Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 098 - The Third Shadow by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Detective, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Adventure, Thriller
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE two men were coming to the door. The Shadow drew back in darkness. Sparkler and Duke went by. Their footsteps faded upon the front stairway.

A soft laugh whispered through the gloom. The Shadow had checked upon what he had already surmised. Sparkler Meldin was planning a New York gambling house, with the proposed Casino Havanola as the blind.

Moving to the side stairs, The Shadow descended. He found the lookout door boarded shut. He pried away the inner fastening and stepped out into the night. The sequel had ended. The Shadow had placed the part that Sparkler Meldin had planned to play. The man from Havana could be forgotten for the present. The task of locating George Corbal was paramount.

In this assumption, The Shadow was not wrong. Yet he was only partially correct. Sparkler Meldin did intend to open the Casino Havanola, to turn it into a gambling den deluxe, ready for profits that would put the Club Torreo in the shade. His new place would be a blind, with Duke Hydon as its capable manager.

But there was another purpose behind Sparkler’s game; one so well veiled that it had slipped past The Shadow. That other purpose concerned the second Shadow. Sparkler had not forgotten the facts that he had learned by listening in on Jake Lassop. Nor had he failed to remember the amateurish deeds of the cloaked pretender who had raided the Club Torreo.

Another sequel came when Sparkler sat alone, in the bedroom of an elaborate hotel suite. By a window that opened high above Manhattan, the Havana big-shot reviewed a list of telephone numbers. Sparkler was working out the meaning of the word “Calakor.” He had marked out a circled diagram that represented the dial of a telephone.

The first hole of the dial contained the number: one, but no letters.

ABC were the letters in the second hole of the dial. From these, Sparkler had decided that the exchange name must begin with two such letters. A telephone book listed an exchange as Abbott-5. A and B fitted. In hole No. 5 appeared the letters JKL. Thus “l” became 5.

The letter “a” - after “l” - stood for the figure: two. The letter “k,” like “l,” appeared with the number five. The “o,” Sparkler had decided, must mean six. Since PRS appeared on the dial with seven, the final figure was established. The complete number became Abbott 5-2567.

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