EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

PIRATES OF VENUS

CONTENTS

I[Carson Napier] 5
II[Off for Mars] 15
III[Rushing Toward Venus] 26
IV[To the House of the King] 42
V[The Girl in the Garden] 53
VI[Gathering Tarel] 67
VII[By Kamlot’s Grave] 79
VIII[On Board the Sofal] 91
IX[Soldiers of Liberty] 102
X[Mutiny] 111
XI[Duare] 123
XII[“A Ship!”] 132
XIII[Catastrophe] 144
XIV[Storm] 155

I
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.