"008 (B018) - The Sargasso Ogre (1933-10) - Lester Dent" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

Homar watched it, fascinated.



So softly that at first it was unnoticed, Doc's weird trilling sound came into being. It rose and fell, mellow and unending, possessing no tune.



Homar's eyes became more protuberant. He was rapidly being hypnotized.



"Talk to the flashing knife," Doc commanded him softly. "Tell it why you sought to kill my friend!"



Homar's throat pumped a few times. At last, words came out.



"We are paid money, oh knife. We were to get four thousand piastres for the death of Long Tom Roberts."



"Who hired you? The knife wishes to learn that."



"I do not know. It was a man who met our chief, Pasha Bey. The man did not show his face."



"Tell the knife -- were you to meet this man a"gain?"



"Yes."



"Where?"



Homar had been speaking in Arabic, a tongue which Doc Savage could handle fluently, just as he could speak count- less other languages.