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THE MAN WHO WAS SCARED
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I
? Chapter II
? Chapter III
? Chapter IV
? Chapter V
? Chapter VI
? Chapter VII
? Chapter VIII
? Chapter IX
? Chapter X
? Chapter XI
? Chapter XII
? Chapter XIII
? Chapter XIV
? Chapter XV
? Chapter XVI
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Chapter I
HE was about forty years old and looked something like the fellow the insurance companies always put
in their advertisements—the fellow who is supposed to be a fairly prosperous businessman with a family
that needs providing for. He wore a blue suit, a blue shirt, a blue-and-gray regimental tie, rimless
spectacles, black shoes, and earlier he had been wearing a conservative gray bowler hat with a darker
gray hatband, but he had lost that.

Three times in the last hour, efforts had been made to kill him. It was this last time, the third time, that he
had lost the hat. It had spilled in the street where he had dodged the cab. The hat lay there in the street
now, mashed where the wheels of the murder-bent cab had charged over it.

He looked dazed, standing there thinking how nearly death had missed him. Absently, he rubbed a hand
over one cheek, for both cheeks felt blazing hot, the way cheeks get to feeling on a devilishly cold day.

A pedestrian stopped and asked, “Are you all right?”

The pedestrian had no interest in proceedings other than that he was amazed at the agility of the jump by
which the other man had saved himself from the oncharging cab.

The man seemed to have no words.

The pedestrian said, “The guy in that cab must've been blind!”
The other man kept rubbing his hot cheek.

“Have you got a gun?” he asked.