The Goblins by Kenneth Robeson;Lester Dent

Author:Kenneth Robeson;Lester Dent
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Blackmask Online
Published: 2001-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

THEY worked down toward the dude ranch, which had few physical aspects of a ranch. It was more of a tourist camp. There were many cabins with attached garages. There was a large swimming pool. The pool was full of water which steamed in the crisp morning mountain air, so evidently it was a pool fed continuously from hot natural springs.

“Who owned the place?” Doc asked Park O'Donnel.

“Man named Stevens. But he joined the army. Left a caretaker here. The caretaker was called Honesty.”

Martha Colby said, “Honesty, eh? The way we nickname people out here, that probably means the caretaker is a first-rate crook.”

Doc Savage followed the tracks of the skulker's horse carefully. The prints obviously led toward a corral and a log stable.

“Wait here,” Doc told the others. “I will go ahead and look over the ground.”

Martha nodded approvingly, looked at Monk, Ham and Park, and said, “I hope they do not disobey orders the way they did last night.”

“What did we do last night that was wrong?” Park asked her indignantly.

“If you hadn't charged the abandoned ranch like wild men,” said Martha, “you wouldn't have been accused of murder. And Mr. Savage might have caught the killer.”

Park, feeling sheepish, glanced at where Doc Savage had been standing, but the bronze man had gone. He had faded into the piñon undergrowth with that remarkable silence of which he was capable.

“O. K.,” Park said. “We stay here. But don't forget. We rushed in last night because we thought Savage had been shot.”

“You didn't follow orders. None of you did.”

Monk said, “Look, young lady, you don't understand how we work with Doc.”

“How do you work? Don't you follow orders?”

“We work on the principle that all of us have a few brains,” Monk informed her. “If you'll notice, Doc never gives us a direct order. Take a minute ago, the way he sounded. He wasn't giving an order. He was making a request, a suggestion.”

“I think,” said Martha sharply, “that you should do what you are told.”

A new voice joined them.

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