"Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage 074 - World's Fair Goblin" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

Caution slowly crept into the girl’s blue eyes. She stared up at Doc, began to move carefully around him,
one hand still behind her. She started to say, "I don’t know you—"

Doc Savage had already surmised that. Many people had never seen the Man of Bronze, though they
had read about him in the papers. He was rather pleased. He did not like publicity, and if no one knew
him by sight, it would have been better.

And though Doc had never met the girl before, he began to deduce certain things. He had talked with
Professor Martin Uppercue several times. Once would have been sufficient for him to have remembered
the little scientist’s features. This blond girl’s blue eyes, the shape of her small face, the way she carried
her chin so proudly—there was a resemblance here to the missing scientist, Uppercue.

Doc suggested, "We might stop bluffing."

"I don’t know what you mean."

"You might accept my help in finding your father."

"I—"

Swiftly, the wary look came back in the blue eyes.

The girl blurted, "Father? I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m going to call the police!"

She started backing toward the shadowy corner behind the huge machine again, her right hand still
behind her as though feeling the way.

Doc said, "What have you in your right hand?" and moved after her.

The girl cried out, "Get out of here!" She turned to race around to the other side of the obstruction and
toward the vaultilke door, and Doc saw the object in her right hand.

It was a metal cylinder such as the bowlegged man on the Trylon ramp had described—the strange tube
that Professor Uppercue had been gripping to his chest the last time anyone had seen him. Doc got one
view of this, then the girl was through the doorway into the smaller lab.

The girl screamed, "Help me! Put out the lights!"

Then it was suddenly very dark.



REACHING the other room a split second ahead of the bronze man, the blond girl had evidently seen
someone whom she expected to help her, and one of them had leaped to a wall switch, plunged the room
in darkness.

The person whom the girl had seen must be someone friendly, for a man came leaping at Doc in the
darkness. This person landed on the bronze giant’s broad back, and began to act somewhat like a wiry,
long wild cat.