The Shadow - 132 - The Yellow Band by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1937-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

They reached the ground. Rounding the corner from the fire tower, the pair reached a sedan in which they had left Wylett and Gancy.

“Where’s Allard?” panted Kurman. “Did you see him?”

“No;” returned Gancy. “Didn’t you arrest him?”

“We arrested him,” voiced Cleer, “but the guy sprang a Houdini on us! We figured he slid out through a window!”

All stared toward the hotel wall. They saw no sign of Allard; nor did they see the black shape that was weaving a course past a cluster of palmetto bushes. The Shadow was reaching the very corner past which Kurman and Cleer had dashed.

“Maybe he didn’t come down at all,” suggested Wylett. “That wall doesn’t look so easy to me.”

Kurman’s eyes went up; he saw one of his men peering from a window of Allard’s suite. Kurman shouted to learn if they had found the missing prisoner. A headshake was the only response.

From beyond the corner of the hotel came the throb of a starting taxi. The building cut off the noise.

None of those beside the sedan heard it. It was sheer luck that enabled them to learn the last stage of Allard’s getaway.

There was a shout from Allard’s suite. One of the squad members, looking from a side window, had seen the taxi’s start. The man above Kurman called down the news.

Cleer was at the wheel of the sedan. Kurman hopped in beside him. They wheeled around the corner, to spy a speeding cab, two blocks ahead. Cleer gave the car full speed. Like Kurman, the tall dick was fired by one sole ambition: to overtake Allard and again place the prisoner under arrest.

Ill luck had marred the final moment of The Shadow’s superb ruse. He had vanished from the very hands of Kurman and Cleer, only to have them take up his trail.

Gancy and Wylett were highly pleased by the shift that events had taken. No longer hounded, they had become party to a pursuit staged by the law. The burden was on Allard, as they wanted.

The two crooks would have been still further pleased, had they guessed how much this chase was to help Zunick’s contribution to the crime chest of the Yellow Band.

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