The Shadow 009 - Sabotage

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Engine off, standing by commander. Shit, both speed ahead.

What's the engine room? Hello. Hello, engine room.

We've had to get to the point for the explosion, three casualties.

What happened, commander? Oil or explosion, Lieutenant?

Hard luck, sir. Luck nothing. You mean another case of sabotage?

Yes, sabotage.

Number in, L-21 calling submarine base.

Submarine, L-21 calling submarine base.

Submarine base, L-21. Go ahead, L-21.

Submarine, L-21. In distress. Submarine, L-21, down off diamond heads.

Cannot drive. Emergency. Emergency.

Up, dammit. Looks like sabotage. Looks like sabotage.

Cruiser, returning to base. Cruiser, returning to base.

Explosion. Explosion and after gunshots.

Free dead. Fix wounded. Suspect sabotage. Suspect sabotage.

Good lord. Hello. Hello. Hello.

In post number four reporting. Explosion and fire. Explosion and fire.

And it's fire, dry dock. Tank island shipyard. Tank island shipyard.

Let's see, let's see, sabotage.

Right. Tank island shipyard. We know about it.

It's really an explosion of fire.

Hey fellas, here's Admiral Teely now.

About one of the findings of the board, Admiral.

Admiral, what's the dope on this sabotage ring?

Gentlemen, the board has authorized me to make this statement to the press.

Let's have it, Admiral.

Yeah, let's have the load on, Admiral.

Our inquiry indicates that all ships affected by recent acts of sabotage

have all been built, reconditioned or repaired in the Sag Island Yard.

Sag Island, eh?

Yes.

And every resource at the command of the government

is being directed towards the apprehension of those responsible

for the systematic blows at the naval defense strength of the United States.

This is a mob crap.

And would you mind telling me where you've been to the past five days?

I was really practical until I got your call asking me to meet you.

And neither is old clothes, and why haven't you shared?

I'm sorry, Margo. I've been at Sag Island.

Sag Island? You mean whether having all the trouble in the shipyard?

Yes, it seems to be a case where the shadow might be of some use to his country.

You've uncovered something. Is that why you said to me, Le Mans?

I'm not sure, but I stumbled on something last night.

It's been a process of elimination.

Where are we going? That is our island?

Yes, we're almost there now.

The mount had anything definite to work on. It seemed so hopeless.

You'll forget, Margo, that I, as the shadow of a certain gift.

You mean what the underworld called the power of indiscipline?

Yes, and the ability to read other men's minds,

particularly the mind of a man who has something to hide.

But you've got to find that man first, Le Mans.

I know.

Do you mean that out of the 3,000 men in the Sag Island shipyard,

you found the one man who was eluded, the secret service, the police,

and everyone for weeks?

I think I have, Margo. I know for sure tonight.

What do you want me to do, Le Mans? We're coming in the Sag Island now.

I want you to go to the Sag Island hotel.

Take a room and set up the shortwave radio app that you brought it to ensure.

Yes, it's in the baggage to go out.

Now listen, Margo.

Cune in the wave I use as the shadow and wait.

Wait all night if this is real. Not the car here, Margo.

Yes.

Le Mans, I know you don't believe in women's intuition.

At least you pretend you don't believe in women's intuition.

On the contrary, I have a healthy respect for intuition.

I'll be careful. I have a premonition myself.

Le Mans, Cass, you tell me anything more.

I can only tell you I'm going into that bar down the street.

If this man is the one I think he is,

we will have a very interesting visit in that bar.

Hey, bartender. Set him up again.

Yeah, one more round.

I'm doing boys.

Close the time.

All right, come on, Jake.

Okay.

You're nice. Come on, Bill. Let's go.

Good night, boys.

Holy Mackle, two o'clock already.

No, I'll pass this quickly when the man is talking about himself, Mr. Brooklyn.

Wow.

What have I been talking about?

What have I been?

Say, who the devil are you anyway?

If you're one of them secret service guys

trying to pump me, you're bucking up the wrong tree.

You're not a secret service, man.

And then what's your game?

