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Updated: June 7, 2025
"What's the matter?" demanded Shocker, who stood close by, as he saw the money-lender's son dart out of sight behind the rocks. "Do you see that boy?" demanded Nat, pointing with his hand. "Yes." "That is Dave Porter, the fellow who put me on the freight car. And over yonder is Phil Lawrence, the other chap." "You don't say! What brings them here?"
He looked through the darkness into the depths of the cave, his hand on his shock-beam. He was afraid to turn his back on it. This is nonsense, he told himself firmly, I'll just walk back there and see what there is. At his belt he had the small flashlamp, excessively bright, that was, like the energon-beam shocker, a part of regulation equipment.
Dave found himself in a decidedly unpleasant situation. The door of the room was locked and Tom Shocker stood against it. The man lit the gas, but allowed it to remain low. Dave saw Nat Poole standing close to a bed. The money-lender's son had a small bottle and some cotton in his hand. "I suppose this is a trick?" said Dave, as coolly as he could.
A few years ago, indeed, I should have laughed at the idea of their existence anywhere outside the pages of a shilling shocker, but my three years in Dartmoor had led me to take a rather more generous view of what life can throw up in the way of scoundrels. Whether they had killed Marks or not, I had little doubt now that they were wholly responsible for the attempt to murder Latimer.
While he was regarded by average onlookers as little better than a "Merry Andrew," a public shocker, doing feats before the multitude to still the heart and freeze the blood, those whose fortune it was to know him intimately realized him to be a man of the most serious purpose, with a great faith in the future of aerial navigation.
Their own personal animosities and angers kept them apart, as their misery held them together. And as time went on and his muscles hardened he was able to give a better account of himself. The time came when they let him alone, and when one day a big shocker fell off a stack and broke his leg and Dick set it, he gained their respect.
The carriage was just crossing the bridge that connects Goat Island with the city of Niagara Falls when a man stepped up and stopped the turnout. It was Tom Shocker. "Excuse me, but I reckon this is the number, 176," he said. "Is there a young man here named David Porter?" "Yes, I am Dave Porter," answered Dave, and looked at Shocker curiously. The fellow was a total stranger to him.
"It is his one dissipation. He is noted for it. You, as a stranger, could hardly be expected to know of this idiosyncrasy. Mr. Gladstone sought relaxation in the Greek poets, Sir Andrew finds his in Gaboriau. Since I have been a member of Parliament I have never seen him in the library without a shilling shocker in his hands.
"After that I'll look to you and your father to make good." Fortunately for Dave, he could easily get along without the watch and the scarfpin, and his uncle let him have some money in place of that taken. But Mr. Porter told Nat that his father would have to settle the matter if Tom Shocker was not brought to book.
"Only a couple of blocks." But the "couple of blocks" proved to be five, and they had to make another turn or two. Then they came to the side door of a building used as a lodging house and a pool and billiard parlor. This resort was run by a man named Bill Fargo, a sport who had once had dealings with Shocker in a prize-fighting enterprise.
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