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Title: The Mind Master

Author: Arthur J. Burks

Release Date: July 15, 2009 [EBook #29416]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from "Astounding Stories" January and
February, 1932. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence
that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

The original "What has gone before" recap section from the
second part (February edition) has been removed from this
combined version.

Author's archaic and variable spelling is preserved.
Author's punctuation style is preserved.
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Passages in bold indicated by =equal signs=.

Typographical problems have been changed and are listed at the
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[Illustration: Front cover of "Amazing Stories"]

The Mind Master

_Beginning a Two-Part Novel_

By Arthur J. Burks

[Illustration: _A sequel to "Manape the Mighty"_]

CHAPTER I

_The Tuft of Hair_

"Let's hope the horrible nightmare is over, dearest," whispered Ellen
Estabrook to Lee Bentley as their liner came crawling up through the
Narrows and the Statue of Liberty greeted the two with uplifted torch
beyond Staten Island. New York's skyline was beautiful through the
mist and smoke which always seemed to mask it. It was good to be home
again.

[Sidenote: Once more Lee Bentley is caught up in the marvelous
machinations of the mad genius Barter.]

Certainly it was a far cry from the African jungles where, for the
space of a ghastly nightmare, Ellen had been a captive of the apes
and Bentley himself had had a horrible adventure. Caleb Barter, a mad
scientist, had drugged him and exchanged his brain with that of an
ape, and for hours Bentley had roamed the jungles hidden in the great
hairy body, the only part of him remaining "Bentley" being the Bentley
brain which B