The Pirate's Ghost: A Doc Savage Adventure by Lester Dent (pseud. Kenneth Robeson)

Author:Lester Dent (pseud. Kenneth Robeson)
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: fiction, Doc Savage (Fictional character), adventure
Publisher: Distributed Proofreaders Canada
Published: 1938-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter X

BRONZE SHADOW

Doc Savage had prepared from childhood for the unusual career which he was to follow. He was a product of careful, modern thinking, an example of what the most absolute possible training can do for the human body and mind.

His major training had been in science, because science is the future enemy of organized and individual crime, as police departments of the world have come to realize in the last decade.

In keeping with his reliance on scientific methods, the bronze man had developed, and was continually developing, unusual devices, gadgets which he employed in unexpected fashions. He kept as many of them with him as possible, wearing for this purpose a pocket-vest designed and padded so as to be as inconspicuous as was feasible.

Doc Savage, having quitted the hotel room by the only method which would have enabled him to reach the street unobserved ahead of Sagebrush Smith and the fake Sally Surett, faded into the concealment of shrubbery. He moved a few yards, at the same time withdrawing two packages from a special pocket inside his coat.

One of the packages was wrapped with plain tough brown grocery paper and was near the proportions of a fifty-size box of cigars.

The other package was not wrapped; it was, more properly, a leather case.

The Surfside was large enough to have a telegraph office in the same building. Doc Savage entered this with his packages.

Sagebrush Smith and the blond girl were putting the metal box into a taxicab when a telegraph messenger boy hurried up and handed the cab driver Doc’s package which was wrapped in brown paper. The messenger also presented a five-dollar bill.

“After you have taken these passengers wherever they want to go,” said the messenger, “deliver this package to the home of the manager of this hotel.” He gave the manager’s home address. “The five dollars is for your trouble,” he added.

“Gosh, sure!” said the taxi driver.

About that time, in the hotel, Doc Savage was speaking to the hotel manager. “Later in the night a package will be delivered to your home,” the bronze man said. “Just return it to me, if you will.”

“Of course, Mr. Savage,” said the manager.

The taxicab driver got behind the wheel with his package. Sagebrush Smith and the girl got in the back with their box. The girl gave an address, and the cab moved.

When the cab was out of sight, Doc Savage came out of the hotel; entered another taxicab, settled back on the cushions, and opened his leather case. He telescoped up a small directional loop antenna, donned a headset, and tuned in the miniature short-wave radio transmitter which was in the package carried by the driver of the blond girl’s taxicab. The directional radio showed that the other cab had turned sharply to the right and was heading for the part of town where traffic was thickest.

After that the directional radio gadget enabled the bronze man to trail his quarry while he himself followed entirely different streets.

The blond girl, when

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