"Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage 106 - Peril in the North" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

"I think Bill Browder and his rats are in trouble," the man said.

The city fled away behind them. Business buildings became smaller, turned to houses. The houses grew
scattered. There were no stoplights on the express road. Traffic did not interfere with them. Cars gave
them a wide berth.

"What makes the cars shy away from us?" the man asked. "I noticed, back there in town, everybody
gave us the right of way."

"Red police lights on the front of the car," Doc replied briefly.

"You a cop?"

"We have honorary commissions on the force," the bronze man said. "Both myself and my associates."

"IтАЩve heard about them helpers of yours," the man said. "Five of them, ainтАЩt there? TheyтАЩre quite some
guys, themselves."

Doc Savage did not answer. He was, as a rule, not exactly a fountain of information. In fact, he was not
free with words. He almost never conducted a conversation merely for the sake of carrying on one.

They rushed along for about five miles.

Doc abruptly asked a question. "How did you happen to be so out of breath when you reached me?"

"Oh, that?" The man grimaced. "Bill Browder told me you were going to be at that hotel. He said you
would get there a few minutes before nine oтАЩclock, because the reception was due to start at nine. So I
rushed. I rushed like the devil. But I made it."

Doc Savage made no comment.

They turned in at a brick bungalow in a modest-home section that was near a more pretentious residential
district.

The man touched DocтАЩs arm. "Say, will you tell me something?"

"What?" Doc asked him.

"What is it them rats have gotтАФarteriosclerosis? What is arteriosclerosis?"

Doc Savage said, "Scientists for a long time have been experimenting in giving arteriosclerosis to diabetic
rats, on the theory that a disturbance of fat metabolism allows plaques of fat to be deposited in the
arteries, thus causing one of the principal diseases of old age. If Bill Browder has given it to diabetic rats,
then cured them of it, and given it to them again, he has discovered what will be one of the great things of
this generation. He has discovered the thing so many medical scientists have been searching for."

The man looked baffled.

"I still donтАЩt get what arteriosclerosis is," he said.