“India is safe.”
The sun was setting when Olin appeared with a posse in search of me. I trumped up an explanation of how I had been restless, had gone for a ride in the moonlight, had been thrown from the horse . . . what else could I do? It was as Oomlag had said.
Now, in India, I write these lines. The girl must have thought I had a chance to get free. My friends, for God’s sake do not regard me as a second Jack Pansay with his phantom “rickshaw.”* Olin knows I disappeared—and I know what happened. If I am not spared to read this document myself, for the sake of those who will believe, give it circulation. How wise was Shakespeare when he had Hamlet say: “There are more things in Heaven and earth . . .”
I can say no more.
THE END
* The reference is to one of Rudyard Kipling’s early stories called “The Phantom Rickshaw.”
Transcriber’s Note. This is a replica of a promotional booklet sent out by Amazing Stories magazine to readers in 1928. The only way to get the story was to fill out the form on the advertisement shown below. An advertisement for Vanguard of Venus appeared on page 557 of Amazing Stories in September 1928.
