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QUEST OF THE SPIDER
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I. THE PLOTTERS STRIKE
? Chapter II. CULT OF THE MOCCASIN
? Chapter III. DEATH IN THE AIR
? Chapter IV. TWO DEAD MEN
? Chapter V. THE BRONZE RESCUER
? Chapter VI. DEATH-END TRAIL
? Chapter VII. KILLERS AT WORK
? Chapter VIII. DOC PLANS
? Chapter IX. THE SWAMP ENCOUNTER
? Chapter X. VOODOO'S DOMAIN
? Chapter XI. THE WELL-KNOWN EGG
? Chapter XII. HUMAN SACRIFICE
? Chapter XIII. A KIDNAPING GONE WRONG
? Chapter XIV. THE BIG SURPRISE
? Chapter XV. THE BUZZING DEATH
? Chapter XVI. THE PAY-OFF
? Chapter XVII. "THE GRAY SPIDER ISтАФ"
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Chapter I. THE PLOTTERS STRIKE
A COMET hurtled through the cloudy summer sky. It was a man-made comet of toughened steel and
alloyтАФthe New Orleans-New York passenger plane. A hoarse, unending snarl of power poured from the
exhaust stacks of the three speed-cowled motors.

About a dozen people lounged in the cabin. Some toyed with magazines. Others played bridge. They could
not have been more at ease under a reading lamp at home.

Two of the passengers were not so calm, however. Their faces were tense. Their eyes held fear.

It was plain they were not scared merely because they were riding in a plane. Their gaze fanned the
surrounding clouds time after time. It was as if they momentarily expected some hideous fate to pounce from
the dingy heavens.

"Take it easy, Edna," murmured one of the two. "I think we are safe here."

The speaker was a man. He bulked big in the wicker plane seat. His rugged hands were drawn into knobbed
fists. His blond, coarse hair was peppered with gray at the temples. It had been touseled by nervous stroking
of the man's blunt fingers. He seemed very worried.

The man looked like a picture an imaginative artist might paint of that two-fisted Norseman, Eric the Red.
HIS name actually was Eric. He was "Big Eric" Danielsen, president of Danielsen & Haas, the largest lumber
company in the southern United States. Every man in the lumber business had heard of Big Eric, who had
worked up from lowly shed stacker in a sawmill to power and millions.