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person he had met in some time.

"What is your name?" Doc asked the girl unexpectedly.

"Tip Galligan." She did not hesitate about giving it. "Helen Tipperary Galligan, to be exact."

Ham began: "Well, HelenтАФ"

"I donтАЩt like gigolos," snapped the girl unkindly, eyeing HamтАЩs sartorially perfect attire. "Anyway, the name is
Tip."

"Why does that earthquake headline scare you, Tip?" Doc asked her.

She did not answer that. Instead she thrust out her small jaw fiercely.

"IтАЩve heard that you have five men who help you," she said angrily. "I guess this pair here are two of them. IтАЩm
going to tell you something: Either you release John Acre, or IтАЩll grab your other three friends and hold them
until you do cough up!"



MONK was grinning from ear to ear. For some reason he could not have explained, he was delighted that the
young lady in gold did not like the dapper Ham.

"She sounds violent," Monk said cheerfully.

"I am violent, too!" "Tip" assured him.

"I think we would all get along better if you put your gun away," Doc suggested.
"I donтАЩt," said Tip, and waved her gun carelessly.

Doc Savage looked at the ceiling. His lips moved. Strange words came forth. They were guttural words and
rather musical, but absolutely unintelligible to Tip.

Monk and Ham made no reply, but it was plain that they understood the weird vernacular. Both men did an
unusual thing. They began to hold their breaths.

"Listen, you three," Tip hissed. "You canтАЩt pull anything on me. DonтАЩt tryтАФ"

The young woman seemed to go to sleep on her feet. Her eyelids, with lashes more than a half an inch long,
drooped. She swayed on her feet. Had Monk not leaped and caught her, she would have fallen.

Even in the act of springing to catch her, Monk did not release his breath. He still held it. Cheeks distended,
face a little purple, he carried the young woman over and draped her in a deep chair.

Doc Savage, a close observer might have noticed, was also holding his breath. In not quite a minute he gave
a small signal. They all began breathing normally again.

Doc now removed his coat. He pulled out the left sleeve, so that the lining showed. It held a small pocket.
From this Doc dumped a broken fragment of a thin-walled glass bulb. He had broken this by expanding his