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"He used to work with my brother. Seevers was sort of a teacher for my brother for a long time. He is a nice
old man."

Doc Savage did not tell her she should have said was a nice old man.



Chapter III. CUBA ANGLE
DOC SAVAGE allowed the young woman to rest, after ascertaining that she knew no more than what she
had told. While she was resting, he telephoned the cable company.

He learned about the two clerks who had been murdered and about the cablegram which had been taken. He
got a copy of the cablegram from the central office, where it had been relayed.

"How is your nerve?" he asked the girl.
"I donтАЩt know," she said.

Doc tried her.

"Seevers is dead," he said.

Her nerve was all right. She bit her lips.

"He was a nice old man," she said.

"Do you have any idea what is behind this?" Doc Savage asked.

She considered. "I canтАЩt think of a single angle."

"You were poisoned," Doc told her. "They smeared a cyanide powder over your mouth."

"I know." She shuddered. "And after that, it was the strangest thing! I seemed to be flying through infinite
space at terrific speed! And yet it didnтАЩt seem like it was me doing that, but some one different, some part of
me that I had never been conscious of before"

"You were dead," Doc Savage told her.

She eyed him solemnly. "You wouldnтАЩt kid me?"

"That," he assured her, "is the truth."

"And you brought me back to life?"

"It has been done often before. People actually die on operating tables and elsewhere, only to be revived by
the use of adrenalin and other methods."

Nan Tester did not say anything. Apparently having been dead was something to think about.

"You are going to be left here again for a few minutes," the bronze man told her.