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THE FIERY MENACE
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I. THE MAN IN THE CHANDELIER
? Chapter II. ALL VERY FUNNY
? Chapter III. THE VAMPIRE LUNCH
? Chapter IV. ADVANCE OPERATION
? Chapter V. THE VAMPIRE
? Chapter VI. WARNING FOR FOUR
? Chapter VII. EYE WITNESS
? Chapter VIII. SLIPS THAT ARE 'TWIXT
? Chapter IX. THE SLIP THAT CUT A THROAT
? Chapter X. THE SCARED MAN
? Chapter XI. THE STAMPEDE
? Chapter XII. DEATH HAS MANY FINGERS
? Chapter XIII. HARBOR FOR TROUBLE
? Chapter XIV. WEALTH OF THE DOMINO
? Chapter XV. THE VAMPIRE'S BITE

Chapter I. THE MAN IN THE CHANDELIER
BETTY FREE, the stenographer for Best & Stone, the firm of architects on the forty-second floor, was
subject to morning headaches. So she had a little habit. The habit was this: On the mornings when she
had a headache she would buy an aspirin at the candy-cigar counter in the lobby and, at the same time,
smile the clerk out of a large gumdrop. She would bury the aspirin tablet in the gumdrop, open her mouth
wide, put her head back, pop the gumdrop in and swallow it. Aspirin seemed to be the only thing good
for her headaches, but she didn't like aspirin. So this was the way she took aspirin.

On Wednesday morning she had the usual headache, so she proceeded according to schedule. She got
along fine until she put her head back and opened her mouth to pop in the gumdrop.

Then Betty screamed. She almost tore the lining out of her throat. She had the most unearthly yip-yip-yip
way of screeching.

She then fainted.

There was a lot of excitement.

Someone trickled ice water on Betty Free; then she got up and went to work in a nervous condition,
made a mistake in typing a bid for her firm and was fired. So Betty married the boy she had been going
with. The boy quit his job in the city and they went back to their home town where the boy took a job in
the Farmers Exchange, and Betty made a great success of raising chickens and children, thereafter.
Therefore, Betty Free, the stenographer for Best & Stone, had no more than momentary-if
noisy-importance in the matter.

The man in the chandelier was a different proposition. Much different.