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

The young woman seemed stunned by this new development. When she glanced at Long
Tom and Renny, a great doubt was discernible in her eyes.
"I hope you realize what youТve done," Renny told her. He was still smarting
from the crack she had made about taking poison if she were his daughter.
"Get out and go into the house!" Velvet commanded. He frowned darkly at the
young woman. "We been watching you for weeks, Miss Tip Galligan. We know you own
this old ruin of a house. We saw you hold up these two men in front of the Midas
Club. It was easy to guess that youТd bring Сem here."
Renny glowered, and knocked his enormous fists together. The sound this made was
a good imitation of two concrete blocks colliding.
"WhatТs behind all this foolishness?" he demanded.
"Take a cork!" Velvet snapped.
"What?"
"Pipe down! Go mum!" Velvet grated. "We only wanted the girl. But now that weТve
got you two guys, weТll keep you. Then, in case this Doc Savage gets funny with
us, weТll do things to you."
Renny considered this. A change flickered across his puritanical face.
"Do you work for the Little White Brother?" he rumbled.
Velvet started violently, then glared.
"No more out of you, big-fist!" he barked.
Renny subsided. The manТs manner had showed plainly that he was a minion of the
mysterious Little White Brother.

Chapter V. THE EARTH-SHAKERТS TRAIL
THE homely Monk was saying in a loud, astonished voice: "Well, IТm a son of a
gun!"
"YouТre worse than that," the dapper Ham informed him waspishly. "But IТm not
going to lapse into profanity to explain just what you are."
Doc Savage said nothing. His eyes were on what he was doing. The strange
flake-gold of them seemed more alive than usual.
They were no longer in the Midas Club. They had repaired to DocТs skyscraper
headquarters.
Had they glanced through the window, it would have seemed they were immersed in
a sea of milk. Snow was falling so thickly as to shut off the view of near-by
buildings, even those which had lighted windows this late at night. Outside the
window, eighty-six stories above the street, the wind was howling like
cold-tortured wolves.
The three men were paying no attention to the storm, however. Their attention
was focused on a large black box which had a square window in the top. At first
glance, this window might have been mistaken for a framed picture. Actually it
was the scanning screen of a television receiver.
The picture on the screen was the interior of DocТs sedan from which Long Tom
and Renny had just been seized. Concealed in the sedan was an amazingly powerful
and compact television projector.
This apparatus owed its remarkable efficiency to the fact that it did not
utilize the old-fashioned mechanical scanning disk. Its heart was a cathode-ray
tube which functioned in a fashion very similar to the retina of a human eye. A
ponderous scientific treatise could be written on how the tube functioned. Doc
had perfected the thing.
From his office, Doc could not only witness the kidnaping, but had heard Long