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

"Maybe the dang thing was proof of something!"



"It was. It's my guess that we'll find that out when Scotland Yard answers our radiogram sometime this morning."



"Would you recognize the strong man without his whiskers?" Johnny queried.



"Probably. But he seems to be clever at disguises. He might don another."



The rest of the meal was consumed in silence, except for a minor explosion from Ham, who claimed Monk purposefully squirted grapefruit juice on the immaculate suit the lawyer was wearing.



During this outburst, alarmed waiters hovered about, thinking of a certainty that there was going to be a fight, if not a murder.



"Now we'll do some investigating in connection with that decoy note sent to Long Tom," Doc declared.



"Huh!" grunted Renny. "Did the fellow who got the belt miss that?"



"He missed it by about half the length of the ship," Doc replied, and showed where he had been carrying the message, inclosed in a waterproof, flat box, secured under his bathing suit with a strip of adhesive tape.



Renny popped his big fists together, causing a sound not unlike concrete blocks colliding.



"Dang a mystery! I'd like to get my hands on that now whiskerless Santa Claus!"



Johnny squinted through his peculiar spectacles. "Do you want to bet that it was not the unwhiskered Santa Claus who searched Doc's suite?"