The Shadow - 233 - The Blackmail King by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1941-10-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XI. TRAILS CLOSE

FOUR men formed a serious group in the office where Homer Fengram conducted his financial transactions. One conference, between Fengram and the attorney, Blaine Kemball, had ended abruptly when the other men arrived.

The others were Inspector Joe Cardona and Ferdy Brythe. They had phoned Kemball’s apartment and learned that he was at Fengram’s; hence, they had come directly to the financier’s mansion. There, Cardona’s news of Sandra’s abduction struck like a bombshell.

“Impossible, inspector!” exclaimed Fengram. “Why, Mr. Kemball has just assured me that Miss Brett is in Florida.”

“I thought she was,” assured Kemball. “Only -“

“Thought she was!” chided Fengram in basso rumble. “You said you talked to her by long distance, only an hour ago.”

“It was she who made the call,” said Kemball weakly. “Perhaps she deceived me -“

Sandra had deceived Kemball, but not in the way the lawyer meant. He thought she had gone to Florida and stayed there. His talk of a long-distance call was simply part of the pretense.

Looking at Kemball, Fengram saw that the lawyer was giving him some sort of double talk, and Fengram’s broad face stiffened, even to his double chin. Then Cardona, inadvertently, helped Kemball out of his predicament.

“Sandra Brett is here in New York,” declared Cardona in a positive tone. “She foresaw some trouble and asked Ferdy Brythe to look out for her. The trouble hit and Brythe did his best, but it wasn’t enough.

Four men piled into him at once.”

“Eight men,” corrected Ferdy.

Cardona gave a sideward look. He remembered that Ferdy had first numbered his assailants as a round dozen.

“Make it six,” bargained Joe. Then, to the others: “Anyway, the girl has been kidnapped and we’ll have to do something about it.”

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