"Edmond Hamilton - Captain Future 13 - The Face of the Deep" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hamilton Edmond)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 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?" |
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