THE PURPLE DRAGON by J.R.A

Author:J.R.A. [J.R.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-04-26T23:21:40+00:00

Accompanying the note was a well-drawn map showing the location of Tiler's mountain home.

"Express our thanks to Mr. Falcan," Doc Savage told the clerk. "And tell him I believe this will be all the aid we need."

"Do you think we'll find Monk and Ham there?" Renny burst out as they sped to the street.

Doc did not answer at once. Instead, he hailed a cab and gave an address, "The Hidalgo Trading Co. wharf."

Renny had expected that. Few knew it, but Doc Savage was the Hidalgo Trading Co. And the big warehouse on the Hudson contained a great deal of equipment used by the bronze man and his aids.

They wasted no time now. Less than half an hour later, they were on their way to call on Grover Tiler. A trim autogyro, with Doc at the controls, shot up almost silently through an opening prepared for it in the roof of the trading-company warehouse.

At an altitude of 5,000 feet, Doc cut on a powerful propeller, and turned the blunt nose of the craft to the north.

Another craft was also speeding in that direction—and with the same destination in view. It was a speedy cabin plane, and had taken the air a good hour before Doc and Renny got started.

Besides the pilot, the plane carried two passengers. One was very dignified and gray-haired. The other was small and nattily dressed, with a green handkerchief in his coat pocket. Their air was grim and businesslike.

THE autogyro did not have the speed of the cabin plane. But Doc had selected the gyro because neither he nor Renny knew exactly what type of landing field they might find near Tiler's home.

Besides, the gyro made their task more simple if Tiler really did have his grounds protected by burglar alarms or other devices. Doc could set it down almost vertically, and on a spot not larger than fifteen feet square.

More than an hour elapsed before the bronze man signaled they were nearing their destination. Instantly, Renny went to work.

He pressed a button at the side of the cockpit, peered through a telescope that led down through the bottom of the autogyro and could be turned in any direction.

No light appeared, but every detail of the terrain below showed up clearly in the telescope.

The device was utilizing infra-ray beams, invisible to the eye, but which made the landscape clearly visible through the special glass used in the telescope.

On a road far below, Renny saw an automobile speeding swiftly toward a huge house located on the top of a small mountain. Renny thought nothing about that automobile at the time. The fact that he'd even seen it soon slipped his mind.

That would not have been the case had Doc noticed it, but Renny was using the only infra-ray-type telescope, and the big engineer's attention was centered too much on the house he'd seen.

"You hit it right on the dot, Doc," he whispered. "It looks like an imitation castle. It even has a stone wall and a moat about it.

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