Norvell Page

Name: Wings of the Black Death — A Shot in the Dark
Author: Norvell Page

Wings of the Black Death — A Shot in the Dark (1933)

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“Wings of the Black Death — A Shot in the Dark”, published in 1933, is a work by Norvell Page. It explores elements such as the Black Death, Kirkpatrick and Wentworth.

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — A Shot in the Dark (1933)

“ Tell a taxi driver to hurry in New York and you get the wildest ride that can be achieved by human ingenuity and mechanical power. Fender-brushing, brake-slamming, tire squealing speed!
Off slammed the taxi, weaving through traffic like a rabbit running through brambles. It whirled a corner on dry-skidding tires, dodged a head-on collision by a fraction of an inch, spurted between two encroaching trucks.
Wentworth, feverish-eyed, tense-muscled, leaned forward and rapped on the glass. “Faster,” he cried, “Faster!” ”

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — A Shot in the Dark (1933)

“ Commissioner Kirkpatrick is your friend. You can't desert him in his greatest need.”
Wentworth leaned across the table as if urging her to speak in a lower tone of voice. Audibly he said, “For God's sake, Nita, don't make a scene.” But under his breath he whispered, “You're doing splendidly! Keep it up.”
Now the girl's voice turned pleading. “But Dick, you must stay, and help Kirkpatrick catch the man behind this dreadful plague. Surely,” she jeered at him now, “surely you are not afraid of the Black Death.” ”

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — A Shot in the Dark (1933)

“ The taxi driver whipped a frightened glance over his shoulder, the whites of his eyes showing, and suddenly Wentworth laughed. The man must think him utterly mad.
But the driver was trying desperately to fulfill the demand of this grim-faced passenger behind him, for when a passenger asks favors it means big tips. And even in taxi-riding New York big tips are scarce nowadays.
He locked tires and skidded the last twenty-five feet to the curb before Wentworth's apartment house, and the violence of the stop almost flung his passenger forward upon his shoulders. ”

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — A Shot in the Dark (1933)

“ You are too honest, too lovely to be able to dissemble successfully. And everyone—absolutely everyone—must think that I have left.”
“And so you tried to pick a quarrel with me?” the girl asked softly, reproachfully.
Wentworth's eyes kissed her.
“It was foolish, darling,” he said, and abruptly his face went serious again. “Now, beautiful, get angry with me. Make a scene. Stand up and call me a coward. Say you don't see how I can leave the city when Kirkpatrick needs every man he has, and many more than he has, to track down the Black Death. Go on!” ”

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — A Shot in the Dark (1933)

“ The watchman nodded in his chair, and so silent was the invader's tread, so inconspicuous his passage, that even had the man been awake he scarcely would have noticed.
Swiftly then the Spider stole up the stairway, picked the lock of the office door, and fastening it behind him, hurried into the private office of the partners, smelling strongly of disinfectant, and germicides which had been spread to wipe out the threat of the Black Death in the room where Works had died. ”

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — A Shot in the Dark (1933)

“ It was mad, that music, as if all the devils of hell leaped in those flicking fingers. Jenkyns' frightened face showed in the doorway. He knew his master's habit of playing out his moods, but never before had he heard such wild notes torn from the straining strings. ”

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — A Shot in the Dark (1933)

“ She was a lovely girl, and in evening dress she was surprisingly beautiful. The low-cut gown of simple white left bare the exquisite slope of her shoulders. The gleam of her rich brown hair made a jewel-like setting for the perfect oval of her face. ”

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — A Shot in the Dark (1933)

“ Wentworth bounded from the floor, flung himself upon the man, and his right fist crashed home twice. The man jerked beneath him, straightened and went limp.
The Spider heard hoarse shouts, the first shrill blasts of a watchman's police whistle. He must make good his escape at once, or it would be too late. Already guards within the building must be rushing to the succor of the man he had knocked out. ”

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