The Shadow 162 Chicago Crime by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1938-10-31T23:00:00+00:00

who had tasted too much lead.

Looking over the victims, the police came to an obvious conclusion. Two rival gangs had met at this corner and gone out for carnage in a big way. It reminded the cops of the old days, when any corner in Chicago could have become

a dueling ground.

True, there had been trouble in the Club Miche not very many nights ago.

But that had been a brawl; this was a battle. The police decided that there was

no connection between the two frays.

They did consider the matter of the insurance racket, which had come into prominence within the last few days. That angle was worth investigation, because this trouble had begun with an automobile crash.

But the police, to a man, laughed down one witness who said he thought that fighting hoodlums had been shooting at a single human target. That was ridiculous! One man couldn’t have stood up against an entire mob, let alone account for all the thugs who had fallen in the fray.

The two-mob theory was the only answer that made sense; and the police were too busy looking for vanished hoodlums to worry about the manhole cover.

They searched the smashed cars and the truck. By the time that they had finished, wrecking cars pulled up to haul away the debris.

When all that was over, the manhole cover tilted upward. From beneath the disk, keen eyes studied the crossing, deserted except for occasional passing cars. Each time one approached, the cover settled back into place until there was a lengthy stretch between two oncoming cars.

That was when The Shadow gave the disk a powerful upward heave. Rolling out from the lip, he eased the cover down again, then glided quickly to the sidewalk to escape the revealing glare of the next car.

From that darkness, The Shadow whispered a grim laugh, almost a reminder of the battle that had gone before. For, in that mirth, The Shadow was promising more ill fortune to Long Steve Bydle and all who served the big-shot.

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