West, slaying without mercy....

"Please, lover!" Charmion whispered. "Spare them!"

"Even...?" he began, thinking of Moyen, who would have taken Charmion.
He felt her shudder as she read his mind, understood what he would have
asked.

"There he is!" came softly from Munson.

An amphibian had just been disintegrated, had just climbed mistily,
swiftly, into invisibility in the skies. And there in the midst of the
conquerors left behind, his angel's face set in a moody mask, his pale
eyes awful with fear, his misshapen body sagging, terrible in its
realization of failure, was Moyen!

Even as Kleig prepared to give the mercy signal, a plane dived down on
the group about Moyen, and the Secret Agents could see the hand of the
pilot, lifted high, as though he signaled.

The plane was a Mayther! The pilot was Carlos Kane!

* * * * *

Just as Kane went into action, and the noiseless bullets from his ship
crashed into that twisted body, causing it to jump and twitch with the
might of them, Prester Kleig gave the signal.

Even as the figure of Moyen crashed to the soil and the man's soul
quitted its mortal casement, Kleig commanded:

"Spare all who surrender! Make them prisoners, to be used to repair the
damage they have done to our country! Guards will be instantly placed
over the amphibians and the aero-subs--for the day may come when we
shall need to know their secrets!"

And, as men, hands lifted high in token of surrender, quitted the now
motionless amphibians, and flyers dropped down to make them prisoners,
Maniel sighed, pressed various buttons on his apparatus, and the mad
scene of carnage they had witnessed for hours faded slowly out, and
darkness and silence filled the Secret Room.

But darkness is the joy of lovers, and in the midst of silence that was
almost appalling by contrast, Kleig and Charmion were received into each
other's arms.

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| Everyone Is Invited |
| _To "Come Over in_ |
| 'THE READERS' CORNER'"! |
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Vampires of Venus

_By Anthony Pelcher_

[Illustration: _He seized a short knife and threw himself forward._]

Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself
against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants
of Venus.

It was as if