"068 (B023) - Fortress of Solitude (1938-10) - Lester Dent" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

Doc Savage, combination of mental wizard, scientific genius, muscular phenomena, would not have been too late - yet.



For John Sunlight could find no way into the weird blue half ball. He looked first at the base of the thing, but the glasslike blue walls seemed to continue on down into the solid rock.



John Sunlight clawed at the glazed blue. It felt as hard and cold as steel. He put his face against it and tried to see through the blue substance, whatever it was. It seemed that he should be able to peer through it - the stuff had a certain transparent aspect. But he could see nothing.



Next, John Sunlight made a complete circle of the thing. He found no door, no window, no break of any kind.



The blue dome was not made of bricks, or even great blocks. It appeared to be one solid substance of a nature unknown. Not glass, and yet not metal either. Something mysterious.



It took a long time to satisfy John Sunlight that he could find no door.



He went back to the others.



"Get sledge hammers off the wrecked ice-breaker," he said coldly.



The sledge hammers were brought him. Titania and Giantia alone had the strength to fetch them.



John Sunlight took the heaviest sledge.



"Stay here." His eyes smoldered in the almost-black cups which his eye sockets had become. "Stay here."



He stood and gave each of them hypnotic attention in turn.