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THE POLAR TREASURE





A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson



(Originally published in "Doc Savage" magazine June 1933. Bantam Books reprint April 1965.)







Chapter 1



THE BRONZE NEMESIS





SOMETHING TERRIBLE impended.



This was evident from the furtive manner of the small, flat-chested man who cowered in the shadows. He quaked like a terrified rabbit at each strange sound.



Once a cop came along the alleylike side street, slapping big feet heartily on the walk, twiddling his nightstick, and whistling "Yankee Doodle." The prowler crawled under a parked car, and lay there until the happy cop passed.



Near by loomed the enormous bulk of the New York Concert Hall. From the stage door on the side street crept strains of a music so beautiful that each note seemed to grasp the heart with exquisite fingers.



A violin!



It was a Stradivarius violin, one of the most perfect in the world, and had cost the player sixty thousand dollars.