Chapter 28

“You said something, Chief!” and the two men, so startlingly unlike physically but so alike inwardly, shook hands in token of their mutual dedication to a single purpose. Loring was then instructed in the simple navigation of the ship of space, and thereafter the two men took their regular shifts at the controls. In due time they approached Osnome, and DuQuesne studied the planet carefully through a telescope before he ventured down into the atmosphere. “This half of it used to be Mardonale. I suppose it’s all Kond…