1 A human monster watched with cat- like eyes for a victim. 2 John Bowman, a wealthy farmer, returning home - 3 Bowman's disappearance was Danburg's biggest thrill since the milkman eloped with the bootlegger's wife. 4 While at the scene of the wreck Danburg's Daring Detectives deduce a few deductions. 5 The Constable -- Danburg's police force and fire department. 6 Amos Rugg -- blew into town one day and has been blowing ever since. 7 "I'll bet a new spark plug, that Bowman met with some kind of an accident." 8 Johnny Goodlittle -- he has ambition, which in Danburg is as bad as having eczema. 9 "You dog-gone fool! Doc Edwards' sanitar-rarium's been closed for two months." 10 Mr. Rugg also managed Watson's store and he never allowed his under- clerk Johnny to forget it, as there was rivalry between them. 11 Betty Watson -- the cause of the rivalry. 12 "G-e-e, Betty! -- You grow more beautiful every day!" 13 "You look like -- Mrs. Cleopatra." 14 "I never see you any more, since Amos got a car." 15 "I -- just dropped in for some pansy seeds." 16 "I said pansy seeds - not peaches." 17 "Meet Detective Jennings from the insurance company." 18 "Sure, I wrote Bowman's policy -- In fact, I write all the policies!" 19 "Believe ME, and the Constable -- Bowman's dead!" 20 "He still thinks that's a clue he found in the Sanitarium ash pile." 21 "Thinks he's a detective - Chances are he wrote it himself." 22 "Dagnab you! - will you ever quit bothering people with your crazy ideas?" 23 "He's loony! - Doc Edwards is in Europe and his sanitar-rarium's closed!" 24 "Please do something BIG so they'll have to listen to you." 25 "I can't do anything till my detective diploma comes - then I'll show 'em." 26 "Don't forget my party tonight, Johnny." 27 Watson had a keg of cider in the smoke house, so Betty's party brought out the cream of society. 28 "Detective - how would you handle a powerful man if you were unarmed?" 29 "Find a derrick some- where and string him up by the heels!" 30 "Here's another hot time--" 31 "--Whenever I'm in danger, I close my eyes and count ten. Try it and see what happens." 32 "What's the Roman candle for?" 33 "It's to signal for help at night." 34 "What the heck do you use in the daytime?" 35 "My ingenuity!" 36 Everything was going fine until the neighborhood sheik arrived. 37 "It's imported - exclusive mail order from Chicago." 38 "You durn fool - if you don't want to be cut out, use some of your engine-ooity!" 39 Johnny figured his future had been ruined by that dress suit, when out of the gloom and gathering storm came-- 40 "Got a match?" 41 "Ss---sh! Don't speak! Don't move! They're going to lower the mirror so I can shave Bowman!!!" 42 Meanwhile, Mr. Rugg working fast, had suggested a ride -- object matrimony. 43 "Do you know who I am?" 44 "Neither do I!" 45 "Look! - There's a light in the sanitarium! Maybe we can telephone from there!" 46 "Anybody home?" 47 "Anybody here?" 48 "Johnny! What are you doing here?" 49 "I dropped in." 50 "This is a terrible place! -- We've got to get out of here!" 51 "Wait a minute, HERO, that door's locked!" 52 "That's right! Act mysterious and show the lady your ingenuity!" 53 "Cut out that blood and thunder! Can't you see you're scaring her pink?" 54 "I tell you I did see something!" 55 "There's someone in that chair!" 56 "He's dead!" 57 "This is a case for the police!" 58 "W-well - wh-what are you staring at m-me for?" 59 "You were here alone with him -- before we came!" 60 "I am Dr. Ziska - In the absence of Dr. Edwards I am in charge here." 61 "We met with an accident and would like to use your phone." 62 "I'm sorry, I have no telephone." 63 "But I can't permit you to leave the house on so wild a night." 