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

"You bobble of nature!" Ham continued vitriolically. "You overgrown, bob-tailed jungle denizen."



Monk leered blissfully at Ham. From the box under the apish chemist's arm came a series of piggy grunts and shrilling squeals.



"You only brought that blasted pig along to get in my hair," Ham growled.



"Where d'you get that stuff, you loud-dressin' shyster?" Monk grunted. "I'll take Habeas Corpus wherever I daggone - "



Monk swallowed the rest. His pleasantly ugly face became somewhat blank. His little eyes glistened in their pits of gristle.



A vision whom Monk would have taken oath was the prettiest girl in the world, had confronted them.





"CAN you gentlemen tell me where Doc Savage may be found?" asked the young woman.



Monk and Ham stared, tongue-tied. The girl's beauty had taken the wind from their sails.



"Darn it!" the young woman said disgustedly, apparently addressing herself. "I thought you looked like men who could speak English. I guess you cannot."



Monk and Ham hastily ceased staring, and registered some embarrassment.



"I hope you will overlook the bad manners of my hairy friend, here," Ham told the beauty politely. "Monk used to be the wild man in a circus, and he got the habit of looking at everybody as if he wanted to eat them."



"He's a liar, miss," Monk put in hastily. "He's got a wife and thirteen children. His offspring are all half-witted, like their father."