The Shadow 323 The Magigals Mystery by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1948-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

flashlight.

The Shadow’s adversary whipped out a revolver in time to meet the sledging

automatic. The guns clanked and the pair wheeled apart, to drive in for another

clash. By then, the men The Shadow had first flattened were on their feet and grabbing him from in back. Twisting out of their clutch, The Shadow wheeled them into the path of the big man, who halted his gun swing just in time to avoid knocking out one of his companions.

From then on it was a whirling fray, in which The Shadow, though half-groggy, proved his prowess at dealing with men of crime. His twists were sudden, often in reverse, the sort that made it impossible to hold him. Never, though, did he wheel away. Always he came in for further combat, so rapidly that no one could bring a gun into play. Always, The Shadow was using one man as a shield against the others, generally disappearing from behind such a human

buffer to come in at an angle upon another fighter.

With it, The Shadow had an uncanny faculty for spotting a revolver’s glint. His reach was so long that he invariably could whack another weapon or the hand that held it with his own automatic. All during the brief, twisty fray, The Shadow was carrying his adversaries out into the open so they couldn’t box him up against the hedge.

The finish occurred at the center of the esplanade, not far from the Planetarium itself. There, one man managed a quick aim at The Shadow, but before he could pull his revolver trigger, The Shadow’s automatic came whipping

straight up to meet the fellow’s gun hand and carry clear up to his chin.

There was a howl as the revolver scaled from the man’s hand, a splash as he took a flying back dive into one of the zodiac pools. Coming full around, The Shadow grappled with another enemy whose revolver stabbed wildly twice as he and The Shadow climbed the ledge beside another pool. Twisting free, The Shadow tripped this fellow into the water, thus temporarily eliminating two foemen.

There were two others, one the big man. As The Shadow sprang for them, the

other fled for the hedge. Alone, the big man grappled madly with The Shadow.

Meanwhile the first pair were clambering from the pools, drenching the paving with their dripping clothes, as they, too, took to flight. Here was The Shadow’s chance to make a capture, the biggest man of the lot. But as The Shadow twisted to drive a solid stroke with his automatic, he slipped on the wet paving and lost his grip.

The big man dashed for the hedge and cleared it before The Shadow could prop up an elbow and overtake him with a shot. Coming to his feet, The Shadow started in pursuit among the hedges and finally came into the clear. Though he had used a flashlight along the hedgerows, The Shadow hadn’t found a sign of the four.

Only the lake lay in this direction, so The Shadow doubled back along the trail.

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