"020 (B026) - Death in Silver (1934-10) - Lester Dent" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

"Those silver masks on their faces!" gasped the friend. "Ugh! Hideous!"



Doc went on and heard a fat colored fellow in a bus boy's uniform exclaim, "Dem silver lads done lit out of heah in the same truck dat dey came in!"



"Boy, did yoah see dem two men they was draggin' when they up an' left?" asked a brother bus boy.



"Yassuh," agreed the first. "Dem two was daid, if yoah asks me."



Doc Savage's remarkable bronze features did not change expression. That did not mean he was unconcerned, for he schooled himself until he possessed an uncanny control over his own emotions.



A lieutenant of police - the same individual to whom Monk and Ham had been talking - answered the question. Doc encountered the officer in front of the building. The cop saluted briskly.



"It was the Silver Death's-Heads," the policeman explained before Doc could put a query. "They drove right through the crowd in an armored car. Ran down two spectators. They rushed in, clubbed down the guard at the door, and seized Monk and Ham. It happened so quickly that we could do nothing, although I did manage to fire one shot."



"Did they harm Monk and Ham?" Doc demanded.



The lieutenant shivered slightly at the grim sound of the giant bronze man's voice.



"Both were clubbed over the head," he said thickly. "Ham was caught beside me. The silver devils came up behind us. Monk was in the telephone booth and did not get out in time."



"How badly were they clubbed?" Doc questioned.



The officer moistened his lips. "Pretty hard. I don't know - if they are alive. They were dragged away."