"027 (B020) - The Secret in the Sky (1935-05) - Lester Dent.XT" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

Monk whooped loudly, rushed Stunted. Monk's fights were always noisy.



Stunted clung like a zealot to his bobtailed auto rifle, trying to get it in operation. He failed. He tried to club with the gun. Monk jerked it out of his hands as if he were taking a lollypop from a child, then dropped it.



Monk picked the short man up bodily, turned him over and dropped him on his head. He accomplished the motion with such speed that the short man was helpless. Stunted did not move after he fell on his head.



Monk blinked small eyes at his victim.



"Gosh," he said. "I wonder if that hurt him?"



The tall man on the door snarled, "What in blue blazes kind of a circus is this, anyhow?"



Monk felt of Stunted's head, found it intact, then twisted one of the short man's rather oversize ears, but got no response. The homely chemist turned on the tall man. "So it's a circus, huh?" he grunted. "I wondered."



"Aw, hell!" gritted the other.



Monk came over and sat on the lean prisoner. Doc Savage removed his foot from the man's neck. Monk grabbed the fellow's ears and pulled them. He seemed fascinated by the rubbery manner in which they stretched out from the man's head.



"They'd make swell souvenirs," Monk grunted.



"Cut it out!" the tall men howled. "What're you gonna do with me?"



"I'm gonna ask you questions," Monk told him. "And I'm gonna be awful mad if you don't answer 'em.



"Nuts!" said the captive.