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VERSUS THE INVISIBLE MASTER SCIENTI-TALES PAGE..11.. ful deception, let us say at about a half hour later.* The crew found two of my men bound.* Who quickly informed me that it had been The Master.* Realizing the implica-tions I hastened to the vault rooms. Only to find it empty of your money cases, inclu-ding two million dollars in gold of ours.* It seems upon finding your cases empty, and knowing that the money had to be delivered as soon as possible, and, that my ship , the only other one heading for space within that week, well! you can see the obvious conclusion!* RESPECTFULLY, Captain Frank Storkes "Huh!" bitterly exclaimed Hawk, "we steal a march on him only to him steal it back twicefold!" .................................................................. CHAPTER THREE# FACE TO FACE .................................................................. The Diesel Rocket Motors kept up a steady hum in the ship. The automatic ro-bot set in a fixed direction, the ship plodded on steadily between the stars. The s-stars. A small star among big stars. The two men in the space vessel were sitting in restful positions, and discussing the days events. But their talking was guarded an tense, as if they sensed an alien presence among them. Yet no one was in their ship. Suddenly both their heads snapped up as a taunting, gilded voice broke through the s-shadowy setting of the ship. "Good evening gentlemen! Or should I say that when there is no time out here in space? no time except for that little time piece you have there." No answers from the two men, as they stood thunderstruck. "What! no welcome? Come gentlemen, surely you are not so astounded at my pre-sence here? Hawk! Surely you must have expected me after that gala affair you prepared for me?" Hawk pulled himself together, though he was no little bewildered. "The Invisible Master! What are you doing here and what do you want?" "What do I want! My inesteemable friend, or rather cunning enemy, I have just found that you are dangerous. And that I will have to get rid of you and your stooge there!" "Stooge! Stooge!" Squeeky was thoroughly aroused out of his stupor at these words, "Why you blankety blank no good a' count! Come out of that Invisible Shield you are working and I'll tear you apart. Tear and roast you for a meal!" Hawk who had mulling things over in his brain, spoke: "Invisible Master as far as I've known you as an enemy and a scoundrel, I have by no means admired you for one thing. You have not, in your pillaging career, yet killed or wounded a person when on one of your robberies. I do not believe that you would stoop so low as to murder a person now?" "Ah my dear enemy, but when a person stands in ones way, such as a menace to ones life, there is nothing, but...!" "Well...since you show me how your course loads, at murder. I'm still man e-nough to warn you against a horrible fate!" "Horrible fate?" "Yes! and what I mean by that is...that whenever you were on a robbery of y-yours, you probably menaced many a person with a gun, sheilded inside your invisibili-ty screen. But, you have not actually shot it, as circumstances chose. Fortunate cir-cumstances indeed. I am a sort of a scientist myself and thinking this over I have ar-rived at this conclusion! When you fire that gun, the electrical radiation it shoots out will not pass through your screen, but flare against it. It will cause an inward electrical explosion and will warp your body painfully, and I would not want to see t-that happen, much as I hate you as a policeman can." No voice issued out from the sharp, contrasting shadows in that tubular ro-om of the space vessel. It was as if an unembodied spirit were thinking. Squeeky however, with a joyous note in his voice, exclaimed, "Boy! Now you've got him Hawk, he cannot get out of here and we're on even odds. We're two against one, but he's invisible....." Continued on page ....27....
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VERSUS THE INVISIBLE MASTER SCIENTI-TALES PAGE..11.. ful deception, let us say at about a half hour later.* The crew found two of my men bound.* Who quickly informed me that it had been The Master.* Realizing the implica-tions I hastened to the vault rooms. Only to find it empty of your money cases, inclu-ding two million dollars in gold of ours.* It seems upon finding your cases empty, and knowing that the money had to be delivered as soon as possible, and, that my ship , the only other one heading for space within that week, well! you can see the obvious conclusion!* RESPECTFULLY, Captain Frank Storkes "Huh!" bitterly exclaimed Hawk, "we steal a march on him only to him steal it back twicefold!" .................................................................. CHAPTER THREE# FACE TO FACE .................................................................. The Diesel Rocket Motors kept up a steady hum in the ship. The automatic ro-bot set in a fixed direction, the ship plodded on steadily between the stars. The s-stars. A small star among big stars. The two men in the space vessel were sitting in restful positions, and discussing the days events. But their talking was guarded an tense, as if they sensed an alien presence among them. Yet no one was in their ship. Suddenly both their heads snapped up as a taunting, gilded voice broke through the s-shadowy setting of the ship. "Good evening gentlemen! Or should I say that when there is no time out here in space? no time except for that little time piece you have there." No answers from the two men, as they stood thunderstruck. "What! no welcome? Come gentlemen, surely you are not so astounded at my pre-sence here? Hawk! Surely you must have expected me after that gala affair you prepared for me?" Hawk pulled himself together, though he was no little bewildered. "The Invisible Master! What are you doing here and what do you want?" "What do I want! My inesteemable friend, or rather cunning enemy, I have just found that you are dangerous. And that I will have to get rid of you and your stooge there!" "Stooge! Stooge!" Squeeky was thoroughly aroused out of his stupor at these words, "Why you blankety blank no good a' count! Come out of that Invisible Shield you are working and I'll tear you apart. Tear and roast you for a meal!" Hawk who had mulling things over in his brain, spoke: "Invisible Master as far as I've known you as an enemy and a scoundrel, I have by no means admired you for one thing. You have not, in your pillaging career, yet killed or wounded a person when on one of your robberies. I do not believe that you would stoop so low as to murder a person now?" "Ah my dear enemy, but when a person stands in ones way, such as a menace to ones life, there is nothing, but...!" "Well...since you show me how your course loads, at murder. I'm still man e-nough to warn you against a horrible fate!" "Horrible fate?" "Yes! and what I mean by that is...that whenever you were on a robbery of y-yours, you probably menaced many a person with a gun, sheilded inside your invisibili-ty screen. But, you have not actually shot it, as circumstances chose. Fortunate cir-cumstances indeed. I am a sort of a scientist myself and thinking this over I have ar-rived at this conclusion! When you fire that gun, the electrical radiation it shoots out will not pass through your screen, but flare against it. It will cause an inward electrical explosion and will warp your body painfully, and I would not want to see t-that happen, much as I hate you as a policeman can." No voice issued out from the sharp, contrasting shadows in that tubular ro-om of the space vessel. It was as if an unembodied spirit were thinking. Squeeky however, with a joyous note in his voice, exclaimed, "Boy! Now you've got him Hawk, he cannot get out of here and we're on even odds. We're two against one, but he's invisible....." Continued on page ....27....
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