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Uniformed man standing behind another uniformed man who is witting at a control panel

"Well, what's the matter now, Sparks? Seeing pink rhinoceroses again?"

Where Are You, Mr. Biggs?

By NELSON S. BOND

That gangling frame, that easy, fluent grin—lost in the nameless depths of the crypts of space!

We're supposed to be an Earth-Mars lugger, but when we got to Mars Central spaceport, the bug-pounder there gave me this solar gram from Terra. It said:

"proceed uranus immediately pick up cargo gallium."

So I shoved a frantic for the Old Man over the ship audio, and pretty soon he came lumbering up to my radio room, picking his teeth and scowling like a man with only a half a tummyfull of victuals.

"It's a fine state of affairs" he snarled, "when a skipper can't even finish his dinner in peace! Well, what's the matter now, 24