Chapter I. One Way Ticket
Chapter II. Honest Izzy
Chapter III. The Graft Is Green
Chapter IV. Captain Murdoch
Chapter V. Recall
Chapter VI. Sealed Letter
Chapter VII. Electioneering
Chapter VIII. Vote Early and Often
Chapter IX. Contraband
Chapter X. Marriage of Convenience
Chapter XI. The Sky's the Limit
Chapter XII. Wife or Prisoner?
Chapter XIII. Arrest Mayor Wayne!
Chapter XIV. Full Circle
Chapter XV. Murdoch's Mantle
Chapter XVI. Get the Dome!
Chapter XVII. Security Payoff
There were ten passengers in the little pressurized cabin of theelectric bus that shuttled between the rocket field and Marsport. Tenmen, the driver—and Bruce Gordon.
He sat apart from the others, as he had kept to himself on the ten-daytrip between Earth and Mars, with the yellow stub of his ticket stillstuck defiantly in the band of his hat, proclaiming that Earth had paidhis passage without his permission being asked. His big, lean body wasslumped slightly in the seat. There was no expression on his face.
He listened to the driver explaining to a couple of firsters that theywere actually on what appeared to be one of the mysterious canals whenviewed from Earth. Every book on Mars gave the fact that the canals wereeither an illusion or something which could not be detected on thesurface of the planet.
He glanced back toward the rocket that still pointed skyward back on thefield, and then forward toward the city of Marsport, sprawling out in amess of slums beyond the edges of the dome that had been built to holdair over the central part. And at last he stirred and reached for theyellow stub.
He grimaced at the ...