The Shadow 330 The Shadow's Revenge by Maxwell Grant Dennis Lynds

Author:Maxwell Grant, Dennis Lynds [Maxwell Grant, Dennis Lynds]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Pulp
Amazon: B000GJJAQU
Publisher: Belmont Books
Published: 1965-07-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

OUTSIDE the Safari Club the woman dropped all pretense of her flirtation. She pushed Allard ahead of her toward the parking lot, the small pistol with its ugly silencer pointed at his back.

She did not speak again. Her movements had become crisp and military, contrasting oddly with the soft curves of her body and the slim black evening dress.

The small black Austin Rohrbach had searched drove up to the exit from the parking lot. The second of the supposed Berger sisters was behind the wheel. A third woman, one Allard had not seen since Mukulu, was in the back seat. This third woman got out and walked behind Allard.

Swiftly she blindfolded him with a thick cloth and tied his hands firmly behind his back. Allard made no resistance. He wanted to know much more about these women before he escaped from his bonds. With the powers of The Shadow, he could escape any time he wished—once the pistol was no longer trained on him. Bound and blindfolded, he was hustled into the front seat of the car. The women knew their work well. In the front seat he would have the pistol behind his head and could make no sudden move. The car drove off. None of the women had spoken a word.

The small car drove through the night. Allard sat in silence, making no move, but his keen ears were listening. He heard first the faint sounds of the European section of the city— cries of babies in houses, the faint music from radios and record players, even the distant clink of glasses.

Then there was a zone of silence before the gaudy noises of Lubilana Way. After Lubilana Way the car turned left toward the great itself. Allard heard the moving of the wide water. The car turned right again, driving along close to the river. Perhaps two miles, a little more, with the sound of the Lubilana to the left. Then the car stopped. Allard was pushed out and across some soft, grassy ground toward the flow of the river. Boards beneath his feet. Narrow boards with spaces between them and moving, the boards moving as if laid loosely on the soft earth. Then more boards but firm now, and a slight incline upward. A loose door opened and he was pushed through. His footsteps echoed in a large empty space. He was seated in a chair. Beneath him he heard the sound of the river.

“Now, Mr. Kent Allard, just who are you, why are you here, and where are you from!”

It was the voice of the girl who had captured him, the one who called herself Maria Berger.

He sensed the other two women close by. And there were other people. He heard the sound of a man’s footsteps, two men. The men were standing close behind him. There was a light, a strong light shining on him, but he could not see through the blindfold. The blindfold was more than a simple cloth, it had inside it a thin layer of something very opaque, something like metal.

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