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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Various
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"What
is
the
use
of
this
secret
dome?"
asked
Jaska
softly.
"It
is
merely
an
elaboration
of
the
regular
exit
dome,
combined
with
certain
phases
of
our
atom-distintegrators,
and
the
principle
involved
in
the
anti-gravitational
ovoids.
I
step
into
the
secret
exit
dome,
garbed
for
flight
Outside,
and
will
myself
to
appear
bodily
in
a
certain
place.
It
is
instantaneous.
I
step
into
the
dome,
for
example,
and
will
myself
to
appear
whole
upon
the
Moon,
and
there
I
will
appear!"
"You
mean
that
during
the
period
of
transposition
you
are
invisible?"
"Yes,
invisible
because
non-existent,
except
for
the
essential
elements
of
me,
broken
down
by
the
secret
exit
dome,
reassembled
at
the
place
willed
in
their
entirety!
I
can't
fly
there,
for
a
million
eyes
would
see
me
approach!
I
must
go
in
secret,
as
a
spy,
and
wearing
the
clothing
and
insignia
of
a
member
of
the
Gens
of
Dalis!"
Silence
in
the
observatory
for
a
brief
breathing
space,
and
then
Jaska
spoke
that
speech
out
of
the
books
of
antiquity,
which
remains
the
classic
expression
of
loyalty.
"Whithersoever
thou
goest,
there
will
I
go
also!"
From
the
laboratory
came
a
sudden
burst
of
laughter,
the
laughter
which
all
three
recognized
as
the
laughter
of
Dalis;
but
when
they
entered
the
place
of
the
Revolving
Beryl,
there
was
no
one
there--and
a
feeling
of
dread,
all
encompassing,
held
them
thralled
for
the
space
of
several
heart-beats.
Dalis,
they
knew,
was
thousands
of
miles
away,
upon
the
Moon;
yet
here
in
the
place
of
the
Master
Beryl
they
all
three
had
just
heard
his
sardonic
laughter!
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