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Proudman Shaster gave his visitor a dry smile and a dried-up hand, then went back behind his huge desk
and sat down. The result was that Proudman Shaster about disappeared. Only his bulging melon of a
head showed over the formidable desk.

Proudman Shaster's head was all that counted, anyway. It was full of brains and all the ideas they
hatched were bad.

"It's really a wonderful day," he said. "Really wonderful." Proudman Shaster was a well-known attorney.
and everything was usually "really wonderful" with him. It was a small habit of speech he had.

"Si, si, senor," said the general, imitating a Spaniard. "Look, I have an idea. A mucho bueno idea! I want
it looked into."

Proudman Shaster folded his dry hands and looked as if he hadn't heard a word of it.

"I want all of mv men assemblcd here in New York at once," said General Ino. "All of my hombres,
understand!"

"Can do," Proudman Shaster admitted, lighting a cigarette.

He should have been able to d it. He was Ino's mouth, his eyes, his ears, even a wee bit of his brains,
when the occasion demanded. He had furnished the acid that had disposed of the last bit of epidermis of
the Japanese merchant prince's man-child.

General Ino shook hands with himself, Chinese fashion, and murmured, "This humble one is most proud
of such a worthy servant."

Proudman Shaster looked at his finger nails, found grime under one and began to clean it with a small,
sharp tooth.

"Who are we going to take to the cleaners now?" he asked.

"Doc Savage," General Ino said.

Proudman Shaster gave a violent leap, closed his eyes, and seemed to stop breathing. He dropped his
cigarette.

GENERAL INO was plainly quite amused by the actions of his lieutenant - not his most valuable one,
incidentally. Ino smiled, picked up the cigarette stub and extinguished it in a bronze tray.

"Oh, don't worry, I knew you'd be quite surprised," he said.

Proudman Shaster went through some convulsive facial expressions.

"Water!" be gasped faintly. "And one of the pills out of the box on the water cooler!"

General Ino seemed about to laugh, as if it were a good bit of acting; then be peered closely at his
follower. He ran to the cooler, got the water and pill, then administered both to Proudman Shaster.

"Don't you know I have a weak heart?" were Shaster's first words.