Astounding Stories, June, 1931

CHAPTER I

_Castaway_

[Sidenote: High in jungle treetops swings young Bentley--his human brain imprisoned in a mighty ape.]

Lee Bentley never knew how many others, if any, lived on after the _Bengal Queen_ struck the hidden reef and sank like a stone. He had only a hazy memory of the catastrophe, and recalled that when she had struck and the alarm had gone rocketing throu...