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vice to create the illusion that disguised this creature as "But no one has ever seen such creature as this on
an Earthman. The instrument was shattered in the fall, Pluto!" Otho objected. "The native Plutonians don't
and so the illusion vanished." look like this."
"It seems a pretty far-fetched idea," muttered Otho. "Pluto is still largely unexplored," Simon reminded
"And yet it's about the only one that explains what hap- him. "That icy planet and its three moons may hide
pened." more than one unknown race in their frigid wilderness-
Grag had been pacing to and fro in wild restlessness, es."
with clanking strides. Now the robot uttered an angry "Then Doctor Zarro's and the Legion's headquarters
shout. must be out there at Pluto?" Otho cried eagerly.
"Why do we stand here talking, when master has "I'm sure of it," the Brain replied. "It is possible that
been taken?" he boomed furiously. "Why don't we fol- all the men of the Legion of Doom, who seemed to be
low?" Earthmen, are really creatures like this one, in some il-
"We have to know where to follow, Grag," the Brain lusion-disguise."
explained calmly. Otho gasped at that suggestion. But Grag's mind
"Yes, we can't just comb the whole System for that clung to one thing тАУ his master.
ship," Otho added. "They will have taken master to Pluto, then?" he
"Don't talk to me!" Grag told the android. "It's all I cried. "We go there after them?"
can do to keep from giving you a thrashing, as it is." "We go at once!" the Brain snapped. "Blast off Mars
"You and ten thousand metal junkmen like you at once and lay a course straight for Pluto."
couldn't do that!" flamed Otho, springing to his feet. A few minutes later, with Grag at its controls, the
Eek, the moon-pup, had awakened and had ambled Comet rose from the starlit Martian desert, shot up
over to the group. Now, sensing its metal master's anger above the lighted towers of Syrtis, and rocketed head-
with Otho, the little gray beast bared its teeth belliger- long into the void.
ently at the android. "Better turn on the ship's camouflage, now that we're
"No more of this quarreling!" Simon Wright's cold clear of Mars," the Brain rasped. "We don't want that
voice lashed. "That is an order." Legion ship to spot us pursuing them."

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Grag obeyed, pulling down a burnished red lever be- path of the camouflaged Comet, and would collide with
side the throttles. The result was amazing. it head-on.


CHAPTER VI
Graveyard of Space-Ships


M EANWHILE, what had happened to Captain Fu-
ture and his companions?
The Sargasso Sea of Space! The legendary, mysteri-
ous peril to navigation that was dreaded by every space-
sailor in the System!
Joan Randall's pretty face was pale and stricken, and
little Kansu Kane stared bewilderedly, as Captain Fu-
ture told them that their space-boat was being drawn
into that deadly trap.
The space-boat was still being carried at frightful
speed through the void by the ether-current gripping it.
The Legion of Doom cruiser, recoiling from the danger,