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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Throughout
the
Earth,
as
the
Beryls
fought
with
ever
increasing
speed
to
lower
the
rate
of
the
earth's
outward
race
from
the
Moon,
was
such
a
trembling,
such
a
vibration
induced
by
conflicting,
alien
forces
as
there
had
not
been
even
in
that
moment
when
back
there
in
its
orbit,
the
Earth
could
have
either
been
kept
within
its
orbit,
or
hurled
outward
into
space
at
the
touch
of
a
finger.
Now
Jaska,
surrounded
by
her
father's
men,
was
almost
close
enough
to
touch
the
Earth.
She
made
it,
weak
and
weary,
and
rested
for
a
moment
while
her
father's
men
steadied
her.
Then,
thrusting
them
aside,
with
gestures
bidding
them
return
to
their
Gens,
she
lifted
into
the
air
again,
and
fled
straight
for
the
laboratory
of
Sarka.
She
entered
tiredly
through
the
exit
dome,
and
all
but
collapsed
into
the
arms
of
Sarka.
Gently
he
removed
her
helmet
of
the
anti-gravitational
ovoid,
noting
as
she
leaned
against
him
the
tumultuous
beating
of
her
heart.
Then
her
gentle
eyes
opened
and
she
whispered
to
Sarka.
"You
trust
me
now?"
For
answer
he
bent
and
kissed
her
softly
on
the
lips--for
the
kiss,
from
the
far
distant
time
when
the
first
baby
was
kissed
by
the
first
mother,
had
been
the
favored
caress
of
mankind.
Her
face
was
transfigured
as
she
read
his
answer
in
his
eyes,
and
the
touch
of
his
lips.
Then,
remembering,
fear
flashed
across
her
face.
She
straightened,
and
grasping
Sarka
by
the
hand,
hurried
with
him
into
the
observatory.
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