What's yours?

You're not looking for a job. You're a phony.

I have a good notion to turn you over to the cops.

They're running up guys like you.

Sit down, Buckler.

Listen to me. You get it, it's both in trouble.

Huh?

Who sent you here? Who told you to look me up?

Would it help if I told you what you're thinking, Buckler?

Which stall and who sent him?

He's running through your mind over and over again.

I see it like a picture on a slate.

You're thinking...

Did on, I'm sending him.

Did on, I'm sending him.

You're a liar. I never mentioned on I'm name.

Never heard of him.

And why are you thinking of a name you never heard?

Don't be a fool, Buckler.

I know.

What do you know?

What do you send you for? What's wrong? Why did you...

Yes.

Nothing.

Which parent of me like that are I?

You were going to say, why didn't I and I am tell me himself?

Those we go asking.

No, no. He don't want me back to know.

If you go in on this, you ought to know that.

Listen, you...

I don't know how much you know around me.

Hey, you two are fast closing down.

Come on, I'll clear out. Tomorrow's another day.

Well, I pray that I will just leave it.

Yeah.

But you have to go out to the alley.

I locked up the front door, and I hate unlocking it again.

I'm along, Buckler.

We can finish our talk on the way.

On the way to where?

I'm along, I'll show you.

All right.

We can cut through the alley.

We can talk on the way.

Yeah.

We can talk.

After you, Buckler.

Okay. Come on.

Hey, come on. What's the idea?

We're going down the dark alley, ain't we?

Hey, you. Cut the comedy and come on.

Your companion has left you, Mr. Buckler.

He saw your hand slip into that pocket where you carry a blackjack.

He saw the picture in your mind.

And knowing you meant to crush his skull, he asked me to take his place.

What is this, a flame-up?

Who was that guy?

Who are you?

Steve Buckler, you're a traitor.

You're selling your birthright, Your Honor.

Your country's safe day.

For money, you'll never live to collect.

How do you know all that?

Who are you, anyway?

This is your first excursion in crime, isn't it, Buckler?

What difference does that make?

Who are you? What do you want?

If you had any contact with the underworld,

you wouldn't have to ask who I am.

Have you ever heard of a shadow, Steve Buckler?

The shadow.

So that's it.

That's where you are.

The man who can hide anywhere that no one has ever seen.

Yes, Buckler.

The man no one has ever seen.

Don't move.

Shall I tell you what you're thinking?

I see the picture inside your head.

You're thinking you'd kill me if you could only see me.

You like the other guy.

You can't tell what I'm thinking.

All right, you got me dead to right.

What do you want me to do?

Stop taking orders from Anheim.

Is that all?

Do you think you're not going to turn me over to the secret service?

No.

No, I'm going to give you one more chance, Steve Buckler.

One last chance.

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I have found our man. He is meeting someone.

The shadow will be with him. Stand by.

Who's there? Who's there? It's Rigo. Let me in, Buckler.

Oh, okay. Where's Donheim? Why didn't he come?

What makes you think he'd be fool enough to come here just because you're sent word you're in trouble?

I've got to see him. I've got to talk to him, Rigo.

What's the matter with you? The secret serviceman been asking you questions again?

No, they don't suspect anything. But somebody else is after us.

Somebody knows Donheim is back of all its sabotage.

Who is it? Come on, Buckler out with it.

If it's gone, then I'll tell you. It's the shadow.

The shadow. Don't give me that. It's the truth. That's why I phoned Donheim.

I've got the money you promised me. I've got to get away from here.

Listen, you fool. How did the shadow get wise to you?

How much did you know? I'm not sure.

How did he find out, as you told him?

I didn't tell him. He can read your mind. Listen.

You've got to take me to Hanheim. I've got to get away.

How did you get away from the shadow?

You let me go. City will give me one last chance.

You're lying, Buckler. People don't get away from the shadow.

He doesn't let them go unless they're working for him.

Listen, if you're trying to pull a double cross on Hanheim, you'll never live to tell it.

I'm telling you the truth, Rigo. You've got to believe me.

