"Edmond Hamilton - Calling Captain Future" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hamilton Edmond)

most eminent scientists and their families have disap- Doctor Zarro to be given full emergency authority."
peared. But we are sure they have not fled тАУ we believe Carthew's lined face whitened.
foul play is responsible. We beg the System not to cred- "Haven't you been able yet to locate this Doctor

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Zarro?" he cried. "If we could arrest him and stop those to be annoyed with matters the regular authorities call
inflammatory broadcasts of his тАУ" handle тАУ"
The stocky commander shook his head. The secretary stiffened. His lips trembled.
"We've been unable to find Doctor Zarro's headquar- "You mean тАУ Captain Future?"
ters. His broadcasts are on a new-type wave that we "Yes, Captain Future," the President said, his eyes
can't track down. We've tried to trail the ships of his still fixed on the rising moon. "If anybody can stop
Legion of Doom, but they always manage to give us the Doctor Zarro and his Legion, Captain Future and those
slip in space." three weird comrades of his can do it."
"What about Jons and Gellimer and all the other sci- He turned abruptly, desperate determination written
entists who vanished?" Carthew asked. "Have you on his kindly, bewildered face.
learned anything?" "Televise an order to have the North Pole signal-
"No, sir." flare set off at once, Bonnel!"
North Bonnel turned haggardly to his superior. A half hour later, amid the frozen wastes of eternal
"What are we going to do, sir? If the public terror ice at the North Pole, there blossomed a huge flower of
increases like this, the Government will be in Doctor flame as a great, dazzling magnesium flare was detonat-
Zarro's hands in a week!" ed.
Far out in space that brilliant beacon was visible.

J AMES CARTHEW'S pale face set. He looked out Throbbing, winking and blinking, it cast its beams out
through the eastern window of the tower room, at through the void in silent, urgent appeal.
the fun moon that was rising majestically in the heav- "Calling Captain Future!"
ens like a great silver shield.
"There is one man who can smash Doctor Zarro's Calling the great, glamorous foe of evil, to a strug-
plot, if anybody can," he muttered. "I did not want to gle with the mysterious Doctor Zarro's plot against mis-
call upon him before this, for he is not the kind of man led humanity!




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CHAPTER II
The Futuremen


A BARREN, deathly white waste stretched across the
surface of the Moon. Beneath the glare of the blaz-
ing sun, the lunar plains rolled in eternal silence toward
the colossal craters that towered like menacing jagged
fangs. Upon this desolate world there was no air, no
sound, and no human life тАУ except in one place.