Edgar Rice Burroughs - Venus 1 - Pirates of Venus

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Volume One, Venus Series
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Volume One, Venus Series
Chapter 1 - Carson Napier
Chapter 2 - Off For Mars
Chapter 3 - Rushing Toward Venus
Chapter 4 - To The House Of The King
Chapter 5 - The Girl In The Garden
Chapter 6 - Gathering Tarel
Chapter 7 - By Kamlot's Grave
Chapter 8 - On Board The Sofal
Chapter 9 - Soldiers Of Liberty
Chapter 10 - Mutiny
Chapter 11 - Duare
Chapter 12 - "A Ship!"
Chapter 13 - Catastrophe
Chapter 14 - Storm
Chapter 1 - Carson Napier
IF A female figure in a white shroud enters your bedchamber at midnight on the
thirteenth day of this month, answer this letter otherwise, do not."
Having read this far in the letter, I was about to consign it to the wastebasket, where
all my crank letters go; but for some reason I read on, "If she speaks to you, please
remember her words and repeat them to me when you write." I might have read on to the
end; but at this juncture the telephone bell rang, and I dropped the letter into one of the
baskets on my desk. It chanced to be the "out" basket; and had events followed their
ordinary course, this would have been the last of the letter and the incident in so far as I
was concerned, for from the "out" basket the letter went to the files.
It was Jason Gridley on the telephone. He seemed excited and asked me to come to his
laboratory at once. As Jason is seldom excited about anything, I hastened to accede to his
request and satisfy my curiosity. Jumping into my roadster, I soon covered the few blocks
that separate us, to learn that Jason had good grounds for excitement He had just received
a radio message from the inner world, from Pellucidar.
On the eve of the departure of the great dirigible, O-220, from the earth's core,
following the successful termination of that historic expedition, Jason had determined to
remain and search for von Horst, the only missing member of the party; but Tarzan,
David Innes, and Captain Zuppner had persuaded him of the folly of such an undertaking,
inasmuch as David had promised to dispatch an expedition of his own native
Pellucidarian warriors to locate the young German lieutenant if he still lived and it were
possible to discover any clue to his whereabouts.
Notwithstanding this, and though he had returned to the outer world with the ship,
Jason had always been harassed by a sense of responsibility for the fate of von Horst, a
young man who had been most popular with all the members of the expedition; and had
insisted time and time again that he regretted having left Pellucidar until he had
exhausted every means within his power of rescuing von Horst or learned definitely that
he was dead.
Jason waved me to a chair and offered me a cigarette. "I've just had a message from
Abner Perry," he announced, "the first for months."
"It must have been interesting," I commented, "to excite you."
"It was," he admitted. "A rumor has reached Sari that von Horst has been found."
Now as this pertains to a subject entirely foreign to the present volume, I might
mention that I have alluded to it only for the purpose of explaining two facts which, while
not vital, have some slight bearing on the remarkable sequence of events which followed.
First, it caused me to forget the letter I just mentioned, and, second, it fixed the date in
my mind--the tenth.
My principal reason for mentioning the first fact is to stress the thought that the matter
of the letter, so quickly and absolutely forgotten, had no opportunity to impress itself
upon my mind and therefore could not, at least objectively, influence my consideration of
ensuing events. The letter was gone from my mind within five minutes of its reading as
completely as though it had never been received.
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