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

"Oh, don't worry, I knew you'd be quite surprised," he said.



Proudman Shaster went through some convulsive facial expressions.



"Water!" be gasped faintly. "And one of the pills out of the box on the water cooler!"



General Ino seemed about to laugh, as if it were a good bit of acting; then be peered closely at his follower. He ran to the cooler, got the water and pill, then administered both to Proudman Shaster.



"Don't you know I have a weak heart?" were Shaster's first words.



"I never expected merely mentioning a name would kill you off," Ino told him.



Shaster got up shakily, helped himself to more water and another pill, and topped it off with a drink from a brown bottle with a black label. He looked closely at his chief.



"Look here!" he said grimly. "Don't you know about this Doc Savage?"



General Ino said, "It is not my habit to go into things half baked."



"You'll come out of this one with your goose cooked," said Proudman Shaster. "Doc Savage is one of the most dangerous men in the world to meddle with."



"A reputation," murmured General Ino, "is like a snowball."



"Doc Savage is a man who was taken by his parents at birth and trained intensively and scientifically to become a catcher of crooks and a righter of wrongs," explained Shaster.



"The snowball," continued General Ino, "starts off as a little ball, but grows until it becomes as big as hell."