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The other man bowed his white head. "I know. I have just told you why."

Doc Savage said nothing. His metallic features, rugged and well-molded so that they were handsome
without being in any sense pretty-pretty, showed no expression. His face gave an impression of
controlled power.

"You seemed very scared," he said.

The other straightened. "You do not believe me?"

"You were unusually disturbed," Doc said.
Uncle Joe Morgan took out a handkerchief, wiped his face.

"I give you my word I know nothing about this," he said. "I am just unnerved by those deaths. Those men
were not extremely close to me, but I knew them quite well. They have died one after another, in that
weird fashion, and it has terrified me. Just the men I know are dying? Why is that?"

"You cannot explain it?"

"No."

"You might try to think of something."

Uncle Joe MorganтАЩs lips were paper-white and his breathing had, all during their talk, become more and
more like cloth tearing. The tearing had started, seemingly, deep in his lungs, so that it was barely audible;
now, it was up in his throat, and loud.

"I have thought about it," he said, "for four straight days and nights. I have not slept."

Doc Savage arose. There had been no sound audible to normal ears. But the bronze man went to the
reception room door, opened it; and the homely secretary was there. She looked up curiously at Doc
Savage and then, fascinated by the unusual power which the bronze man radiated, as people always
were, kept staring at him.

He closed the door and went back to the desk. He put both hands on the desk. The sinews in the backs
of the hands stood out like steel pencils.

"What about Ted Parks?" he asked. Then, when the old man seemed to melt in his chair: "So youтАЩve
thought of that, too?"

"You meanтАФTed Parks also knew the men who have died?"

"Yes."

"I . . . I knew that."

"We had better talk to Ted Parks," Doc Savage said.

"He . . . he has disappeared."