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

I certainly wish that you would visit me and inspect my apparatus. If you would be kind enough to do so, the bearer of this note will guide you to my laboratory.



LELAND SMITH.







Long Tom showed pronounced interest. It was true that he had never heard of Leland Smith. But he had himself perfected a device for killing insects. The thing would be a boon to farmers, and Long Tom expected to make a fortune out of it. If some other inventor was likely to cut in on the profits, Long Tom wanted to know about it.



"I'll go with you," he told Pasha Bey.





HURRIEDLY, Long Tom turned for his hat. A half-packed suitcase stood on a chair. It bore a fresh label, addressed to a stateroom on the steamer Cameronic. This was ample evidence that Long Tom expected to sail on the Camerionic, which was scheduled to depart shortly after midnight.



Long Tom placed the note on the table. At the foot of it, he wrote:





Doc -- I've gone to look into this.





"So my friends will know what became of me," he told Pasha Bey. "Let's go."



Pasha Bey would much rather that the note not be left behind. It was a clew for the Alexandria police, who were unpleasantly efficient. But he dared not object, and arouse suspicion.



They went down to the lobby. Spying one of his men, Pasha Bey thought he saw a way of removing the note from the scene.