The Shadow 079 Murder Every Hour by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1935-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

“Drink!” was the whispered order.

Looney trembled. Then he gripped the glass with both hands. The gloved fist withdrew. With an effort, Looney gulped down the liquid. He sank back in the chair.

Prompt drowsiness seized the hunched pickpocket. Looney’s fingers relaxed; the glass fell to the floor.

Looney slumped under the effect of the quick-acting opiate.

The blue light clicked out. A laugh chilled the darkness.

TEN minutes later, Moe Shrevnitz heard the rear door of his cab come open. Looking about, the taxi driver saw Looney’s limp figure plop into the back seat. The door closed. Moe heard a whispered order.

He understood.

Moe was to drive to the borders of the badlands; there to leave Looney, still doped, beside the entrance to an empty house in an obscure alleyway. The Shadow’s parting instruction remained in Moe’s cars as he drove the cab away.

“Fifteen minutes.”

That meant that Looney would be blotto for a little longer than a quarter hour. The Shadow was letting the pitiful fellow go; he wanted Looney to wake up in an isolated spot well distant from the vicinity of the sanctum.

A grim laugh sounded in the darkened street from which Moe’s cab had pulled. The Shadow had countered crime tonight; but he had gained no clue to the identity of the master crook who had sponsored Togo Mallock’s efforts.

The Shadow, however, had gained proof conclusive of Donald Powlden’s innocence. The crime worker who had planted evidence against the arrested inventor was still anxious to cover his own trail.

Anxiety on the part of an evil rogue always pleased The Shadow. That factor pointed to new encounters in the future. The Shadow would be ready.

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