All right. Maybe you are.

It just happens we've got another job for you that will prove whether you're on the level with Hanheim or not.

I can't do anything more. The shadow knows I'm responsible for all those accidents.

You'll find me. You can't hide anybody like that.

I can't find you dead if you don't do as you're told.

Besides, Buckler, you'd like to get that $50,000 on Hanheim promise you, wouldn't you?

I've done more than he asked already. I've earned that $50,000 that doesn't times over.

Maybe you have. But you don't get it unless you carry out Hanheim's orders.

Well, this is the last. It'll be easy for you. And it won't take you long.

I'll wait for you. Take it on Hanheim's place. He'll pay you off and you can be on your way.

I don't know what about it, Buckler.

What does he want this time?

It's that battered cruiser that's going out on a trial run in the morning.

It's too late to camp with anything now, Regal.

So what? Your turbine inspector. Your schedule to go along. We know that, but how?

What can I do? It's too late, I tell you.

I'll show you what you're going to do. You see this metal tube?

Yeah. What do you want me to do with it?

You're going aboard the cruiser and plant that inside some piece of machinery.

Some place where it gets smashed on the engine start.

What's in that tube?

Oh, nothing much. Just enough nitro blister into the turbine's out of that cruiser.

No, I won't throw it. It'd kill every man in the engine room.

You won't be the first time, Buckler.

I couldn't carry that thing into the yard. They're searching everybody. We go.

Quit stalling, will you? We know they don't search inspectors.

That's why you've been so useful.

All right.

Suppose I can't get it in the machinery. Get off the ship before she tails.

I'll have I know Hanheim will keep his word.

Pay me off. Let me get away.

I didn't come here to bargain with you, Buckler.

All I know is Hanheim told me to bring you back after you'd carried out his orders.

All right. I'll do it.

This is the last time. Give me that tube.

Now you're talking. But look after that stuff. It's touching.

Well, come on. What are you waiting for?

You better go for it.

Nothing doing. I'm making sure you get to the yard.

That cruiser sails with a flood tide.

And don't try anything because I'll be waiting for you in my car when you come out.

Well, come on.

Margolaine. Margolaine.

Drive to ship yard. Watch for black sedan parked in front of red brick building.

Our man is the Buckler ship inspector.

I am following a leadership yard to prevent another accident.

Margolaine. Don't go inside of that black sedan.

You will lead us to the real head of the sabotage ring.

Morning, Mr. Buckler.

Oh. Morning, Mr. Buckler.

Giving you the turbines a bit of plenty of inspection before we start on the trial run.

Yeah.

I thought I'd have a look around.

Go right ahead.

I have to check the gauges.

Let me know if you find anything that leads to judgment.

I'll let you know, Mr. Buckler.

I'll show on it.

I'll show on another plane to go through with it.

And now, this way to those turbines start spinning.

So they smash that metal tube of nitro-clicker in.

Just wait.

Everything with our right, Mr. Buckler?

Yeah.

Yeah, everything's fine. Just fine, Mr. Buckler.

It's fine.

Yes.

Everything will be just fine.

Just a moment.

As soon as I have removed the tube of nitro-clicker and the Buckler put in the turbine.

Roger.

Marko. Marko, wait a minute.

Oh, the Mark, thanks. Heavens, you're here.

There goes that rusted in.

Buckler, the man named Rico. Follow him and don't get too close.

What happened, Mr. Buckler?

Well, first I tried to get out another sabotage job. The man named Anheim.

He's the man we want.

Did you stop that?

Yes, but he doesn't know it.

Don't have an accident, Marko.

We've scattered all over the landscape.

Careful, Marko.

What do you mean?

Just as this metal tube I'm carrying contains enough nitro-glycerin to blow up the kingdom's commerce.

It's jolted hot enough.

But you get it, Lamont, from Buckler.

Yes, he left it in the gearbox for battle crew, though.

So that's why you followed him into the ship?

Look down, Marko. You're getting too close to that car.

Yes, yes. I had to stop that murderous scheme, even if it meant losing track of Buckler and Rico.

