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

The unseen man had actually a powerful, ringing voice, and was capable of speaking good English.





"YOU'VE got to get Doc Savage's friend, Long Tom!" the man snarled, when his profanity was expended. "Or you can get one of the other four who belong to his crew! Any one will do!"



"It is very difficult -- this thing you ask us to do," Pasha Bey temporized. "Four thousand piastres is not enough payment."



"I'll put up more jack for the job."



Pasha Bey now got around to the thing he was angling for. "It might be that our ends would best be served if we were to go into partnership," he suggested.



"What d'you mean, you bony camel?"



"I mean, oh master, that we would be glad to help you get the diamonds for a very small share of the stones."



An explosive curse blasted through the bars.



"I'm not after any diamonds! I don't know anything about the gems, except the talk that's been going around this stinkin' burg. I ain't after ice!"



"You do not speak with a forked tongue?" Pasha Bey muttered suspiciously. He thought he detected a falsehood.



"I'm not lying!"



"Then why, oh master, did you want Long Tom Roberts slain?"