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scene.”

“She didn't recognize me as Doc Savage?” Doc asked.

“Apparently not. She asked about you, though.”

“What did she say?”

“Wanted to know if I knew you. Then she kind of shut up. I think she had just noticed you.”

Doc Savage said thoughtfully, “It would seem that the fellow with the gentle-looking face, South, tried to
kill her with poison tablets on the plane, but the fat man got them through an error.”

“It looks that way. But how the hell did he trade the poison pills for the aspirin?”

“I was talking to the stewardess a moment ago about that,” Doc Savage said. “It seems she placed the
aspirin and water on the tray, then occupied a few moments getting a napkin from the service locker.
South must have switched the poison for the aspirin then. He could, the stewardess thinks, have guessed
who the aspirin was for by watching her. She had not spoken to any passenger other than Della Nelson
for several minutes, and she remembers looking sympathetic and concerned when she did speak to Della,
so the fellow wasn't taking too much of a chance when he guessed the aspirin was for Della.”

“Enough of a chance that an innocent guy is dead, though.”

“That is true. Suppose you see whether anything else has come in from Boston.”



SERGEANT ELLIS used the regular telephone, one in a booth, and he saved a nickel by dialing the
O-for-Operator and saying grimly, “I want a policeman.” He grinned when he saw Doc Savage had
overheard. “It gets quicker service for less money,” he said. Presently he began talking and talked
earnestly for about four minutes, then he hung up.

“No trace of the car with South and the other two guys in it,” he said.

“What about Boston?” Doc demanded.

“Nah, only what we got when you heard about the goings-on aboard the plane. Apparently all Boston
knows is that a man named Riis got himself murdered last night. A guy named Walter Nelson had been
running around with Riis. They were pals. Walter Nelson is Della Nelson's brother. The Boston cops
want to ask Walter Nelson some questions about Riis. But we knew all that. They had told us.”

“The girl is holding back information, then.”
“She sure didn't tell us anything about the brother or Riis.” Sergeant Ellis eyed Doc Savage speculatively.
“Maybe she'd tell you more than she told me. She was coming to New York to see you, apparently.”

“What,” Doc asked, “makes you think she'd be any more truthful with me?”

Sergeant Ellis grinned. “A big guy with your looks should have some effect on her.”