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Doc Savage shook the gray-haired man gently, and, after a bit, the fellow’s eyes began to lose their glazed
look. He straightened and, when Doc released him, managed to stand, weaving only a little. He blinked at
them.
"Doc Savage!" he said, hoarsely. "I’ve seen—your—pictures!"

The bronze man nodded slightly. "And you?"

"Montgomery Medwig Pelt is my name," said the man.

"Blazes!" Monk exploded. "This is the guy who wired us to come to Los Angeles!"

"What was behind this attack on you?" Doc Savage asked Montgomery Medwig Pelt.

"I do not know," the man with the old hair and the young skin answered.

"Who were the attackers?"

"I never saw them before," said Pelt. The tall, thin, stooped barrister waved in the general direction of the
upper part of the building. "Why not go to my suite of offices?" he suggested. "Talk will be easier there;
maybe safer."

The white-haired attorney led the way to a door in one corner of the basement garage and climbed stairs to
the first-floor lobby, where a lone elevator took them upward.



LAWYER Montgomery Medwig Pell’s offices strove hard for an effect of spaciousness. The two rooms were
large; but they had hardly enough furniture to keep from seeming bare. Cheap desks, cheap chairs. The
set-up was not impressive. The inner sanctum contained a case full of legal tomes that looked as if they had
been picked up secondhand.

Pell, looking seedy, sank weakly into a chair behind a large desk. There was dust on the unused parts of the
desk.

Doc Savage waited for Pell to begin speaking. When the attorney showed no sign of doing so, the bronze
man asked a question.

"You summoned us from New York?" Doc queried.

Montgomery Medwig Pell promptly got down to brass tacks.

"Here are the facts," he said. "A week ago, I received a package and a letter. This is the letter."

He sorted through some papers, and handed over a typewritten sheet:

MONTGOMERY M. PELL,

Suite 720, Western Bldg.,