Manool's plan for breaking the mutiny on the _Berenice_ was simplicity itself. He utterly destroyed the plants that furnished oxygen for the entire ship. The tank-room of the rocket-ship _Berenice_, where the big tanks of water-weed were kept, was so spick and span that a man needed little psychology to realize that its manager was a dapper, finicky, careful little man. The room's lights were bright and efficient, the water in the tanks fresh and clean, and there were no decaying fronds of vegetation among the thousands of stems of water-weed which, floating about in the tank, absorbed the carbon dioxide which was pumped through the water, and gave back a constant stream of tiny bubbles of …
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