The Shadow 232 Dictator of Crime by Maxwell Grant

The Shadow 232 Dictator of Crime by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1941-09-30T22:00:00+00:00


Another guard was coming through the patio, blinking a flashlight toward the shrubs along the walk. So The Shadow hoisted his stunned prisoner and carried him away, rifle and all, under the fringe of the balcony.

Reaching an isolated marble bench, The Shadow mounted it and shouldered his human burden over the balcony rail. Poking the rifle through the uprights, The Shadow finished by climbing over the rail itself.

MEANWHILE, the glow from the flashlight had stopped back at the steps. The Shadow heard orders in Spanish, slurred with the local dialect. The inspector was evidently an officer come to organize the new guards. Finding the steps unwatched, he simply supposed that they had been overlooked, so he was summoning another soldier to patrol the weak spot.

Binding and gagging the man who had forcibly gone off duty, The Shadow tried a door leading in from the balcony. It was locked and bolted on the other side, so he tackled a window, instead. The window had a heavy grating, clamped on the inside, but The Shadow’s fingers, probing through, worked delicate wonders with those clamps. The grating came loose.

All was silent in the mansion. Occasional lamps, soft in their glow, revealed deserted rooms furnished in exquisite Spanish style. There were short hallways, abbreviated flights of steps, that gave the house the semblance of catacombs, though the atmosphere itself was pleasant.

Below a curving flight of stairs The Shadow saw a stronger light, that indicated a habitable portion of the ancient domicile. He glided down the curving stairs and came to a square hall, not more than ten feet on a side.

The light was from the ceiling, and the hallway, with tiled floor and walls, was something of a patio in miniature. Opposite the stairway was a curtained doorway, through which more light came. On either side were similar curtains, denoting darkened rooms.

Considering the solitude upstairs, those side rooms would also seem deserted. The Shadow’s logical course was across the hallway, to the door at the other end. He started there.

It was then that the lulling atmosphere produced a warning. The place was too quiet, too unguarded, to be safe. The thought flashed to The Shadow’s brain a split-second before the trouble came. Before he could get his hand to a gun, the curtains at each side of the hallway parted simultaneously.

From each direction sprang an attacker. Wearing no uniforms, their drab attire gave them the look of spies, or servants, both dark-faced, and so alike that they might have been twins. But The Shadow had no time for such comparisons, except in relation to the weapons that the pair carried. Each dark attacker was brandishing a machete.

Both deadly blades were slashing for The Shadow. Had he remained rooted, his doom would have been sure. At best, he was only able to wheel toward the man on the right, meeting him a moment earlier than the other; but the quick twist was a lifesaver.

The first machete sliced above The Shadow, carving nothing more than a portion of his cloak sleeve.



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