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

"I wonder, Long Tom, if you have drawn the same conclusions about this thing that I have?" Doc asked dryly.



"You mean about what must be behind it?"



"Exactly."



Long Tom popped shirts and socks into his traveling bag.



"This guy who was trying to get me killed didn't want our gang on the Cameronic," he grunted. "Maybe I flatter myself, but I'll bet he didn't want us aboard because he was afraid we'd be on hand to throw a monkey wrench in some plan -- some devilish scheme that involves the Cameronic!"



Doc nodded. "My own suspicions are along that line."



Long Tom finished his packing. "What about our four pals, Renny, Monk, Ham, and Johnny?"



The four men named were the other members of Doc's group of five aids. Each, in his way, was an unusual personage. Just as Long Tom was an electrical wizard of no mean note, so were these others men of fame in the fields of engineering, chemistry, the law, and geology.



"They are to meet us on the ship," Doc explained.



Doc now produced the strange belt which the dead Pasha Bey had clutched. He examined it further.



Long Tom came over and also bent a scrutiny on the unusual object.



"Sylph, Henryetta, U. S. S. Voyager, Queen Neptune," he read some of the embroidered names aloud. "Say -- those sound like the names of boats!"