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suspicion that would not get results. They hit the door together, burst it open, and went in.

Renny whirled in wild-it was hard to believe Renny could be that worried-terror. He dropped a pair of
moccasins.

“Where you going?” Long Tom asked casually.

For a few seconds it did not seem that Renny was going to make an answer. Then he shrugged cautiously
and said, in a manner that showed he was pitifully desperate for them to believe him, “Oh, I thought I
would go out of town for a little vacation. I'm feeling a little rotten.”

“I'm surprised you admit it,” said Long Tom. “You look like something that had been done to the
Japanese navy.”

Johnny asked, “Where were you going, Renny?”

“To Lake Kakisa,” Renny said.

“Where's that?”

“Oh, up north in the woods.”

Long Tom said, “It's so far in the north woods that it's in the Mackenzie, which is next door to the north
pole, practically speaking. What's the idea of going so far?”

Renny, white, tense, trembling, said, “I want to get away from things.”

“Well, you're not,” Long Tom assured him. “Doc said to bring you into headquarters, and that's what
we're going to do.”

Johnny yelled, “Watch out! Grab him! He's going to fight!”



LATER, Johnny carefully guided Renny Renwick into the midtown headquarters of Doc Savage. “Long
Tom stopped downstairs to get a beefsteak for his eye,” Johnny explained. “He will be up.”

“You had a fight?” Monk asked.

“A tauromachian gladiatorialistic,” Johnny said.

Monk examined the two of them. “It must have been every bit as big as the words,” he decided.

Doc Savage addressed Renny Renwick. Doc had a voice which contained controlled power to such an
extent that it was a slightly unnatural-sounding voice. “Renny, they have given me a rough idea of the way
you have been acting,” Doc said. “We feel that something unpleasant has happened to you, and we want
to help you. Furthermore, we consider it our duty as your friends to help you, so there is not much use in
your arguing about it.”

Renny said nothing. He clamped his lips together.