"Doc Savage Adventure 1943-05 The Talking Devil" - читать интересную книгу автора (Doc Savage Collection)

* Doc Savage's mysterious source of fabulous wealth is located in a remote lost valley in Central America, an enormous golden treasure guarded over by a clan of descendants of ancient Maya.
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Chapter III

A PLAN ROLLING


DR. NEDDEN, the man who had been introduced into the case as Montague Ogden's private doctor, was one of the spectators in the arena above the operating pit.

He got out of there in a hurry.

He found a cab. "Across town," he ordered. "And hurry!"

Dr. Nedden leaned back in the cab. He seemed to have been holding himself in, and now he relaxed. As men sometimes do after they have been under terrific strain and try to relax, he started going to pieces.

He trembled and twitched. He pounded his knees wildly with his fists.

"Hurry, you fool!" he screamed at the driver.

He got out at an ordinary-looking brick apartment house west of Central Park and stumbled inside. He was so weak he had to hold to the hand rail in the elevator while riding up.

in the sixteenth-floor hall a man met him. The man who met him was the timid-looking soul called Butch.

"Goodness, doctor," Butch said. "What is wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong," said Dr. Nedden. "I'm just having a nervous reaction, that's all. I'll be all right as soon as I can take a sedative."

Butch nodded. "Here," he said. He handed Dr. Nedden a bundle. "Put these on." Butch had an identical bundle. "We can put them on in the inner reception room," he added.

They went to a door.

A legend on the door, in discreet lettering, said:

DR. MORGAN
PRIVATE HOSPITAL

They tried the door. It was locked.

"One of the others in there masking," Butch said. "Let's try another room."

There were half a dozen doors in the hall, all bearing the same legend. They found one which was unlocked and it admitted them to a bare room fitted with two white chairs, a white desk, a stool behind the desk, and a telephone on the desk itself.

Dr. Nedden and Butch unwrapped their bundles, which proved to hold ordinary white surgical robes, surgical hoods, and the gauze antiseptic masks which operating-room personnel wear.

When they had donned these their identities were thoroughly concealed.

Dr. Nedden led the way into another and much larger room after unlocking the hall door of the room where they had dressed.