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THEY DIED TWICE
A Doc Savage Adventure By Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I
? Chapter II. THE HORRIFIED MAN
? Chapter III. THE BAD RENATICUS
? Chapter IV. PLOT, PLOT, PLOT
? Chapter V. A TWISTING TRAIL
? Chapter VI. WATCHDOG
? Chapter VII. A SKELETON SO HIDEOUS
? Chapter VIII. SECRET STEVENS
? Chapter IX. PLAN
? Chapter X. THE GUIDE
? Chapter XI. THE XOCHI
? Chapter XII. BLUE NOSE
? Chapter XIII. SILENCE LIKE A DEVIL
? Chapter XIV. BLUE FOR DEATH
? Chapter XV. LOST CLAN
? Chapter XVI. MEMORY, THE FRIEND
? Chapter XVII. DEATH WARNING
? Chapter XVIII. DONKEY SAM
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Chapter I
COLONEL JOHN RENWICK disappeared on a Tuesday. He was gone for seven days.

That Tuesday evening, Colonel Renwick was to make an important speech. So his non-appearance on
the lecture platform created surprise. As a matter of fact the speech would have meant many thousands
of dollars in Renwick's pocket. The verbal outpouring was to be on “The Interdiffusion of Molybdenum
by the Renwick Process,” and its delivery was scheduled for the Regal Room of the Park-Ritz Hotel,
where the cheapest room, even in depression times, was seven dollars a night. The Renwick process for
molybdenum was actually going to cause another of those revolutions in the steel business. He had
invented it himself.

Above all, Renwick was not a man to let thousands of dollars slip out of his pockets by not appearing on
the lecture platform. He hated to talk in public, but he didn't hate it that badly.

“Monk” Mayfair, who was Renwick's friend, made a comment.

“A half-million-dollar stage fright,” he said.

“There isn't any such thing,” said “Ham” Brooks, also a friend. “Not with Renny.”
“Sure,” Monk agreed. “What do you suppose happened?”

“It couldn't be a woman.”