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Secret Agent Grant Pemberton embarks on the starliner Athena to investigate the disappearance of several spaceships. But the Athena is attacked by pirates, leaving Grant and a strange girl as the lone survivors.

This classic science fiction short story by Nat Schachner first appeared in Astounding Stories in May 1932.