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

"That guy with the performing eyes was gonna kill us both," he mumbled.



Doc Savage did not comment. He listened, then unlocked the door. The room beyond was empty. He advanced. In the next room, one of the chloroformed morgue attendants was sitting up and acting sick.



The street outside held no sign of the violent raiders. There was no trace of the bundle of clothing.



The reviving morgue attendant began to mumble.



"They wanted clothes off a corpse," he muttered. "Whatcha know about that?"



"Off what corpse?" Doc asked him.



"Off Willard Spanner," said the attendant.







Chapter 2



THE HIGH-PRESSURE GHOULS





DOC SAVAGE exited to the street and made inquiries, finding that the men had gone away in two cars. Persons questioned named four different makes of cars, in each instance insisting that their information was correct. "They're all wrong, probably," Monk grumbled.



Pursuit was patently hopeless, although Monk cast a number of expectant glances in Doc Savage's direction. The bronze man had a way of pulling rabbits out of hats in affairs such as this. But Doc only reentered the morgue. None of those who had been chloroformed were in immediate danger.