The lama considered the statement made by Tip.
“If any of you speak falsely,” he said, slowly, “you who speak so shall hear the Voice of Doom and shall feel the Wrath of the Hand of Doom.”
With that threat he bade them depart.
Chapter 23
THE ACID TEST
“Oh, no you don’t,” Grover spoke for the first time during the interview, “there is a matter of a vanished scientific student of the stars, a shot prior to his disappearance, and other things.”
The lama turned toward his aides.
Grover, as Roger and Potts sidled close, smiled.
“An hour and ten minutes has elapsed since I arrived,” he remarked, pleasantly, cool and slightly triumphant, “I would not be surprised—yes, there they are.”
The police car, sent by the Chief of Police, brought two patrolmen and as a frightened clerk ushered them in, the lama shrugged.
Captor became prisoner, and with his pair of native aides, the lama was taken to the laboratory by the interested officers.