"Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 008 - The Black Master" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grant Maxwell)

"I have seen them work in Berlin. I have been to Italy, Spain -"

He shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands in a characteristic gesture.

"You figure there's communists in back of it?" observed the inspector. "It certainly looks that way. You
ought to know. Coming right after May Day, when we broke up those celebrations they tried to hold, it
looks like a straight Bolshevik move."

"A campaign of terrorism, that's what it is! We want to stop it! Soon!"

"They picked the spots, all right," said Cardona.

"Ah, yes," agreed Doctor Zerndorff. He began to count on his fingers. "The first, you see, was in Wall
Street, the place that means money - capital.

"Then in the big station was another bomb and in the subway. That has frightened the people. But the
most important has been the newspaper office.

"It is the newspaper which has done much to hurt these bomb men!"

"How do you figure they framed it?" questioned Cardona.

"Framed? Ah, yes! You mean, how they have planned? I cannot say. My brain" - Doctor Zerndorff
tapped his forehead - "is not yet to tell you how they have done this. It is to tell you who has done these
things.

"You, Mr. Detective, can find out how these things were done. That will be your evidence, yes? I shall
help you, but right now I am seeking to find those men we want!"

"The nearest we can figure," said Cardona, "is that the Wall Street bomb was planted in an ash can
beside a building. But no one saw it done.

"We think the Grand Central bomb was put in the showcase of the cigar stand. There we've got
something to work on. It must have been delivered in a package.

"The subway bomb, up at Columbus Circle, could have been planted by almost anybody; we figure it
was under one of the long wooden seats, inside the turnstiles.

"But we can't dope out how one was shoved into the managing editor's office at the Evening Classic."
"Very soon," said Zerndorff quietly, "I shall tell you who the men may be. You must find out those men
that you suspect.

"Then we shall fit like this" - he joined his spread fingers - "and we shall know enough to make those
arrests that Mr. Inspector wishes."

"We've been looking for planted bombs," said Burke. "We haven't found any. Maybe that means there's
going to be no more explosions."

"We think there were four killed in the Classic office, and there were a lot badly injured," said Cardona.
"We've identified the managing editor and two reporters; but we think there was another there - a