Part 13

The girl was standing at bay before one of the round-bodied enemy Moon-men. The two were fencing—not with blades of steel, but with ray projectors. As Maza sought to reach her antagonist with her red ray he warded it off with a green ray from his own projector, and in turn menaced her with his weapon while she parried with the red ray.

Ted drew his pistol degravitor to dispatch the man—but he was unaware that there were many more of the enemy creeping toward them in the dark of the Moon’s surface.

Transcriber’s Notes

--Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication.

--Generated a Table of Contents based on the original chapter headings.

--Omitted still-copyrighted illustrations from the printed original.

--Generated a new Cover Image based on elements from the book.

--Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged.

--In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.)

--Reversed the order of pages 86 and 87 to make the text coherent (and marked the exact limits of the re-ordered blocks by a dagger, †).