64 "But you don't expect us to stay here with a dead man!" 65 "Rigo, a patient - I keep him in a trance. Some- times he gets out -- does terrible things." 66 "A strange case - but I deal in strange cases!" 67 "I have only one guest chamber - but no doubt we can make the gentlemen comfortable." 68 "Caliban -- see that the guests have the USUAL attention!" 69 "My servant - don't allow him to frighten you - the poor creature is dumb!" 70 "Doctor -- shall we see you in the morning?" 71 "Who knows if one will EVER see the morning?" 72 "I'm going to get out of here!" 73 "If I had a gun I'd show that bird --" 74 "Here - take mine!" 75 "Never tasted liquor in my life!" 76 "I've found a hidden passage -- it goes straight down into the dark!" 77 "Who'll investigate? You or me?" 78 "You're the detective! Use your ingenuity!" 79 "We'll make them believe Johnny's in bed!" 80 "Try and bribe him to let us out." 81 "It may be poisoned!" 82 "We'll fool him and make him believe we drank it." 83 "I have prepared another room for the young lady." 84 "I insist that you at least do me the courtesy to look at it!" 85 "As you insist upon staying in this room, I will see that you are made comfortable." 86 "Johnny - what shall we do?" 87 "What can we do?" 88 "Yoosh your ingenuity!" 89 "Hic! --" 90 "Something's the matter with me - I'm dizzy! - My head's going 'round!" 91 "I'm dizzy, too! - but's 'cause th' room's goin' 'round!!!" 92 "I got the strangest sort of courage - I can lick anybody in America - Europe - Jerusalem!" 93 "There's some kind of a drug in that fireplace - it'll knock us out if we don't get fresh air!" 94 "Thash right! Smash everything -- then I'll begin!" 95 "Thash an insult! Now I AM mad!" 96 "Whersh my gun?" 97 "Lost? Then you gotta pay for it!" 98 "FIND IT! - and I don't mean maybe!" 99 "It's me -- Johnny." 100 "We've got to find Betty and get out of here!" 101 "Try that door, while I figure out the case!" 102 "I swallowed my gum!" 103 "We must find Betty!" 104 "If anyone comes while I'm detecting -- flash the candle!" 105 "I am Dr. Edwards - the owner of this sanitarium." 106 "We were overpowered and imprisoned here by my patients. Our lives are in constant peril." 107 "This is John Bowman -" 108 "After they wrecked my car with the aid of the mirror --" 109 "The fools sent me a man when it is a woman I want!" 110 "Ziska, who was once a famous surgeon, controls the others -" 111 "-Caliban imagines he's Ziska's slave - Rigo is dangerous, while Dan is quite harmless --" 112 "They must have built those devilish traps and devices after they imprisoned us." 113 "An interesting specimen -" 114 "Be very careful, Rigo, that you do not mar the skull." 115 "Gimme a match, Rigo." 116 "You are about to witness the most remarkable operation ever attempted by man." 117 "You and I alone shall see what happens--" 118 "-AND NEITHER ONE shall tell!" 119 "At last the fools have brought me a woman!" 120 "It is only from a woman that I can learn the secret of life!" 121 "You must be mad!" 122 "Don't you dare call ME mad!" 123 "But I won't allow you to excite me because I need you for my experiment." 124 "With the aid of that death chair --" 125 "I shall transfer your soul into her body!" 126 "Rigo!" 127 "Tighten his straps until he squeals!" 128 "Rigo - my knives!" 129 "CALIBAN!!!" 130 "- the chair! - kill him! - Caliban!" 131 "Captured the whole gang - Got one on the telephone pole - one locked on the roof, and --" 132 "That was a great tip you gave me, Detective - I couldn't find a derrick but this engine worked just as well." 133 "Great! And any time you want to work for the insurance company, kid, let me know." 134 A SUNDAY IN JUNE. 135 "How can I ever be worthy of a wonderful man like you?" 136 "Use your ingenuity!" THE ENDHome