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قراءة كتاب Astounding Stories, June, 1931
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ASTOUNDING
STORIES
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VOL. VI, No. 3 CONTENTS June, 1931
| COVER DESIGN | H. W. WESSO | |
| Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Manape the Mighty." | ||
| THE MAN FROM 2071 | SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT | 295 |
| Out of the Flow of Time There Appears to Commander John Hanson a Man of Mystery from the Forgotten Past. | ||
| MANAPE THE MIGHTY. | ARTHUR J. BURKS | 308 |
| High in Jungle Treetops Swings Young Bentley—His Human Brain Imprisoned in a Mighty Ape. (A Complete Novelette.) | ||
| HOLOCAUST | CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN | 356 |
| The Extraordinary Story of "Paul," Who for Thirty Days Was Dictator of the World. | ||
| THE EARTHMAN'S BURDEN | R. F. STARZL | 375 |
| There is Foul Play on Mercury—until Danny Olear of the Interplanetary Flying Police Gets After His Man. | ||
| THE EXILE OF TIME | RAY CUMMINGS | 386 |
| Larry and George from 1935, Mary from 1777—All Are Caught up in the Treacherous Tugh's Revolt of the Robots in the Time World of 2930. (Part Three of a Four-Part Novel.) | ||
| THE READERS' CORNER | ALL OF US | 416 |
| A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories. | ||
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By Sewell Peaslee Wright
Perhaps this story does not belong with my other tales of the Special Patrol Service. And yet, there is, or should be, a report somewhere in the musty archives of the Service, covering the incident.
Not accurately, and not in detail. Among a great mass of old records which I was browsing through the other day, I happened across that report; it occupied exactly three lines in the log-book of the Ertak:
"Just before departure, discovered stowaway, apparently demented, and ejected him."
For the hard-headed higher-ups of the Service, that was report enough. Had I given the facts, they would have called me to the Base for a long-winded investigation. It would have taken weeks and weeks, filled with fussy questioning. Dozens of stoop-shouldered laboratory men would have prodded and snooped and asked for long, written accounts. In those days, keeping the log-book was writing enough for me and being grounded at Base for weeks would have been punishment.
Nothing would have been gained by a detailed report. The Service needed action rather than reports, anyway. But now that I am an old man, on the retired list, I have time to write; and it will be a particular pleasure to write this account, for it will go to prove that these much-honored scientists of ours, with all their