本书摘录:
Chapter 1. The Red Spot
_ CHAPTER I. The Red Spot
[Sidenote: What is the mystery centered in Jupiter‘s famous "Red Spot"? Two fighting Earthmen, caught by the "Pipe-men" like their vanished comrades, soon find out.]
Commander Stone, grizzled chief of the Planetary Exploration Forces, acknowledged Captain Brand Bowen‘s salute and beckoned him to take a seat.
Brand, youngest officer of the division to wear the triple-V for distinguished service, sat down and stared curiously at his superior. He hadn‘t the remotest idea why he had been recalled from leave: but that it was on a matter of some importance he was sure. He hunched his big shoulders and awaited orders.
"Captain Bowen," said Stone. "I want you to go to Jupiter as soon as you can arrange to do so, fly low over the red area in the southern hemisphere, and come back here with some sort of report as to what‘s wrong with that infernal death spot."
He tapped his radio stylus thoughtfully against the edge of his desk.
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