The Shadow 005 Gangdom's Doom by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1931-12-15T23:00:00+00:00

The two went down in a heap.

They grappled in the darkness; then Schultz managed to bump his opponent behind the ear. Schultz’s gun had fallen to the floor, and as he reached for it, another man leaped upon him.

Schultz went backward, holding his gun, and fired wildly, as an oath escaped his lips.

Those words spelled his doom. The sound of his voice betrayed him. His opponent had not been sure whether he was friend or foe. But now the muzzle of a revolver was pressed against the side of Hymie’s head, and three shots entered his brain.

The man who had killed Hymie Schultz arose and calmly turned on the light in the apartment. The glare revealed the sinister form of John Genara.

It was Tony Anelmo who had been knocked out by Hymie Schultz, but the disabled Sicilian had now recovered.

An exclamation of amazement escaped Genara’s lips.

“Look!” he cried. “Hymie Schultz!”

Leaving his bewildered companion, he dashed to the kitchenette and turned on the light, to reveal the form of the other dead man. He recognized the face of Four-gun Spirak.

Genara hurried back to the front of the apartment and seized Anelmo by the arm.

“Come on,” he said. “We’ve killed Schultz and Spirak!”

“Where is Monk Thurman?”

“I don’t know. We’ve got to get out.”

The Homicide Twins hurried to the street. Only a few minutes had transpired since the shooting. No one had yet arrived on the scene. Genara drew Anelmo into a side alley, and they moved along quietly but hastily.

“No one must know of this,” insisted Genara. “That is, no one must know that we were mixed in it.”

“We owed it to them,” replied Anelmo.

“That’s good enough. But we’re in wrong with the big shot now, on account of that trouble at Marmosa’s.”

“Maybe he’ll be glad to hear about this.”

“What! After he’s been trying to patch up with Larrigan? We’ll be in wrong if this is hung on us. Let them think that Thurman did it. That may give us an excuse to get him later on, after Larrigan squawks to Savoli.”

Anelmo nodded his agreement, and the two men continued to hurry from the vicinity of the apartment house where they had laid in ambush awaiting the return of Monk Thurman and whoever might be with him.

Both Genara and Anelmo had believed that they were fighting the New York gunman, for the entrance of Schultz and Spirak had been almost simultaneous.

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