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THE YELLOW CLOUD
A Doc Savage Adventure By Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I. THE IMPOSSIBLE YELLOW THING
? Chapter II. PROOF OF IMPOSSIBLE
? Chapter III. STRANGE LADYBIRD
? Chapter IV. MEN AFTER FILM
? Chapter V. TELEVISION MIX-UP
? Chapter VI. BIG EARS
? Chapter VII. GIRL TRAIL
? Chapter VIII. SCHOOLHOUSE LESSON
? Chapter IX. MONK, THE BEAUTIFUL
? Chapter X. PAT GUESSES WRONG
? Chapter XI. NOT SOUTH AMERICA
? Chapter XII. BACKWARD FLYING
? Chapter XIII. CRAZY HOUSE
? Chapter XIV. MADHOUSE RAID
? Chapter XV. PIT TRAP
? Chapter XVI. THE MONKHOUSE
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Chapter I. THE IMPOSSIBLE YELLOW THING
IT was too bad that nobody actually saw what happened to the new army X-ship on its test flight. It happened that
there were clouds that night, and anyway, the impossible thing occurred twenty thousand feet in the air.

So all the information they got was what the pilot told them over the radio. And, of course, no one could hardly believe
that. It was too incredible.

However, there was no denying plane and pilot vanished.

Also, there were the photographs which the pilot took and droppedтАФthe picture that actually showed the thing that
had grabbed the plane, incredible as it was.

The army wasnтАЩt fooling that night.

There had been a congressional investigation, and it had resulted in the boot being taken to certain high staff officers
until, as one old-timer put it, the seats of their pants rang like bells.

The investigation had brought out the simple and undeniable fact that the armyтАФthe United States armyтАФwas about
as well-prepared as a man with a musket. The army, the soldiers of the Stars and Stripes, might make an impressive
sight when stood in a rowтАФif nobody noticed that they stood in about the same equipment as in 1918. Every
European soldier had a submachine gun, even the, Chinese had sub-gun companies, but the American doughboy, the
boy in khakiтАФwhat did he have?

He had a rifleтАФ1918 style. His commanding general also possibly had a polo pony, listed in the records as a cavalry