Driving back toward Manhattan, Doctor Gerald Savette smiled in glee. A short chuckle clucked from his lean lips as he reviewed all that Lamont Cranston had settled and said. Savette had found a perfect scheme. He had waited wisely before formulating his final crime. Soon he and his companions would roll in unexpected wealth.
Not even The Shadow was a menace now!
Chapter XVII — The Plan Works
At nine o'clock the next evening Doctor Savette again arrived at Lamont Cranston's home — exactly twenty-four hours after his first visit to the millionaire's mansion.
He noted, as he came up the drive, that only a single light was burning in the house.
Savette chuckled. He thought of a wire that he had dispatched last night to Glendale.
The physician was forced to ring the bell twice before the door was opened. It was Lamont Cranston who answered. The millionaire smiled wanly.
"I am everything tonight," he said. "I am taking the place of Richards. I was upstairs in the den when you rang. Have you arranged for a truck?"
"It will be here in half an hour."
"Good. I want to leave about ten."