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THE DEVIL'S BLACK ROCK
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I. DEVIL IN THE GROUND
? Chapter II. WICKARD COLE VS. THE DEVIL
? Chapter III. THE BROTHER
? Chapter IV. THE REWARD
? Chapter V. PARA
? Chapter VI. BLACK DEVIL JUMPING
? Chapter VII. QUIZ SHOW
? Chapter VIII. OLD MAN WITH A GUN
? Chapter IX. TALE WITHOUT END
? Chapter X. BID FOR SILENCE
? Chapter XI. MONK AND THE REFORM
? Chapter XII. DISASTER BY ARRANGEMENT
? Chapter XIII. PERFUME AND DEATH
? Chapter XIV. THE CLOSING OF A NET
? Chapter XV. BLACK ROCK
? THE END
? DOC SAVAGE AND HIS PALS
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Chapter I. DEVIL IN THE GROUND
DONKEY SAM DAVIS was not a handsome man. Indeed, his face frightened the babies on the street
in the town of Mile High, Arizona. There was just one street in Mile High, and not many babies, and
these babies were not easily frightened.

Donkey Sam Davis was a prospector; probably you could call him a full-fledged desert rat. However, he
did not prospect all of the time, but only when he was broke, which was quite considerable of the time at
that. He hunted gold, silver, copper, quicksilver, iron, lead, or what have you. Any old thing. Often a
square meal would have been a godsend.

Two things about his character had an important bearing on what happened when the black devil went
into the ground.



THE first of these things was the fact that Donkey Sam happened to have met Doc Savage one time.
Met was not the exact word. They did not get acquainted, and Doc Savage possibly never knew that
Donkey Sam existedтАФDoc was to become very much aware of it later, thoughтАФat the time. But
Donkey Sam was permanently impressed.
On the occasion, Doc was in Mile High on business. The visit was no more than a passing through, and
the only thing Doc did to arouse Donkey Sam's interest was a thing which Doc probably never knew he
did. No less than seven gentlemen of shady reputationтАФthe whole crop of local bad men, in factтАФfled
town the moment they heard Doc had arrived. The seven left in frantic haste, not even packing up.