More, perhaps, than he

could handle.

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