When they came to the door of
the laboratory they listened intently.
There was no sound. Then they mustered up courage and cautiously entered
the room. For a long time they stood quite still, not daring to move.
Finally Doctor Q suddenly lighted a match.
The room was in terrible confusion, as though cyclone-swept.
Doctor Locke turned on an electric bulb and the room was flooded with
light.
Everywhere there were traces of the Automaton. But the monster itself
had left the place. Doctor Locke crossed to the other door. There was a
sight that made them shudder. The body of De Luxe Dora was still huddled
in a heap on the floor. She was quite dead.
But Doctor Locke had no time now to waste. Moments were precious. At any
instant they might again be attacked. Feverishly he began to search for
the bottle containing the antidote.
At last he found it, carefully hidden, and in a bottle fortunately not
broken.
They left everything as it was and hurriedly left the place, on their
way to Brent Rock.
Meanwhile, in one of the worst quarters of the city, down in the cellar
of a huge warehouse, a mob of emissaries were gathered.
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