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Chapter 1. Pirates Of Space
_ Chapter I. Pirates of Space
Apparently motionless to her passengers and crew, the Interplanetary liner
Hyperion bored serenely onward through space at normal acceleration. In the railed-off sanctum in one corner of the control room a bell tinkled, a smothered whirr was heard, and Captain Bradley frowned as he studied the brief message upon the tape of the recorder--a message flashed to his desk from the operator‘s panel. He beckoned, and the second officer, whose watch it now was, read aloud:
"Reports of scout patrols still negative."
"Still negative." The officer scowled in thought. "They‘ve already searched beyond the widest possible location of the wreckage, too. Two unexplained disappearances inside a month--first the
Dione, then the
Rhea--and not a plate nor a lifeboat recovered. Looks bad, sir. One might be an accident; two might possibly be a coincidence...." His voice died away. What might t
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