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question." He stared at the torn car, the broken windows. "I would say, however, that it was T.N.T."

"Should I skoit around it?" Shrevvie asked.

"May as well. There's no way of telling from this what the explosion was about."

"Where to?"
That was a question. The galleys held the answer to why Teller had been rubbed out. The next question
was why had Corbaccio not tried to get the data before killing the columnist? Which in turn led to the
next question. Who was Corbaccio's superior? Even Teller's information had not contained an inkling of
that.

The Shadow said, "Stop at the next phone booth."

In the darkness inside the booth The Shadow dialed Burbank's number. He asked, "Any news from
Hawkeye?"

"Glad you called." Burbank said. "I've been trying to get you. Are you up to date on what's been going
on?"

"I know about Teller's death."

"I thought you would."

"I want to know about an explosion at..." The Shadow gave the address.

"Haven't heard anything about that yet. I'll get someone out on it," Burbank said. "Hawkeye did check in.
He's still tailing Bill Martin. He picked him up again near his office. He swears he won't lose him this time
no matter what happens."

"Nothing else?"

"I had a man on Corbaccio but he lost him in the sane neighborhood that Hawkeye lost Martin. Up near
Columbus Circle."

"I see. Thanks." The Shadow hung up.

Back in the cab he said, "This'll be all for a while."

Shrevvie knew what that meant. He drove carefully to the building that housed The Shadow's hidden
aerie.

In that quiet dark room The Shadow lost no time in getting a map of Manhattan. He laid it out on his
desk. He drew a circle around Central Park South. All trails seemed to end there.

Could the hidden head of all this tangle of greed, chicanery, torture and death be hidden somewhere in
this area? The little circle of light from the single lamp acted like a spotlight on the section of the map that
occupied the attention of the man in black.

In an apartment well within the area that The Shadow was speculating about there was an air of