"Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage 037 - The Metal Master" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

"All right," said the girl. "IтАЩve always wanted to meet this Doc Savage. I donтАЩt believe heтАЩs half what they say
he is."
Seevers took her arm in a thin claw. "Come on. IтАЩm in a terrible hurry."

"Why?"

Seevers hesitated, peering about. "I am afraid of being killed."

"By whom?" She sounded skeptical.

"By the Metal Master, probably," muttered Seevers.

The girl gave the feminine equivalent of a snort. Plainly, she was not convinced that the old man really had
anything of importance. She thought him a little mad.

"I never heard of anything called the Metal Master," she said.

"You will!" Seevers shuddered. "DonтАЩt make any mistake about my sanity. The Metal Master exists, and it is
going to do some awful things to this world, unless Doc Savage can stop it!"

The girl gave her skeptical snort again.

"You sound too melodramatic to be in earnest," she said.

Old Seevers did not reply.

They passed under a street light. The girl was more than pretty. She was little short of ravishing. She was not
a doll face. Her beauty was classic.

"WeтАЩll stop at this cable office," said old Seevers, pointing. "I am expecting a message, a cablegram."

The cable office was one that remained open all night. There were two young men on duty. They ogled the
young woman, hypnotized by her beauty.

"Anything for Jonathan Seevers?" asked the old man.

One clerk came to life and produced a blue envelope.

"Just came in," he said.

Old Seevers opened the message. It was from a town in South America, and read:

INFORMATION WHICH YOU CABLED ME VERIFIES WHAT I HAVE SUSPECTED STOP IMPERATIVE
CALAMITY BE AVERTED STOP GO TO DOC SAVAGE IMMEDIATELY WITH STORY STOP I AM TAKING
OFF NOW IN MY PLANE HEADED FOR NEW YORK STOP BE CAREFUL

LOUIS

Having read the missive, the girl glanced up. She looked stunned.