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The young woman suddenly awakened to what Doc was doing. She wrenched her eyes from the bronze
manтАЩs strange golden orbs, and sprang backward. She slapped herself violently in the face.

Monk started forward with the idea of seizing her gun while she was occupied with breaking DocтАЩs spell. But
the girl jabbed her weapon at him.
"You come a step closer, and IтАЩll blow a hole in that ugly face!" she declared.

"Go ahead," the sharp-tongued Ham invited her. "Any thing, even a hole, would be an improvement over the
face as it is."

Monk ignored the insult.

"Where have you taken John Acre?" demanded the girl. Monk and Ham started slightly.

"DonтАЩt ask me," Ham ejaculated.

"Huh?" Monk grunted.

"It seems the young lady is in the right pew after all," Doc offered.

The beauty in gold eyed them coldly over the gun.

"Then you do admit having him!"

"YouтАЩre mistaken," Doc told her.

The young woman plainly did not wish to chance looking at Doc again. She was afraid of his hypnotic
powers, yet his mighty bronze figure drew repeatedly her unwilling gaze.

"John Acre called me and told me he was coming here!" she snapped.

"Did he ask you to meet him here?" Doc questioned.

The girl hesitated. "NoтАФbut I came anyway. There were some things I wanted to ask him."

"We do not know where John Acre is," Doc told her.

"Liar!" rapped the girl.



DOC fell silent. There was one subject about which he did not possess universal knowledge. Personally, he
believed it was impossible to ever learn much about the topic. The subject of his deficiency wasтАФwomen.

Doc did know enough about the fair sex to realize there was no use in arguing. She thought he was a liar,
and that was that.

"Where is John Acre?" demanded the girl, putting a grim emphasis on each word.

Doc said nothing. Monk and Ham said nothing. Monk frankly stared. At the moment, the homely chemist