"Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage 022 - The Annhilist" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

"You cold-blooded devil!" exploded the pleasant-voiced Boke. "Don't be so definite about such a
hideous thing. It gets on my nerves."

The witch-faced Frightful seemed accustomed to this squeamishness on the part of his chief, for he went
on rapidly:

"I wanta tell you about a strange thing I saw when I posted myself on the roof," he said. "I could see into
Janko Sultman's office, but Sultman wasn't there. The office was empty. But after while a guy come in.
Who d'you think it was?"

Instead of answering as expected, Boke's remarkably suave voice said hollowly, "I would give my right
arm if it had not been necessary to eliminate Sultman. A murder! Horrible!"

Frightful said, "Leander Coust came into SuItman's office while I was watching."

Boke's voice, yelling suddenly, demanded, "Who?"

"Leander Court," Frightful repeated patiently. "He sat around in the office by himself until the telephone
rang, and he answered it. What he heard must have made him excited. He threw the phone down and
broke the glass out of the office door and crawled through. The door must have had a trick lock."

"It has," said pleasant-voiced Boke. "Then what happened?"

"Some guy in the reception room up and fills Leander Court full of bullets. I could see that. Then the guy
ran for the stairs. After that, something must've happened to the guy, because I heard some bellowing
and a lot of cops came, and I heard one of 'em say something about the guy being dead with his eyes
sticking out"

"With what?" demanded Boke.

"His eyes sticking out. Like you've been reading about in the papers."

"It is all very clear to me except that last," said Boke, puzzlement in his amiable tone. "Janko Sultman had
doublecrossed us, as we already knew, and had an appointment with Leander Court. He must have put
his proposition up to Court over the telephone, or perhaps he had already advanced his proposal and
Court had come to give his answer.
"Court refused and tried to flee, and the gunman was one who had been posted by Janko Sultman to kill
Court in case the latter was stubborn or threatened to go to Doc Savage. Yes. All is very clear. But what
happened to the gunman? Are you sure that his eyes popped out?"

"I'm only tellin' you what I overheard," Frightful grumbled.

"Baffling," said Boke. "I cannot understand it."

Monk turned his head in another effort to learn where the voice of Boke was coming from, and one of
the guards slugged the homely chemist, knocking him against the wall. Monk lashed back with an
astounding speed and the assailant staggered away, his jaw possessed of a slightly different shape than it
had had a moment before. Pistol muzzles forced Monk back into his corner and made him face the wall.