The Angel in the House

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d, Saturn's rings melted smaller, and ahead a dusky speck grew against the vault of space until the red belts and one great seething crimson spot that marked it as Jupiter stood out plainly. By degre

might be natural in most men, but it was unusual in the Hawk. Often the negro found him abstractedly smoothing his bangs of hair, pacing the length of the

. Ku?" he burst out. "Didn'

empty space.' That might mean invisibility or the Fourth Dimension-and God help us if he's solved the problem of dimensiona

h gave his face a most solemn and lugubrious expression. From time to time he grasped the butt of his ray-gun with a grip that would have pulped an orange; occasionally his ro

es, the larger of which was Satellite III. Several hours before, when they had been closer to the satellite, Carse had scrutinized it through the electelscope and made out above its surface a silver dot which

he tension in her control cabin where the three men stood waiting, glancing back and forth from the visi-screen to the Earth cl

nt of the strain the others were feeling. But his attitude of being relaxed and off his guard was deceptive-as Sako found out. Suddenly his left hand seemed to disappear; there was a hiss, an

g in our microphone is too simple a way to give warning to Dr. Ku Sui. Move away from there. And don't f

ying smile came to Friday's face as he comprehen

ing but the giant planet, the smaller satellites poised against

e exact place noted there: checked and double-checked. The radio receive

ere overtones of all the diabolic cunning and suave ironic cruelty that men always associated with him. "He comes out of darkness, ou

waiting men, and as one their eyes went to the radio louds

Are you there, Judd?

Sui. It was a dead voice, ton

Judd?" it went o

o's side, his ray-gun transfixing the man with its threatenin

h a click. Trembling, Sa

Sako,"

ice asked. "I want

s killed by Carse, and most of the others. Only two of us are left, but w

by, and the three m

ko?" said the voice at las

gnia of D

. It

dded the stomach of

tily, "in the center of a

vidently he was conferring with

less in your present position, keeping your radio receiver open for furthe

off the mike. Sako sank limply into

Hawk murmured, crossing his ar

it should have shown the Eurasian's decelerating ship even at twice thirty minutes' time away. They looked upon the same vista of Jupiter and his satellites, framed in et

that covered his forehead as far as the eyebrows. He had, from Judd's words, expected a mystery in Ku Sui's

ot to be somewhere!" he exploded. "It isn't natural for the

s using, or else the fourth dimension, as Judd said. But we've got one good chance.

ous, spoke in the control ca

Carse," it said. "You will observe t

i had