Chapter Two

When they arrive back at the penthouse, fire has engulfed the safe. Doc: "We'll use the extinguisher globes!"
	The fire is stopped, but the papers in the safe are already reduced to ash.
A strange sound permeates the room. Monk: "What is it, Doc? We know that sound by now. It means you figured out something."
	Doc: "My father did not die of a tropical disease. He was murdered."
Just then, Johnny comes staggering in. He explains "I was examining the strange markings on the dead man... When a wall of bricks fell on me. At least, that's what it felt like. When I woke up... The body was gone."
	"But I did find one thing," he continues.
"Solid gold," muses Doc.
	Suspecting a connection between the native assassin, the sabotage of his safe and his father's death, Doc begins making plans to travel to Hidalgo.
Monk and the gang (save for Renny and Ham, who are in the middle of projects) tell Doc that they'll travel with him.
	Doc tells them he doesn't expect them to drop their lives to follow him. That they've all risen to world-wide eminence in their chosen fields and he doesn't expect them to put that aside to follow him. Johnny speaks for the group - "That's precisely the point. Here's an indefectable opportunity to use our skills for something more important than just our own selfish gain."
And so, bright and early the next morning, Doc, Johnny, Long Tom and Monk arrive at a certain non-descript warehouse.
	Only to be surprised by Renny and Ham, who've decided to heck with their projects - they're going with Doc.
And so, a mighty bronze plane roars into the morning sky over New York.
But the skies are not empty...
	A grim-faced pilot prowls the clouds.
He maneuvers behind the bronze plane and opens up with his machine guns.
	Bullets rip into the plane's engines, and then....
Back in the hanger, Doc and friends are safe and sound, though Monk thinks it was an expensive way to throw anyone off their tail.
	"Not really," Doc explains. He says that he and Long Tom have been wanting to test their robot plane for awhile and it was only fabric and plywood.
With that taken care of, the gang start to load the plane, but Doc stops them. "Before we go... Let us remember our code."
	"Let us strive every moment of our lives to make ourselves better and better to the best of our ability so that all may profit by it. Let us think of the right and lend our assistance to all who may need it, with no regard for anything but justice. Let us take what comes with a smile without loss of courage. Let us be considerate of our country, our fellow citizens, and our associates in everything we say and do."
"Let us do right to all - and wrong no man."
	And Doc Savage's real plane takes off unmolested. Next stop, Hidalgo.

Interlude

	The mysterious Captain Seas is having a party on his yacht.
Among his guests, red-fingered natives and a certain biplane pilot. The pilot, Borden, reassures a dubious Captain Seas that Savage and his crew are dead and the papers destroyed. Also, they disposed of the body of the unsuccessful assassin.
	Borden: "To poor, departed souls. May they rest in pieces."
Seas, still doubtful, turns to the natives. "He is telling the truth?" Kulkan: "Absolutely. And perhaps now we will share a bit of the wealth, won't we, sir?" Seas: "You bet your life, Kulkan. Both of you."
	Seas takes a moment to gloat to one of his molls: "I started out in a sideshow, got into the swing of things, and made millions, but it's nothing, nothing compared to what's ahead."

To Chapter Three