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"No," said Monk, irked because the locust swarm of scribes were keeping Ham and himself from investigating. "Keep Doc out of it."

The tabloid reporter ran to a telephone and informed his city editor, "Two of the famous Doc Savage's men are on the spot and working on the mystery explosion. They deny that Doc himself is interested, but we don't need to mention that. Doc's name in this will make it all the bigger."

"Our pals," Monk growled.

Modern newspapers function with breath-taking speed, and while the reporters were still harassing Monk and Ham, extra editions of their sheets arrived.

Monk snatched one of these and retired with Ham to a stock room, the walls of which were hung with the work of old masters, to see how much Doc had been brought into the affair.


THEY expected to see the blast story occupying a whole page of the tabloid, but to their surprise, it divided honors with another yarn.

"I say," said Ham, who affected a pronounced Harvard accent whenever he thought of it. "Those Silver Death's-Head beggars have been acting again."

They read the big black headlines and the news story below them. The thing was almost childishly dramatic, as written.

SILVER DEATH'S-HEADS STRIKE;
MYSTERY MEN ROB ARMORED CAR

Get a Quarter Million In Loot
Vanish As Usual

The terror in silver is with New York again. At
three o'clock this afternoon, these frightful men
of mystery shot down the drivers and guard of an
armored truck in the streets of Manhattan and took
$250,000.00 in cash.

Accounts of the number of robbers vary. Some
spectators say there were twenty; others claim
only five or six. The robbers escaped in a fast car
and evaded police pursuit in the water-front section
of the East River.

The thieves wore silver-colored suits and weird
silver hoods which made their beads resemble skulls.
This description tallies with the gang which has
committed other robberies and murders and which
is known to the police as the Silver Death's-Heads.

The last crime committed by the Silver Death's-Heads
was the cold-blooded sinking of the liner Avallancia,
pride of the Transatlantic Company, in New York
harbor.

Bedford Burgess Gardner, president of the
Transatlantic Company, has not been able to explain
what motive could have been behind the sinking
of the Avallancia.