Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 025 - Fingers of Death by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Detective, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Adventure, Thriller
ISBN: 9780515042795
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications
Published: 1977-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

WHEN the young man left the lawyer’s office, neither he nor Adams knew that every word of their conversation had been overheard and recorded by Harry Vincent. The Shadow’s agent had completed a hundred-per-cent report.

This, however, had depended upon ear alone. Therefore, Harry was not cognizant of an important event which took place after Saybrook’s departure.

Reaching in his desk drawer, Hurley Adams fished until he found a stack of small red cards. He removed two of these, and folded each one carefully within a sheet of paper. Taking two envelopes, he placed one card in each, and sealed the envelopes.

He called his secretary and instructed her to mail the letters. While the girl waited, Adams calmly addressed the envelopes and stamped them.

Harry Vincent missed the significance of this over the dictaphone. He recorded the conversation; that was all. Hence, he was not in the hallway when the girl appeared, carrying the letters.

She went directly to the mail chute, and there encountered an old, stoop-shouldered man who was holding a package of letters. Stepping back, the old gentleman tipped his hat and rested politely on his cane, while the girl dropped the envelopes separately in the chute.

The lawyer’s secretary did not see the keen glint in the old man’s eyes. She did not suspect that he had read both names and addresses. When she returned to the office, Adams asked her if she had mailed the letters. The girl informed the lawyer that she had. She made no comment regarding the old man who had been standing by the mail chute.

In fact, the old man was no longer in the hall when the girl closed the door of the outer office. He had evidently mailed his letters and departed. The secretary was a trifle surprised, however, to realize that such a tottering individual could have mailed his letters and have gone so quickly.

She would have been more surprised had she seen the old man at that moment. He had descended by the stairway, in preference to the elevator. Alone on the steps, he was moving swiftly downward, without the aid of his cane.

The old man’s lips held a faint smile, and in that secluded section of the Holmsford County Building, no one could hear the strange laugh that those lips were uttering. It was a soft laugh - scarcely more than a whisper - but its tones were weird and sinister.

The old man was The Shadow!

He had seen what Harry Vincent had not seen. Although he had not yet received Harry’s report of the conversation in the lawyer’s office, The Shadow had divined the purpose of the letters which had been mailed.

Two letters - a vital factor in what Hurley Adams planned! For those letters, sent by the arbitrator of a band of conspirators, were messages to the last of the group!

The Shadow, by keen intuition and shrewd observation, had not only learned how many yet remained; he had discovered the identities of the persons themselves.

Two more conspirators - with Adams, the total was three.

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