Doctor Death Vs. The Secret Twelve, Volume 1 by Harold Ward

Author:Harold Ward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action and Adventure
Publisher: Altus Press

Chapter XII

Dead Men Tell No Tales

JIMMY HOLM was moving rapidly now, his mind concentrated on that single idea. And the Zombi responded under his thought power. Hastily he changed clothes with the Zombi. Jimmy shuddered as he arrayed himself in the worn suit of the cold, dead thing, then smeared his face with a bit of dirt from the side of the cave to change his appearance. Luckily, he and the Zombi were about the same size. Holm knew that Death paid little attention to the doings of these weird, bizarre things from the grave.

Thus it was that he was fully attired and standing by the side of his fellow Zombi gazing through at the shell of a man who stood just inside the cell, the white of his shirt front gleaming in the semi-darkness, when Death made his sudden appearance.

In response to Jimmy’s thought emanations, the Zombi in the cell dropped to the stone floor and, his back turned, seemed to give way to despair. Doctor Death chuckled, not realizing that his will, for a moment relayed, had given Jimmy his chance to get control over the creature taking his place in the box.

“The Zombi I have left behind will see that you are fed, my young friend,” he asserted.

Regulating his movements as mechanically as the Zombi at the other end, Jimmy Holm seized his end of the big box and followed the lead of Doctor Death.

The sinister scientist led the way through the narrow corridor into another passageway and up a flight of stairs at the head of which was a closed door. He pressed a button and it opened, revealing on the other side a panel in the living room of the old house through which Jimmy had made his entrance. It was in darkness. The front door was open, however, and through it he led the way onto the tumbledown porch.

A short distance away on a stretch of level ground almost hidden by the trees and bushes was a huge cabin plane. The moonlight touching its silvery wings made a never-to-be forgotten picture. Its engine was idling; the pilot and co-pilot stood beside the open door.

Doctor Death led the way toward it.

“To Egypt,” he said gravely as he assisted Nina up the narrow steps.

The big ship darted along the ground for a little distance, then took to the air like a bird. Twice the pilot circled to gain altitude. Then he straightened the machine out at four thousand feet and settled back in his seat, a look of grim satisfaction on his face, as he gazed down on the myriad lights of the city. Then he handed the controls over to the co-pilot and, stepping into the cabin, approached Doctor Death.

“We are headed directly south by east,” he said. “The motors are humming sweetly, sir, and the old crate’s doing two hundred.”

Doctor Death nodded.

“Splendid, pilot,” he said approvingly. “Continue as you are for another fifteen minutes, then swing four points to the south. Your landing directions are here.

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