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"Talk freely, and you will not be harmed!" one advised.



"Shu biddak?" Doc asked in excellent Arabic. "What do you want?"



The four looked somewhat surprised.



"So you speak our tongue!" one muttered.



"Slightly," Doc admitted. He used the dialect peculiar to the part of Arabia from which these men hailed - the southern coast. He neglected to add that he had a fluent command of dialects from almost all other sectors of their native land.



This business about the language was the first contact the four had with the bronze man's remarkable knowledge. This giant, metallic man was something of a mental marvel. The fact that he could converse fluently in the tongue of nearly any race on the globe, was only one of his fantastic accomplishments.



"You have a submarine," said one of the Arabs. "A submarine with which you once went under the ice of the north pole!"



"That is right," Doc admitted in Arabic.



The brown man reached under his coat tail, squirmed, and drew his flat sword. He indicated the poison on the tip.



"We want that submarine!" he declared. He put the sword point against Doc's chest. The steel slit a few threads of the bronze man's coat fabric. "You will take us to it!"







Chapter II