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

"A thought worthy of Allah, himself! With Doc Savage entombed in the catacombs, we might easily get the bright stones."



The speaker would have been no little shocked to know that, at this instant, Doc Savage and Long Tom were watching him from a corner near the Place Mehemet Ali.



He would have been more shocked had he seen Doc and Long Tom whip forward silently the instant Pasha Bey and his companions entered the darkened tunnel where the meeting was to take place. Without showing themselves, Doc and Long Tom were lurking outside the passage in time to hear all that was said.



Pasha Bey pressed his skinny face to the barred hole in the door and called softly.



"Well?" growled the voice of the man who had hired them.



"Your humble servant begs to report a failure. We failed to kill Long Tom!"



This, as far as Pasha Bey was concerned, was an untruth. He thought Doc and Long Tom were fast in the catacombs, where they would eventually starve to death.



"What?" roared the man behind the barred door. "You fell down on the job?"



"It was not our fault," Pasha Bey murmured meekly. "You, oh master, should have told us Long Tom Roberts was a friend of this man of mystery and power -- Doc Savage. Then we could have prepared more carefully."



"Savage gummed the works, did he?"



"Aye. He thwarted our plans."



The man back of the bars cursed violently for some moments. To the listening Pasha Bey -- and to Doc Savage and Long Tom, concealed in the murky street -- a notable fact was disclosed by the man's swearing. The fellow's coarse voice was disguised in tone. Probably the slangy way of talking was assumed, also.