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

"We came here to see the body of Willard Spanner," Doc told the attendant who had revived.



"Sort of a coincidence," said the attendant, and managed a sickly grin which typified a peculiarity of human behavior - the fact that persons who work regularly in close proximity to death are inclined to arm themselves with a wise-cracking veneer.



The bodies were stored in bins not unlike huge filing boxes. The marble slabs on which they lay slid into the bins on rollers. The attendant was still too groggy to bring the Willard Spanner slide out after he had found the identifying card, and Monk helped him.



Doc Savage looked at the body for a long time.



"This is Willard Spanner," he said finally.



They went out.



Monk scratched his head, then said, "But the man seized in San Francisco - that couldn't have been Willard Spanner.



"The voice on the phone recorder," Doc reminded.



"You said it was Willard Spanner's voice." Monk found his pig, Habeas, and picked him up by an ear. "Could you have been mistaken about that voice?"



"I think not," Doc Savage said slowly.



They examined those who were still senseless from the chloroform, gave a description of the morgue raiders to police officers who had arrived, then walked out to the roadster.



Monk seemed to be thinking deeply. He snapped his fingers.



"That bundle of Willard Spanner's clothing!" he grumbled. "Now what in the dickens did they want with that? The police had searched the pockets and had found nothing."