"That's two of us," Monk agreed shakily.
"Three," old Benjy said. He settled down to his driving.
IX
RENNY Renwick was not normally a man of many cusswords. But after the car carrying Monk, Grace, Bill and UPSKIRTS old Benjy vanished, Renny spoke for approximately two minutes without using a word that could be found in a dictionary.
Sir Roger Powell took it, but his face got gray with rage. "No man has
talked to me like that!"
he said finally.
" I UPSKIRTS should do more than talk to you!" Renny yelled. "What the UPSKIRTS blue-blaze-coated edge of hell were you trying to do?"
"Get their attention after they came out of the apartment house!" Powell snapped.
"Why not just call to Monk?&UPSKIRTS quot;
"I wanted to UPSKIRTS get their eye furtively. I thought someone might be watching. I didn't want to create a UPSKIRTS disturbance."
"No disturbance! Holy cow!"
"It didn't turn out like I expected," Powell muttered. "That Bob French UPSKIRTS is war-simple. UPSKIRTS he thought I had tossed a hand grenade and he UPSKIRTS went crazy."
"What
did you toss?"
Powell went to the UPSKIRTS curbing, got down on hands and knees and fished something out from under an automobile parked there. He brought it back. &UPSKIRTS quot;This,&UPSKIRTS quot; he said.
It was a wad of paper. Dark brown paper. Renny unrolled it. UPSKIRTS the wrappers off a couple of candy bars, loosely wadded.
Powell explained, "We haven't had UPSKIRTS a chance to eat dinner, as you well UPSKIRTS know. So I bought a couple of large candy bars to fill in. These UPSKIRTS are the wrappers."
UPSKIRTS Doc Savage arrived. He had been farther up the block, parking their car.
"UPSKIRTS What caused the uproar?" Doc asked.
Renny explained the mishap, omitting the cussing. "I wasn't close enough to get Monk's attention," he said. "That ball of paper looked like a grenade to Bob French, I suppose, and he started a stampede."
Powell said, "What UPSKIRTS kind of a fool would think a grenade would be UPSKIRTS thrown at him on a New York street!"
"Look, Bob French is a soldier and he's been where it's hot. Where he's been, any unexpected