The Shadow - 133 - Buried Evidence by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1937-08-31T22:00:00+00:00

“A short spell. Mebbe an hour.”

“Or more?”

“Don’t reckon so, sir; but I can’t say. He went that way.”

The old man gestured his corncob toward the low, widespread line of buildings that marked the center of Boston. Harry found a taxi and rode to a hotel near South Station.

On the way, Harry calculated. He had made two calls close together; at one fifteen and at about twenty minutes of two. None after that, until half past two. That seemed the logical time of Rhyde’s departure; particularly because Rhyde was not taking a train until six o’clock.

Harry guessed that Rhyde had waited until as near sailing time as he could. Catching an opportune moment, he had probably left the Paulina at two-thirty, instructing Captain Dunley to sail at three o’clock, before Rhyde’s absence would be discussed by guests aboard the yacht.

No chance to trace Rhyde among the twisty streets of Boston. Harry decided to catch the six-o’clock train for New York. At the hotel, he put in a routine call to Rutledge Mann. That ended Harry’s duty until dusk. Nevertheless, Harry felt uneasy.

He hoped that Rhyde would not encounter daylight danger in Boston. That period past, all would be well. Other murders had occurred after dark, all of them in New York. If a menace threatened Rhyde, it probably would not strike until after he arrived in Manhattan, at eleven o’clock.

That would be the time when Harry himself would reach New York. Although he did not foresee it, Harry would be able to render service to The Shadow, from the moment that the train trip ended.

Though his part seemed small, Harry was to be a definite factor in The Shadow’s battle against crime.

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