Crossword-Solution: SAMMS 5 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Surely that bewildering young man must rank high, to speak so familiarly to Virgil Samms, the all-powerful head of the space-pervading Secret Service of the Triplanetary League! "You've turned in a general call-out," Bradley stated, rather than asked.

Powerful interference blanketed his ultra-wave and howled throughout his body; but in the hope that some part of his message might get through he called Samms, and calmly and clearly he narrated everything that had just happened.

Soon a face appeared upon the plate, the keen but careworn face of Virgil Samms! "Hello, Lyman." His voice came clearly from the speaker, and the Captain gasped--his ultra-wave observer and sometime clerk was Lyman Cleveland himself, probably the greatest living expert in beam transmission! "I knew that you'd do something, if it could be done.

But even if we do, some day--and maybe soon, too, you can't tell--somebody is going to collect fifty grams of radium for my head." "Fifty grams--and everybody knows that Samms himself is rated at only sixty? I _knew_ that you were somebody, Conway!" Clio exclaimed, undeterred.

Then, too, there were long conferences with Samms, and particularly with Rodebush, the mathematical physicist, whose was the task of solving the riddles of the energies and weapons of the Nevians.