Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 333 by Maxwel l Grant

Author:Maxwel,l Grant
Language: eng
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how they make money and gain power, are not so easy to find! Drake was needed, vital, but it was your province to prevent such mistakes as Silva y Rubio learning too much!"

"Drake brought him! Drake vouched for him! Am I to suspect everyone?" the fifth man roared!

Captain Kyoto smiled. "No, my friend, but you are to suspect all men you are not sure of. To watch at least. In a project such as ours there can be no mistakes. You have made two already. I have had to correct them."

"And allow your men to be killed and captured!" the fifth man snapped.

"They did their work," Kyoto said.

"And I had to make sure they could not talk," the fifth man said.

The fat Doctor slammed his massive fist on the table. "Enough! The mistakes have been made. Now the question is only how bad they were, and what can we expect. Already Drake has been followed. Presumably by the same people who attacked at Riverhead. We know they were stopped from further pursuit at Riverhead. Kyoto says they can no longer follow Drake. We have taken precautions to see that they cannot locate the project by chance. The captured men of Kyoto have been neutralized. Are there any more weak points? Is there any way that we can now be traced further?"

"No," the tall, thin fifth man said, his back still to The Shadow at the window.

"No," Kyoto said. "It is all secure now. We are in no more danger of discovery. I will guarantee that."

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The fat Doctor nodded. "Good."

At the window in the dark night, The Shadow smiled to himself. His fiery eyes blazed in the jungle night. Captain, or Comrade, Kyoto had much to learn, would know soon how wrong he was. The other men would be shocked to know how little Kyoto could now guarantee. But The Shadow had made a more important discovery than the overconfidence of Kyoto. From the discussion, and from the appearance of the men at the long table, he knew that this was no meeting of a Communist cell. Ling Soo, as reported by Price-Jones, had been right. Tadeki Kyoto had more on his mind, and in his plans, than the underground work of a single Communist cell. Whatever the Project was it had nothing to do with Communism! Yet Kyoto was a Communist, and one of the men at the long table was a Russian. The Shadow knew now that what these men had in mind was going to affect both sides of the Iron Curtain!

"So," the fat Doctor said. "Are your facilities ready to produce, Monsieur Canet?"

"They are," the small Frenchman said. "I have prepared full security. My workers will have no knowledge of what they produce."

The doctor looked at the Russian. "You are ready to engage in negotiations, Vronski?"

"I am ready," Vronski said.

"And the final stage will be 'go' soon?" the doctor said to the tall, thin man The Shadow could not see.

"We are prepared as soon as you make the last shipment," the tall man said.

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