"The Robot Brains." - читать интересную книгу автора (Bounds Sidney J.)

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The motor yacht Sea Mist lay in a quiet and peaceful part of the Thames. She was a good ship, her paint was spotless and her metal parts well polished. Everything about her pointed to the fact that her owner was a good sailor and proud of his ship.

In the long cabin Captain Christian sat reading the day's newspapers and smoking a thin black cigar. He was a tall man, well-dressed; he had a blond beard and sea-blue eyes. As he turned the pages of the newspaper, the light of the lantern shone on the headline:

GIRL SCIENTIST NEW VICTIM OF STRANGE MURDERER

Lovely Margaret Greenways, research biologist, is a new victim of the killer. Her body was found early this morning, beheaded, as all the victims of this madman.

Miss Greenways has been working on a secret method to improve the quality of potatoes.

As usual, the head was not found - the fifth murder of this kind. When will the police make an arrest? The public have a right to…

Christian remembered the newspaper articles about the other murders of this kind:

A headless body… the neck cauterized.

He put the newspaper aside, stood up, put on a cap and went upstairs. He felt he needed fresh air.

When he was on desk, he heard the sound of a motorcycle. Soon he saw a telegraph boy riding towards him.

The young man stopped his motorcycle and called:

"Captain Christian?"

"That's me." Christian took the telegram and read it quickly. "No reply," he said.

The young man rode away, and Christian started the diesel of his yacht and headed it up the Thames. Standing at the wheel, he re-read the telegram from his old friend:

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