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    The Indulgence of Negu Mah
    The Indulgence of Negu Mah
    The Indulgence of Negu Mah
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    The Indulgence of Negu Mah

    By Robert Arthur

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Title: The Indulgence of Negu Mah

      Author: Robert Andrew Arthur

      Release Date: December 3, 2007 [EBook #23688]

      Language: English

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      In silence Negu Mah and Sliss stood silent gazing at the moon drenched field.

      The Indulgence of Negu Mah

      by ROBERT ARTHUR

      In his garden, Negu Mah, the Callisto uranium merchant, sat sipping a platinum mug of molkai with his guest, Sliss the Venusian.

      Nanlo, his wife, pushing before her the small serving cart with its platinum molkai decanter, paused for an instant as she entered the shell of pure vitrite which covered the garden, giving it the illusion of out-of-doorness.

      Negu Mah sat at his ease, his broad, merry, half-Oriental face good-humored, his features given a ruddy tinge by the light of rising Jupiter, the edge of whose sphere was beginning to dominate the horizon. Sliss, the intelligent amphibian, squatted across from him in the portable tub of water which he carried with him whenever absent from the swamps of his native Venus.

      The amphibian's popping eyes turned toward her, the wide frog-face split in a smile of appreciation as Nanlo approached. She refilled their mugs deftly and withdrew. But before she reentered the house she could not resist hesitating to glance toward rising Jupiter and the slim shaft of the rocketship silhouetted now against its surface.

      The ship was the cargo rocket Vulcan, newest and swiftest of Negu Mah's freighter fleet. Fully fueled

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