The Shadow 029 The Golden Grotto by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1933-04-30T22:00:00+00:00

“But the trouble in the house was The Shadow! How he got there, I can’t tell you. Anyway, he knocked off the mob like they were clay pigeons. Not only that - he got loose and began firing at us. I saw my men dropping off the running boards. He’d have got me in another minute. I shot away with the car.”

“Didn’t The Shadow fire after you?” questioned Traymer, in a surprised tone.

“No,” rejoined Beef, with a pleased grin. “That’s where I guessed it right. I took a chance that he’d be thinking of the girls, and I let that old bus ride. If he’d plugged me, we’d all have been killed. So The Shadow let me get away - and two of my gorillas with me. But I knew that wasn’t the end of it. He’d be coming after me.”

“So that’s why you left the car on the dock!”

“Sure thing. I had a head start, and the boys back at the house made enough trouble to slow up The Shadow, even though he got them instead of them getting him.

“When we got to the dock, I wasn’t taking chances. The old scow was there, and we shoved the girls aboard and followed. We got going plenty fast. I saw The Shadow come up - but by that time we were half a mile out in the Sound.”

“And then?”

“I dropped off the boat with my gorillas. We weren’t suppose to be on it at all. I didn’t want the boys to know where the boat was going. The guy that was running it handled the job. We had the girls tied up - it was easy enough for him to make the trip by himself.”

A LONG pause followed. Maurice Traymer was reviewing Beef Norbin’s account. When the society man made no comment, the gang leader put in a few remarks of his own.

“The other jobs were easy,” declared Beef. “We went haywire on this one. That’s why I don’t want to see any more like the ones plans were made for. I’m not the boss, but I’d like to see it quits. If this keeps on -“

“The police are in it now,” agreed Traymer.

“Phooey for the cops,” returned Beef Norbin. “It’s The Shadow I’m thinking about. Once he’s on the job, it’s curtains if you don’t think quick. I’m wondering how he wised up.”

“There can only be one more job,” remarked Traymer quietly.

“Yeah?” The news seemed good to Beef. “How’s that?”

“I stopped in to see Hargreaves,” explained Traymer. “Naturally, he was all upset about this notoriety in the daily newspapers, because the reporters found out that the girls had been attending a lecture at his apartment.”

“It don’t hook him up with the mess,” objected Norbin.

“No, certainly not,” agreed Traymer, “but it will hang a gloom over the lecture program. Hargreaves is going to urge every one to come to the lecture tomorrow night; but that will be the last event on the program.

“He intends to ask Professor Sheldon to end the course - or at least to postpone it indefinitely.

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