While the detectives were cracking open Sherbrock's cell, Cardona looked for The Shadow. Joe saw blackness, but it was only the open doorway to the stairway that led below. The Shadow had pulled the switch, raising the steel curtain, and was on his way to rejoin his anxious agents.
Back from the stairway came a sound as strangely untraceable as the creepy footsteps that Jan Garmath would never again provide as symbols of insidious approach. The sound that Cardona heard was not a token of advance. It was a sign of departure.
It was the laugh of The Shadow, fading off into the realm of night, though its echoes seemed to linger, as well they might.
For The Shadow's tone not only signified his triumph over crime. It was a reminder that with such conquest, he had solved the last riddle connected with the famous sapphire known as the Star of Delhi!
THE END
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