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colleague admitted that Monk was a magician of the test tubes.

MonkтАЩs short legs pumped like pistons as he headed for Doc SavageтАЩs skyscraper office. The grin was back
on his homely face.

So Johnny would be able to use his left eye now! That was swell!

Johnny and Monk were both members of a group of six remarkable men. Just as Monk was a great chemist,
and Johnny a world-renowned geologist, so were three of the others experts in their lines. One was a lawyer,
another an electrical wizard, and the third an engineer.

The other member of this group of sixтАФDoc SavageтАФwas the leader. Incredibly enough, Doc was a greater
chemist, a greater engineer, a greater lawyer, a more learned geologist, and a more skilled electrical expert
than any of the other five.

Doc SavageтАЩs forte was not surgery alone. His fund of learning covered almost all things. Sometimes those
associated with him were inclined to wonder if this amazing man had not in some miraculous fashion attained
that supreme goal of studentsтАФan infinite knowledge of all things.

Fabulous as Doc SavageтАЩs accomplishments seemed, there were actually nothing of the supernatural about
them. They were things which could be duplicated by another, simply by going through the years of
preparation to which Doc had submitted himself. From the cradle, Doc had been trained for a definite purpose
in life.

DocтАЩs life work was to go here and there, to the ends of the earth if necessary, striving to help those in need
of help, and punishing those who justly deserved it.

The love of excitement and adventure, together with an unbounded admiration for Doc Savage, and the
pleasure they got out of associating with him, held DocтАЩs live aids in a group.

Monk, just before he reached the skyscraper, stepped aside to avoid a newsboy. The lad was howling:
"Earthquake! Read about the earthquake in South America!"

Monk was not at all interested in earthquakes.

Monk entered the skyscraper lobby. He walked past the phalanx of elevators. Of each operator, he asked a
question.
"Have you brought down a guy from eighty-six within the last few minutesтАФa bird in evening clothes, who
walked like he thought a lot of himself?"

"That gentleman just left," reported the third attendant.

Monk made a clicking sound of regret with his tongue and the roof of his mouth.

"Here comes Doc Savage!" an elevator operator said dramatically.



THE exclamation was a bit breathless, and filled with awe. It was as if the operator were seeing a famous
personage for the first time. Yet it was certain that this attendant saw Doc Savage many times daily.