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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Various
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"We
thank
you,
oh,
Queen,"
spoke
Frank
humbly,
his
eyes
rivetted
to
the
gaze
of
those
violet
orbs
that
seemed
to
see
into
his
very
soul.
Tommy
mumbled
some
commonplace.
"Orrin--the
sphere!"
Phaestra,
slightly
embarrassed
by
Frank's
stare,
clapped
her
hands.
At
her
command,
Orrin,
who
had
stood
quietly
by,
stepped
to
the
wall
and
manipulated
some
mechanism
that
was
hidden
by
the
hangings.
There
was
a
musical
purr
from
beneath
the
floor,
and,
through
a
circular
opening
which
appeared
as
if
by
magic,
there
rose
a
crystal
sphere
of
some
four
feet
in
diameter.
Slowly
it
rose
until
it
reached
the
level
of
their
eyes
and
there
it
came
to
rest.
The
empress
raised
her
hands
as
if
in
invocation
and
the
soft
glow
of
the
lights
died
down,
leaving
them
in
momentary
darkness.
There
came
a
slight
murmur
from
the
sphere,
and
it
lighted
with
the
eery
green
flickerings
they
had
observed
in
the
dome
of
silver.
Fascinated
by
the
weaving
lights
within,
they
gazed
into
the
depths
of
the
crystal
with
awed
expectancy.
Phaestra
spoke.
"Men
from
the
surface,"
she
said,
"you,
Frank
Rowley,
and
you,
Arnold
Thompson,
are
about
to
witness
the
powers
of
that
hemisphere
of
metal
you
were
pleased
to
term
'Silver
Dome.'
As
you
rightly
surmised,
the
dome
is
of
silver--mostly.
There
are
small
percentages
of
platinum,
iridium,
and
other
elements,
but
it
is
more
than
nine-tenths
pure
silver.
To
you
of
the
surface
the
alloy
is
highly
valuable
for
its
intrinsic
worth
by
your
own
standards,
but
to
us
the
value
of
the
dome
lies
in
its
function
in
revealing
to
us
the
past
and
present
events
of
our
universe.
The
dome
is
the
'eye'
of
a
complicated
apparatus
which
enables
us
to
see
and
hear
any
desired
happening
on
the
surface
of
the
earth,
beneath
its
surface,
or
on
the
many
inhabited
planets
of
the
heavens.
This
is
accomplished
by
means
of
extremely
complex
vibrations
radiated
from
the
hemisphere,
these
vibrations
penetrating
earth,
metals,
buildings,
space
itself,
and
returning
to
our
viewing
and
sound
reproducing
spheres
to
reveal
the
desired
past
or
present
occurrences
at
the
point
at
which
the
rays
of
vibrations
are
directed.
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