The Motion Menace by Kenneth Robeson

Author:Kenneth Robeson [Lester Dent]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: adventure, Doc Savage (Fictional character), fiction, thriller
Publisher: Distributed Proofreaders Canada
Published: 1938-05-15T05:00:00+00:00

* * *

Viscount Penroff drew some papers from inside his clothing and began to riffle through them in search of a particular document.

Ky Halloc stirred slightly. This caused the handcuffs decorating his wrists and ankles to clink gently.

* * *

Viscount Penroff found what he was hunting: a radiogram on the private form of his banking establishment.

“Doubtless you can guess the contents of this?” he said, waving the missive.

“I can!” Ky Halloc snapped.

Penroff studied the prisoner. Neither of them looked very happy.

“You have quite a reputation, Halloc.”

“I’ve put in quite a few years trying to get one,” Ky Halloc grinned wryly.

“Why didn’t you cable Doc Savage that his cousin had been seized, instead of coming to New York?”

“Simple. I knew your men had the cables watched. I had to come in person.”

“Very foolish.”

“The only thing I could do. I knew what I was up against.”

Viscount Penroff rubbed his jaw in a puzzled manner.

“Halloc, why didn’t you tell Doc Savage what you were?”

“I’m not in the habit of going around putting that information out!” Halloc snapped.

“And why not?”

“I wouldn’t live long if I did!”

Viscount Penroff fluttered the radiogram again. “This unfortunately arrived just an hour or so too late to apprise me of your true identity. It came, in fact, just after my men had taken you prisoner.”

“Tsk tsk,” said Ky Halloc. “That was inefficiency.”

“You are not a very talkative individual, are you?”

“Oh, but I am. I talk all the time. In the presence of a pretty lady, I am especially loquacious. Why——”

“But you don’t talk about your rather strange business much?”

“Business is a dull subject, viscount.”

“Yours wouldn’t be.”

“Matter of opinion.”

Viscount Penroff looked suddenly grim.

“What I am getting at is this: Who, besides yourself, knows what you have discovered?”

Ky Halloc laughed. It was a loud, contemptuous blare of mirth.

“You can go to hell!” he said.

“I thought so,” Viscount Penroff said grimly. “Well, we’ll see. If you have advised any one what you have discovered, we will expect you to radio them saying you had made a mistake, and that there was nothing to it.”

“Well, well.”

“You will also radio them that you are taking a vacation trip,” continued Penroff.

“And where would I be going on a vacation?”

“That depends on how good a life you have been leading. I trust it won’t be the spot you consigned me to a moment ago.”

An orderly—or the airship equivalent of an orderly—came in. He extended a message of some kind.

Viscount Herschel Penroff read the missive, started, read it again. He began to wear a grin so big that it threatened to skin the entire front of his face.

“Pardon my sorrow!” he chortled at Ky Halloc.

Ky Halloc ignored him.

“Doc Savage and his three aids,” said Penroff, “have been captured.”

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