184 The Dangerous Transmission by Franklin W. Dixon

Author:Franklin W. Dixon [Dixon, Franklin W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

9 Ground Under the Underground

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Frank shut the door to the empty safe, closed the grate over the safe door, and pushed the file cabinet back against the wall. The safe was completely hidden again.

He quickly checked the rest of the office. Then he went into the lab and looked around there. He was careful not to move anything in case the police might need to gather fingerprints later. He found nothing out of place since the last time he’d been there, just after the press conference.

Frank felt a sudden urgency to get to Joe and tell him what had happened. Quickly he closed up the medical suite and left the flat. He raced up the lane and around the corner to the Black Belt.

“Hey, there you are,” Joe said, as Frank hurried up to the table. “I’d decided it was time to come get you guys. What took you so long? Where’s Jax?”

“Probably in X-ray,” Frank said in a low voice. He dropped into a chair and told Joe what had happened.

Joe stood up so quickly that he knocked his chair over backward. He plopped a few Euro dollars on the table to pay for his lemon drink. “Let’s go,” he said. He pulled out an Underground map and plotted out the route they’d use to get to the hospital.

“There’s more,” Frank said, just after they stepped outside. He pulled Joe to a stop. “The Molar Mike is gone. The safe was empty.”

“Empty?” Joe repeated.

“The tooth, the test results—everything is gone,” Frank said.

“Someone broke in to steal the Molar Mike, and Jax must have surprised him,” Joe concluded. “So the thief knocked him out.”

“Sounds right to me,” Frank said. “But we can’t be sure until we talk to Jax.”

“What do you mean?” Joe asked.

“The safe was locked, and the file cabinet was in place,” Frank reminded his brother. “It looked like everything else was secure. Maybe Jax moved the tooth to another secure place and just didn’t have a chance to tell us.”

“So we don’t call the police on this yet?” Joe finally concluded.

“I called Officer Somerset from the flat to report the break-in and Jax’s accident,” Frank said. “But since there’s an outside chance Jax moved the tooth himself, I didn’t mention the empty safe. We can’t know what happened there for sure until Jax is conscious again.”

Outside the Black Belt, the air was gray and wet. Frank realized he had been so preoccupied with what had happened at the flat that he hadn’t even noticed the fog until now.

They could see only a few feet in front of them. People walking toward them seemed to suddenly materialize, as if they’d been silently squeezed out of the soupy mist.

“Turn around, guys—you’re going the wrong way. The Black Belt’s behind you.” They heard Nick’s familiar voice ahead of them before they actually saw him. And then, bam! There he was, a yard away.

“Jax has been hurt,” Joe said, forcing his words through the fog. “We’re on our way to the hospital now.

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