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haunted-looking men babbled a confession of having defrauded Plutonian natives by means of an illegal monopoly.
    Later that night, the System President sat in his office high in Government Tower reflecting on the strange occurrence. His thin, aging face expressed sudden startled wonder as he heard a space-ship landing on the truncated top of the tower. No ship but his own ever landed there.
     
    FOUR STRANGE FIGURES
    He rose to his feet to call officers. Then he froze. In his office door had appeared four figures that seemed unreal. They were a tall Earth youngster, with red hair and clear, purposeful gray eyes; a lithe, green-eyed android; a giant metal robot; and a Brain brooding in a square transparent serum-case, watching with lens-like artificial eyes.
    “It was we who drove Wilson and Kincaid to confess,” Curt Newton told the President quietly. “And I wanted to tell you this: the furs in their ship were stolen by fraud from the native Plutonians. The value of those furs, in needed goods, should be given to the Plutonians.”
    The President stared, and then as the four strange visitants turned to leave, he asked a dazed question. “Who — who are you?”
    The redheaded youngster turned, for a moment. “Just someone who didn’t want to see the whole future of Pluto’s people wrecked for profits.”
    Then a quick, humorous smile lit his gray eyes and he added, “If you want a name to call me by, why, you can call me Captain Future!”
    It was thus that Curt Newton became Captain Future!
     
    THE END
     

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