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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Then,
in
a
trice,
it
was
gone,
and
a
feeling
of
uneasiness,
more
compelling
than
he
had
ever
known
before,
coursed
through
the
soul
of
Sarka.
Where
had
the
cube
gone?
What
was
it?
What
was
its
purpose?
He
tore
his
eyes
away
from
the
spot
where
he
had
last
seen
it,
and
stared
away
to
the
shadow
beneath
the
second
nearest
aircar,
where
he
had
glimpsed
another
of
the
cubes.
The
cube
there,
too,
was
fading
out.
"Sarka!
Sarka!
Look!"
came
to
his
brain
the
thoughts
of
Jaska.
Sarka
turned
and
stared
at
her,
and
a
feeling
of
fear
for
which
he
could
not
account
at
all
took
fast
hold
of
him.
The
eyes
of
Jaska,
wide
and
staring
as
they
had
been
when
he
commanded
her
to
look
away
from
the
cube
under
the
aircar,
were
staring
at
that
flat,
table-like
rock,
off
to
his
right.
There,
almost
in
the
center
of
the
rock,
a
gleaming
something
was
taking
shape!
Just
a
dull
spot,
in
the
center
of
the
yellow
glow;
then
the
beginning
of
the
outline
of
a
cube.
Then,
all
at
once,
the
cube
itself,
gleaming
and
baleful!
Sarka
gasped
in
terror.
He
had
seen
the
cube
vanish,
its
glow
disappear,
and
now
here
it
was,
almost
close
enough
to
touch,
on
a
rock
beside
him,
gleaming
and
baleful
as
before!
That
it
was
the
same
cube
he
had
seen
under
the
first
aircar,
he
somehow
knew
without
being
told.
That
it
was
a
sentient
thing
he
also
knew,
for
now
there
was
no
mistaking
the
fact
that,
but
for
the
presence
in
the
little
hollow
of
Jaska
and
Sarka,
the
cube
would
not
have
moved.
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