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The Meteor Menace
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter 1. THE SNARE
? Chapter 2. THE COCKNEY
? Chapter 3. THE BRONZE MAN
? Chapter 4. THE BLUE GLARE
? Chapter 5. TERROR'S HAND
? Chapter 6. THE COCKNEY VISITOR
? Chapter 7. THE DISAPPEARANCE IN TIBET
? Chapter 8. BLUE MADNESS
? Chapter 9. THE AWAKENING
? Chapter 10. SOME UNREMEMBERED PROMISES
? Chapter 11. SCHEMERS
? Chapter 12. THE PHANTOM MO-GWEI
? Chapter 13. PROFESSOR STANLEY
? Chapter 14. THE STANLEY STORY
? Chapter 15. RAE CONFESSES
? Chapter 16. THE TRICK
? Chapter 17. BLUE TERROR
? Chapter 18. THE DEVIL'S NEST
? Chapter 19. THE METEOR THAT FAILED
? Chapter 20. THE BLUE PIT
? Chapter 21. THE FANCIEST LIAR



Chapter 1. THE SNARE
THERE is a theory among scientists that the ancestors of the Indians of North and South America came
from Asia.

This probably explained how "Saturday" Loo could don a bright-colored blanket poncho, mingle with a
crowd in Antofagasta, Chile, and pass himself off as a native son of the Andes.

Saturday Loo's poncho was not a disguise, exclusively. It concealed an object which resembled a
single-shot pistol, with a barrel large enough to accommodate shotgun cartridges. The poncho also hid a
long rope, six pairs of handcuffs, a gas mask, and an assortment of tear-gas bombs.

Safety first was a fetish with Saturday Loo. The shotgun-sized implement, which was a Very pistol firing
a slug that would burst into a smoke puff high in the air, should set machinery in motion to settle the
business at hand. But there was always the chance of a slipup. Hence the rope, handcuffs, and tear gas to
fall back upon.
Taking care not to bump into any one, which might call attention to what he carried under his poncho,
Saturday Loo worked forward.

At least two hundred thousand Chilean citizens were gathered on this hill outside Antofagasta. The center
of attention was a high speakers' rostrum of temporary construction. Everybody was pushing and