The Shadow 176 City of Shadows by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1939-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

“For what? To keep the fire from spreading there? Not a chance! The Albot Building is fireproof. Anyway, you couldn’t have seen The Shadow, because -“

Elk was staring upward as he spoke. He had been about to add that The Shadow was at the bottom of the Hilltown quarry. Something he saw told Elk that

he was wrong. In the midst of his speech, he saw The Shadow for him self!

From this angle, Elk had a chance view toward the roof edge of the twelve-story Albot Building. The sky was lighted by the hotel fire, and Elk spied a shape against it. The Shadow had come up through a trapdoor and was actually on the Albot Building roof. Why had he chosen to go atop the steel structure that Middledale classed as a “skyscraper,” was something that Elk couldn’t guess.

He had seen The Shadow; that was enough.

“Come along!” snarled Elk. “We’ll get the guy this time! He’s headed off across the roof, but there’s no place he can go, unless he wants to take a jump

down into the fire. He can’t try any of that black-out stuff when we find him this time!”

A trio of thugs with him, Elk reached the door on the secluded side of the

Albot Building. Inside, they came upon a row of deserted elevators. The indicator above one door told that the car was on the top floor. Obviously, The

Shadow had used it to get to the roof.

Prying the next door open in no time, Elk and his companions speedily drove the elevator to the top of the shaft. They saw the short stairs that The Shadow had used. Taking the same route, they emerged on the roof and looked for

The Shadow.

At first, their quest seemed blank, although the whole flat area of the roof was visible. Knowing the direction that The Shadow had taken, Elk beckoned

his companions along. They headed toward a glow that came four stories upward, from the flaming hotel next door.

Elk pointed to the only possible places of concealment - the three legs of

the big water tank that stood like a monstrous spider atop the Albot Building.

Two of those legs were toward the center of the roof, the third at the far

edge. They were stout posts of slanted steel, ample enough to half conceal a human figure. The Shadow was not near the closer struts; of that, Elk was sure.

Then, very suddenly, Elk saw where The Shadow actually was.

A lurid waver of flame threw revealing flickers against the far post. The Shadow was coming from that spot as though the heat from the roof edge impelled

him. He was crouched when Elk first spied him, but he was straightening as he came toward the center of the roof with a long, running stride.

He saw the approaching crooks as he sped between the closer posts. Their guns were drawn, but The Shadow had no weapons in his hands. Hoarsing a command

to shoot, Elk expected to see The Shadow dodge away. Instead, he took a tremendous, wide-armed lunge straight toward the massed crooks.

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