"Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage 046 - The Vanisher" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

"You were sentenced to fifteen years for forgery?"

"YтАФyes. Damn them! I wasnтАЩt guilty!"

"I know all about it. Now listen to this: Will you spend a year of your life fighting those who sent you here, if I
get you out?"

Jules McGinnis said, "Eh?"

"Will you do absolutely what I tell you, warring on the men who framed you, for a period of one year from
to-night in return for my getting you out of here?"

"What the heck is this, anyway?" gasped McGinnis.

"It is a chance to get out of spending fifteen years here."

McGinnis swallowed several times. He seemed to be trying to think and having a difficult time getting his
thoughts organized.

"IтАЩm toтАФto doтАФto do what you say for a year?" he stuttered.
"YouтАЩre taking too long to make up your mind." The deformed prowler then made a move as if to close the cell
door on McGinnis.

"Wait!" McGinnis exploded. "IтАЩll do it! Hell, yes!"

"Help me get the others," directed the humpback. "There are exactly twenty men here, including yourself,
whom I want. They have all been framed by the same men who sent you here."

McGinnis looked utterly dumfounded. "Twenty! You mean thereтАЩs that many hereтАФin this penitentiary alone?
That many of their victims?"

"Twenty, exactly," said the other.

McGinnis made croaking, stunned sounds in his effort to speak.

"I didnтАЩt dream the system was thatтАФlarge!" he gulped finally.

"The system, as you call it, has become a billion-dollar industry," said the hunchback. "It has become a
Juggernaut."

There was a gritting, metallic intensity about the strange figureтАЩs remark. A radio actor would have called it a
registration of utter hate.

McGinnis peered closely at his strange benefactor.

"Good love!" he muttered. "YouтАЩre just about the homeliest hag I ever saw!"



THE humpbacked creature seemed to mind the insult not at all. Low, businesslike orders were issued. Cell