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THE SPOOK OF GRANDPA EBEN
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I
? Chapter II
? Chapter III
? Chapter IV
? Chapter V
? Chapter VI
? Chapter VII
? Chapter VIII
? Chapter IX
? Chapter X
? Chapter XI
? Chapter XII
? Chapter XIII
? Chapter XIV
? Chapter XV
? Chapter XVI
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Chapter I
THE name on his birth certificate was Wilmore Riggs, so it was natural for everybody to call him Billy
Riggs. He was a pleasant young man; the name fitted. He was twenty-four years old.

He had inherited the small black Indian-head charm from his Grandfather Eben, whom he had never
seen, but whose rascally reputation had always secretly amused him. Grandfather Eben had been dead
thirty years or so, but Eben's awful reputation was still going full blast. Grandfather Eben was certainly the
skeleton in the Riggs' closet.

Billy Riggs had worn Grandfather Eben's Indian-head as a watch charm for a long time.

When he was a kid, attending grade school, Billy Riggs had read the fanciful story about Aladdin and the
lamp that Aladdin rubbed, and the genie that popped out to serve as Aladdin's servant. Later Billy had
seen the story presented, with Hollywood embellishment, in two motion pictures. He had been much
impressed when the Aladdin in the movies rubbed the lamp and the genie came out; the titanic
proportions of the genie had awed Billy Riggs.

It had never occurred to Billy Riggs that there could be any possible similarity between Grandpa Eben's
Indian-head and that magic lamp of Aladdin.

Because Billy Riggs had too much common sense to believe that such stuff was possible.
But it came to pass otherwise.

It came to pass otherwise on a Monday morning, 8 a.m. to be exact.