John Russell Fearn (as Thornton Ayre) - Golden Amazon 01 by The Golden Amazon

Author:The Golden Amazon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-08-30T19:03:38+00:00

"YOU know darned well what I want!" Chris snapped, seizing the girl's firm bare arm. "I want Dorothy Rennat! What was the idea of the snatch?"

The girl shook his hand away. "I don't like being pawed," she smiled; then after a brief silence, "I don't see any reason why I should answer your questions. After all, on board this ship you take orders, not give them. If you've any doubts just try and start something!"

Chris breathed hard down his nose. He wished the girl would stop smiling at him with her perfect teeth, wished she was not altogether so desirable. It made his task doubly difficult.

"At least tell me if Dorothy is aboard?" he asked stiffly.

"She's aboard." Violet Ray turned back to her controls.

"Why did you take her? Why did you try and kill me? You finished off Alva Rennat, so why not me? I can't understand what you're driving at. ... I only know I wish you didn't have to do such things."

"Why?" she questioned, staring straight in front of her.

"Well, because. . . . Oh, be hanged to talking! Fetch out Dorothy. I want her to know she's not left alone with a pirate, anyway. She gets scared easy."

"So I've noticed. But I'm not going to fetch her yet; I can't move from this seat. You know what it's like when you're in a gravity field; and right now my particular worry is Venus. Sit down there where I can keep my eye on you."

Chris glanced at the interdoor leading to other sections of the ship, then at a commanding glance from the girl's vivid eyes he sat down by the control board and watched her operate the switches, working on one set of tubes only. . . . The ship dipped suddenly out of the dark of space into the upper levels of the dense Venusian atmosphere. It screamed through it, burst at last onto the wild, eye-wrenching grandeur of color that was the Hotlands, flanked in the far distance by a mountain range, to the right of which lay a river of swift flowing mud.

"It's a savage world, yet I love it," Violet Ray whispered, her voice unusually quiet. "I know it all, Chris Wilson—inch for inch! Its trees, its twenty-seven-hour day of saturating heat, its tidal mud flows, its honeycombed mountains ..."

She stopped talking suddenly, eyed it all speculatively, drove steadily onward over the tree tops. Then at last the ship began to sink gently into a verdure-ridden clearing. The Ultra came to a jarless halt.

With a sigh the girl got to her feet, flexed her supple arms, stretched her legs.

"Give me freedom instead of being cramped up in this thing. . . ."

"Tell me something," Chris said, as she turned to the door. "Why have you come here to Venus and brought Dorothy with you?"

She eyed him levelly. "Sometimes, Chris Wilson, I think you deserve a medal as a human questionaire! Why I've come here is my own business. I'll send Dorothy in to

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