The Avenger 18 - Death in Slow Motion by Kenneth Robeson

Author:Kenneth Robeson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 0446743925
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1973-11-11T04:59:24+00:00

So then he found himself shortly in a bed near the one in which Smitty mountainously protested. And up in the big top-floor room, The Avenger walked back and forth from front to rear with eyes so terrible that they made even Nellie shiver a little and with that in his tread which suggested a powerful animal, caged for the first time in its existence.

Smitty stricken—and now Mac. Two of his men afflicted with this thing, as terrible as it was bizarre, and for which no cure had been found. Two of his aides doomed slowly to waste away and die, unless this mystery could be solved.

The fact that, at present indications, the whole rubber industry in the United States might be paralyzed was of less importance to Benson personally than the distress of his two comrades.

“Josh! Rosabel!” he called.

Josh and his pretty wife came to the desk. The Avenger’s colorless, terrible eyes drilled them.

“Josh, Rosabel, Nellie—please go to the rear-house again. Josh, you will follow the pickpocket, Johnny the Dip, if and when he comes out. Learn all you can about him. Rosabel, do the same with that bookkeeper. Nellie, watch the woman living there. Get every detail possible concerning those three and radio me when each leaves the place—if they do leave it. But don’t any of you go inside! It is increasingly certain that Mac and Smitty caught this thing inside. So you three stay clear.”

He didn’t finish his thought. Which was: “If anybody is to go into what seems more and more to be a house of death, it will be I!”

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