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Monk said, “But what about his fists?”

Ham shook his head. “Renaticus bore a startling resemblance to Renny. That's all I can say.”

Doc Savage was silent for a while-so long that Monk glanced at him uneasily and said, “What are we
going to do? You've only got to see Renny to realize that something very, very serious has happened to
him.”

“Renny will not talk to you about it?” Doc asked.

“He won't tell us a thing.”

“Where is he now?”

“Long Tom and Johnny are trailing him. They report in now and then.”

Doc said, “The next time they report tell them to seize Renny and bring him to headquarters, so that we
can get to the bottom of this thing.”



LONG TOM ROBERTS and Johnny Littlejohn got their orders to fetch in Renny Renwick about an
hour later. Long Tom was a short-tempered fellow, and the others were sometimes afraid of him. He was
not someone on whom you perpetrated a practical joke unless you could lick him, which not many could
do. Johnny Littlejohn, on the other hand, was a kind of physical freak. Monk always described him the
way you describe dachshunds-two men long and half a man tall. If there was anything wrong about this
description it was the thickness part. Johnny was hardly half a man thick. He was indeed thinner than it
seemed any man could be and still live.

Johnny turned from the telephone and asked, “Catachetical ubiquitariness is-”

“Why don't you learn bug language and get it over with!” snapped Long Tom. “What do they want us to
do?”

Johnny frowned. “Bring him in,” he said.

Long Tom had been watching Renny's apartment window with a pair of binoculars. “It's about time,” he
said. “It looks to me as if he was packing a suitcase and getting ready to leave.”

“What did he put in the suitcase?” Johnny asked.

“You do know small words, don't you. Well, he put in corduroy pants, laced boots, a hunting knife,
some flannel shirts, a Mackinaw coat, and some heavy socks.”

“Woods-country clothing.”

“That's right.”

They crossed the street, entered Renny's apartment building. They did not knock on the door, having a