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PARDONMY IRON NERVES
A Captain Future Novelet By Edmond HAMILTON
If you think Grag's an insensitive robot, read his own account of getting psychoanalysed
and repairing to Pluto's Fourth Moon !
CHAPTER I
Metal Man
DIDN'T want to do it. I, Grag, am not
given to talking about myself. When
Curt Newton suggested that I write up this
particular adventure for the case-book in
which he records our doings I refused at
first.
I said, "No, Curt, I'd rather not. You
know I'm not one to brag about my own
exploits."
"I know that," he said. "But since it was
you who where chiefly concerned in this
business with the Machs, and since you're
the only one who knows all the details you
should write the report on it."
Well, I had to agree. After all, Curt--
Captain Future--depends on me more than
on any of the other Futuremen. It's because
we think alike, I guess.
Of course Simon Wright was human
himself once--long ago before his brain
was transferred into the artificial serum-
case that is now his "body". But there's
something a little remote about Simon
even to Curt.
As for Otho, the other Futureman--
well, being an android or artificial man,
Otho looks human. But that's as far as it
goes. Otho just doesn't think the way we
do.
I'll admit that I, Grag, don't look so
much like other people. I'm a metal man,
seven feet high. Otho calls me a robot but
that's ridiculous--he merely does it
because he's jealous of me.
I've always been sorry for Otho. For his
limitations aren't his own fault.
You see, neither Otho nor I was born.
We were made, created by science of
Roger Newton, Curt's father, and of
Simon.
In their hidden laboratory on the
Moon--the same Moon-Laboratory that
we Futuremen now call home--they used