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Title: The Passing of Ku Sui

Author: Anthony Gilmore

Release Date: October 20, 2009 [EBook #30303]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from Astounding Stories November 1932.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed.

The Table of Contents is not part of the original magazine.

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The Passing of Ku Sui

_A Complete Novelette_

By Anthony Gilmore

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CONTENTS

Chapter
I The Plan
II Three Figures in the Dawn
III The Raid
IV The Voice of the Brains
V "My Congratulations, Captain Carse!"
VI The Deadline
VII To the Laboratory
VIII White's Brain--Yellow's Head
IX Four Bodies
X The Promise Fulfilled
XI Ordeal
XII Flight
XIII In Earth's Shadow
XIV The Hawk Strikes
XV There Is a Meteor

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CHAPTER I

_The Plan_

[Illustration: _Like a projectile Hawk Carse shot out in a direction
away from Earth._]

[Sidenote: A screaming streak in the night--a cloud of billowing
steam--and the climax of Hawk Carse's spectacular "Affair of the
Brains" is over.]

The career of Hawk Carse, taken broadly, divides itself into three
main phases, and it is with the Ku Sui adventures of the second phase
that we have been concerned in this intimate narrative. John Sewell,
the historian, baldly condenses those adventures of a century ago
together, but on research and closer scrutiny they take on an
individuality and significance deserving of separate treatment, and
this they have b