Doc Savage: Glare of the Gorgon (The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage Book 19) by Robeson Kenneth & Murray Will & Dent Lester

Author:Robeson, Kenneth & Murray, Will & Dent, Lester [Robeson, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Action and Adventure
Publisher: Altus Press
Published: 2016-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter XXVIII

VANISHED VICTIM

ON THE RIDE over to Janet Falcon’s apartment in the suburbs, Doc Savage and his men fell to checking their weapons. These were spare supermachine pistols stored in their hotel suite.

Long Tom had brought along the strange magnetic gun which Doc Savage had collected on his first visit to the Janet Falcon apartment.

“This might come in handy,” he was saying. “It’s completely silent in operation, and fires hollow slugs tipped with hypodermic needles. They work faster than our mercy slugs, even though they carry the same anesthetic inside.”

“Rather like the hypodermic thimbles Doc sometimes wears on his fingertips to catch foes by surprise,” mused Ham.

Long Tom nodded eagerly. “That’s what gave me the idea when I started tinkering with one of those captured magnetic guns.”

Beside him, Monk Mayfair was swapping out drums on his superfirer. “I brought along a bunch of the new bullets I’ve been fiddlin’ with. I already got some good use out of the Charlie horse bullets. Now I’m itchin’ to try some of the others.”

Ham Brooks patted the padded underarm holster beneath his elegant frock coat, remarking, “I will stick with mercy bullets, if you don’t mind. They have never failed us.”

“We gotta keep up with the times,” grunted Monk.

“Exactly,” agreed Long Tom. “And the magnetic gun will soon supplant the ordinary firearm. That is my prediction.”

As he returned his strange weapon to his lap—it was a trifle too large for a common holster—the pallid electrical wizard showed an oversized watch on one skinny wrist.

“My word!” remarked Ham. “That is the largest wristwatch I have ever seen a man wear.”

Long Tom yanked back his sleeve to further display the timepiece. It was a monster.

“This is what I call my shock watch,” he said. “I was wearing it when Duke Grogan’s boys grabbed me. They worked me over good, but I wouldn’t say a thing. So they tossed me into the coal bin while they figured out what to do.”

“How did you get loose?” Doc asked.

Long Tom said, “With this. Grogan and his boys took off somewhere, leaving one guard behind. I convinced the bird that the watch was worth a pile of dough and if he let me go, he could keep it. He fell for the ruse, right enough.”

Long Tom cracked a thin grin. “What he didn’t know was that the watch was hooked up to a dry cell battery in my pocket, and all I had to do was set it a certain way and it gave off an electric shock. When the guard reached his hand out for it, I tossed it. The dope received a jolt about equal to grabbing hold of an electric eel. That knocked him out long enough for me to crawl out of the basement window.”

“Clever,” said Ham. “Why didn’t they find the battery when they searched you?”

“They did, but they didn’t think anything of it. It was hooked up with an insulated wire as thin as a hair that ran down my shirt sleeve. They weren’t the brightest bunch of crooks I ever ran up against.

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