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"Yes," Doc said. "So we discovered."

"Look." Uncle Joe Morgan reached into his desk and brought out an envelope. From the envelope he
took a paper, which he spread on the desk. "Look," he repeated.

It read:

I am coming to see you at four oтАЩclock Friday. You better be there, and you better not tell anybody I am
coming. AND I MEAN NOBODY.

Bughide.

"Ted Parks wrote that. Today is Friday. So he is coming at four oтАЩclock today." Uncle Joe Morgan drew
in a deep breath. "That name he signed to it, Bughide, is a nickname I called Ted one time. I think he has
always resented it. I called him the name because he is so easily offended. I think I referred to him having
a hide no thicker than a bug, at the time."
Doc Savage looked at the note in silence for a while.

He asked, "Have you any objections to my being present at four oтАЩclock this afternoon when Ted Parks
pays you this call?"

The white-haired man sat up straight.

"I would be delighted," he said.

"Have you any idea why the note has this violent tone?" Doc asked. "The reference, in particular, that you
had better not tell anyone."

"I have no idea."

"Expect me shortly before four oтАЩclock," Doc Savage said.



DOC SAVAGE left the office building and stepped into a nearby restaurant. He took a seat in a booth in
the rear, a booth with high wooden partitions in front and behind.

A man was already seated in the booth. He was a short, wide man covered with rusty-red hair. He had
sloping shoulders, no forehead worth mentioning and a face that was something to start dogs barking.

This pleasantly apish fellow had a pig under the table. The pig was sitting there in comfort, one eye on the
proprietor of the restaurant, who did not look happy.

"Well, did he admit getting the note from Parks?" asked the man.

"Yes, Monk, he admitted that," Doc Savage said. "But he admitted to very little else."

Monk Mayfair grinned. "ThatтАЩs a point in his favor. I donтАЩt reckon he could have known I went through
his mail and gave that letter a go-over with Long TomтАЩs pet portable X-ray machine."