The Shadow - 67 - The Unseen Killer by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1934-12-21T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XI. THE BLACK BOX

THE next morning, both Peters Amboy and Wallace Norgan received new threats from the Unseen Killer. The letters came in the first mail. They were typewritten as before. They delivered the same ultimatum. A statement to the afternoon newspapers of death to one of the pair within twenty-four hours.

They communicated at once with Commissioner Barth. He ordered the statements to the newspapers.

Already, headlines were telling of Nathaniel Hildon’s death. The statements from Amboy and Norgan were boxed on front pages. They brought quick results.

At five o’clock that afternoon, Findlay Warlock, president of the fading Centralized Power Corporation, was surprised when he opened a letter that came in the late mail. It had been posted only a few hours previously shortly after the newspapers had carried their flash regarding the new threats received by Amboy and Norgan.

The note to Warlock was typewritten. It read as follows:

A REQUEST:

Two men, Peters Amboy and Wallace Norgan, are anxious to deliver funds into my possession. This can be facilitated if they put the moneys in a place of easy access.

There is a wall safe in your study. Would you cooperate by letting them put their funds in that strong box?

Before 8:30 to-night. Lock the safe, but put the combination in an envelope and seal the flap of the envelope to the front of the safe. Let the envelope remain open.

At 8:30, open the doors to your study. All must leave the room, either going downstairs or remaining in the hallways. At 9:00 close the doors of the study.

Reopen them at 9:15. Do not reenter the room until 9:30. At all times, the doorways must be unblocked.

Also doors to the house and ground floor windows must be left open.

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