Fortress of Solitude: 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: 1938-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

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Monk had been prowling around, taking a brief look at their surroundings. The brush was thick, the night fairly dark, and Monk’s mind was on Fifi.

When Monk came back to Ham, he grumbled, “I almost lost my way.”

“You never had a way,” Ham said unkindly.

Monk continued to think of exquisite Fifi being guarded by Long Tom.

“Thank heavens, Long Tom ain’t got a way with ’im, either,” the homely chemist said heartily.

Starting to sit down in the darkness, without having his mind on it, Monk had a rock roll under his feet, and he fell heavily.

“O-o-o!” he croaked. “I lit on my crazy bone!”

“Oh, dear,” Ham said solicitously. “Your whole skeleton must hurt.”

Monk was feeling around for a stone, entering vague ideas of seeing whether it would bounce off Ham, when the shadow of a boulder beside them seemed to grow much larger. There was no perceptible sound; the boulder shadow just seemed to grow mysteriously.

“Doc!” Monk gasped.

Doc Savage’s quiet, controlled voice came from the shadow which had grown.

“Did you bring equipment cases?”

“I’m sitting on them,” Ham said. “Doc—where have you been? What became of the seven unconscious men? What——”

Doc said, “The seven revived on the roof, under circumstances which made them think the whole thing was an accident. They are now on that island you can see yonder. Fortunately, they did not see me following them.”

“Oh! Then——”

“John Sunlight is on the island,” Doc Savage interposed gravely. “It is up to us to raid the place and seize him.”

They picked up the equipment cases—these were of metal, waterproof, shockproof, with handles for convenient carrying—and crept down the face of the cliff to the edge of the Hudson River.

Doc Savage stopped and gave a solemn warning.

“John Sunlight,” the bronze man said, “is probably as complete a fiend as we ever met. He is extremely clever.”

Monk spoke for himself and Ham. “We don’t scare easy,” he said.

Doc knew that. But he wanted to impress on them the need for caution—and success.

“Baron Karl does not scare easily, either,” Doc said. “Baron Karl is the representative of a small war-hungry European government. Neither does the playboy prince scare readily.”

“I’ve heard of them two guys,” Monk admitted.

“They were enough afraid of John Sunlight that they came from Europe to see him, the moment he demanded it,” Doc Savage said.

Monk peered in astonishment at Doc Savage.

“How come you know so much about what’s been happenin’ on that island, Doc?” he muttered.

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