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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Various
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CHAPTER
XIII
The
Lunar
Cubes
For
a
long
time
Sarka
and
Jaska
remained
still,
like
sentinels,
listening
to
the
strange
discord
which
seemed
to
emanate
from
behind
the
hill
at
whose
base
they
crouched.
"Look!"
said
Sarka
at
last.
"There
against
the
sky,
beyond
and
between
those
two
waving
tentacles!
Note
that
column
of
light,
scarcely
lighter
than
the
light
which
surrounds
it
everywhere?
It
looks
like
a
massive
column
just
lighter
than
everything
around
it,
yet
so
little
lighter
that
you
have
to
watch
closely
to
see
it
at
all?"
Jaska
stared
for
all
of
a
minute,
before
she
thought
back
her
answer.
"I
see
it,"
she
said.
"Note
now
whether
it
goes,
as
it
reaches
outward
into
Space!"
Jaska
followed
the
mighty
height
of
the
thing,
outward
and
outward,
and
then
gasped.
"Sarka,"
she
said,
"its
end
touches
the
Earth
in
the
very
heart
of
that
strange
glow
we
spoke
about!"
"Exactly!
And
people
of
Earth
know
nothing
about
it,
because
it
is
invisible
to
them!
It
is
only
from
Outside
that
the
glow
it
makes
against
the
Earth
is
visible!
If
we
can
divert
its
direction,
or
render
it
useless
in
any
way,
the
Moon
will
no
longer
be
thrust
away
by
its
force!"
A
pause
of
indecision,
then
Sarka
thought
again:
"Let
us
go,
Jaska!
Keep
behind
me,
right
on
my
heels!"
Slowly,
fighting
against
something
that
seemed
determined
to
pull,
or
hurl,
them
outward
from
the
surface
of
the
Moon
with
each
forward
movement
they
made,
they
essayed
the
side
of
the
hill,
pausing
at
the
end
of
what
seemed
like
hours
in
a
sort
of
hollow
just
large
enough
to
mask
their
bodies
and
stared
over
its
edge
into
one
of
the
craters
of
the
Moon.
Out
of
the
depths
of
that
crater
came
the
discordant
sounds,
which
now
were
almost
deafening,
and
out
of
that
crater
too
came
the
almost
invisibly
bluish
column
whose
outer
tip
touched
the
Earth.
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