The Black Master by Maxwell Grant & Walter Gibson

Author:Maxwell Grant & Walter Gibson [Grant, Maxwell & Gibson, Walter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Espionage, Fiction, Thrillers
ISBN: 9780515034783
Amazon: 0515034789
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1932-03-15T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XIII. HARRY OBSERVES

HARRY VINCENT sat in the huge, gloomy living room of Hubert Banks' palatial home. He puffed a cigar contentedly. His eyes wandering across the room to a large couch, where the millionaire was lying, asleep.

Harry smiled. Banks had improved tremendously since Harry had come to visit him. The man had been a nervous wreck less than a week ago. Now he was calm and almost free from care - his old self.

Of all the missions that Harry had undertaken for The Shadow, this was the most unusual. His mind went back over the recent past and he began to recall all the important incidents that had occurred.

He had reported everything to The Shadow, in brief, terse notes. He had remembered the details.

That was one of the many things that he had learned to do since he had become The Shadow's agent. He had been instructed in a simple system of mental notation that had enabled him to keep a methodical record in his mind.

The adventure at the Goliath Hotel, when he had been overpowered and doped in his room, had been the first event in this new campaign.

Late the next morning when he awoke, he had reported to The Shadow but had received no reply, so he had simply waited. Then he had read the news of Perry Warfield's murder and of the subsequent police fight with Killer Bryan.

Harry had recognized Bryan's picture. It was the killer who had overpowered Harry in his hotel room.

But what most concerned Harry Vincent right now were the events that had followed his sojourn with Hubert Banks. He had come to the millionaire's home in response to orders from The Shadow.

As always, the orders had been written in code, and with chemical ink that vanished a few minutes after the envelope had been opened.

Nominally, Harry was the millionaire's secretary. Actually, he was his companion. He was working for The Shadow - not for Hubert Banks.

He had observed the millionaire's strange actions, had humored his whims and had been with him constantly.

Banks talked frequently of a man named Clifford Gage, who was presumably Harry's sponsor. Harry had received information concerning Gage from The Shadow. Gage became a topic of frequent conversation.

With the increase of friendship between Hubert Banks and Harry Vincent, the millionaire had lost his old mistrustfulness.

At night, Harry wrote his report to The Shadow, using a pen loaded with the type of ink that The Shadow had invented.

When he went to mail the report, together with the letters of Mr. Banks, Harry walked two blocks from the millionaire's uptown mansion and entered a drugstore before he put the letters in the box outside.

There, Harry secretly passed the envelope which contained his report to a sober-faced clerk behind the counter.

Harry suspected that the man who received the envelope was Burbank, an agent of The Shadow.

Aside from short excursions of this type, Harry did not leave the millionaire's mansion.

Three days ago, he had received a brief, coded message from The Shadow. It had surprised Harry when he opened it, for the color of the ink was a darker blue than usual.

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