The Shadow - 223 - Crime Under Cover by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1941-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

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means. The waiter was simply saying that he would remember it.”

Jerry shoved the notebook in his pocket. He remembered, only too well, that the waiter had brought an order of broccoli. What Jerry had considered to be his best bet had turned out to be a dud.

REALIZING that he had heard the last of Jerry Croft’s notations on the Esperanto conversation, Harry switched the discussion to another topic.

“Tell me about Professor Ardlan,” he suggested. “Does he still think that he can get his invention working?”

“Absolutely!” returned Jerry. “He’s been working on it all afternoon.

He’s

going to give it a private test this evening.”

“What do you think made it go wrong?”

“Someone must have tampered with it. And yet - well, Crumpf and the pair with him didn’t get at it.”

“Then who could have?”

Jerry caught a point to the question, and met it very directly.

“I could have,” he admitted. “Only I didn’t.”

“No one else could have?” queried Harry. “Not even Trennick?”

“Not even Trennick.” Jerry paused suddenly and snapped his fingers.

“Wait,

though! Trennick could have! The professor left him in charge of the lab, last night, while it still was open. Marquette mentioned it.”

“But he told him to close the strong door.” Harry was repeating facts given him by The Shadow. “Or did he?”

“He did,” assured Jerry. “But Trennick was just coming up when Marquette and I came back from the chase.”

Harry was elated. This was the very point that The Shadow had wanted him to check. Analyzing the invention’s failure, The Shadow had considered the inside possibilities and had divided them between Jerry and Trennick. Trusting Jerry, he had naturally doubted Trennick.

“You’re sure that the professor is safe at present?” queried Harry. “That Trennick, if working with Malga, will not be able to harm him?”

“How can he?” returned Jerry. “Marquette is there, down in the lab with the professor. Ardlan expected Marquette to join him. Since the invention failed, Ardlan is less secretive about it.”

“Then you could introduce me to the professor?”

“Of course. We can go to the house as soon as we finish dinner. Ardlan will be glad to receive any friend of mine.”

Harry decided to telephone The Shadow, to tell him how well he had progressed. Learning Jerry’s story, and arranging an introduction to the professor, had been the two things which The Shadow had told Harry to accomplish, if possible.

SEATED in the reception room at Congressman Anderton’s apartment, Lamont Cranston reached for the telephone when Raymond, the secretary, handed it to him. He heard Harry’s report, and approved it in his quiet tone, without letting Raymond catch enough of the conversation to know what it was about.

Finished with the call, and having told Harry to get over to Ardlan’s as soon as convenient - which Harry said would be very shortly - The Shadow turned

toward Raymond, made a Cranston gesture in the direction of Anderton’s study, and queried:

“How long will Professor Ardlan be with Congressman Anderton?”

“I really don’t know,” replied the secretary. “You see, when Mr. Bradwell came -“

“Bradwell is in

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