Name: Wings of the Black Death — Wentworth Views the Plague
Author: Norvell Page

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — Wentworth Views the Plague (1933)

“ The door swung haltingly open and a man staggered out, clutching at his throat.
“The Black Death!” he gasped. “I've got it!” His hand ripped his collar open, and on the corpse-like yellowness of his throat Wentworth saw the purple flower of the dread plague!
The man was Theodore Works, Pugh's partner, and there could be no doubt that he was dying. His stumbling entry had thrown the room into a panic. Stenographers sprang screaming from their tasks, and pale-faced men raced in panic for the street.
Even Pugh, with one terrified glance, joined in the pellmell rush. ”

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — Wentworth Views the Plague (1933)

“ It was time the news was spread abroad, time that the city learned that this Black Death was the work of a human agency. Then indeed would the whole world rise up to wipe out the sinister masked shadow that crouched with bloody hands over New York's millions. ”

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — Wentworth Views the Plague (1933)

“ Works got out, “but—voice on wire—thought I knew it.”
Wentworth advanced two swift strides. Here was the Black Death in all its horror. Its contagion might strike him down. But here, too, might be the one clue that the Spider must have to track the plague master. ”

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — Wentworth Views the Plague (1933)

“ And I'm warning you that any other Commissioner of Police, knowing what I know, would believe the Spider, believe you, guilty of the Black Death!”
Kirkpatrick stopped speaking and his chin sagged upon his chest. But still his burning eyes held those of his friend. He leaned toward him across the desk.
“This is—” Wentworth began. But once more the Commissioner stopped him, this time with a tired lift of his hand.
“Knowing you, Wentworth,” he said, “knowing the Spider of days past, I cannot believe a man of those humanitarian instincts could inflict the Black Death upon the city... ”

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Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death — Wentworth Views the Plague (1933)

“ Pugh said. “But I don't see how I could possibly get away. The stock market is doing tricks these days, what with the NRA and Mr. Roosevelt's so-called controlled inflation.”
Wentworth waved a hand negligently, tossing his cigarette into a smoking stand. “You business men,” he sighed. “I wish I could find something in life that was half so interesting. Sure you can't make it, Mac?”
Pugh shook his bald head regretfully, smiling up from beneath those white brows. “No can do. But if you're out at your estate over Sunday, and decide finally not to go fishing, you might drop over. Bring Nita along. ”

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