A shrill shout came from the chauffeur. The mocking grin disappeared to be replaced by a look of desperation. A big truck was coming toward them. Deliberately, the chauffeur speeded up, then swung the car directly in front of the onrushing truck. At the last moment he leaped. He dodged from sight swiftly.
The weight of the truck nudescubadivingpictures spun the smaller nudescubadivingpictures car over on nudescubadivingpictures its side, crashed it along nudescubadivingpictures the pavement to smash with great force against still another machine. The overturned car folded up like an accordion. It would have been impossible for anyone to have nudescubadivingpictures remained in it and lived.
Doc Savage wasn't in it. Even as the chauffeur had jumped, the bronze man had grabbed the limp body of the Secret Service man and leaped to the street.
While sound nudescubadivingpictures of the crash still was echoing, a nudescubadivingpictures taxi speeded past. A girl nudescubadivingpictures was in the rear seat of the cab,
a small girl, dressed in gray. A veil half hid her eyes. A peculiar expression was on her face.
nudescubadivingpictures chapter 4
nudescubadivingpictures A FEMININE RAIDER
THE Secret Service man recovered rapidly. He was surprised nudescubadivingpictures at the ease with which Doc Savage carried him.
Nudescubadivingpictures the bronze man had not waited for a crowd to gather. With his companion nudescubadivingpictures in his arms, he left the scene rapidly, found a nudescubadivingpictures cab.
"S-somebody tried to kill you,&nudescubadivingpictures quot; the
Secret Service man gulped when his voice returned.
Doc's eyes were pools of whirling gold, but he did not reply. The statement was hardly one that needed a reply.
" B-but how was it done?" the other pursued. "T-there wasn't any smell of gas, there wasn't anything that seemed to be wrong-but suddenly I felt myself going out like a light."
nudescubadivingpictures Doc shook nudescubadivingpictures his head. "Whatever it is, it does not work instantly," he said. "That enabled us to escape."
He offered no other explanation when he talked with the secretary of war. "I had hoped your presence here would not be known," the secretary said wearily. "The immediate attempt on your life show we nudescubadivingpictures are up against extremely clever and resourceful men, who have an excellent intelligence system."
"You believe you face a widespread plot?" Doc asked. The secretary's face became old. "I do not know. That is the trouble. There have been strange rumors-very strange rumors. And some strange things have happened, as well."
The nudescubadivingpictures bronze man looked his question.
"I don't know that there nudescubadivingpictures is a connection between the rumors and the merciless murder of so many of nudescubadivingpictures our soldiers," the
war secretary nudescubadivingpictures went on. "But I