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THE MENTAL WIZARD
A Doc Savage Adventure By Kenneth Robeson
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? PROLOGUE
? Chapter I. THE WEIRD GIRL
? Chapter II. LAST TESTAMENT
? Chapter III. THE REMARKABLE TOURIST
? Chapter IV. AROUND THE DYING MAN
? Chapter V. SNAKES
? Chapter VI. SPELL!
? Chapter VII. EXPEDITION
? Chapter VIII. RAID
? Chapter IX. THE SECRET OF KLANTIC
? Chapter X. A JUNGLE AND FOUR PLANES
? Chapter XI. WHAT MONK SAW
? Chapter XII. TOO FAR IN!
? Chapter XIII. FEAR JUNGLE
? Chapter XIV. THE BIG MAN
? Chapter XV. PRISONER LEGION
? Chapter XVI. UPROAR
? Chapter XVII. SIEGE
? Chapter XVIII. THE KLANTIC
? Chapter XIX. THE GOLDEN KNOT


PROLOGUE
FACTS do not lie, the old saying goes. What follows, being in general excerpts from newspapers over
the past few years may, therefore, be taken for what they are worth. The full items from the newspapers
will not be reprinted here, for they have filled scores of news columns and many Sunday pages; and
moreover, some of them would make uninteresting reading.

But the clippings and the story they tell, considered as a whole, are more than interesting. They are
absorbing to a point where there is a hint of something incredible.

These newspaper clippings deal with one of the unexplored regions of the world, of which there are still a
few. Rather, the news stories deal with men who went into the region during the past few years. Never
have the news stories dealt with what happened to these men after they penetrated the region. No one
knows about that. No one, that is, belonging to what is called the civilized world.

Some of the men went in by foot, with native porters. They never came back. In cases, some, but rarely
all, of the natives turned up at distant points, and almost invariably they had strange stories to tellтАФstories
so inarticulate and fantastic that they did not warrant belief from the level-headed managers of frontier
trading posts who heard them.

Some of the lost men went by air, their planes equipped with the latest radio apparatus, burdened with
plenty of rifles, ammunition and spare food. They have not been heard from.