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intellectual mind could lose itself for hours in
contemplation of scientific problems. It was his
method of relaxation when he had no laboratory for
his endless researches.
Curt Newton slept soundly. Yet when he
suddenly awakened an hour later, it was with every
nerve thrillingly alert. He listened. The big ship was
still rushing silently on through the vast deeps of
space.
Then to his ears came suddenly the sound of
distant yells and the crash of atom-guns. Instantly
10
THE FACE OF THE DEEP
Curt was out of his bunk and plunging across the
cabin toward the door.
"Something's wrong! If the prisoners --"
The words died on his lips as he burst out into
the corridor. A mass of gray-clad convict were
pouring into the fore end of the passage, In their
front rank was Moremos, the Venusian murderer,
grasping an atom-gun.
He aimed instantly at Captain Future. And Joan
Randall, who was emerging hastily from her cabin,
was plunging directly into the line of his aim.
CHAPTER III
Jailbreak
DOWN in the cell-
deck, a few hours before,
an odd atmosphere of,
tension gripped the scores
of prisoners as the night-
watch began.
The massive doors at
the fore and aft ends of the
deck had been and locked
by the Patrol officers, who
were now standing guard,
outside them. A few
uranite bulbs in the ceiling
cast a vague, dim light
upon the shining chromaloy bars and the shadowed,
brutal faces behind them.
The hissing whisper of Moremos traveled along
the row of barred doors. The Venusian's sibilant
voice was silkily vicious as he addressed the big
Martian pirate in a neighboring cell.
"We're only three or four days out of Neptune --
I heard a guard say so today. I thought you were
going to get us out of here before we reached
Neptune, Kim Ivan?"