The Pirates of Zan

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Murray Leinster. The Pirates of Zan

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CHAPTER I

It had not been impulsive action when Bron Hoddan had started for the planet Walden by stowing away on a police ship that had come to his native planet to hang all his relatives. He’d planned it long before. Getting to Walden had been his long-cherished dream. As it had turned out, his relatives had not been hanged. This they had avoided with their usual technique of acting aggrieved and innocent. They had given proof that they were simple people leading blameless lives. They had made their would-be executioners feel ashamed and apologetic. And, as soon as the strangers had left, Bron knew that these “simple, blameless” folk had returned to their normal way of life, which was piracy.

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The courtroom, in its entirety, visibly shivered.

“Aren’t they?” demanded Hoddan belligerently.

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