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horrible is going on around here. I wouldn't be surprised if the death of that poor telegraph operator
hasn't got something to do with it."

"What telegraph operator?" Doc queried sharply.

"The fellow who copied the message that I gave you," Wilkie explained.

ONCE more Doc Savage received surprising information without an appreciable show of emotion. Doc
was not callous. He simply had his nerves under such control that they behaved as he wished.

"Was the telegrapher murdered?" he queried.

"Not according to a report I got at our last stop," Wilkie replied. "A section worker found the body. He
claimed it looked like suicide. But I knew that operator. He wasn't the kind to take his own life."

Doc's hand described a gesture which took in Senor Oveja, his daughter, and El Rabanos.

"I should like very much to hear these three explain why they fear me," he said.

All Doc received was a hateful stare from each of the trio. The girl's look was the least malicious. In fact,
her expression portrayed rather plainly that she regretted that this handsome bronze man was an enemy.

"It don't seem like they're gonna talk," Wilkie muttered. Doc Savage swung over to the door. He closed
it so that the rear of the panel was visible, and indicated the smear which resembled a grisly, human-faced
wolf.

"Maybe you can explain this!" His powerful voice crashed. The girl's eyes flew wide as she saw the
smudge. she screamed with a sort of exhausted horror. Then she clamped palms over her eyes.

Senor Oveja and El Rabanos reacted almost as sharply. Their eyes protruded; their jaws fell.

"The werewolf!" choked Senor Oveja.
"What does it mean?" Doc questioned.

Pretty Senorita Oveja laughed hysterically. "Why should you be asking w? You know very well what it
means!"

"You three are under some misapprehension," Doc told them. "This is all a mystery to me."

"Que!" El Rabanos ejaculated sarcastically. "What! Did not your uncle Alex Savage take you into his
confidence?"

"So Alex Savage is mixed up in this," Doc said dryly. "Mixed is a very mild word for it, Senor Savage,"
El Rabanos sneered.

Ignoring the girl-faced man, Doc Savage turned to Wilkie.

"One of the gang who assaulted Senor Oveja and his daughter called the other by the name of Senor
Savage. Obviously they were trying to frame me. But use of the Spanish word 'senor' was a slip. I
believe you said there were other swarthy-skinned men on this train."