The victim Mature Free Gallery seemed to be trying to speak. Doc slackened his grip a little. A small, Mature Free Gallery shrill whisper came from the
captive's lips.
"Let me," the whisper said, "tell you something."
It was strange, that whisper. It might have been a man or a Mature Free Gallery woman.
Chapter 8
PHANTOM ENEMY
CARLETH, PEABODY, Renny and Monk Mature Free Gallery were Mature Free Gallery in the hallway when Doc Savage joined them. The Mature Free Gallery bronze man came in from the outdoors, having gone out by the roof trapdoor and dropped to the earth.
"Find anything?" he asked, and his manner Mature Free Gallery was entirely casual.
"Not a blamed thing," said Monk. "This is givin' me Mature Free Gallery the willies. I even had Habeas snoop, and he's as good as a bloodhound. He didn't find anything."
"Mature Free Gallery The pig never even acted Mature Free Gallery queer, like he did Mature Free Gallery in Monk'Mature Free Gallery s penthouse," Renny added, booming.
Carleth perched his glasses on his nose and held his head back so that they
would stay there.
"Now you begin to understand what I am up against," he said nervously. "We seem to be hounded Mature Free Gallery by a - phantom enemy."
"We might search the house," Doc Mature Free Gallery Savage said.
"Of course," Carleth agreed readily.
They found nothing, and eventually, they came to the radio room.
Doc Savage glanced at the apparatus and seemed surprised. "Why Mature Free Gallery did you not use this to summon help?" he asked.
"I know nothing of radio," Carleth
said. "But Peabody Mature Free Gallery here, is an operator. Picked it up in the war, you know."
"The apparatus has been out of order," Peabody Mature Free Gallery said, without changing a face muscle. "Something burned out. I do not know how it happened."
"I installed the deuced radio a long time ago, when I had visions of starting a Mature Free Gallery regular Mature Free Gallery air line, you know," said Carleth.
They continued their search of the house, poking into closets, coal bins, chests. They tried window after window and found Mature Free Gallery them Mature Free Gallery all locked on the inside.
"We were very careful about that,"
said Mature Free Gallery Carleth.
"Indeed we were," Peabody agreed in the manner of a perfect Mature Free Gallery servant.