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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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No
sound
from
within
greeted
the
thunderous
poundings.
Clearly,
if
Leland
was
behind
that
door,
he
was
either
dead
or
unconscious.
Finally
the
double
lock
gave
way
and
Tommy
and
Frank
were
precipitated
headlong
into
the
brightly
lighted
room
beyond.
Recovering
their
balance,
they
took
stock
of
their
surroundings
and
were
amazed
at
what
they
saw--a
huge
laboratory,
fitted
out
with
every
modern
appliance
that
money
could
buy.
A
completely
equipped
machine
shop
there
was;
bench
after
bench
covered
with
the
familiar
paraphernalia
of
the
chemical
and
physical
laboratory;
huge
retorts
and
stills;
complicated
electrical
equipments;
dozens
of
cabinets
holding
crucibles,
flasks,
bottles,
glass
tubing,
and
what
not.
"Good
Lord!"
gasped
Tommy.
"Here's
a
laboratory
to
more
than
match
our
own.
Why,
Leland's
got
a
fortune
invested
here!"
"I
should
say
so.
And
a
lot
of
stuff
that
our
company
does
not
even
have.
Some
of
it
I
don't
know
even
the
use
of.
But
where
is
Leland?"
There
was
no
sign
of
the
man
they
had
come
to
help.
He
was
not
in
the
laboratory,
though
the
door
had
been
locked
from
within
and
the
lights
left
burning
throughout.
With
painstaking
care
they
searched
every
nook
and
cranny
of
the
large
single
room
and
were
about
to
give
up
in
despair
when
Tommy
happened
to
observe
an
ivory
button
set
into
the
wall
at
the
only
point
in
the
room
where
there
were
no
machines
or
benches
at
hand.
Experimentally
he
pressed
the
button,
and,
at
the
answering
rumble
from
under
his
feet,
jumped
back
in
alarm.
Slowly
there
opened
in
the
paneled
oak
wall
a
rectangular
door,
a
door
of
large
enough
size
to
admit
a
man.
From
the
recess
beyond
there
came
a
breath
of
air,
foul
with
the
musty
odor
of
decayed
vegetation,
dank
as
the
air
of
a
tomb.
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