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Doc Savage asked, "Is Long Tom on the job?"

"Yes," Monk said. "He has tapped Uncle Joe Morgan’s telephone line and put a recording instrument on
it."

"And Renny?"

"Renny has rented an office across the street. He is sitting there with a pair of binoculars, watching the
inside of Uncle Joe’s office."

"Ham?"

Monk sniffed, as if he did not care for Ham. Ham was Brigadier General Theodore Marley "Ham"
Brooks, noted lawyer, one of Doc Savage’s five assistants. Monk’s sniffing about Ham was misleading.
They were like brothers, and they never let a day pass—and seldom an hour—without a quarrel.

"Ham," said Monk, "has gone to hire a good, trustworthy lip reader to sit in the office with Renny and
read the lips of Uncle Joe Morgan, or any visitors he has, with the binoculars."

"The situation seems to be taken care of," Doc Savage said.

"From this end, it is."
The bronze man arose. "Contact me at headquarters if necessary."

Monk nodded. "O. K. By radio. Right."

Doc Savage left. The restaurant proprietor was wiping his hands on his apron and glaring at the pig under
Monk’s table.

It was then one o’clock.



Chapter II. GIRL BRINGING TROUBLE
AT two o’clock, the frantic girl came to Doc Savage.

He was, at the time, on the eighty-sixth floor of a midtown skyscraper. The floor was divided into three
rooms—a reception room, a library and a laboratory. Doc was engaged in preparing plates of nutrient
media for a bacteriological research he was conducting.

One of his assistants was presiding over the reception room. The assistant was Brigadier General
Theodore Marley Brooks, called Ham by everyone because he hated pork, hogs, and anything swine,
wild or tame. Ham was an eminent lawyer. The Harvard legal alumni were very proud of him. He was
considered one of the great legal minds.

He was not engaged in a deep legal problem at the moment, however.

He was teaching his pet chimpanzee, named Chemistry, to tie one end of a string to an object, then tie the
other end of the same string to a different object. Ham was getting a great deal of glee out of this