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

human body and transferred into a special serum
case in which it still lived, thought and acted. The
Brain now resembled a square box of transparent
metal. Upon one face of it were his protruding lens-
like eyes and microphonic ears and speech
apparatus. From compact generators inside the case
jetted the magnetic tractorbeams that enabled the
Brain to glide swiftly through the air and to handle
objects and tools.
THOUGHT," Otho was saying to Captain
Future, "that we came on this rush trip to
Earth to stop Joan from going on this crazy
assignment."
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"We did, but we might a well have stayed at
home on the Moon," Curt said disgustedly. "She's
as mule-headed as -- as -- "
"As a mule," Joan finished for him, with a laugh.
Grag stepped forward. The giant metal robot
suddenly picked up Joan in his mighty arms as
though she were a doll.
"Do you want me to keep her here, Chief?" he
asked Captain Future in his deep, booming voice.
"Grag, you put me down!" stormed the girl.
"Curt, if you try to keep me here by force --"
"Put her down, Grag," growled Captain Future.
"You can reason with a Jovian marsh-elephant or a
Uranian cave-bear -- but not with a woman."
An elderly officer in the black uniform of the
Patrol was hurrying toward them from the black
ship. His grizzled face and bleak old eyes lit with
pleasure as he recognized Curt and the Futuremen.
"Come to see us off, Cap'n Future?" he asked.
"Where's your Comet?"
Marshal Ezra Gurney, veteran officer of the
Planet Patrol, was referring to the famous little ship
of he Futuremen. Curt answered by waving his
hand toward the distant, lighted pinnacle of
Government Tower.
"The Comet's up there on the tower landing-
deck. And we didn't come to see you off. I came to
dissuade Joan from going." A bell rang sharply
from the big black ship that loomed into the
darkness nearby.
"Nearly take-off time!" warned Ezra Gurney.
"Better say your goodbyes, Joan."
Joan's brown eyes danced as she kissed Curt
quickly. "For once," she laughed, "it's I who am
going to space while you stay behind and worry,
instead of the other way around."