"Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage 134 - The Whisker of Hercules" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

“First, tell me this: Mr. Mayfair said your profession was an unusual one. He said your business was
simply helping people who got into unusual trouble.”

“He used the word unusual?”

“Yes.”

“It is not the exact word. But it is something near the right one. It will do for the time being. . . . You have
some unusual trouble?”

“I'll say I have!” Lee Mayland said fervently. “It is such a screwball thing that I'm afraid to tell the police.
Because I've heard they sometimes send people—people who have a story like this one of mine—to a
psychopathic hospital for examination. And I . . . well, I've got another reason for not going to the police.
Don't misunderstand me—I'm not a crook.”

“This sounds interesting, but not very definite.”

Lee took a deep breath. “If you want something definite—who was Hercules?”



“HERCULES?”

“Yes. H-e-r-c-u-l-e-s.” She spelled it out.

“What about him?”

“Who was he?”

“Quite a figure in ancient mythology. He performed superhuman tasks which were forced on him by an
enemy. Providing that is the Hercules you mean.”

“That's the one I mean.”

“What about him?”

Lee asked grimly, “Did he ever exist?”

“Hercules was a figure of mythology.”

“What does that mean?”

“It means he probably didn't exist in the form in which we know of him now.”

“Did he exist at all?” The girl's question was serious and pointed.

“Perhaps. It is hard to tell about mythology.”

Lee turned her head to look about the drugstore uneasily.