Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott

Name: The Wheel of Death — The Dark Hours Before Dawn
Author: Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott

The Wheel of Death — The Dark Hours Before Dawn (1933)

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“The Wheel of Death — The Dark Hours Before Dawn”, published in 1933, is a work by Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott. It explores elements such as Grogan, Ram Singh and Wentworth.

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Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott, The Wheel of Death — The Dark Hours Before Dawn (1933)

“ Hardly a car passed them and, when they reached Grant's Tomb, there was not even a petting party parked within sight.
Below them the Hudson River lay almost shrouded in early morning mist and above them the sky was very dark without a star in sight . . . As Wentworth had said, it was a very good place for a murder.
To Grogan's surprise Wentworth paid the taxi driver, and to his disgust he was ordered to get out of the cab. The taxi man shrugged his shoulders, took the money and drove away. It made no difference to him why his fares wished to visit Grant's Tomb at so unreasonable an hour. ”

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Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott, The Wheel of Death — The Dark Hours Before Dawn (1933)

“ Wentworth directed. "Let him taste the tip of your knife if he is slow, and drive it into him up to the hilt if he disobeys you."
Grogan helplessly turned to do as Wentworth had indicated; and Ram Singh prodded him from behind with the knife, without waiting to see whether or not he was going to be slow. Grogan thought that the Hindu servant was quite as heartless as his cold-hearted master and he hobbled painfully up the steps, groaning and grunting.
Wentworth immediately entered his car, switched on the light in the tonneau and pulled down all the blinds. ”

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Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott, The Wheel of Death — The Dark Hours Before Dawn (1933)

“ That is Dick Wentworth's car."
There was some silence while they waited for the motorcycle men to return with the car after which they had been sent.
"Surely you don't think that Dick is guilty of anything," Nita said at last.
"I have known Dick since he was a boy," the Commissioner answered, "and I know how deucedly clever he is. Only such a man could play the Spider and elude me for so long."
"Of course you know that the Spider never hurt any man who was fit to live," she retorted. "Don't you think that Mortimer Mack is the guilty man, and that Dick is only a very reckless bystander?" ”

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Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott, The Wheel of Death — The Dark Hours Before Dawn (1933)

“ Seated beside his master on the front seat, while Wentworth drove the car, Ram Singh felt his long knife where it fitted snugly into the sheath which was sewn inside his sleeve. He had not been able to use it, except just a bit of the point where Grogan was accustomed to sitting down. But the night was not over, and there was much hope in his breast for better things to come.
Ram Singh was not overly blood-thirsty, but he believed that real men belonged to the warrior cast; and, although he could cry over an injured kitten, he liked to kill— in a good cause. ”

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Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott, The Wheel of Death — The Dark Hours Before Dawn (1933)

“ Passing Riverside Mansions, one of the largest apartment buildings on the drive, Wentworth looked up at the high tower where Nita had her little apartment and noted that her windows were dark.
Half a dozen blocks farther on he saw a car approaching at a rate of speed almost as high as his own. The approaching car was escorted by two motorcycle policemen. Then Wentworth knew that the car belonged to the Commissioner of Police and that he was bringing Nita home in safety as he had promised. He wondered if Nita would recognize his car as they passed— glimpse Ram Singh or read the number plate. ”

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Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott, The Wheel of Death — The Dark Hours Before Dawn (1933)

“ He was quite certain that so cool and desperate a man as Wentworth would not hesitate to shoot him down in an elevator, or anywhere else, if he felt the least desire to do so. Such was the result of Wentworth's harshness upon Grogan's brutal nature.
The doorman called a taxi, and Wentworth assisted Grogan, who was limping, to get in first. Only a few yards farther down the avenue a police emergency truck and several other police cars were drawn up near the entrance of the big apartment building which housed the establishment of Mortimer Mack. ”

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Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott, The Wheel of Death — The Dark Hours Before Dawn (1933)

“ In the suit case was also a shoulder holster which contained one of his most prized pistols, one with which he could spin a quarter dollar at twenty paces time after time. It seemed strange that there should also be a slender walking stick lying upon the back seat. ”

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