Go Mad! by Maxwell Grant & Walter Gibson

Author:Maxwell Grant & Walter Gibson [Grant, Maxwell & Gibson, Walter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Espionage, Fiction, Thrillers
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1966-01-20T08:00:00+00:00

10

IN THE MIST Margo choked. Behind the mist, beyond the yellow cloud that moved close to the ground and then diffused up through the mist itself, Margo saw the shadowy figures. She tried to talk into her ring radio, but her voice would not come out in anything but a cough. She raised her automatic. At least she could take some of them with her. Once she fired they would know exactly where she was and would shoot her without waiting for the gas. At least it would be quicker. Her finger tightened on the trigger, the small automatic aimed at one of the shadowy figures beyond the mist and the gas.

The sound came from behind her, from behind and above. Her finger continued to tighten on the trigger.

The sound came again, a faint scrape and then--a voice. Margo whirled, looked up as she coughed in the mist and gas. She saw the looming black shape high on the wall that blocked the alley.

"Quick, Margo!" the voice of The Shadow hissed down. An object dropped down. Margo caught the gas mask--a special mask developed by The Shadow himself, small enough to fit in a pocket, and with a tiny attachéd cylinder of oxygen. Margo, gasping now, put the mask on.

Instantly the pure oxygen went to work. Her coughing stopped, her vision cleared, she breathed easily. The next instant The Shadow was beside her, holding her up as the mask and oxygen cleared her head and her straining chest. She clung to the black-garbed Avenger for a long moment. Then, the mask working, her mind and body ready again, she looked up at the shape of her Chief misty in the alley. The Shadow was a macabre figure, more macabre than ever with the small gas mask hiding all but his fiery eyes. The burning eyes and the glowing fire-opal girasol shone red through the mist. The great black shape of The Shadow seemed to blend into the mist itself.

"Where is Jary Du Neuf, Margo?" The Shadow said. "There, with them on the other side of the gas," Margo said.

"Very well. Marcel is waiting behind them. I was with him, and came to you when we could not contact you. Now . . ."

"I sent Marcel after the other man!"

"The man is clever, Margo. He eluded Marcel even before Marcel received your message."

"You know who he is? That horrible plastic face?"

"I know him, Margo," The Shadow said grimly in the mist of the alley, "and we will meet again. But now I want Jary Du Neuf. I want him alive, Margo, he is our only link to them."

"Them?" Margo said.

"CYPHER, Margo," The Shadow said. "Our antagonist in the Santa Carla affair."

"I remember," Margo said.

"This time we must destroy them," The Shadow intoned harshly. "Jary Du Neuf is our link. I want him alive. You have your gun ready, but do not kill him. Follow me through the gas. Surprise should be on our side."

In the mist of the alley the gas had risen high now.

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