026-The Phantom Freighter by Franklin W. Dixon

Author:Franklin W. Dixon [Dixon, Franklin W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-08-07T14:26:57+00:00

"Gee whiz, fellows," he said, "if I've got to be punctured with a lot of sharp needles, the trip's off."

The pictures were ready in a few minutes. Though the photographer bragged about how lifelike they were, the boys laughed at the strange likenesses. Chet's was particularly grotesque.

"They'd never recognize me in South America," he said. "I look as if I had several diseases already!"

"Let's go out on the docks," Joe suggested, as they left the place. "We might run across that fellow with the scar."

A burly longshoreman, who had been lounging outside the door listening, slowly followed them. As they walked toward a truck being unloaded by a stevedore, he became very nervous, and tried to signal to the worker.

At this moment Joe happened to turn around and Code Numbers 107

saw the man's strange motions. Quickly he looked ahead again to see what was going on. What he saw convinced him that the matter needed investigating. The stevedore quickly threw a carton back on the truck and dived out of sight.

Like a flash Joe leaped into action. Racing ahead of the others', he sprang to the truck and looked underneath. A man was just crawling out the other side. Joe ran around just in time to see him dodge through a doorway. He was the man with the scar!

"He won't get away this time!" decided Joe grimly, starting after him.

But he was stopped by two workmen with several packages. They blocked his way completely. Joe stepped back and raced around to the other side of the vehicle. He hoped that the fellow he was chasing would still be in sight.

He was so absorbed in the chase that he did not see that he was heading straight for an accident. But Frank did!

"Joe, look out!" he screamed.

Out of the shed doorway, through which the scarred man had disappeared, sped a loaded hand truck. No one was at the wheel!

In another instant Joe would be crushed by the runaway vehicle!

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