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"What makes you think that?" Doc asked him.

Browder grinned slightly. "IтАЩve heard a little about you and that crew of men you work with."

"You know nothing of medicine?" Doc asked.

"Practically nothing."

"How did you learn about science experimenting with giving arteriosclerosis to diabetic rats?"

"Oh, I copied that out of a newspaper item," said Bill Browder. "I looked the word up in the dictionary.
You have no idea how hard it is to pronounce a word like that."

"The idea being to get me to come here?"

"Sure. IтАЩd heard you were one of the worldтАЩs leading experimenters in medical research. I knew a thing
like that would bring you here in a hurry, particularly if it was connected with a little mystery."

"You are clever."
Bill Browder grinned briefly. "I havenтАЩt been told that very often."

"How much of your story was genuine?"

"The mystery," Bill Browder said sincerely. "ThereтАЩs plenty of that."

Browder was a young man who went to width rather than height. He was not fat. His hands were
knobby and strong. There were freckles on his nose. His eyes were blue, with crinkles at the corners,
and he had brown hair and rather large ears. But there was, as a whole, nothing freakish about him.

Doc Savage finished inspecting him more closely.

"No rats," the bronze man remarked.

"No, no rats," said Bill Browder.

"But there is a mystery?"

Browder was suddenly serious. "Plenty of that," he said.

"Suppose we hear about it," Doc said.

Browder rubbed his jaw uncomfortably. "You . . . er . . . are not angry with me? I mean, about getting
you out here with that gag about the funny rats?"

Doc Savage said, "I am not particularly amused by it. If it was justifiedтАФif there was a good reason for
what you didтАФthat would be different."

"ThereтАЩs this mystery."