Super-Detective Jim Anthony: The Complete Series Volume 2 (Annotated) by Victor Rousseau

Author:Victor Rousseau [Rousseau, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Action and Adventure
Publisher: Altus Press
Published: 2014-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER VII

Kidnaped?

AFTERWARD Jim Anthony was to laugh sardonically at the worry shown by the group as a unit for his supposed injury. All of them, Messenger, Anderson, Kingman, the sheriff and the constable, Hendry, were more than merely solicitous, accompanying the party to the Isaac Walton! One of the deputies assisted Tom Gentry in carefully lowering Jim to the rear of the boat. Sheriff Blanton carried Jim’s paraphernalia.

Messenger boomed, “Should we get a doctor and send him out to the plane?”

And even Anderson grumpily offered to run up to the Coast Guard station himself. Yet these two men had presented a solid front against Jim Anthony’s tinkering with the case not many moments before.

The quiet electric motor of the black boat twisted the special screws, the boat shot away from the pier toward the plane that rocked at anchor across the channel. Once out of hearing distance Jim laughed, said, “Boy, oh boy, how that bunch trusts one another! Each of them afraid to let the other out of his sight. Chances are they’ll sleep five in a bed tonight!”

Dolores whispered, “Jim, what happened? Why did you want to play injured?”

Tom grunted agreement with the question. Jim’s voice floated to them from the locker where he lay. “This had some ramifications, that interest me strangely. Not just the deaths of young Messenger and his party—society as a whole could spare that gang. I’m more interested in Mr. X, I’m more interested in what he was doing here, in the murder of Lucadello and Swenson.”

They neared the plane.

“Tommy, a man can never tell when he’s under observation. You’ll have to carry me aboard.” And Tom Gentry, tying the boat to a pontoon of the big silver plane, grinned to himself as he carried Jim Anthony aboard and tossed him resoundingly on a couch in the compartment.

“Lazy lout,” he challenged, but Jim was all seriousness, he failed to laugh and kid with him. Instead, he went directly to the locker, opened it, withdrew the heavy lead-like case which Dolores had recovered from the wrecked automobile driven by Michael Gideon. The car had belonged to the Union. From the same locker he took several curious instruments, including a retort, and an electric stove. Once they were before him, however, he seemed to change his mind.

Instead of going to work on them he crossed to the east porthole or window and examined the sky for long moments. He muttered, “Not much time.” And to the waiting pair, “I think I’ve got an inkling of why Mr. X came down here.” Did a frown pass his face as he turned toward Tom Gentry? “I know what’s going to happen—in spite of what I’ve shown the sheriff, Mr. X is going to take the rap for this murder. I’m afraid Gideon won’t be found.”

“You mean he’s dead, too? Jim, I feel positive it was Gideon who kidnaped me, who took Dixie Messenger. He—”

“NATURALLY! But Anderson won’t want him found because he’s afraid he’ll admit to being

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