{"product_id":"2940014087469","title":"The Mind Master","description":"CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The Tuft of Hair_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Let's hope the horrible nightmare is over, dearest,\" whispered Ellen\u003cbr\u003eEstabrook to Lee Bentley as their liner came crawling up through the\u003cbr\u003eNarrows and the Statue of Liberty greeted the two with uplifted torch\u003cbr\u003ebeyond Staten Island. New York's skyline was beautiful through the\u003cbr\u003emist and smoke which always seemed to mask it. It was good to be home\u003cbr\u003eagain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Sidenote: Once more Lee Bentley is caught up in the marvelous\u003cbr\u003emachinations of the mad genius Barter.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCertainly it was a far cry from the African jungles where, for the\u003cbr\u003espace of a ghastly nightmare, Ellen had been a captive of the apes\u003cbr\u003eand Bentley himself had had a horrible adventure. Caleb Barter, a mad\u003cbr\u003escientist, had drugged him and exchanged his brain with that of an\u003cbr\u003eape, and for hours Bentley had roamed the jungles hidden in the great\u003cbr\u003ehairy body, the only part of him remaining \"Bentley\" being the Bentley\u003cbr\u003ebrain which Barter had placed in the ape's skull-pan. Bentley would\u003cbr\u003enever forget the horror of that grim awakening, in which he had found\u003cbr\u003ehimself walking on bent knuckles, his voice the fighting bellow of a\u003cbr\u003egiant anthropoid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: _A bullet ploughed through the top of the ape's\u003cbr\u003ehead._]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYes, it was a far cry from the African jungles to populous Manhattan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs soon as Ellen and Lee considered themselves recovered from the\u003cbr\u003eshock of the experience they would be married. They had already spent\u003cbr\u003etwo months of absolute rest in England after their escape from Africa,\u003cbr\u003ebut they found it had not been enough. Their story had been told in\u003cbr\u003ethe press of the world and they had been constantly besieged by the\u003cbr\u003ecurious, which of course had not helped them to forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     -     -     -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lee,\" whispered Ellen, \"I'll never feel sure that Caleb Barter is\u003cbr\u003edead. We should have gone out that morning when he forgot to take his\u003cbr\u003ewhip and we thought the vengeful apes had slain him. We should have\u003cbr\u003eproved it to our own satisfaction. It would be an ironic jest,\u003cbr\u003echaracteristic of Barter, to allow us to think him dead.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079872495856,"sku":"2940014087469","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014087469_p0.jpg?v=1763600477","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014087469","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}