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

IN the darkened street off the Place Mehemet All, three innocent-looking gentlemen in burnooses shuffled slowly for- ward. They kept their hands out of sight, and their faces well enveloped. This was to hide numerous scrapes and bruises acquired in mad flight through the catacomb passages.



Pasha Bey had not come directly to this gloomy thorough- fare. He had stopped en route to take council with himself. As a result, he had decided only two of his best murderess should accompany him to the rendezvous with the man who had hired them.



"Wallah!" Pasha Bey muttered. "You understand what we are to do?"



"We understand, oh great one!"



"This man who hired us did a very evil thing when he failed to tell us we were to dispose of one of Doc Savage's friends. For that, he must pay."



"Aye, master!" the other two agreed heartily. "He shall pay!"



"With his life!"



"Aye! With his life, he shall pay! And with his money, if he has any on his person!"



Pasha Bey kneaded his bony knuckles. "I have been thinking, oh brethren, of those diamonds which this Doc Savage is said to possess."



"The diamonds may be only drinking-place talk."



"They might not be, too. Wallah! It would be very nice to dip our hands in chests of the bright gems."



"To whence does this talk of yours lead, oh master?"



"To this: I shall converse with this man who hired us, before I slip my garrote cord over his evil neck. It may be that he knows something of the diamonds."