Captain Future 04 - The Triumph Of Captain Future (Fall 1940) - Plot & Excerpts
It had gray metal and double air-lock doors that allowed no outside air to enter. Through the hermetically sealed windows could be seen a dark, vaguely grotesque forest. Across the black, star-studded sky cut the colossal, gleaming scimitar of the great Rings that only one planet possesses.An observer would have found the room queer, indeed. But he would not have dreamed that it was the secret heart of a poisonous traffic that reached out like an octopus to all the nine worlds of the Solar System.One of the two men in the room sat at a chromalloy desk. His whole form and face were effectively concealed by a brilliant blue light of force that emanated from a humming little cubical mechanism at his belt. His voice came harshly from the glowing cloud that shrouded him.“Are those the sub-leaders now?” he asked sharply.“Yes, their ships are landing now,” answered the other man, peering from a window. “They’re exactly on time.”The second man was a Mercurian, one of the tawny-skinned, catlike race native to the inmost planet.
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