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THE BOSS OF TERROR
A Doc Savage Adventure By Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I. THE LOONS
? Chapter II. THE HOUSE OF WORRIED FOLK
? Chapter III. THE QUEER DEATH
? Chapter IV. THE FURNITURE POLISHER
? Chapter V. OXALATE SMITH AND THE FOOTPAD
? Chapter VI. THE TRAILING OF ANNIE SPAIN
? Chapter VII. ANOTHER SMITH DEAD
? Chapter VIII. THE SERUM TRICK
? Chapter IX. LONG TOM AND TROUBLE
? Chapter X. DEATH FOR SMITHS
? Chapter XI. THE HEIR
? Chapter XII. THE LIFE PRESERVER
? Chapter XIII. TRAIL TO MAINE
? Chapter XIV. THE CLIFF
? Chapter XV. MYSTERY BELOW
? Chapter XVI. GIRL TREACHEROUS
? Chapter XVII. THE CHANGE OF MIND
? Chapter XVIII. THE BAD BREAK
? Chapter XIX. THE STOMACH TROUBLE


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Chapter I. THE LOONS
THE ambulance was traveling about fifty when it took a corner and missed a lamp-post scarcely more
than a quarter of an inch.

The passenger spoke to the driver.

"The stork that brought you," he said, "should have been arrested for smuggling dope."

The driver grinned. He looked startlingly like an ape when he grinned—and before he grinned, for that
matter.

The ambulance lined out on a straight stretch through the park and the speedometer climbed up to
seventy. The siren made a lot of cat-on-the-fence noise.

The passenger—he rode in the front seat with the driver—was wasp-waisted and wide-shouldered, with
an orator’s mouth. He wore striped afternoon trousers, a cut-away coat, a pearl-colored vest. In other
words, he was dressed fit to kill. He balanced a neat black cane on his knees.
The driver yanked the wheel. The ambulance took a corner on two wheels, tires howling in complaint.

"From the way you drive this ambulance," the passenger said, "one would think you owned it."