Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 018 by Maxwel l Grant

Author:Maxwel,l Grant
Language: eng
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CHAPTER XV. AFTER MIDNIGHT

AN automobile pulled up to the door of Glade Tremont's home. A policeman stepped out to meet it.

Doctor Gerald Savette, suave and questioning in glance, looked at the man in uniform.

"You are Doctor Savette?" asked the officer.

"Yes," replied the physician. "How is Mr. Tremont?"

"All right now, sir," said the officer. "He was lucky that he didn't get killed. He got caught in the middle of a mean gunfight. They were battling in and out of his car. Go right up, doctor."

Savette went into the house and ascended the stairs. He arrived at Glade Tremont's bedroom, and

entered to find the lawyer propped up on a stack of pillows.

No one else was in the room. A glass and bottle of medicine indicated that another physician had left.

Quietly, Savette closed the door and sat down beside the bed.

"I received your message," he said, in a low voice. "They told me you wanted me here - as your physician. This is a professional call."

He smiled, then added reflectively:

"It is fortunate you managed to communicate with me before midnight."

"I am fortunate to be here myself," returned Tremont. "We struck a Tartar tonight, Gerald. We finished him, though. That's one satisfaction."

"Tell me about it."

Briefly, Tremont narrated the events up to the time of The Shadow's mad flight. That was the point at which the lawyer's observation had ceased. Skipping the story of the fight on the dock, Tremont came to what had happened afterward.

"When I came to," he said, "they were dragging me out of the coupe. I couldn't figure where I was at first

- then I realized I was on the little dock at the end of the old lane. The policeman recognized me. He knew my car, too. It didn't take me long to think up the right sort of story."

"Which was -"

"That I had driven down to the dock to look at the Sound. Just as I was turning the coupe. Two cars came swinging down the lane, one in pursuit of the other. Then the guns started. Gangsters, battling. Two of them piled into the car. Something hit me on the head. I dropped - and that's the last I knew about it."

"A good alibi," declared Savette, nodding

"A perfect one," said Tremont. "Accepted without question."

"Why is the policeman here?"

"Just to see I'm all right," smiled Tremont. "He will be leaving soon. I called Biff Towley while you were on your way here."

"Yes?" Savette's eyebrows betrayed his eagerness to hear about the gang leader's report.

"He didn't talk long," declared Tremont, "but he told me all I want to know. One of his men nailed The Shadow. He was on top of my car.

"He smashed Biff in the face with his revolver. No shots left, evidently. Then one of Biff's mob fired pointblank, and The Shadow fell from the end of the dock."

"How did Biff's mob fare?"

"Badly. Jake Bosch was killed. Some others, too. Nearly all were wounded. That man was a fighter - but the odds were too great."

"Amazing - his scheme of posing as you.

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