Doc Slippery Girder

The flash spiked a white rod of luminance ahead. It picked up a workman's platform of heavy planks.

"The shot came from there!" Doc vouchsafed.

A steel girder, a few inches wide, slippery with moisture, offered a short cut to the platform. Doc ran along it, surefooted as a bronze spider on a web thread. His five men, knowing they would be flirting with death among the steel beams hundreds of feet below, decided to go around, and did it very carefully.

Doc had picked two empty cartridges off the platform, and was scrutinizing them when his five friends put relieved feet on the planks.

- The Man of Bronze (1933) Chapter 3