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COLORS FOR MURDER
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
Originally published in Doc Savage Magazine June 1946




Chapter I
DELLA NELSON leaned back in the plane seat, tied the fingers of both her hands together into a knot
as tight as her strength, shuddery and tremulous, would manage, and stared fixedly at the window. No
sense telling herself there was nothing to be upset about. There definitely was.

This feeling was different. It was not shock, excitement, alarm. She'd had all those emotions, and
violently, when the men had seized Walter, her brother. When that happened, she had been shocked,
more smashed by amazement than she had ever been before. Her stunned disbelief had been monumental
compared to any other feelings she'd ever had.
Why should she feel this now, when she herself seemed to be safe? Bodily safe, at least. What could
happen to her here on an airplane on the short hop from Boston to New York? Why this grinding reality?

She watched—it gave her a creepy sensation—the thin, nearly transparent form of a partly condensed
cumulous cloud float backward as the plane passed it. The cloud had hardly the body of cigarette smoke,
and, catching the afternoon sunlight, it had about the same ghostly blue-gray coloring. In its formless
presence, it was like the feeling that was crawling on her nerves. Farther down, about eight thousand feet
down, the earth was dark and vague and flat and, because she did not do much flying, looked completely
unnatural.

“Miss Nelson?” It was the stewardess.

“Yes.”

“Miss Della Nelson?”