"Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 298 - The Stars Promise" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grant Maxwell)

City. A resort of this size was the sort where one would make acquaintances merely as a visitor, hence
The Shadow had thought the fact applied in Trenkler's case. The housekeeper hadn't mentioned any
connection between Trenkler and Seaview City, but the news item itself explained why.

It stated that Trenkler had moved to New York more than thirty years before. The housekeeper, The
Shadow now recalled, had been in Trenkler's employ only during past few years.

At any rate, the news of Trenkler's death had reached Seaview City ahead of The Shadow's arrival as
Lamont Cranston. The Shadow had left such a possibility out of his calculations, since Trenkler wasn't
important enough to rate an obit except in his home town. It was just bad luck that the home town
happened to be Seaview City, though The Shadow could see other connections.

Something was afoot in Seaview City that called for outside contact. Somebody must have remembered
Trenkler for the doubtful character he was, or kept in touch with him during the years between.

What Trenkler's name may have meant to Klurg was a wide-open question. Perhaps it meant less than
the names of certain race horses, because Klurg had checked a few of those on the sporting page. The
newspaper, however, wasn't all that served Klurg in the way of literature. Lying over beside the chair
was a folder that The Shadow promptly picked up and spread out to half the size of a newspaper.
The folder bore the photograph of a man who wore a turban and a bushy black beard and in large type it
stated:

DOCTOR DEE

HE TELLS

YOUR LUCKY STARS

AND NUMBERS

Pictured on the chart was a figure with bow and arrow, entitled "Sagittarius, The Archer" and beneath it
was the legend: "A Reading for Those Born Under This Sign."

The reading was largely stock stuff, but Cranston's eye was quickly caught with certain paragraphs
marked in pencil, which Klurg appropriately would have checked.

One paragraph referred to "Business and Speculation" and gave a list of lucky days where such were
concerned. One of the dates was the tenth, which happened to be this day, and there was a penciled ring
around it.

Further along was a paragraph with a much more vital significance. Since it was also marked, Cranston
read it closely. It stated:

"Due to the unfavorable position of Saturn, Sagittarians are at present subject to serious accidents during
this period. They should therefore guard well their actions as they may meet with untimely and perhaps
fatal misfortune often due to highly unexpected causes."

A voice spoke suddenly at The Shadow's elbow; it might have startled another person, but he instantly
defined its tone. It was coming from the radio, a small set half hidden among a stack of old newspapers,
and an announcer was giving the results of the day's races.