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shrubbery and a lawn that needed mowing.

The dog was blue! There was no question about that. The color of the animal was distinctly azure.

Whirling, the dog showed teeth. It was a big animal, with almost the shoulder height of a great Dane, but
with more the aspect of a wolf. Reflected light came from its eyes redly, as if it had the orbs of a dragon.

The dog suddenly shot away into the darkness. Where another animal would normally bark, it did not
make a sound.

"You see!" breathed Bill Browder.

Doc dropped a hard grip on BrowderтАЩs arm. "What are you trying to pull? That dog is not remarkable. It
is simply a big police dog with freak coloration."

Browder moved in the direction the dog had taken. "Come on! You havenтАЩt seen anything, yet."

He sounded so earnest that Doc went with him.

Then the dog barked at them. It was a low, rather fierce woofing sound.

"HeтАЩll keep doing that," Browder whispered. "We can follow him by that noise." He opened a yard gate.
"You say that color is actually natural?"

They walked down an alley. The dog moved ahead of them. It was intensely dark.

Doc said, "A freak of nature. In the case of plants, they call a peculiarly colored specimen a sport."

Browder stumbled over a rut. The dog barked hoarsely again. "IтАЩve followed this dog before," Browder
said.
"You mean that you just saw it, became curious and followed it?"

"Yes."

"What happened?"

"The next day, someone tried to kill me," Bill Browder replied. "And theyтАЩve tried twice since then to kill
me."

Doc Savage yanked to a stop. Not so much because of what Browder had said did he stop. There was
another reason, a reason who had popped up in their path with a gun! It was a girl.



THE girl had a small flashlight, the beam of which she turned on her gun long enough for them to notice
the weapon. The revolver was shiny and cheap.

"Please stand still," the girl said.

They stopped, because of the obvious fact that a cheap gun will shoot just as violently as an expensive