Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930

CHAPTER I

_Out of the Hangman's Hands_

"You speak," said Von Kettler, jeering, "as if you really believed that you had the power of life and death over me."

The Superintendent of the penitentiary frowned, yet there was something of perplexity in the look he gave the prisoner. "Von Kettler, I think it is time that you dropped this absurd pose...