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Doc Savage’s powerful hands got fistfuls of legs that felt as if they were coated with piano wire. He
yanked the man off his back. The man twisted, squirmed, fought in a way that didn’t seem possible of
one so fragile in size. The unseen attacker was underdeveloped, but he could scrap.

In the blackness, the girl cried, "Now that you’ve got him, I’ll turn on the lights!"

She switched on the lab lights.

The attacker was an anaemic-looking man. Pale hair dangled about a head that was oversize, and he had
bright, pale-blue eyes. From his upside-down position, the thin man looked up at Doc Savage.

"Doc!" he exploded.

Doc Savage seldom showed surprise; in fact he was hardly surprised now, for just before the girl had
turned on the lights the bronze man had suspected the identity of the wiry hell-fighter.

Doc Savage, in the strange career of righting wrongs and punishing evildoers which was his real life work,
had five assistants. The five were men who loved adventure, as did the Man of Bronze; also the five
were, each of them, masters of some science or profession.

This one happened to be the electrical expert of Doc Savage’s organization.

He was Major Thomas J. Roberts, better known as Long Tom, a man sometimes called the "wizard of
the juice," since he was an electrical genius comparable to Steinmetz and Edison.

Doc released Long Tom. The girl rushed forward.

"You know him?" she demanded.

Long Tom said, "Know him? This is Doc Savage!"

"Oh!"

The girl’s blue eyes widened.

Long Tom explained, "I had an appointment here with Professor Uppercue, Doc. I was late, and—"

Doc interjected, "You haven’t heard about Uppercue behaving queerly, then vanishing?"
As the bronze man spoke, his magnetic eyes shifted to the girl. She stood stiffly, chewing on her lip,
saying nothing.

Long Tom noted the girl’s suspicious attitude.

"I hadn’t heard," he said. "I just drove out here from headquarters."



BRIEFLY, Doc Savage explained to his aid all he knew about the scientist’s strange disappearance. As
he talked, Doc noticed that the girl backed toward the wall again. There was an expression of fear, of
something else in her deep blue eyes.