"013 (B003) - Meteor Menace (1934-03) - Lester Dent" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

The young lady herself was in turn the focus of no little attention, for she was possibly the most exquisite thing in femininity that Antofagasta had seen recently.



Once sure the Tibetans would not see her, she squeezed rapidly through the crowd toward the speaking rostrum. Desperation was in her brown eyes, and she nibbled nervously at the inside of entrancing Cupid lips.



She was taller than many of the Chileans, even the men, and she gazed anxiously over heads toward the rostrum.



Chilean senoritas, those of pure Castilian descent, are noted for the comeliness of their figures, but more than one envious eye followed the girl who was working her way feverishly toward the speaking stand.



The tall Venus had hair about the hue of rich mahogany, which was in marked contrast to the tresses of the surrounding senoritas.



She reached the Vicinity of the rostrum and glanced anxiously about. She was an American herself, and apparently searching for Yankee faces. Seeing none, she accosted a Chilean.



"I must find Doc Savage," she gasped. "It's on a vitally important matter. Where can I locate him?"



"No sabe el Ingles," replied the Chilean.



The young woman shook her head and nipped her lips in exasperation. She did not speak Spanish. She supposed the fellow had told her that he did not understand English. She continued her search for a Yankee - and found two of them a moment later.



They were such an incongruous pair that she stopped and stared.





ONE of the Yanks looked as if an immediate ancestor had been a three-hundred-pound gorilla. His great, corded, red-bristled arms were nearly long enough to permit him to walk on all fours without stooping.



He had an enormous mouth, a tuft of a nose, which apparently had been pounded by many fists, and little eyes almost lost in pits of gristle. His ears were shapeless, and one was perforated with a hole the size of a lead pencil - an opening which could have been made by a bullet.