"017 (B002) - The Thousand-Headed Man (1934-07) - Lester Dent" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

into the interior jungles of Indochina.


The only white man accompanying the Copelands

was Rex Maples, an Englishman familiar with

the Indo-China jungle.


The fact that the Copelands gave no information

about their destination, keeping it a mystery,

is a fact which makes a search for them almost

hopeless.


THE ITEM bore a date four months old, and had been clipped from a London paper.

"What's this all a - " Monk swallowed the rest as he looked toward the door.

Several men came stamping in from the street. The newcomers wore the uniforms of London policemen. They were burly men with jaws out-thrust. One fellow, evidently the one in command, strode in front.

This latter individual was extremely large. His arms were crooked beams, his head a hammered-down lump, with no appreciable length of neck below it. Gnarled fists, misshapen ears, a flat nose, indicated an earlier career not devoid of physical combat

The homely giant bore a surprising general resemblance to Monk, except in one particular: he did not have Monk's coat of fur. He was fully as large and possibly as strong as Monk.

"Doc Savage's men?" asked the homely cop.

"Yeah," Monk admitted.

"Name's Sergeant Evall." The apish officer thumbed his own chest. "Doc Savage told us we'd find you here."

Monk blinked. "Doc sentcha?"

"Righto," said Evall. "The big bronze fellow is in trouble."

"Trouble?"

"Girl by name 0' Leslie Copeland accuses him o' knifin' three blokes in her house. We arrested the bronze one. 'E says as how you five chappies can give 'im an alibi, tellin' where 'e was durin' the time 0' the murder."

Monk scratched the stubble atop his nubbin of a head.

"When'd the knifin' take place?" he queried.

Evall shrugged. "Sorry gov'nor. You'd better go to the station house with us and explain at what hours tonight you've been wit' the bronze bloke. If you accounts for the time 0' the killin's, fine and dandy, and we'll let 'im go. If not, we'll bloomin' well have to hold Doc Savage."