The Shadow 230 The Devil Master by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1941-08-31T22:00:00+00:00

was located. Nearing that destination, he saw lights on the fifth floor; the one

he wanted.

There was an elevator in the old building, but it had no operator.

Instead

of ringing the bell that would have summoned the night watchman, The Shadow took

the elevator up to the fifth floor. There, he tried the door to Wendyke’s suite

of offices. It opened, and peering through, The Shadow saw a few sleepy-looking

clerks at their desks.

Wendyke’s private office was in the far corner. Instead of passing through

the larger room, The Shadow went back around the hall. Past the corner, he found

another door, which led into the private office. It had an arrow pointing to the

main door, which showed it wasn’t ordinarily used.

Probing with a tiny pick-like instrument, The Shadow encountered a key in the lock. Using a pair of special tweezers, he gave the key a silent turn and opened the door inward. At that very moment he was conscious of buzzing voices,

that paused abruptly. Someone must have noted the key’s final twist.

Whipping across the threshold, The Shadow flipped the door shut with one hand and produced an automatic with the other. He halted, the gun poised ready,

to gaze toward a desk where Gifford Wendyke, gray-haired and pompous, sat glaring because of the intrusion. But Wendyke, though the center of the scene, was very unimportant.

He was flanked by two men, one at each side of the desk, who had also swung toward the door. One was Prince Fuji Yeddo, smug as ever, but with the glint that represented evil cunning flashing from his darting eyes. The other was a man that The Shadow had never met, but who needed no introduction.

He was an old Chinaman whose ageless countenance was no index to his real ability. Two black dots for eyes; twisty lips that held a crafty smile against the tawny background of a deep-lined face, marked this human product of Old China as the notorious Professor Su Yeng.

Masters had met. Two men of evil, Prince Yeddo and Su Yeng, were confronting one who stood for justice, The Shadow. Smiles were the answers of these evil masters to The Shadow’s whispered laugh.

Whether The Shadow could efface those smirks, or their owners could silence his laugh forever, was a question that this meeting might decide!

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