 What was the special power held by Altha?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Planet Stories Winter 1944. But here in the cavern world, thirty-seventh in the linked series of vast caves that underlie the waterless wastes of Mars, the reflected waves of sound were of little value. Half of the oval bar he crushed between his teeth, and when the concentrated energy flooded into his muscles he set off around the irregular wall of the pit. He uncapped the torch and the miniature sun glowed redly from its lensed prison to reveal the rocky corridor stretching out ahead. He found himself shooting downward into a vast void that glowed softly with a mysterious all-pervading radiance. As the spinner dropped him slowly down into the vast emptiness of the great shining gulf, Rolf could see that a broad band of stone divided the green fertile plains and forests from the desolate desert wastes of the other half. Toward this barrier the spinner bore him, and Rolf was content to let it move in that direction—from the heights of the wall he could scout out the country beyond. So slowly was the spinner dropping that the blackened desolation of the other hemisphere came sliding up beneath his boots. "Down, Altha," a deeper voice rumbled from above, "it's one of the Enemy." This mysterious world that floated above the cavern floor might be their headquarters. His instructors there had known that a few gifted mortals possess the power of a limited telepathy, and the secrets of the Planet Patrol must be guarded.
 She could see into other's minds.
 She could see in the dark.  She could see into other's minds.  She feared nothing.  She could see into the future.