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The Emancipatrix
Homer Eon Flint


I. THE MENTAL EXPEDITION
II. ALMOST HUMAN
III. WORLD OF MAMMOTHS
IV. THE GOLD-MINER
V. THE SUPER-RACE
VI. IMPOSSIBLE, BUT--
VII. THE MISSING FACTOR
VIII. FIRE!
IX. FOUND!
X. AT HALF COCK
XI. THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
XII. OUTSIDE INFORMATION
XIII. THE TWELVE
XIV. THE SLAVE RAID
XV. OVERLOOKED
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
[Illustrated title: 'The Emancipatrix' in script, over a background of a bee
silhouetted against a full moon on the horizon.]
I. THE MENTAL EXPEDITION
The doctor closed the door behind him, crossed to the table, silently offered
the geologist a cigar, and waited until smoke was issuing from it. Then he
said:

"Well," bluntly, "what's come between you and your wife, Van?"
The geologist showed no surprise. Instead, he frowned severely at the end of
his
cigar, and carefully seated himself on the corner of the table. When he spoke
there was a certain rigor in his voice, which told the doctor that his friend
was holding himself tightly in rein.
"It really began when the four of us got together to investigate Capellette,
two
months ago." Van Emmon was a thorough man in important matters. "Maybe I
ought
to say that both Billie and I were as much interested as either you or Smith;
she often says that even the tour of Mercury and Venus was less wonderful.
"What is more, we are both just as eager to continue the investigations. We
still have all kinds of faith in the Venusian formula; we want to 'visit' as
many more worlds as the science of telepathy will permit. It isn't that
either
of us has lost interest."
The doctor rather liked the geologist's scientific way of stating the case,
even
though it meant hearing things he already knew. Kinney watched and waited and
listened intently.
"You remember, of course, what sort of a man I got in touch with. Powart was