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THE WEE ONES
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
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Chapter I
JOHNNY began barking a few minutes after ten o'clock. It had gotten dark at eight.

Johnny was John Fain's Great Dane, and under normal conditions the only thing to do when he started an
uproar was to look into the matter and then scratch his chest for him the way he liked, or fan his stern
with a folded newspaper, depending on what he had on his mind.

Tonight it was different. The dog's barking started John Fain to trembling violently. Fain was already pale,
and almost ill with incredulous disbelief, so stricken in fact that he would not have been surprised at
himself for fainting.

But the trembling took him by surprise.

He eyed his hands foolishly, like a man who had discovered a hole in his new fifty-cent socks. John Fain
was a hard-muscled man of forty who had never before seen his hands shake of their own accord. His
physical fitness was one of his prides. He took setting-up exercises daily, even had a gymnasium in the
basement of his home, although his wife, Grace, had laughed at him for that. Grace didn't believe in
exercise for exercise's sake, because her metallic nerves obviously didn't need it.

Then there was the bluish haze overhead.

This haze, a slightly darker azure hue than tobacco smoke, made a layer about two feet thick against the
ceiling. It was semi-transparent; at least it was possible to discern the rough texture of the plaster ceiling.
It smelled of ozone. Ozone. The stuff you smell after a lightning bolt hits close.
And there was the female clothing on the floor.

This clothing, a young woman's garments, lay in a rather shapeless pile and consisted of one complete