"012 (B043) - The Man Who Shook The Earth (1934-02) - Lester Dent (b)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

information from this girl.
"But why should Doc want John Acre?" he questioned.
Tip perched on the edge of the rear seat cushion. Long Tom, watching in the
rear-vision mirror, marveled that her tight gown permitted her to be seated at
all.
"Doc Savage would seize John Acre for the Little White Brother," the girl said
bitterly.
Long TomТs somewhat unhealthy face acquired a puzzled expression. Renny peered
absently at his huge fists.
"Little White Brother?" Long Tom ejaculated.
"YouТre not fooling me by acting surprised," said the young woman with the gun.
"Doc Savage kidnaped John Acre. Only one person would have hired him to do
soЧthe Little White Brother."
"Listen," Long Tom said angrily.
" Nobody ever hires Doc"
The gilded girl seemed about to make a sarcastic retort. Instead, she jerked up
rigidly on the seat. Horror overspread her attractive features.
She crouched there like a gorgeous, golden bird which had suddenly seen a hungry
snake.

ONLY one thing could have caused the girlТs frightЧa great hollow salvo of sound
which had coughed out over to the right of the sedan.
It made the earth tremble, this sound; it rumbled and thumped. Its ramifications
seemed to gorge the night with dull thunder. Then the rumbling died away, as it
had arisen, with swiftness.
Both Long Tom and Renny turned their heads to eye the girl. Both distinctly
caught the stifled words which came from her lips. "That shakingЧthe Little
White BrotherЧ" Her voice trailed off.
Long Tom and Renny shook their heads solemnly at each other. The girlТs behavior
had them baffled.
"Why did that sound of blasting scare you so?" Renny boomed.
"Blasting?" the girl gulped.
Renny waved a hand nearly large enough to envelop a football. He indicated a
cluster of lights off to their right. It was now snowing briskly. The lights
were barely discernible through the maze of falling flakes.
"TheyТre doing some excavating over there," he said. "They do their blasting
late at night when thereТs no spectators around to get hurt."
The sigh of relief which the girl in gold heaved was audible to both men.
"Am I relieved!" she exclaimed.
"You havenТt answered my question," Renny reminded her. "Why did the sound
frighten you?"
The young woman stared at him intently. Obviously, she was considering an answer
to the question. She decided not to give it.
"IТm through talking," she said shortly.
She seemed to mean it, too. Long Tom and Renny both tried to question her. All
they got were caustic retorts.
"Shut up and keep driving!" the girl directed.
By now, snowflakes were spread like whitewash. Strangely, although snow
literally poured against the windshield of the sedan, none of it stuck there.
The glass was covered by a preparation perfected by the chemist, Monk. This