Detective Book Fall 1941 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime, Pulp
Publisher: Detective Book Magazine
Published: 1941-10-08T05:00:00+00:00

NOW that I stood facing him closely I could see that the blond man was older and more battle-scarred by life and time than he seemed even thirty feet away: the healthy vital rakishness of his stance, his features, was belied when you got a close-up by the subtle stigmata of premature degeneration and decay. He was forty-five, at least, and the pinpoint pupils in the steel-colored eyes gave a clue to the habits which had depleted him. A thoroughly dangerous person. He’d make a good running-mate, I thought, for—

“Right this way, gentlemen,” his voice said. I crossed the deck as indicated and stepped over the high brass shin-duster guarding the door and went in, Taylor after me.

After the glare of sun on sea for more than an hour, the cool dark interior was just a black wall. I stopped.

The blond man’s voice behind me said: “Third door on the left. You will join us at breakfast, won’t you, Mister Steele?”

Repetition of the name gave him, it appeared, great pleasure. My eyes began to focus. It was a long central hall in which we stood: it formed the main lounge, evidently, for settees were grouped about a huge radio at one end, and chromium-and-canvas easy chairs lined a long low mahogany table littered with magazines, The magazines nearest me had been pushed back to make room for a tray which someone had evidently just placed there, since the butter hadn’t yet hardened on the remains of a plate of toast.

“Third door,” the blond man repeated.

From each end of this hall a corridor opened. I could see the third door on the left in the nearest corridor from where I stood; it was closed. I started to say, “Who’s ‘us’?” and thought “Ah, hell, let’s get on with it,” and paced down the corridor and opened the door with a jerk and went in,

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