"Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 195 - The Spy Ring" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grant Maxwell)

THE SPY RING
Maxwell Grant
This page copyright ┬й 2002 Blackmask Online.

http://www.blackmask.com

? CHAPTER I. DEEDS AT DUSK
? CHAPTER II. THE BROKEN TRAIL
? CHAPTER III. COVERED CRIME
? CHAPTER IV. THE NEW ALLIANCE
? CHAPTER V. WITHIN THE CIRCLE
? CHAPTER VI. THE ILSA MEETS
? CHAPTER VII. THE MISSING MESSAGE
? CHAPTER VIII. TRIPLE BATTLE
? CHAPTER IX. THE GAME TO COME
? CHAPTER X. THE LOST TRAIL
? CHAPTER XI. THE AMAZING MR. CRANSTON
? CHAPTER XII. THE MAN WHO FAILED
? CHAPTER XIII. THE LINE TO CRIME
? CHAPTER XIV. HIDDEN STRATEGY
? CHAPTER XV. THE FATAL NIGHT
? CHAPTER XVI. BATTLE OF BLACKNESS
? CHAPTER XVII. FIND THE SHADOW
? CHAPTER XVIII. ENEMIES AT LARGE
? CHAPTER XIX. THE THREE-WAY GAME
? CHAPTER XX. BATTLE OF STEEL
? CHAPTER XXI. FRUITS OF FLIGHT
? CHAPTER XXII. THE HIGHEST BIDDER

CHAPTER I. DEEDS AT DUSK
THE APEX AIRPLANE CO. was working overtime. Its many windows were alight, its walls thrummed
to the pound and whine of machinery. Only one section of the plant offered anything that resembled quiet
and seclusionтАФthe executive offices in the corner of the second floor.

A peaked-face man sat at a desk that bore the name plate: JAMES DARR. Busy with account books,
Darr didn't look up when a door opened and another man came out. But Darr was listening, intently. He
heard the executive lock the door behind him and stride out through the outer office.

As footsteps faded, Darr pounced to the inner door. His hand was trembling with eagerness as he used a
duplicate key to unlock the private office. Thanks to the glow of lights around the factory, Darr found an
envelope in the drawer of a big desk. Pocketing it, he hurried out, locking the inner office as the other
man had done.

The executive had gone to supper at the factory cafeteria. Darr had thirty minutes to do what he planned.
Time enough.
They were particular about employees leaving the plant; guards were on duty outside the entrance to the
offices. But Darr had a good-enough excuse; one that he had tested previously.

"The boss wants to check over the expense sheets," Darr told a guard. "The ones that I've been working
on at home. Drive me over to my diggings, Kelly. It will only take me ten minutes to collect them."