Shadow 157 - The Golden Dog Murders 09-01-38, The by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street and Smith
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE moment the boat vanished, The Shadow was on his feet. He had not been knocked unconscious by the wily Mason. He merely wanted Mason to think so. He had seen the attack on Marsland and had allowed Mason to hit him a glancing blow.

His reason was coldly logical: He had not trusted Mason. He had seen cunning in the chemist’s eyes when he had picked up Turk’s gun in the cellar hideout.

The Shadow intended to know just what was behind the chemist’s treachery! That was why he had allowed himself to fall so easy a victim to the attack of a exhausted man.

His quick efforts revived Marsland. Grim words spurted into Cliff’s ear. The cold bite of the water roused Cliff still further, as he followed The Shadow into the lake. The Shadow swam in a different direction from the one that the fleeing Mason had taken. The mainland at this point was quite close.

Marsland kept grimly behind the bobbing head of The Shadow. A soaked arm drew him safely to shore. The two stepped through slippery mud to the rutted road that circled the lake. They could hear from the other side of the island the faint echo of the outboard motor.

Marsland followed the flying heels of The Shadow. They raced along the lake road, hidden by the screen of trees.

But Rodney Mason beat them. When they rounded the last curve in the wooded road and could see again the level waters of the lake, the boat in which Mason had fled was jammed nose-deep into the bank.

Footprints led into the thicket where The Shadow had left the sedan containing Sam Baron and Squint. Baron’s car was gone!

The Shadow did not echo Cliff Marsland’s gasp of dismay. His eyes were ablaze with a grim flame. He had expected something like this. He had tested Mason as a man tests an unknown element in a chemical experiment. Mason had reacted positively.

The answer seemed incredulous. Why should Rodney Mason attack the rescuers who had saved him from torture at the hands of Baron’s gang? And why should he flee with his kidnapers?

There were two possible answers to the riddle. Either might be true. Perhaps Mason trusted no one; perhaps he suspected that The Shadow and Marsland were members of a rival underworld gang, as much to be feared by him as Sam Baron’s mob.

But the second theory was a more sinister one. Not for an instant had The Shadow allowed himself to forget that behind Baron’s gang was an unknown master criminal who pulled the strings. Not even Baron himself knew who that chief was. By an overzealous mistake, Baron might have kidnapped his own chief!

The Shadow was by no means sure of this. But there was grim laughter in his throat, as he stared at the empty thicket where Baron’s sedan had stood.

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