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there."



"Keep trying. We are descending!" replied Rhodan.



The spacecraft executed a wide loop above the expanse of wreckage below, approaching it now from
a different direction, while descending to an altitude of fifty miles. The board telescope should be able by
now to enlarge the object sufficiently so that it could he identified.



Could this be a vehicle of the Mind Snatchers? Rhodan found this implausible. It would he contrary to
the wiliness of the M.S. to leave something so conspicuous lying out in the open, where sooner or later a
terrestrial spaceship might come to investigate.



Could it be a trap?



Rhodan turned to Thora. "Be ready to open fire!"
 Thora walked over to the control panel whose buttons were connected with all the armament that the
Good Hope carried on board. The ship now hovered vertically above the glittering object on the ground.



"Bell, what can you make out on the telescope?"



Bell had adjusted the telescope so that it projected an image on one of the picture screens. "For
heavenтАЩs sake!.тАШ he groaned. "ItтАЩs a rocket. Just like our Stardust!"тАШWe are going to land now!" said
Rhodan.тАШWait!" yelled Bell.Rhodan stopped his hand in midair, as he was just about to pull a lever to
execute the landing manoeuvre. All eyes turned to the microwave detector where the strange rocket
appeared as a bright dash. Two tiny white specks had detached themselves from it and were travelling
with amazing speed toward the center of the screen.



BellтАЩs eyes threatened to pop out of their sockets. "But that canтАЩt be! They are shooting at us!"



A few hours earlier the following events had taken place. The Greyhound, a rocketship of the Stardust
type, which had been built secretly at the Nevada Spaceport facilities as a last attempt to break the
supremacy of the Third Power, had set out to the moon, where the Western Powers hoped to find