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 MOON of the
UNFORGOTTEN
A Captain Future Novelet By Edmond HAMILTON


Curt Newton and Otho plumb the perilous secrets of the Jovian Moon Europa—where

Ezra Gurney, friend of the Futuremen, has fallen prey to a mystic cult !




Back across the empty leagues of the
void, in reply to that urgent summons,
CHAPTER I
came a ship, driving hard for Europa,
moon of Jupiter. There was a man in the
The Second Life
small ship and one who had been a man
and two who were manlike but who were
not truly human.
The ship came down toward the dark
The machines hummed and whispered side of Europa with the rush of a shooting
star and landed in the rigidly restricted
and a man's life changed. He was an old
Patrol area of Europolis spaceport. The
man, with an old man's burden of
four came out of it and looked around in
weariness and sorrow. But now that burden
the magnificent glow of Jupiter. Then they
dropped from him and his years dropped
heard the light running steps and the urgent
from him and he was young again.
voice.
He felt the hot blood burst along his
“Curt !” And again, with a desperate
veins and the singing excitement in his
gladness, “Curt, I knew you’d hurry !”
nerves, the pulse and throb of long-
Curt Newton took the girl's tense
forgotten youth. For youth was his once
outstretched hands in his own. He thought
more and once more a whole universe of
for a moment she was going to weep and
adventure lured and beckoned, far-off
he spoke to her with an affectionate
worlds calling and calling to him.
roughness, not giving her time to be
And Ezra Gurney, he who had been old,