But you think there leads to this man who seems to be behind all this?

The Anheim.

I'm sure of it.

Look, Lamont. We're telling you that biggest day.

Quick, Marko.

Cover up and stop.

Okay.

Lamont, look at this arm.

Redland sanitarium.

This doesn't look like a place where Anheim would have his head pulled in.

That's probably why he selected it.

Well, Marko.

This is it.

Lamont, you're not going in there alone.

Yes, the shadow is going to return this little metal instrument of death to Dr. Anheim in Kristen.

Doctor?

Yes, just look at that sign, Marko. Redland sanitarium. That's the Felix Anheim.

Residence physician.

Please, don't go in there alone, Lamont.

Let's notify the state police.

We can. I have the radio transmitter in the car.

Yes, and I want you to call the state police on the regular wavelengths.

Five minutes after I've gone in the house.

Is that a call, Lamont?

Marko, we're not dealing with amateurs.

They're undoubtedly prepared against police rates.

It's the police blunder in there. They'll only find an empty house.

I've got to go in there alone.

Don't take that metal blister in with you, Lamont.

Well, Marko, I must. This tubal concentrated death is an important part of my plan to hold those.

I've been in that house until the police break in.

Don't, Lamont. You said you were at a premonition, remember?

I don't know, Marko.

Call the police.

And in five minutes.

Five minutes.

Which is in the lap of the god.

And in the hands of the shadows.

Where are we going?

Here he is, Dr. Anheim.

Sir.

So we have to come to tell me.

You're afraid, Mr. Butler.

You wish to go away.

Far away.

Yes.

Yes, I know when I've had enough.

And I want that $50,000 and I want it quick.

So?

Have you carried out my last instructions?

Yes, I have. And that's the finish.

And the opponent, let me get away from here.

Where I'm afraid we must wait.

I do know we are sure of the success of your latest bench and sebutage, Mr. Butler.

Listen, aren't I?

I think that might go glittering on the closure will be traced to me and hour after the explosion.

Every secret service agent in this country will be after me.

And we will see that they do not find you.

I'll see to that myself.

Listen.

You'll give me that $50,000 and let me get out of here and hour after.

Oh, what?

Keep him covered, Mr. Rigo.

Don't make a move, Butler.

I hate to shoot men in the bank.

What are you going to do if we don't tell you, Mr. Butler?

Oh, and I'm warning you.

Every Rigo, not the shoot.

Do you think I didn't know you'd try something like this?

Do you think I'd come here without an ace up my sleeve?

No, Mr. Butler.

That's right.

It's a little battle.

So, with some of the night of glittering, you sent me to plan on the closure.

You know what'll happen if I throw it.

And I'll throw it if we go shoot.

Mr. Butler.

You're bluffing.

That better tube was sealed and could not be opened.

You're crazy. I opened it.

Pulled a little out of it, I...

Rigo.

I think Mr. Butler served as long enough.

He wants to go far away.

I think we should help him.

No.

No.

I don't have anything you want.

You can't kill me.

You'll be caught, too.

Mr. Butler.

This is a cemetery.

Many persons have died here.

It is quite useful.

The police think nothing of one death is more or less.

Are you sure there's no night on that bottle, doctor?

I think that sure.

I think...

Now, Mr. Rigo...

No.

The shadow.

The shadow warned me.

I should have listened.

Listen, Mr. Shadow.

Very good, Mr. Rigo.

Well, this...

This American man of mystery in the shadow.

And he interests me.

You told me something about a telephone.

Yes, he got to Butler last night.

Makes himself invisible.

As I told you about the phone, I think we'd better get out of the country for a while.

Because of this... shadow.

He's just a man using a pot of forces that infect men's minds.

Maybe, but once he gets on your trail, there's no shaking enough.

But I know something about touch forces.

We can appear in a room that being seen.

Some call it the powers of angels or devils.

But it's the art of mesmerism.

The hypnotic suggestion is very old.

And certain men of modern science have developed it amazingly.

Well, no matter how he does it, I don't want to meet the shadow.

