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

"We happened to be in your suite, Doc, looking the place over, when these fellows came in," he declared. "The baggage had just arrived."



"I sent it in only a moment ago," Doc explained.



He cast his flash beam downward. It disclosed the three marauders swimming briskly away.



Monk grasped the rail. "I've got a notion to go after them sheiks!"



"Let them go," Doc suggested. "It is my guess that we would find they were merely hired thieves."



Monk pulled thoughtfully at a gristle tuft of an ear. "Have you any idea what is back of it, Doc?"



Don made no reply, but Long Tom grinned widely.



"The belt!" Long Tom grunted. "I'll bet they were after it!"



"What belt?" chorused Ham and Monk.



Long Tom explained about the adventure in the catacombs, and described what had happened in the street off the Place Mehemet Ali, where they had found, in Pasha Bey's clutch, the strange belt of cap insignias





THEY returned to Doc's suite, where Ham secured the sheath portion of his sword cane. When the blade was cased, it became an innocent black walking stick. Ham was never seen without this article.



There was some speculation ever the significance of the belt, as well as guesses at the nature of the trouble which was undoubtedly brewing.