The Shadow 144 The Murder Master by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1938-02-14T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XIII

THE SHADOW’S ALLY

WHEN The Shadow awakened, he was conscious of dim daylight, enough to give

him an idea of his new surroundings. He was reclining on a couch in a small room

that appeared to be part of a large, old-fashioned apartment.

His cloak was still on his shoulders; his hat lay on a chair beside the couch. The dimness of the room was caused by the lowered shades. Rising, somewhat shaky, The Shadow went to the window and raised the blind.

He was gazing from a fifth-story, over lowlying blocks of buildings in the neighborhood of the Greenwich Village section of New York. The spire of the

Empire State Building, glistening in sunlight, formed a fairly distant mark that

enabled him to gauge his present location.

Air still seemed touched with ozone, but its freshness no longer had that overwhelming effect. The Shadow felt weak; he attributed that to his need of food. In fact, the daylight bothered him more than the air. He decided that it would be best to rest his eyes while the dawn increased.

Again stretched on the couch, The Shadow looked occasionally toward the window. He noticed that the glare was becoming gradually less. That puzzled him, until he made another trip to the window. Noting the glisten on the Empire

State Building tower, The Shadow recognized his previous error.

This was not dawn; it was sunset. It had taken him a full day to recover from the effects of Quedden’s high-powered gas.

Since dusk was near, it would not be long before someone came to this room. The Shadow thought of that, while he stood beside the window. As he started another trip toward the couch, he heard a soft knock at the door.

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