The Fish StealersThere ensued a moment of horror when even the ex–sailors were aghast, although Lurgent had obviously picked them for their hard unscrupulousness as well as their naval experience. More than one pale face was in the line. The little speech which Lurgent now made, stating that he expected military obedience and any man who shirked or hesitated would be shot, did not cheer them greatly.
Lurgent then stated that he had shot the two quitters simply because no information about this project could be permitted to leak out.
He finished by offering a reward of fifty thousand dollars in cash to any man who could manage to kill the bronze man, Doc Savage.
The men now got aboard the boats. Lurgent must have instructed them what to do while they were in the tool shed. They began put
