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"Come over here, you shyster," he invited. "There’s something you’re gonna explain!"

The skilled chemist indicated an object out near the edge of the precarious ledge. Cautiously, Ham
moved over to the roof edge and peered.

"I don’t see anything at all, you flat-head—"



THEN Ham saw what Monk meant. The object was a grotesquely carved gargoyle, one of the
weird-looking figures placed on the upper part of many buildings. In this case, a sculptor had let his
thoughts run rampant in designing the homely figure—and, strangely, the head of the gargoyle had an
uncanny resemblance to Monk’s face.

Ham began laughing.

"A perfect example of prehistoric workmanship," he gurgled unkindly. "In fact—"

Monk’s face was red with rage.

"Listen, you marcelled clotheshorse," he piped. "You had something to do with this! I’m gonna find the
guy that made this thing and ask him where he got the model—"
Ham, as a matter of fact, was responsible for the statue resembling Monk. The well-dressed lawyer
laughed until he had to hold his sides.

"So you climbed up here to see yourself?"

Monk stalked to Ham, made a grab for the dapper lawyer’s hat, and said, "Wait until you try to wash the
curly-girly out of your hair, shyster!"

That silenced Ham.

With a growl of disgust Monk swung and started across the long roof-top.

"Where you going?" Pat called.

"Where they fumigate for lawyers," Monk snapped.

"Wait," Pat said. "Did you know that Professor Uppercue—"

"Let the big clown go!" Ham snapped.

Monk disappeared into the deep gloom toward the center of the wide roof. The building extended for a
length of several city blocks, and away from the edges where floodlights played their streamers up from
the ground, the place was in stygian darkness.

Ham, still chuckling to himself, started to leave the roof. Far below on the grounds, he noticed two great
circular pools that were part of the decorative scheme, and he stopped to admire the effect of colored
lights upon the water.