"Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 027 - The Silent Death" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grant Maxwell)

"To-night!" ejaculated the gang leader. "Say, professor, you don't realize what we saw to-night. We saw
The Shadow at work! Get that? Saw him, and got away with it!"

"Is that unusual?"

"Is it unusual? Listen, professor, it's lucky for us we were tucked out of sight across the street. You saw
what he did to those two gorillas, didn't you? Well, we'd have taken it, too, if he'd known we were
around!"

"Do you think so?" Professor Urlich's tone was ironical. "Well, Ricordo, I believe you are wrong. The
ShadowтАФas you term himтАФis unquestionably a dangerous foe. I observed that fact tonight.
"At the same time, it is quite obvious that he utilizes the inferior methods that you employ: open attack,
with apparent violence.

"Such cannot compare with the ways at my disposal. Silent deathтАФ subtle deathтАФthose are more
dangerous than ordinary weapons. You saw my method this evening. It failed; but that was not Alfred
Sartain's doing. The intervention of The Shadow was the unknown factor that I had not anticipated."

"Maybe not," objected Ricordo, in a bitter tone, "but, just the same, The Shadow queered the works.
What are we going to do about it? Old Jocelyn has lost out on his big deal, hasn't he?"

"Jocelyn will not suffer," returned Urlich calmly. "His holdings are sound. Perhaps he will lose something
on them. That will not matter. He will regain the loss later on. Alfred Sartain was but one of those who
are upon our list."

"Now you're getting there," grinned Ricordo. "We're going right ahead, eh? Well, we're all
rightтАФproviding The Shadow doesn't muscle in again."

"I am glad to hear you consider that possibility," cackled Urlich. "It has much to do with the plans that I
now contemplate. We are going to forget Thomas Jocelyn for the present. We will give him time to
recuperate; both nervously and financially. In the meantime, we will render the future certain."

"How?"

"By eliminating The Shadow!"

LARRY RICORDO spread his puffy lips as he heard the professor's words. His expression was one of
astonishment. Then the open mouth formed a broad, doubting grin.

"You won't be able to do it, professor," declared the gang leader, with regret in his tone. "How can you
fight a man you can't find? They've tried to get The Shadow before. He's stopped every one that's
chanced it.

"When the big shots found that The Shadow was real, they framed every way they could think of. They
even planted a bunch of gorillas around the radio studio where he broadcast. They never found him there.


"When he shows up any place, it's like he did to-nightтАФthrough a skylightтАФout of the airтАФfrom the
middle of a mob -"