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THIS FREE HOSPITAL ERECTED


IN HONOR OF DOC SAVAGE





The building was being dedicated. The crowd was here for the ceremony, and to see the bronze man.



The bronze man was Doc Savage, that giant, mysterious worker of miracles about whom all Chile was agog.





IN make-up, the crowd ranged from austere grandees of Castilian descent, who had driven to the ceremony in shiny American limousines, to stocky brown Aymaran Indians from far back in the Andes mountains, who probably had come to town driving a string of llamas. The resemblance of these latter to Asiatics was startling.



Saturday Loo was an Asiatic, so he passed among them without drawing attention. To be exact, Saturday Loo was a Tibetan.



As many as one fourth of the Tibetan men become monks or holy men, with a very strict code of morals. Saturday Loo had never been tempted in that direction. A more thorough rogue than he could not be found between the Himalaya Mountains and the Gobi Desert.



Saturday Loo made directly for a cluster of poncho-clad men who hardly seemed to share the enthusiasm of the crowd about the bronze man. These also resembled Aymaran Indians, but were swart Asiatics.



"My children," Saturday Loo hailed them grandly, "make less long the expressions on your faces. One would think you were going to your respective funerals."



"If there should be an error, our fate may be exactly that," mumbled a man.



"Aye," agreed another. "I have beard that this bronze man, this Doc Savage, is very dangerous."



"They say those who molest the bronze man disappear and are never heard from again," offered a third.