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he spoke to her with an affectionate
roughness, not giving her time to be
emotional. "What's all this nonsense about
Ezra ? If anyone but you had sent that
message ..."
"Its true, Curt. He's gone. I think--I
think he won't ever come back."
Newton shook her. "Come on, Joan !
Ezra ? Why, he's been up and down the
System since before you and I were born,
first in the old space-frontier days of the
3
Patrol and now with your Section Three.
He wouldn't get himself into any jam."
"He has," said Joan Randall flatly. "And
if you'll stop being comforting I have all
the data ready to show you--what there is
of it."
SHE led the way toward the low buildings
of Patrol headquarters. The four followed
her, the tall red-haired man whom the
System called Captain Future and his three
companions, his lifelong friends, the three
who were closer to him even than this girl
and the missing Ezra Gurney--Grag, the
metal giant, Otho, the lithe keen-eyed
android, and Simon Wright, who had once
been a human scientist but who for half a
lifetime now had been divorced from
human form.
It was the latter who spoke to Joan. His
voice was metallic and expressionless,
issuing from the artificial resonator set in
one side of his "body". That "body" was a
hovering square metal case that contained
all that was human of Simon Wright--his
brilliant deathless brain.
"You say," said Simon, "that Ezra is
gone. Where precisely did he go ?"
Joan glanced at Simon, who was
watching her intently with his lens-like
eyes as he glided silently along on the pale
traction beams that were his equivalent of
limbs.
"If I knew where I wouldn't hide it from
you," she said with an undertone of
irritation.
In the next breath she said contritely,
"I'm sorry. Waiting here has got me down.
There's something about Europa--it's so