Doc Mimic Voice

Doc Savage flashed for the cave where his friends were held. He must not let the guard kill them in his excitement.

"What is it?" the guard in the cave was bellowing. "What's goin' on out there? What--"

Doc reached a spot a yard from the cave mouth. He stopped there. Off his lips came a changed voice--a voice exactly like that of the Kar gunman who had just died.

"The bronze guy!" Doc's altered voice called. "We got 'im! Come out an' watch 'im croak!"

"Sure!" barked the fellow in the cavern. "Here I come--"

He crashed headlong into a set of mighty bronze hands. He saw them closing over his face. They looked bigger, more terrible than the whole crater of Thunder Island. The golden eyes behind them were even worse. They radiated death.

The man sought to use his gun. He got a few wild bullets out of it.

Then his neck unjointed! He died quickly. His actual going was painless, whatever the terror of the moments before might have been. For Doc's sinewy hands had brought a merciful end.

- The Land of Terror (1933) Chapter 21