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He plunged toward the gangway of the ship. Over
his shoulder he called to his astonished comrades,
"Take the Comet back to the Moon and wait for
me!"
The gangway was already being drawn in. But
the Patrol officers inside halted it as they saw
Captain Future racing toward them.
The rangy, red-haired planeteer raced up the
metal gangway and stood pantingly inside the
airlock. The Patrol men looked at him amazedly.
"It's all right," Curt laughed. "I'm going with
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you, this trip. There's no objection, is there?"
"Objection?" The swarthy young Mercurian
lieutenant flushed with pleasure. "Objection to you
coming along? I'll say there isn't!"
His eyes were sparkling with excitement. To this
young lieutenant, as to most space-men, Curt
Newton was an idolized hero.
"I'll inform Captain Theron that you and the
Futuremen are aboard, sir," he told Curt eagerly.
"That I and the Futuremen?" Curt repeated,
turning swiftly. In the airlock were Otho and big
Grag and the calmly poised Brain.
"What the devil!" exploded Captain Future. "I
told you to go back to the Moon with the Comet."
"The Comet," Otho answered coolly, "is safe
enough, locked up atop Government Tower. We're
going with you. You're not going to leave us sitting
on the Moon, twiddling our thumbs and waiting for
you."
"This is what women get you into," growled
Grag gloomily. "Now we're stuck on this craft for
weeks."
"It is certainly annoying that I shall have to
spend all that time in a ship that does not even have
a decent research laboratory," said the Brain sourly
in his rasping, metallic voice.
Captain Future was not deceived by their
grumbling. He knew that it was loyalty to himself
that had made the Futuremen instantly follow him.
The tie between himself and the three strange
comrades was old and deep. It went back to his
infancy. For when his own parents had met death in
their laboratory-dwelling on the lonely Moon, it
was these three strange beings who had become his
foster-parents.
The Brain, who had been his dead father's
colleague in research; the robot, who had been