The Shadow - 266 - Young Men of Death by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1943-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

Margo’s laughter was like silver bells.

“I guess it will have to be ‘The Lady Says Yes,’” she said. “Shall we, Lamont?”

“Sounds pleasant.”

“Then we had better get started,” Jimmy said.

On the sidewalk outside, he whistled for a cab. He was in high spirits, apparently, but Cranston noticed that the morose look that had clouded his eyes

earlier in the cocktail lounge had returned.

Cranston divined the cause for that frown, but he ignored it for a moment.

Turning carelessly on the sidewalk, he allowed his gaze to drift toward the front windows of Marcus Bellinger’s home. The shades in the lighted gun room were still lifted. No one was visible there.

But there was a slight movement at a draped window to the left of the gun room. A face was peering cautiously, to make sure that all three of the recent visitors to the house were getting into the taxicab, to leave together.

The Shadow caught a lightning glimpse of the sharp profile of Marcus Bellinger!

He didn’t betray his knowledge that he had noted anything. He stepped into

the taxicab with Jimmy Bellinger and Margo. He waited until the cab had turned into Fifth Avenue before he spoke.

There was an amused expression on his lips. He said jokingly, “You look a little glum, Jimmy. Did you know that I have the gift of second sight?”

Margo laughed. Jimmy didn’t.

“A fortune-teller, eh? Do you want me to cross your palm with silver?”

“Better than that,” Cranston chuckled. “I’m going to make a bet that I think will win me twenty dollars.”

“What’s the bet?”

“I can tell you exactly why you are glum. I can also tell you how to cure it. Twenty dollars if I’m right?”

“Go ahead.”

“The reason you are glum,” Cranston said, “is because you had hoped to spend the evening alone with Margo. Now you find an annoying personage named Lamont Cranston present to turn a pleasant twosome into an annoying threesome.

Correct?”

“Correct,” Jimmy grinned.

“Now for the cure! It happens that I have an appointment elsewhere.

Consequently, I’ve got to leave you and Margo at the next corner. Are you cured?”

“And how!” Jimmy said. He drew out his wallet, handed Cranston a twenty-dollar bill. “You’re a soothsayer and a gentleman! I never lost a bet more cheerfully in my life!”

The taxi halted. Cranston got out, tipped his hat, watched Margo and Jimmy

speed away.

AS soon as they were out of sight, Cranston began to walk slowly along the

sidewalk. Soon another cab approached. Cranston got in when the driver hailed him.

The driver of the cab was a hacker named Moe Shrevnitz. He enjoyed the reputation of being one of the smartest taxi drivers in Manhattan. But he had a

far more useful purpose in driving that cab.

Moe Shrevnitz was an agent of The Shadow!

In Moe’s cab, Lamont Cranston ceased to exist. When the cab stopped presently in the late afternoon dusk, The Shadow emerged.

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