The Shadow 328 Shadow Beware by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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IN THE DARK apartment of Kent Allard, the man crouched close behind the door into the hallway neither saw nor heard the black figure come into the room. If the man had been looking toward the wall behind him where a tall mirror stood flush against the wall, it would have seemed to him that the strange black shape had come out of the wall itself. But the waiting man was not looking behind him. He was crouched low in a breathless silence, a small pistol held in his right hand, his

ears alert for the sound of the key in the lock. A few moments before he had heard the footsteps come up the stairs, but they had passed on down the hall toward the other apartment on the top floor, and the man had relaxed again to continue his vigil. He did not see or hear The Shadow emerge from the secret door behind the mirror, an entrance and exit devised by The Shadow for just this purpose.

“Do not move, do not turn, do not attempt to use that pistol!”

The man at the door did not move, nor did he give any sign of surprise or alarm. He remained crouched exactly where he was as the sound of the eerie voice filled the silent room.

“You will place the pistol on the floor,” The Shadow ordered in his chilling voice.

The man placed the pistol on the floor.

“You will now stand up, place your hands behind your head, and turn slowly. Turn very slowly.”

The man turned slowly, very slowly.

“Walk three steps toward the wall.”

The man walked the three steps.

There was a movement in the room, and the pistol on the floor seemed to disappear into the heart of a giant black shadow that moved. The man with his hands behind his head now showed the smallest surprise. Two burning eyes turned toward him and the girasol ring glowed red in the dark with enough light to show a sharp, hawk nose beneath the slouch hat of The Shadow. The girasol also gave enough light of its own to reveal the waiting man to be the swarthy Italian, Luigi Nenni. The small man stared at the great, batlike figure.

“The Shadow!” Nenni said softly, a certain amazement and disbelief in his voice.

“You know me?” the hard voice of The Shadow demanded.

“Yes, I have heard of you,” the man said. “1 never expected that I would see you.”

“If you know me, you know I fight all evil!” the chill voice of The Shadow warned. “Why were you following Kent Allard?”

“Allard seems involved in a case I am working on,” the man said. “Who is he? A friend of yours?”

“Yes,” The Shadow said. “You said you are working on a case? Who are you?”

“My name is Luigi Nenni, I am an agent of Interpol,” the small Italian said.

“And the case you are working on?”

“An international ring of thieves, hijackers.”

“Do you have proof?” The Shadow demanded.

“May I put my hands down?”

“Put them down,” The Shadow said.

The small Italian lowered his hands and reached into his inside coat pocket.

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