Peter Pettigrew's prisoner

by Nelson S. Bond

Peter Pettigrew's Prisoner

By NELSON S. BOND

Pettigrew captured a strange
prisoner; one whose methods
of sabotage were unique. He
had a weird dust in a bag....

[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Amazing Stories July 1942.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

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The man threw a handful of dust into Pettigrew's face.

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"So much," concluded Sergeant McCurdle, "for delayed action bombs. Now, as to incendiaries, Mr. Pettigrew—"

("Halt, you cowardly cur!" rasped Peter Pettigrew to the sinister figure creeping from a dark covert of his imagination. "Advance and give the countersign. What? You don't know it? I thought not! Then take that, you dirty Nazi spy, you! And that, and that, and THAT!")