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chamber. I was trembling to think how I saw that I had to confess the truth.
close I had been to disaster. There was no use being stoical about it.
For the first time I almost envied Otho, So I told them of my visit to Doctor
whose primitive low mind couldn't have a Perker and of my psychoses that he had
complex if it tried. discovered.
тАЬGrag, with psychoses ?тАЭ Otho cried.
тАЬOh, noтАФnot that !тАЭ and he let out a
whoop of laughter.
His callous derision of my condition so
CHAPTER II
enraged me that in spite of my shakiness I
Mission to Pluto started toward him to teach him more
consideration for the ailing.
Curt too had begun to grin at first but he
had evidently realized the true seriousness

O N OUR way back to the Moon I said of my condition, for he stepped between us
nothing about my condition. I knew and reproved Otho severely.
that Curt would be badly worried about me тАЬYou shut up, Otho ! The last time you
and I didn't want to upset him. got Grag angry made trouble enough. If he
In fact I half expected that he would says he has psychoses he has them. You
notice how shaky I was but he didn't. bring in the Comet.тАЭ
Probably his own business with the When Otho had gone I felt a reaction.
Government was too much on his mind for Such angry emotion was not good for me
him to notice. in my present state. Again I thought I was
But when we reached the Moon- feeling faint.
laboratory, my Spartan attempts to conceal тАЬThanks, Curt,тАЭ I said. тАЬIf you donтАЩt
my condition were ruined by Eek. mindтАФI think I'd like to sit down.тАЭ
Eek has been my pet for yearsтАФa little тАЬBut you've never sat down to rest in
moon-pup of the silicate telepathic non- your lifeтАФтАЭ he began and then said, тАЬAll
breathing species that inhabits the deeper right. But donтАЩt use a chair. This motor-
caverns of the Moon and subsists on support table will hold you.тАЭ
metallic nourishment. The little fellow His face had a queer strained look as
loves me exceedingly. though he were suppressing his emotions.
By his telepathic power Eek sensed at I realized how deep must be his concern.
once that something was wrong with me. тАЬDon't worry about me,тАЭ I reassured him
He scrambled up onto my shoulder, weakly. тАЬIt's just that psychoses like these
peering at me with his intelligent little eyes react on the nervous system.тАЭ
and nuzzling me in frantic anxiety. Simon Wright had remained, hovering
silent and motionless as is his way, those


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cool lenslike eyes of his surveying me. His head-circuits a little. Let me tuck it around
rasping metallic voice was unsympathetic you, Grag.тАЭ
when he spoke. He put it over my head like a shawl and
тАЬThis is all foolishness,тАЭ he said. тАЬI wrapped it around me. Then he insisted on
know your nervous system and brain better taking my temperature.
than you do and the idea that you could get тАЬI can do it by a thermocouple unit of
such a derangement is nonsense.тАЭ high calibration put into your fuel-