Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 042 - Mox by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Detective, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Adventure, Thriller
ISBN: 9780515038767
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications
Published: 1975-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

WHEN Cardona knocked at the front door of Tharbel’s unpretentious home, the county detective, himself, was the one who answered the door. Cardona stated that he was going back to New York, that he might communicate with Tharbel later.

Joe extended his hand. Tharbel received it and said good-by. He closed the door as soon as Cardona had turned away.

In the car with Burke, Cardona grunted. He was glad that he was through with Tharbel for the time. Burke laughed as he backed the car to turn around in the street.

“You don’t know Tharbel, Joe,” he said. “That fellow just sits back and lets things break. He seems to know when events are going to turn his way. He always figures that some one is going to slip him some needed information.”

“Talk about your New York stool pigeons - they’re nothing. Tharbel always seems to be getting anonymous letters and what-not -“

“Any on this case?”

“None as yet - so far as I can see.”

The glare of Burke’s headlights had swung across Junius Tharbel’s lawn. Cardona heard a gasp come from the reporter. The detective stared ahead. On the fringe of illumination, he caught a momentary glimpse of what appeared to be a huge, living spider, leaping away from the glare.

“What was that?” he queried.

“I don’t know,” responded Burke, as he swung the car to the street. “Some person, maybe, cutting across lots in back of Tharbel’s. It may have been an animal. The lights make shapes appear odd.”

Burke was driving toward the station. There were only a few minutes in which to make Cardona’s train. The reporter had suddenly assumed his secret role, as agent of The Shadow. He made no further comment.

Cardona, too, was silent. He was thinking of what the State policeman had said.

A spidery creature - all arms and legs - had been seen near the house of Mox.

Junius Tharbel had decided that an additional watcher was unnecessary. Now, Joe Cardona had seen a distorted creature near the home of Junius Tharbel.

The star detective pondered over these matters as he rode toward New York in the train. He also thought of the secret rooms in the old house. He wondered what their purpose might be - if other than a hide-out.

Most of all, Joe was thinking of Tharbel. He decided that Burke was right. The county detective was playing a cagey game.

Joe Cardona had a hunch. He felt that he would soon encounter Junius Tharbel again, and that future meetings would involve a battle of wits between himself and the smart county detective.

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