The Vindicator by Maxwell Grant & Walter Gibson

Author:Maxwell Grant & Walter Gibson [Grant, Maxwell & Gibson, Walter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Espionage, Fiction, Thrillers
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1939-03-18T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XII. PATHS IN THE DARK

TRIGGER KOBIN suffered little loss of pride because he had been overquick with his gun. He made a joke of his mistake; he told Jeeper and Slink that The Shadow had "turned out to be a bust." It took Trigger all night to think up that one; meanwhile, The Shadow, in his turn, had considered some constructive thoughts regarding Trigger Kobin.

It was plain that Trigger was no more important to the Vindicator than he had been previously. Instead of a mob, Trigger merely had two sharpshooting pals. Whether Trigger was called on individual duty, or the whole trio brought into play, it would be for cover-up work only.

Nevertheless, it was not yet time for The Shadow to inform the police regarding Trigger's whereabouts. By watching Trigger, some clue might be gained, in indirect fashion, to coming moves that the Vindicator intended. That work, however, belonged to The Shadow's agents.

There were plenty of empty apartments in Riverview City, so he ordered a picked few to move in there and keep watch on Trigger's activities. With that arranged, The Shadow concentrated on the more difficult task of tracing Dana Brye.

Since Brye had no criminal record, it was a devious matter to learn his past. The Shadow managed it through proper channels, but only to a limited extent.

Brye had retired from the business of manufacturing safes some years before. His experiments with time bombs, a natural outgrowth of his love for the intricate, had caused him to move from one workshop to another before he had finally purchased Vreekill Castle.

None of his former places were the sort that he could use for hide-outs, as all of them had been taken over by other businesses. But Brye, it seemed, had always liked obscure districts, and it was likely that he had an address book of unusual places that were vacant.

Putting other agents on the investigation of basements that had recently been rented, The Shadow hoped for results. They might come, if Brye proved overconfident in the fact that he had been declared as dead.

There was one place quite different from any of Brye's workshops, where the missing man might appear. The Shadow chose that for his own observation, on the chance that his path might cross Brye's.

Comparing the different theories of Ross Bland and Trigger Kobin, The Shadow saw how each had come to a similar conclusion, though not in possession of the full facts. Bland had used a starting point that was still a doubtful quantity. He had presumed that Larry Chandler had recognized Dana Brye as the murderer of Thomas Grennel. Since Larry was in love with Margaret Brye, he would have had a reason to suppress the fact.

From that, Bland had checked on other matters; his guess about the Whiskaway, his study of the Hudson River chart, had all resulted in the episode which caused him to denounce Brye as the Vindicator and come to a prompt doom.

Trigger, playing hunches only, was miles wide in his basic belief that Brye had not been in Vreekill Castle at all.

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