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

A few moments later, when workmen came running with shovels, Doc grabbed one and went to work.
At least twenty men took turns, shoveled as furiously as they could.

Ham grabbed a shovel and joined in.

"What’s up, Doc?"

"Long Tom is in there—and the goblin."

"What?"

Doc explained the somewhat unbelievable series of events.
"Say!" Ham said. "It looks like the beginning of a darned queer mystery."

The slide was slowly cleared away, disclosing beneath it the solid floor of the tunnel. Beyond this cleared
space was a rectangular opening in the tunnel floor. An opening which should not have been there.
Everyone moved close. It appeared to be a deep pit in the floor.

A search showed no trace of Long Tom or the goblin in the mine. The searchers came back to the pit in
the floor.

The black hole, they could see, was slowly filling up with water that came up from somewhere below.
Along with the rising water there was the rock and gravel that had, through power of gravity, slid down
into the opening. The whole mess was bubbling and gurgling.

It might have been that this shaft had been caved in by the shock of the tunnel roof collapse.

"No human," Doc said, quietly, "could live in that."

Ham and Pat were silent. As they had worked, the bronze man had briefly explained about what had
happened at Uppercue’s laboratory; of Long Tom’s suggestion that they come here to perhaps find the
missing scientist, or Long Tom’s strange attacker in the mine shaft.

"Where did Uppercue’s daughter go?" Ham asked.

"No telling. She simply fled."

"And you have no idea of what is back of this?"

"None," Doc admitted.

At this point, a man came running into the mine tunnel.

"Something else has happened!" the newcomer barked.

"What?"

"There’s some kind of a creature loose on top of the Motors Building. There’s a crowd over there
waiting for it to come down—"