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Usage examples of salter.

The Shadow also shook hands with Fitzhugh Salter, the curator, a middle-aged man of portly proportions, chubby-faced, and of retiring disposition.

They entered an elevator and Salter took them to the top, where they stepped out to a promenade atop the temple that surmounted the museum.

Not until he saw Cranston turn and gaze questioningly in his direction, did Salter suddenly rouse himself.

Darkness greeted them, until Salter found a switch box and supplied lights to the top-floor corridor.

Passing a rack of costumes, garish and of vivid colors, Salter said that they were of modern manufacture, but that they represented the actual robes used in rituals wherein the masks were also worn.

Stopping to pick up a remarkable life-sized skull of crystal, Salter said that it represented Tezcatlipoca, chief of the Aztec gods.

But when they had gone the entire length of the gallery, Salter had at no time mentioned any god of fire.

Stepping from the elevator, Salter beckoned the group toward his office.

Somewhere, he expected to find an outside entrance to the cellar, as Salter had termed it, though actually it was a basement, its floor only a trifle below ground level.

One of three other invaders, Salter, Talborn, or Brendle, had stumbled while coming down a stairway.

The Shadow could not risk shots in their direction, because he heard other sounds beyond and knew that Salter, Talborn, and Brendle were coming into the fray, where they could receive stray bullets.

Each time his light uncovered a crook, Salter shed the glare somewhere else, and the thug went scuttling to cover.

Talborn was reeling away from The Shadow, when Salter and Brendle reached him.

Spilled to the floor, Salter found his flashlight and turned it in the direction of grunts and groans.

The boxes were loosely packed, but none of the Mayan curios were missing, for Salter had a list that he consulted while he made the check-up.