"045 (B036) - Resurrection Day (1936-11) - Lester Dent" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

"It's really a wonderful day," he said. "Really wonderful." Proudman Shaster was a well-known attorney. and everything was usually "really wonderful" with him. It was a small habit of speech he had.



"Si, si, senor," said the general, imitating a Spaniard. "Look, I have an idea. A mucho bueno idea! I want it looked into."



Proudman Shaster folded his dry hands and looked as if he hadn't heard a word of it.



"I want all of mv men assemblcd here in New York at once," said General Ino. "All of my hombres, understand!"



"Can do," Proudman Shaster admitted, lighting a cigarette.



He should have been able to d it. He was Ino's mouth, his eyes, his ears, even a wee bit of his brains, when the occasion demanded. He had furnished the acid that had disposed of the last bit of epidermis of the Japanese merchant prince's man-child.



General Ino shook hands with himself, Chinese fashion, and murmured, "This humble one is most proud of such a worthy servant."



Proudman Shaster looked at his finger nails, found grime under one and began to clean it with a small, sharp tooth.



"Who are we going to take to the cleaners now?" he asked.



"Doc Savage," General Ino said.



Proudman Shaster gave a violent leap, closed his eyes, and seemed to stop breathing. He dropped his cigarette.





GENERAL INO was plainly quite amused by the actions of his lieutenant - not his most valuable one, incidentally. Ino smiled, picked up the cigarette stub and extinguished it in a bronze tray.