"Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 116 - Intimidation,Inc" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grant Maxwell)

Startled eyes stared when they saw Link Delvo. Hands reached for guns;
then halted. Klondike and the other racketeers saw Link's right hand in its
coat pocket. They could see the bulge of the gun inside. Klondike decided to
speak for the group.
"What's the idea?" he growled. "You lam outta town; then you barge in
again and think you're with us."
"Yeah?" grated The Shadow. "Who says I lammed?"
Klondike shifted uneasily.
"That's the way the grapevine had it," he began. "We've been going on
what
we've heard."
"From now on, you're going by what you see!"


THERE was a lieutenant seated in back of the table, as temporary chairman
of the meeting. The fellow got up when he heard a growled order from Link
Delvo. Playing the tough part to perfection, The Shadow took the chair and
pounded for order.
"Sack Balban wasn't big enough for this job," announced The Shadow, "and
neither was Nobby Kilgan. You know what happened to the pair of them."
The table drawer was part way open. In it, The Shadow saw a small, empty
bottle; one that had once contained a supply of Sack's digestion tablets. The
Shadow tossed the empty bottle on the table.
"Sack used to take pills out of that," he jeered. From his pocket, he
brought the .45 and thwacked it on the table. "I don't take pills, I give
them!
They're lead pills and I give them out of this!"
Klondike and the others eyed the big revolver as The Shadow brandished
it.
They met the gaze of glaring eyes that leered from Link Delvo's hardened
face.
"Nobby Kilgan welshed." Listeners heard the statement from Link's twisted
lips. "He was ready to hand over a cut to some guy who calls himself
Intimidation, Incorporated. Nobby got his - and I know who dished it to him!"
The significance of the rasped tone gave the impression that Link Delvo
was announcing himself as the man who had finished Nobby. It added the idea
that Link might also be the murderer of Sack. A few of the listeners still
felt
that Nobby was the one responsible for Sack's death; but that merely added to
their feeling that Link Delvo meant business. Granting that Nobby had been
smart enough to get rid of Sack, it made Link all the more formidable, since
he
had rubbed out Nobby.
"I'm taking over," announced The Shadow, in the hard tone of Link. "I'm
running this outfit the way Sack Balban handled it. Fifty-fifty. This
Intimidation, Incorporated, guy that worried you is out! Let him holler for
his
cut. He won't get it."