"010 (B010) - The Phantom City (1933-12) - Lester Dent" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

THE WHITE-HAIRED GIRL





DOC studied the sword. The edge was thin, hollow ground like a razor. Back of the cutting edge were grooves resembling the corrugations in a file. These held the poison.



"What do you want with the submarine?" he asked.



"That, bronze man, is our affair!"



Doc had expected some such answer. "If I refuse to take you to it, what then?"



The man tapped the sword. "This! You will die suddenly!"



"That does not leave me much choice," Doc said dryly. "Shall I drive you to the boathouse? It is not far."



"We will walk, sajyid! We do not know the city, and you might drive us to a station of the police."



They got out of the limousine. One man slapped hands over Doc's clothing, fingering pocket contents through the cloth. When he found nothing large enough to be a weapon, he seemed satisfied.



"Imshi!" he grunted. "Go on!"



They strode westward toward the Hudson River water front, setting a leisurely pace which would not attract attention.



In the gloomy street where the holdup had occurred, there was at no time a sign of the man who had given the Arabs their orders - the chap hidden in the box. He had kept under cover.