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load the body into the vehicle. Then he mounted his horse and rode alongside the buckboard and its
tarp-covered load.

D’Orr trotted his white Arabian up beside Patches. "Got a match?" he asked. D’Orr had not mastered
the Western way of riding, body moving easily with the motion of the animal. He insisted on posting.

Ben said, "You ought to get used to not bouncing around in the saddle like that, boss. That’s all right for
taking a gallop in them city parks, but out here you do it all day and it’ll shake an entrail loose."

D’Orr seemed not to hear the advice. He said, "I just happened to remember. . . . I’ve heard of that Doc
Savage you mentioned."

Ben was interested. "You have? Who is he?"
"Why did you ask about him?" D’Orr inquired.

"Curiosity," Ben said. "I heard his name some place. What do you know about him?"

D’Orr said, "I don’t know much, really. As I recall it, Doc Savage is in the East somewhere. New York,
I believe. He is an adventurer of some kind. At least, his name is frequently connected with the wildest
kind of excitement. That’s about all I know. By the way, who mentioned his name to you?"

"Feller I met."

"Was it"—D’Orr nodded at the body in the buckboard—"him?"

Ben glanced sidewise at the adhesive tape on D’Orr’s face. The tape covered a lot of the man’s visage.
It could have been D’Orr’s face he had worked on with the spur.

Ben told a flat lie.

"Of course not," he said.

D’Orr spurred his Arabian suddenly and the great white animal bounded away with a thunder of hoofs on
stone. Ben scowled after him, then looked around.

Albert Panzer was riding well behind the others. Ben dropped back and joined him. "You had any more
faintin’ spells?" Ben asked Panzer.

The grin that came on Panzer’s lips was wry. "I found a book on altitude sickness today. It don’t affect a
man like you and me were affected."

"I didn’t think it did," Ben said. He nodded in the direction of D’Orr, then toward McCain. "Both them
gents are very curious about how I come to mention somebody named Doc Savage," he said.

Albert Panzer looked around secretively. "I wanted to talk to you about that," he said in a low voice.

"You ever hear of this Savage?" Ben asked.

"I’ll say I have!" Panzer drew a deep breath. "He’s an amazing man."