The Shadow 081 The Fate Joss by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1935-07-21T22:00:00+00:00

“Is was you, Doctor Tam, who guessed that he might mean a garage. Look—the man is going for the truck.”

“That is well. Tuan and Leng have followed the order which I gave them when you told me of the letter.

Like you, Satsu, they were fortunate in finding no one present when they entered the garage.”

Doctor Tam started the motor of his car. While the engine throbbed, a roar came from the garage. The truck appeared, with Harry Vincent at the wheel. It swung westward and stopped to pick up Cliff Marsland, who clambered aboard the front seat. The truck crossed the avenue; Doctor Tam started the coupe on its trail.

ROLLING along the side street, Harry spoke to Cliff. He told his companion that the garage man had suspected nothing. The Middleton to Dyke transfer had been accepted as an item of ordinary business.

As Harry talked, he neared the next avenue. A stop light was glowing red beneath an elevated structure.

Harry applied the brakes.

As the truck came to a standstill, two figures arose from behind the wide front seat. Clutching yellow hands thrust forward from the darkened interior. One pair of claws gripped Harry’s throat; the other pair tightened about Cliff’s neck.

Fiercely, The Shadow’s agents struggled; they could not wrest away those clutching hands that yanked them backward. Over the low seat, into the darkness of the truck; there they writhed as they fought with their assailants. Tuan and Leng, secreted in the truck, were the men with whom Harry and Cliff struggled.

The Chinese were skillful fighters. Wiry and powerful, they had gained an advantage at the start. Each was choking his victim into submission; yet The Shadow’s agents rallied against the odds. Twisting, Harry pushed Tuan to the floor, while Cliff made a fierce yank to free himself from Leng.

Then came two new attackers, piling across the front seat. Doctor Tam and Satsu had stopped in front of the truck. Coming fresh into the fray, they stopped the rally. Flattened beneath four fierce assailants, Cliff and Harry were lashed with ready thongs. Half choked, they could give no outcry before gags were stuffed into their mouths.

Tuan and Leng took the front seat. Doctor Tam and Satsu returned to their coupe. The traffic light had changed to green; then back to red, but no interrupting traffic had come along this little-used thoroughfare. Doctor Tam waited for the green, then started off toward Chinatown.

They reached the little street by the tea shop and the truck was backed against the curb. Doctor Tam superintended the removal of the prisoners. The Chinaman in the tea shop opened the door that led through the rear shipping room. Others, upstairs, aided in carrying the captives through Doctor Tam’s office, off through a labyrinth of passages in an empty house at the rear.

DOCTOR TAM remained in his office. With him was Satsu, who had been relieved as burden carrier.

Also present was one other: Noy Dow, the Chinese student. The bespectacled young Chinaman had been in the office when Tam and the others entered.

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