In that case, Mr. Rigo.

Or will you be so kind as to remove that body eye?

For I dislike the presence of the dead.

All right, I'll take care of it.

I'll be in the shower, look at me.

I shall not need you.

Hey, what's funny, Doc?

What are you grinning about?

I am looking forward to a conversation man going to heaven.

Somebody coming here?

Not exactly.

Don't concern yourself, Mr. Rigo.

This is something beyond your comprehension.

Okay.

Are we on tap as an evening?

What are you waiting for, Shadow?

Why don't you just speak?

How long have you known I was in this room, Doctor?

For quite some minutes, Shadow.

Well, I'm not a master of your art of invisibility.

My mind is sensitive to such a forceful concentration

as you exert to cloak your presence.

I see.

Since you sent Rigo away, it is evident you are not afraid of me.

And fear?

Say the luxury I do not allow, Matthew, Shadow.

Your career of sabotage is over, Doctor.

I think not.

I have never met a man who did not have a pride, Shadow.

I have only one price for your kind, Doctor.

Printer.

You could be very valuable to me, Shadow.

Don't reach into that drawer, Doctor.

A gunless of no use.

A gun?

And that is a crude way of setting a distance of opinion.

But, uh, money, I can pay well.

Money won't help you.

Many leave me no alternative.

You see that little wheel set into this wall?

Yes.

I turn it and...

Yes.

Yes, Shadow.

Yes.

The room is there tight.

And serve me well on other co-occasion, Shadow.

You can't get out.

The door is locked on the outside.

What good will it do you?

To kill me if you also die?

I'm not going to kill you or myself with this gas.

But then, just enough gas will be liberated

to numb your powers of concentration.

Enough to destroy your ability to remain invisible.

You can't resist it, Shadow.

And just the moment you will weaken, become visible.

And the moment I see you,

the moment I catch the faintest glimpse of a shadowy form...

I shoot.

The air's becoming quite heavy, Shadow.

Yes.

Listen, Doctor, on-heim.

The police are closing in.

Doctor.

So, you don't trust your own powers.

You have to have the police to help you.

In a few minutes, the place will be surrounded.

That is all the time I need.

You will become visible.

I shall kill you.

And then?

And then?

I take the police a little while to break into this room.

And they do?

They will find a dead shadow.

But I shall not be here.

This door behind me leads to a passageway which leads to a bay.

The speedboat awaits me then.

I know about the speedboat, Doctor, on-heim.

When you see, the gas is doing its work.

You're weakening.

Your power of invisibility is losing it.

What is it, Rico?

Doctor, take the police.

The passageway.

The speedboat is ready to make it.

Hey, what are you doing with that gas?

What's the idea?

Wait, Rico.

The shadow.

He's here in this room.

In just a moment, he will become visible.

But you haven't time to wait.

The police are already in the house.

Don't try to escape in that speedboat.

I have turned it into a death trap, Doctor, on-heim.

Come, come, quick.

It'll be too late.

Wait, Doctor, on-heim.

Death is waiting for you in that speedboat.

A file of death of your own making.

No, you can't love me.

Don't listen to him, Doctor, hurry.

All right.

But remember, Shadow, we shall meet again.

I am afraid not my friends.

But first, let me turn off this gas.

Wait there.

Take the way.

Run it everywhere you find.

Wilson, hurry, David.

You're going to take me upstairs.

Make sure you follow me.

Try that room.

I just...

Okay.

Captain, this room's full of gas.

Roger.

And I adore that trap.

Looks like they're skipping.

What's that?

Sounded like an explosion down near the water.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

Yes, it was an explosion, gentlemen.

And there will be no more wrecking of warships.

It was the cube of necoglycerin intended

for the new battle cruiser by Doctor, on-heim.

And placed in the gears of the good doctor's own speedboat.

It was the complement of the shadow.

You have just heard a dramatized version of one of the many copyrighted stories

which appear in the Shadow magazine.

Any similarity to person's living or dead is purely coincidental.

The weed of crime bears good or fruit.

Crime does not pay.

The shadow knows.

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