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But it was the eyes that got Pasha Bey. They were weird orbs, like glittering pools of flake gold. In one
casual glance, they seemed to turn Pasha Bey's unholy soul inside out, see all its evil, and promise full
punishment. The effect was most unnerving.
Pasha Bey had heard of this man of metal-had heard much of him. So had all of Alexandria, for that
matter.

The man was Doc Savage. He had appeared in Egypt under circumstances that were cyclonic. Cables
had carried news of the event across the Atlantic; airplanes. had rushed pictures of his arrival to
newspapers in London, Paris, Berlin, and elsewhere.

For Doc Savage had come, with five strange men who were his aids, flying the Zeppelin-type airship,
Aeromunde, which had vanished mysteriously many years ago. It was all very fantastic, this arrival of
Doc Savage and his helpers.

Rumor had it that evil men had stolen the dirigible and used it for years to carry slaves to a lost oasis in
the trackless deserts, where there was a great diamond mine, and that Doc Savage had rescued the
slaves and punished their masters.

PASHA BEY had probed into those rumors, especially after be heard something about several packing
cases filled with diamonds. But he had learned precious little. No one was telling the location of the
fabulous lost oasis of the diamonds. The Aeromunde had been restored to the government which
formerly owned the ship.

Doc Savage -- talk in the drinking places said -- had given to each of the rescued slaves a round fortune,
and was keeping the diamonds. But the gems themselves were only rumors, for all the headway Pasha
Bey had made at locating them.

The names of Doc Savage's aids had even evaded Pasha Bey's adroit angling for information.

He would have been very shocked to learn that "Long Tom" Roberts was one of those five. Had he
known this, he would have thought long and soberly before undertaking to murder the man for four
thousand piastres. Doc Savage and his comrades were a bad crowd to monkey with.

They were reported to be a terror to evildoers. It was said they made a life work out of helping those
who needed help, and punishing those who deserved it. Doc Savage and the five aids traveled to the
ends of the earth to hunt trouble.

Unluckily for him, Pasha Bey did not know the connection between Long Tom and Doc Savage. So he
shuffled upstairs in search of Long Tom's room.

He found the door in a brightly decorated hall. Composing a look of bland meekness on his bony
features, he rippled knuckles on the panel, after making sure he heard no voices inside.

"Who is it?"

"A messenger for Major Thomas J. Roberts, the electrical engineer."

"Be right with you!"

The man who soon opened the door was rather undersized, pale of hair and eyes, and somewhat pale of