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WAVES OF DEATH
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I. TIDAL WAVE
? Chapter II. SMALL DARK MAN
? Chapter III. THE SCARED CLAY
? Chapter IV. SOME SLIGHT MYSTERY
? Chapter V. ISLAND SIEGE
? Chapter VI. THE WAVE MAKER
? Chapter VII. WHEN DEATH STOPPED FOOLING
? Chapter VIII. USEFUL AS WELL AS ORNAMENTAL
? Chapter IX. THE LAWYER PLATE
? Chapter X. FLIGHT
? Chapter XI. MONSTER
? Chapter XII. CANS ON THEIR TAILS
? Chapter XIII. PATH MADE OF LIGHT
? Chapter XIV. DEATH WAS A FLASH
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Chapter I. TIDAL WAVE
ITEM in the newspapers that bright morning in the month of August:

TWO DROWN IN MYSTERY TIDAL

WAVE ON LAKE MICHIGAN

NAHMA, MICH., Aug. 12th.тАФTwo persons were drowned this morning in a large and strange wave
which swept down upon the Lake Michigan shore near this lumber town.

The dead are two brothers, Ted and Ned Jones, twins. According to witnesses, they were bathing on the
beach in calm water when a great wave came rolling in for no explained reason, and engulfed them.

The cause of the tidal wave is still a mystery, since instruments have shown no earthquake shock.

This was the extent of the item in the New York Dispatch, which was a conservative sheet and closely
edited. In some of the other papers there were a few more paragraphs to the story, but they did not add
anything of value, since they consisted of additional statements about the mystery of the affair. The fact
that the Nahma, Michigan, region was not one subject to earthquakes, and that nothing in the nature of
tidal waves had the habit of piling up on the beach unexpectedly, was emphasized.

Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett (Monk) Mayfair, the noted chemist who looked slightly like a
Congo ape and who had a pig for a pet, drew the newspaper item to the attention of Doc Savage.
тАЬHere's a screwy one, Doc,тАЭ Monk said.

Monk did not call the item to Doc Savage's attention solely because it was a curiosity.