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"Curt!" Joan screamed to Captain Future (CHAP. XVIII)
RED SUN OF DANGER
By BRETT STERLING
From the archives of the mighty Ancients, Curt Newton brings
back forgotten Denebian science to balk a greed-maddened
schemer who seeks to loose unspeakable terror on the
Universe!
CHAPTER I
Seven Against a World
TO SEE your whole life-work smashed to
ruins by no fault of your own, to see the great
dream of humanity which you had helped
fulfill destroyed now by trickery and greed--
yes, the taste of these things was bitter!
They put a sickness in Philip Carlin's
studious, spectacled face as his rocket-car
purred up the wide north ramp into the center
of Great New York. They crushed his mind
with a black foreknowledge of disaster to
come.
He drove into the great paved plaza that is the
heart of Solar System civilization. The titanic
bulk of Government Tower loomed like a
thundercloud above the lights of the
metropolis. Far up there against the stars
glowed a lighted window, like a vigilant eye
looking watchfully out into the universe that
man had begun to conquer.
A Planet Patrol officer met Carlin. "Dr.
Carlin? I have been ordered to conduct you to
the President's office. This way, sir."
Carlin glanced at the officer as they walked
toward the mighty tower. Impulse made him
ask a question. "How old are you, Lieutenant?"
The Patrol officer looked surprised. "Thirty,
sir."
Carlin brooded over the answer a moment. "I
suppose you've got your next seventy years all
planned?"
The lieutenant grinned. "Oh, sure. There's a
lot of things I want to do after I quit the Patrol,
some day. But I've lots of time."
Carlin's voice was heavy with foreboding.
"I'd do them now, if I were you. I wouldn't
count on those seventy years too much."
The lieutenant's grin widened. "You're joking,
aren't you? Everybody will live more than a
century now, barring accident. Vitron has seen
to that."
His cheerful words echoed ironically in Philip