Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from Astounding Stories November 1932. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
The Table of Contents is not part of the original magazine.
One word in Chapter II could not be read. It has been marked as illegible.
The career of Hawk Carse, taken broadly, divides itself into threemain phases, and it is with the Ku Sui adventures of the second phasethat we have been concerned in this intimate narrative. John Sewell,the historian, baldly condenses those adventures of a century agotogether, but on research and closer scrutiny they take on anindividuality and significance deserving of separate treatment, andthis they have been given here. For fictionized presentation, we havespaced the adventures into four connected episodes, four acts of avibrant drama which ranged clear fr