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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Swift
as
light,
Sarka's
right
hand
darted
to
his
belt,
where
his
ray
director
should
be
nestled
against
his
need
of
it.
And
with
his
first
movement,
the
cube's
brilliance
vanished
instantly,
the
cube
disappeared,
and
appeared
again
right
before
the
face
of
Sarka,
so
close
he
could
touch
it!
Yet
he
did
not
turn
the
ray
director
against
it,
nor
did
he
extend
his
hand
to
touch
the
thing--because
he
was
afraid
to
do
so!
Even
as
the
cube
appeared
before
his
eyes,
thrice
baleful
and
menacing
in
its
close
proximity,
his
eyes
darted
back
to
that
broad
flat
rock,
where
the
second
gleaming
cube
now
appeared!
"Great
God,
Jaska!"
he
sent
mentally,
"what
does
it
mean?"
"These,"
she
answered
bravely
back,
"are
Moon-soldiers!
And,
unless
we
manage
not
to
appear
furtive,
we
are
undone!"
Still
Sarka
made
no
move,
while
other
gleaming
cubes
appeared
on
the
flat
rock.
Five
other
cubes
appeared
beside
the
first,
at
the
rim
of
the
hollow
which
held
the
forms
of
Jaska
and
Sarka.
The
cubes
were
closing
on
them,
oddly
like
a
squad
of
Earthlings
in
the
olden
times,
advancing
by
rushes
against
an
entrenched
enemy!
The
buzzing
sound
which
they
had
first
heard
now
seemed
accentuated,
but,
instead
of
being
outside
of
the
listeners,
seemed
inside
them,
hammering
against
their
very
brains!
Messages
were
being
sent
to
them,
or
passed
back
and
forth
between
and
among
the
cube-men
about
them--and
they
hadn't
the
slightest
idea
how
to
make
answer,
know
whether
an
answer
was
expected
of
them,
or
what
the
cube-men
thought
about
them!
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