The Shadow - 265 - The Black Dragon by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1943-02-28T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XI

THE DRAGON’S MESSENGER

THE anguished shriek that started from Ming Dwan’s lips was interrupted on

the instant. So suddenly did death jab home that it was done and over before the

echoes of the broken cry had faded. The stroke itself was merciless, but the swift result was merciful.

Crumpling forward, Ming Dwan’s frail form sagged across the desktop. Her hand gave a lifeless slither away from the spot where death had struck. There, where a carved, jet dragon had reared itself into a living instrument of murder, lay a plasmic mass of blackness dyed with crimson. From the gel, the redness began to ooze into a slanted furrow that had plowed the teak of Li Huang’s desk.

Strange how the echoes of Ming Dwan’s cry followed the roar that suppressed

the scream itself!

Perhaps it was because the shriek was piercing, voiced in a moment of mortal agony; whereas the roar, though louder, had come with the burst of a thunderclap, an appropriate accompaniment for the flash of flame that produced it.

Yes, death had been swift and merciful, to a creature that deserved death yet could not appreciate mercy - the poison lizard!

His gun still smoking in his fist, The Shadow sprang in from the doorway and caught Ming Dwan as her sliding arm carried her body across the far corner of the desk. Brushing the tumbled laundry from the handy chair, he rested the girl there and tilted her chin upward. Ming Dwan’s breath came back with a gasp, as her eyes opened wide.

The opium-tainted air, the lizard’s hissing death jab, the sudden explosion

of The Shadow’s gun - any of those could have been enough to throw a person into

a faint. Not such a person as Ming Dwan. It had taken all three - and more to

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